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Leadership and management in Nursing

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A nurse who is admired and respected by her colleagues, who often come to her for advice, has:

A. Legitimate power
B. Coercive power
C. Reward power
D. Referent power ✓
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Jun 6, 2026

A “root cause analysis” is a quality improvement tool used to:

A. Identify who is to blame for an error.
B. Understand the fundamental, underlying reasons why an adverse event occurred. ✓
C. Analyze the financial cost of an error.
D. Quickly fix the surface-level problem without further investigation.
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Jun 6, 2026

A nurse who takes the initiative to create a patient education brochure in Urdu for her ward is demonstrating:

A. Followership
B. Informal leadership and proactivity ✓
C. Insubordination
D. A violation of policy
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Jun 6, 2026

The best response to workplace violence or aggression from a patient or family member is to:

A. Retaliate with equal force.
B. Ensure your own safety and the safety of others first, and then call for help according to hospital protocol. ✓
C. Try to handle the situation alone to show you are capable.
D. Ignore the aggression.
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Jun 6, 2026

“Shared governance” is a management model where:

A. The doctors make all the decisions for the nurses.
B. Nurses at the bedside are formally included in the decision-making processes about their practice and work environment. ✓
C. The government runs the hospital directly.
D. Patients share in the governance of the hospital.
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A nurse manager is planning the staffing for the next month. This is an example of:

A. Operational planning ✓
B. Strategic planning
C. Contingency planning
D. Crisis planning
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Jun 6, 2026

During a pandemic, a nurse manager must balance:

A. The safety of her staff with the duty to care for patients. ✓
B. The hospital's profits with patient care.
C. Her personal life with her professional life.
D. The media's demands with patient privacy.
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Jun 6, 2026

The most significant factor contributing to nurse burnout is:

A. A lack of clinical skills.
B. Chronic understaffing and a stressful work environment. ✓
C. Having to wear a uniform.
D. Patients who are too friendly.
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Jun 6, 2026

A nurse leader’s role in managing the budget for her unit is to:

A. Spend all the money as quickly as possible.
B. Advocate for adequate resources while ensuring they are used efficiently and effectively. ✓
C. Hide the budget details from her staff.
D. Refuse to spend any money to get a bonus.
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Jun 6, 2026

A leader who says, “Let’s work together to solve this problem,” is likely using which conflict resolution style?

A. Avoidance
B. Competition
C. Accommodation
D. Collaboration ✓
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Jun 6, 2026

The best way to handle a chronic staff complainer who is lowering team morale is to:

A. Isolate the complainer from the rest of the team.
B. Agree with all of their complaints to pacify them.
C. Address the complainer privately, listen to their specific issues, and redirect them toward constructive solutions. ✓
D. Fire the complainer immediately.
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A patient has signed a “DNR” (Do Not Resuscitate) order. When the patient stops breathing, the nurse’s ethical and legal obligation is to:

A. Start CPR immediately.
B. Call the family to ask them what to do.
C. Respect the DNR order and provide palliative care. ✓
D. Ask a colleague what they think she should do.
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Jun 6, 2026

The ‘Great Man’ theory of leadership suggests that:

A. Leaders are made, not born.
B. Anyone can be a leader with the right training.
C. Leaders are born with innate heroic qualities. ✓
D. Leadership depends entirely on the situation.
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Case Study: A patient from a rural area has a large family that wants to stay with him 24/7, which is against hospital policy. The culturally sensitive nurse leader would:

A. Strictly enforce the policy and have security remove the family.
B. 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. ✓
C. Ignore the policy and allow the entire family to stay, causing disruption.
D. Tell the family their cultural practices are wrong.
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Jun 6, 2026

The “grapevine” is a form of informal communication in an organization. A nurse leader should:

A. Use the grapevine to spread official hospital policy.
B. Try to eliminate the grapevine completely.
C. Listen to the grapevine to understand staff concerns, but use formal channels for official communication. ✓
D. Believe everything she hears on the grapevine.
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Jun 6, 2026

In time management, the “Eisenhower Matrix” helps prioritize tasks by categorizing them based on:

A. Urgency and Importance ✓
B. Difficulty and Time Required
C. Cost and Benefit
D. What you like to do vs. what you dislike
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Jun 6, 2026

A nurse manager who wants to foster innovation on her unit should:

A. Punish any nurse who suggests a new idea that fails.
B. Encourage critical thinking and create a safe environment for staff to pilot new, evidence-based ideas. ✓
C. Stick rigidly to all old procedures and forbid any changes.
D. Wait for the administration to mandate all innovations.
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Jun 6, 2026

A nurse is required by law to report suspected child abuse. This legal duty overrides:

A. The nurse's personal feelings about the family.
B. The principle of patient/family confidentiality in this specific situation. ✓
C. The hospital's policy on visiting hours.
D. The need to finish her shift on time.
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Jun 6, 2026

A key role of a leader during the “change” phase of Lewin’s theory is to:

A. Communicate frequently, provide support, and manage any problems that arise. ✓
B. Announce the change and then disappear.
C. Revert back to the old system if there is any resistance.
D. Focus on punishing those who are slow to adapt.
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