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Nursing Leadership Questions Questions
Question 1 of 9
They maintain friendly, pleasant relations with you, regardless, whether you agree with them or not. Good communicators command your respond and goodwill. You are willing to work with them again, despite their differences. Match the above statement with one of the followings:
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Congeniality fits friendly relations, unlike precision, credibility, or control. Nurse leaders like fostering teamwork embody this, contrasting with authority. In healthcare, it builds collaboration and morale, aligning leadership with positive relationships.
Question 2 of 9
The unit manager was addressing nursing students in the lounge area and was discussing team leadership and team effectiveness. She stated, 'One can agree to disagree with another team member's perspective even when one doesn't necessarily see that perspective as being the correct one.' In being creative, what did she mean?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The manager's point agreeing to disagree while staying open highlights flexibility in creativity. It's not about pushing your view, showing compassion, or forcing resolution, but adapting to differing perspectives, seeking novel solutions. For students, this models how effective teams navigate conflict, like the unit's issues, by bending rather than breaking, fostering innovation over rigidity, key to leadership and team success.
Question 3 of 9
Work and personal life influence each other by:
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: All factors D show life-work interplay. Nurse leaders see how good team relations lift personal mood, job satisfaction aids life, and stress harms both, contrasting with isolated views. In healthcare, this holistic impact shapes staff resilience, aligning leadership with well-being support.
Question 4 of 9
The nurse is caring for a client with a chest tube. Which finding requires immediate intervention?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: With a chest tube, sudden no bubbling in water seal needs action, not tidaling, suction bubbles, or 50 mL. Stopped bubbling suggests blockage or lung re-expansion either risks tension pneumothorax. Tidaling's normal, suction's set, drainage varies. Leadership acts imagine distress; it ensures patency, aligning with respiratory care effectively.
Question 5 of 9
A client with 35 weeks gestation came to labor room with membrane rupture of 18 hours. The test for group B streptococcus in vagina is not known yet. Which of the following interventions has the highest priority?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: With 35 weeks gestation and 18-hour rupture, unknown GBS status prioritizes prophylactic antibiotics, not contractions, no exams, or urine. Prolonged rupture risks GBS sepsis in the neonate antibiotics (e.g., penicillin) cut this, especially preterm. Contractions matter, exams risk infection, and urine's unrelated. Leadership acts here imagine a feverish mom; antibiotics protect the baby, aligning with ACOG guidelines. This reflects nursing's focus on infection prevention, ensuring maternal-fetal safety effectively.
Question 6 of 9
As a member of a hospital task force, you advocate for a program that provides staff nurses with training in quality improvement methods. Your rationale is that training in quality improvement:
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: QI training equips nurses with tools like data analysis to improve care processes, enhancing patient outcomes, e.g., fewer infections. It's not about authority, satisfaction drops, or less teamwork collaboration often grows. On the task force, you push this to empower staff contribution, aligning with quality goals where skilled nurses drive change, as in HAI reviews, making care safer and more effective through practical expertise.
Question 7 of 9
According to Carver and Scheier's (1981,1998) control theory of self-regulation, self-awareness allows us to assess how we are doing in meeting our goals and ideas via a(n)
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Cognitive feedback loop assesses progress. Nurse leaders check goals, like care quality, adjusting via feedback, contrasting with esteem focus. In healthcare, this drives improvement, aligning leadership with adaptive self-regulation.
Question 8 of 9
A charge nurse is reviewing the Code of Ethics for Nurses during a staff meeting. Which of the following statements should the charge nurse include in the teaching?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics for Nurses outlines professional conduct, guiding nurses in ethical decision-making and quality care. Stating The Code of Ethics for Nurses is a guide for professional actions' accurately captures its role as a framework for responsibilities like advocacy or confidentiality not a binding contract, which it isn't legally. It applies to all nursing roles, not just RNs, and isn't optional but a practice standard. This statement educates staff on its practical utility, shaping actions in client interactions, teamwork, and dilemmas, reinforcing its foundational status in nursing professionalism and accountability, essential for consistent, ethical care delivery.
Question 9 of 9
Symptoms of distress exclude
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Time management isn't a symptom, unlike headaches, fatigue, or GI. Nurse leaders like fatigue checks spot this, contrasting with tools. In healthcare, it's effect, aligning leadership with care.