Home MCQs BS Nursing
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Introduce a major, disruptive change to keep them on their toes.
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Acknowledge their success and continue to provide support and resources.
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Take all the credit for the team's success.
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Planning the daily patient assignments.
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Creating a long-term vision and goals for the organization (e.g., over 3-5 years).
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Planning the staff holiday roster.
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Planning how to handle a specific patient complaint.
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Report the colleague to the police.
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Post about it on social media.
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Intervene immediately if possible to ensure patient safety, then report it through the proper channels.
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Ignore it to protect the colleague.
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Leaders are made, not born.
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Anyone can be a leader with the right training.
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Leaders are born with innate heroic qualities.
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Leadership depends entirely on the situation.
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Strictly enforce the policy and have security remove the family.
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Understand the cultural importance of family, and work to find a compromise, such as allowing one or two family members to stay on a rotational basis.
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C.
Ignore the policy and allow the entire family to stay, causing disruption.
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D.
Tell the family their cultural practices are wrong.
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Use the grapevine to spread official hospital policy.
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B.
Try to eliminate the grapevine completely.
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Listen to the grapevine to understand staff concerns, but use formal channels for official communication.
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D.
Believe everything she hears on the grapevine.
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Urgency and Importance
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Difficulty and Time Required
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D.
What you like to do vs. what you dislike
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Punish any nurse who suggests a new idea that fails.
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B.
Encourage critical thinking and create a safe environment for staff to pilot new, evidence-based ideas.
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C.
Stick rigidly to all old procedures and forbid any changes.
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D.
Wait for the administration to mandate all innovations.
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The nurse's personal feelings about the family.
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The principle of patient/family confidentiality in this specific situation.
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The hospital's policy on visiting hours.
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The need to finish her shift on time.
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Communicate frequently, provide support, and manage any problems that arise.
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B.
Announce the change and then disappear.
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C.
Revert back to the old system if there is any resistance.
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D.
Focus on punishing those who are slow to adapt.
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In an email to the entire team.
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In a public setting so others can learn.
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Privately and respectfully.
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During a busy and stressful time.
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Identify who is to blame for an error.
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B.
Understand the fundamental, underlying reasons why an adverse event occurred.
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C.
Analyze the financial cost of an error.
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D.
Quickly fix the surface-level problem without further investigation.
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B.
Informal leadership and proactivity
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D.
A violation of policy
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Retaliate with equal force.
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B.
Ensure your own safety and the safety of others first, and then call for help according to hospital protocol.
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C.
Try to handle the situation alone to show you are capable.
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D.
Ignore the aggression.
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The doctors make all the decisions for the nurses.
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B.
Nurses at the bedside are formally included in the decision-making processes about their practice and work environment.
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C.
The government runs the hospital directly.
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D.
Patients share in the governance of the hospital.
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Operational planning
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C.
Contingency planning
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The safety of her staff with the duty to care for patients.
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The hospital's profits with patient care.
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Her personal life with her professional life.
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D.
The media's demands with patient privacy.
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A lack of clinical skills.
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Chronic understaffing and a stressful work environment.
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C.
Having to wear a uniform.
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Patients who are too friendly.
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Spend all the money as quickly as possible.
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B.
Advocate for adequate resources while ensuring they are used efficiently and effectively.
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C.
Hide the budget details from her staff.
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D.
Refuse to spend any money to get a bonus.
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