Advanced Nursing Leadership
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Course Introduction
Advanced Nursing Leadership explores the essential theories, principles, and practices of leadership in contemporary healthcare settings. The course emphasizes the development of critical thinking and decision-making skills necessary for effective leadership roles in nursing, covering topics such as strategic planning, organizational change, advocacy, and interprofessional collaboration. Students will analyze current challenges faced by nurse leaders, including ethical dilemmas, cultural competence, and health policy impact, and will apply evidence-based strategies to lead teams, manage resources, and foster a culture of safety and excellence in patient care.
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The New leadership Challenge Creating the Future of Nursing 4th Edition by Sheila C. Grossman
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Leadership: Distinguishing
Leadership From Management
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Q1) Precepting differs from the role of a mentor because preceptors are:
A)Assigned to a new nurse orienting to a position
B)Identified as accountable for the new orientee's actions
C)Only with the new staff member at the patient's bedside
D)Paired to a new staff member for staffing purposes only
Answer: A
Q2) In today's world,some researchers have concluded it is best to focus on complex behavioral decision making and group performance that results from it than:
A)An individual leader's behavioral traits
B)An individual's personality
C)How a person manages conflict
D)An individual's ability to manage change
Answer: A
Q3) An important quality of a leader that is not often identified includes being:
A)Cautious
B)Careful not to "upset anyone in authority"
C)A risk taker
D)Cost effective
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The New World and New Leadership: Changing Our Thinking About Leaders
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Q1) With the uncertainty that a multiple trauma accident poses in an Emergency Department,the physicians and nursing staff generally tend to come together for the "common good." This is illustrated by which of the following communication strategies?
A)Less enthusiasm and frantic,quick statements of doom
B)Somber tone with short,monosyllabic words
C)More professional wording and less familiarity with team members
D)More personal and group approach
Answer: D
Q2) Nurses are challenged to think critically and in new ways with the constant crises they face at work every day.Experience assists the nurse to evolve from merely reacting to a crisis,such as the nurse had learned to do in school,to actually critically analyzing the situation and creating a solution.This type of growth is termed:
A)Cognitive
B)Developmental
C)Maturational
D)Perspective transformation
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Followership and Empowerment
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Q1) According to Douglas's "Followership Style Test," which of the following would be most comfortable with a moderately autocratic leader?
A)One who needs structure and feedback but who can also carry on independently
B)One who is a self-starter and likes to challenge new things by himself or herself
C)One who cannot function well without programs and procedures and who needs feedback
D)One who is independent and does not need close supervision but who does need some feedback
Answer: A
Q2) When studying followership and leadership,it is important to realize that followers need to be analyzed regarding their performance as well as their relationship to the leader.These evaluation initiatives are described by Pittman,Rosenbach,and Potter as:
A)Worker and collaborator
B)Employee and employer
C)Performance and relationship
D)Follower and leader
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Leadership As an Integral Component of a Professional Role
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Q1) Using the Transformational Model in an acute care setting would need to include which of the following three characteristics that the agency's leadership would want its staff to portray?
A)Risk taking,efficiency,and optimism
B)Integrity,flexibility,and hardiness
C)Hardiness,empowerment,and vision
D)Credibility,creativity,and optimism
Q2) Leaders can best produce environments that are conducive to using emotional intelligence by working toward:
A)Offering baccalaureate and graduate courses at the health-care agency
B)Increasing staff nurses' self-esteem
C)Improving professional commitment of nurses to higher education
D)All staff nurses joining the American Nurses Association
Q3) Kouzes and Posner describe which of the following as "encouraging the heart"?
