Professional Issues in Nursing Final Exam
Course Introduction
Professional Issues in Nursing explores the ethical, legal, and professional responsibilities that shape nursing practice in contemporary healthcare environments. This course examines topics such as professional standards, scope of practice, patient advocacy, healthcare policy, interprofessional collaboration, and workplace challenges including diversity, safety, leadership, and moral dilemmas. Through analysis of real-world scenarios and current trends, students learn to navigate complex situations, uphold the integrity of the profession, and contribute positively to patient outcomes and the broader healthcare system.
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Leading and Managing in Nursing 7th Edition by Patricia S. Yoder
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Chapter 1: Leading, Managing, and Following
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Q1) A staff nurse has been recently promoted to unit manager.During the time on the unit, the nurse formed a strong social network among staff, has promoted the development of relationships between staff and workers in other areas of the organization, and has formed relationships that generate ideas from patient organizations and the local nursing education program.According to complexity theory, what principle is being engaged?
A)Empowerment
B)Systematic thinking
C)Development of networks
D)Bottom-up interactions
Answer: C
Q2) At a second negotiation session, the unit manager and staff nurse are unable to reach a resolution.What is the appropriate next step?
A)Arrange another meeting in a week's time so as to allow a cooling-off period.
B)Elevate the next negation session to the next manager, one level above.
C)Insist that participants continue to talk until a resolution has been reached.
D)Back the unit manager's actions and end the dispute.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Clinical Safety: The Core of Leading, Managing, and Following
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Q1) As the manager on an acute care medical unit, you note that the incidence of medication errors has increased since the implementation of staffing changes.What is an important stratagem to reduce errors?
A)Revisit reporting standards for medication errors in your organization.
B)Ensure that medication errors are consistently reported.
C)Provide staff with additional education related to safe practice in medication administration.
D)Involve RN staff in determining reasons for errors and practice solutions to increase the safety of medication administration.
Answer: D
Q2) The NQF provides a model for advancement of healthcare quality that could be used in healthcare organizations.What does the use of this model by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services specificity link with adverse patient events for healthcare facilities?
A)Staffing
B)Funding
C)Composition of executive councils
D)Composition of consumer-based councils
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) The parents of a toddler who dies after being brought to the ER launch a lawsuit, claiming that the failure of nurses to pursue concerns related to their son's deteriorating condition contributed to his death.How is senior nurse executive named in the suit?
A)As a global respondent
B)Under the doctrine of respondeat superior
C)As a frivolous action
D)Under the element of causation
Answer: B
Q2) The manager in the coronary care unit believes an important ethical consideration in performance evaluations is to include the employee's good qualities and give positive direction for professional growth.What ethical principle does this represent?
A)Justice
B)Fidelity
C)Beneficence
D)Nonmaleficence
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Cultural Diversity and Inclusion in Health Care
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Q1) Maintaining a culturally diverse staff and working with a culturally diverse patient population is an important function of a nurse manager who works in the hospital of a large medical center.On your palliative care unit, you have recently received complaints from families about ineffective pain management for their family members and you determine this occurs primarily when certain nurses are working.What approach might you take to resolve the concerns of the families, patients, and potentially, the staff?
A)Reinforce to staff that practice guidelines support as-needed analgesia for the terminally ill.
B)Ask staff input on the development of stricter guidelines to ensure that all terminally patients are given sufficient analgesia.
C)Encourage conversation with patients and among staff that facilitates learning about cultural beliefs and priorities in dying.
D)Advise families that the administration of analgesia is based on the expert clinical judgment of nurses who are familiar with care of patients in palliative care.
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Chapter 5: Gaining Personal Insight: The Beginning of Being a Leader
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Q1) The core of nursing leadership incorporates integration of unique qualities to include us as individuals.Which is not considered part of leadership integration?
A)Person
B)Leader
C)Nurse
D)Position
Q2) The nurse manager is working with a group of new nurses.The new nurses ask questions about leadership and the role of a manager in leading nursing.The manager shares she has incorporated her core values and beliefs into her role and responsibilities as a nurse manager.What type of leadership has she described?
A)Positional leadership
B)Personal leadership
C)Formal leadership
D)Information leadership
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Chapter 6: Being an Effective Follower
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Q1) The manager of a nursing unit is having difficulty working with a new graduate nurse.The new graduate nurse is excited and full of ideas she wants to try keeps pushing the manager to make changes.The manager decides to provide the new nurse with an opportunity to present an idea to the staff at the next meeting.What is the manager providing the new nurse?
A)Leadership opportunity
B)Working to improve patient care
C)Input to the unit
D)All of the above
Q2) In nursing theory, one theorist developed the idea of new nurses progressing to experienced nurses and playing an important role in patient care in all stages.The new nurses follow their role and progress through stages to advanced nurse.Who was this theorist?
A)Dorothea Orem
B)Patricia Benner
C)Ida Jean Orlando
D)Robert E.Kelley
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Chapter 7: Managing Self: Stress and Time
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Q1) A nurse manager has decided that she must institute some personal time-management steps to survive work and home life.Her first step should be to:
A)determine what takes up so much of her time and energy.