A)Empathizing with followers
B)Developing strong friendly relationships with followers
C)Caring deeply about the vision of followers
D)Having the ability to change the vision of followers
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Chapter 5: Vision and Creativity
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Q1) People need to have both a personal and professional vision to:
A)Have a purpose in life and accomplish work goals
B)Accrue any wealth and success in one's profession
C)Be successful with balancing a family life
D)Use one's education and family values
Q2) Some people do not have a vision.They will find that without a focus,they most likely will:
A)Be able to accomplish the same as if they had had a vision
B)Not accomplish the same results as those who are passionate about fulfilling their vision
C)Be more creative and effective in life
D)Be more relaxed and healthier because there will be less stress regarding accomplishing goals
Q3) Being creative most likely will prevent nurses from becoming:
A)Burned out
B)Effective and efficient nurses
C)Strong risk takers
D)Passionate about their dreams and visions
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Chapter 6: Gender Perspectives in Leadership
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Q1) Connective leadership demonstrated by many women leaders is a style that fits with today's organizations because it encompasses:
A)Networking,empowerment of all,and relationship building
B)Primary focus for cost savings,team work,and leader reputation
C)Competitive milieu,independent work,and patient safety
D)Holistic care,use of complementary alternative therapy,and communication
Q2) Female leaders sometimes want to be only with male leaders,want to keep other women down,and downplay the concerns expressed by women who are trying to succeed.Such behavior is called the:
A)Great Man Phenomenon
B)Queen Bee Syndrome
C)Impostor Syndrome
D)Gloria Steinem Strategy
Q3) Keohane describes the current work setting as having few women who serve in authority over men and women who are:
A)Diverse or from the international arena
B)Of comparable social and economic status
C)Involved in research and improvement
D)Financial affairs of the agency
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Chapter 7: Chaos and Disequilibrium: Invigorating, Challenging,
and Growth-Producing
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Q1) Health-care insurance is very complex with the multiple types and payment plans.A new type of health-care insurance that is being introduced is one that gives a reduction in premiums if the patient takes responsibility for his or her health and stops smoking,loses weight,or engages in some type of health promotion.When the individual first reads about a policy like this and is in the process of considering a change in his or her insurance,which of the following phases of Lewin's Change Model is in process?
A)Thinking
B)Moving
C)Unfreezing
D)Refreezing
Q2) Change often is described as all of the following EXCEPT:
A)New
B)Unexpected
C)Negative
D)Stable
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Chapter 8: Shaping a Preferred Future for Nursing
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Q1) Senge recommends that leaders must act in three roles including designers,teachers,and stewards.The steward role is best described as:
A)Developing the vision to assist followers to remain in the group
B)Making sure each employee gets his or her paycheck
C)Being responsible for distributing resources
D)Acting as a spokesperson for the group and facilitating its long-term growth
Q2) The Magnet Model,developed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center,encompasses five components that illustrate the model's premise for the need to maintain an effective nursing staff in health-care agencies.One of these components is:
A)Transactional leadership
B)New knowledge,innovation,and improvements
C)An all certified and bachelor of science in nursing (BSN)prepared nursing staff
D)Patient-focused philosophy of care
Q3) Which of the following best describes critical pathways?
A)Individualized plans of care
B)Outcomes of primary care
C)Multidisciplinary-developed patient plans of care
D)Nursing intervention documentation
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Chapter 9: Developing As a Leader Throughout Ones
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Q1) Nursing education programs need to do more to create a leadership mind-set in nurses.Research has demonstrated it may be more effective educationally to:
A)Provide all of the leadership content in one course.
B)Apply leadership content to the first course of the undergraduate and graduate curricula so other courses can remain clinically focused only.
C)Integrate the leadership content throughout the curricula.
D)Teach two separate courses in the first-year curricula-one being leadership and the other being management.
Q2) Participation in sensitivity training sessions is considered excellent experience for those developing their leadership skills because it increases one's sensitivity:
A)Regarding another organization's needs
B)And improves one's ability to be visionary
C)Regarding the organization's policies and procedures
D)To others' needs and helps one appreciate the significance of shared decision making
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Chapter 10: Conclusions
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Q1) According to Diers and Evans,"excellent nurses are inflamed by nursing." By "inflamed," these authors meant that excellent nurses are:
A)Outspoken and aggressive
B)Politically active
C)Passionate about their work
D)Skilled clinicians
Q2) By creating a culture of continuous improvement,nurses empower themselves to always "go the extra mile" with their patients.This attitude will foster a positive learning atmosphere and increase collegiality among staff.In turn,if staff feel recognized for their efforts and are open to accepting constructive feedback from peers,the unit milieu will generate staff:
A)Burnout
B)Turnover
C)Retention
D)Attrition
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