B)organize her personal and work spaces.
C)purchase a handheld personal digital assistant to help remind her of important meetings.
D)determine her personal and professional goals.
Q2) Time management is very essential for the nurse manager.Which of the following is not a good time-management technique?
A)Decide what not to do.
B)Learn to say "No."
C)Learn to delegate.
D)Break down your workload into smaller, manageable tasks.
Q3) Sources of occupational stress in nursing include all except which of the following?
A)Authoritarian leadership
B)Concern about moral wrongdoing by colleagues
C)Multiple changes in a short time
D)Rotating shifts
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Chapter 8: Communication and Conflict
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Q1) Factors that influence the ease with which conflict is resolved include all except which of the following?
A)Level of interdependence of the parties
B)Interprofessional collaboration
C)Expression of one's own needs and ideas
D)Avoidance of the issue or concern
Q2) The head nurse and a staff nurse are having a conflict over how to use and apply a new procedure for dressings in the medical/surgical area.The staff nurse wishes to use the new procedure based on newly released nursing research.The head nurse wishes to use a protocol that has been used in the department for a number of years.The head nurse later makes comments to other staff on her unit about the credibility of the staff nurse.This behavior is associated with:
A)lateral violence.
B)horizontal violence.
C)confrontation.
D)bullying.
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Chapter 9: Power, Politics, and Influence
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Q1) A staff nurse asks the nurse manager for a few days off for personal reasons.The nurse manager turns in the request to the human resources office with a note indicating that the staff nurse has demonstrated excellent working skills and is a valued employee.The nurse manager has used the influence of her position to help this staff member.Influence is the process of:
A)using power.
B)empowering others.
C)understanding power.
D)moving past apathy.
Q2) What interaction is MOST consistent with the idea of networking?
A)Meet with the same colleagues daily to have coffee and share concerns about the workplace and stories about colleagues.
B)Join an online workplace forum to gain ideas about how to handle workplace conflict.
C)Suggest that you and a new team member meet after work for coffee to review unit guidelines.
D)Join a nurse executive interest group to meet other executives for support and for sharing ideas of expertise.
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Chapter 10: Health Care Organizations
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Q1) Tracy is an RN case manager who interfaces between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid.Tracy's responsibilities most likely would include:
A)managing physician-led research.
B)monitoring physician documentation of the need for medical care.
C)determining which services are designated fee-for-service.
D)identifying errors in physician diagnoses.
Q2) You are the nurse manager for a not-for-profit health service for the homeless and for drug users in an impoverished neighborhood.As the manager, your concern about sustainability is related to:
A)the possibility of violence.
B)an increase in prescription drugs available for abuse.
C)decisions of the public board.
D)an increase in uncompensated care events.
Q3) A nurse manager in a for-profit environment finds it difficult to recruit staff.This difficulty may be most related to aggressive profit goals and:
A)lower salary compensation for staff.
B)rising expectations of impoverished and indigent individuals for services.
C)poor orientation and retention practices for staff.
D)an overwhelming emphasis on accepting learners from health disciplines.
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Chapter 11: Organizational Structures
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Q1) Organizational culture includes: (Select all that apply.)
A)norms.
B)traditions.
C)behaviors.
D)values.
Q2) In the Unity Healthcare organization, communication flows:
A)laterally.
B)bottom to top.
C)top to bottom.
D)intermittently.
Q3) The chief nursing officer is given the task of reviewing and proposing revision of the organization's mission, philosophy, and technology.In reviewing them, the chief nursing officer understands that they should be reflected in:
A)the organizational structure.
B)line and staff responsibilities.
C)the policies and procedures.
D)government regulations.
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Chapter 12: Care Delivery Strategies
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Q1) In comparing team and functional models of care, a nurse manager favors the team model.In particular, she finds that the team model:
A)can be effective in recognizing individual strengths and backgrounds of staff.
B)promotes autonomy and independence for the RN.
C)avoids conflict because of role clarity.
D)is efficient in delivering care to a large group of patients, utilizing a staffing mix.
Q2) Complex care of acutely ill patients is required on a surgical unit, which utilizes differentiated nursing practice as its model of care delivery.On what is the concept of differentiated nursing practice is based?
A)Licensure status
B)Experience in the agency
C)Leadership capabilities
D)Education and expertise
Q3) Case managed care may enhance profit in a for-profit health organization by:
A)minimizing costs in high resource consumption areas.
B)combining licensed and non-licensed care providers in delivering patient care.
C)increasing reimbursement from third-party payers.
D)reducing the amount of technology used to support clinical decision making.
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Chapter 13: Staffing and Scheduling
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Q1) The American Nurses Association has advocated for the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act.This legislation is based on ANA Safe Staffing Principles and takes what factors into consideration for planning staffing on a nursing unit?
A)Patient acuity and complexity
B)Education and training of the nurses
C)Technology available and use on the unit
D)All factors listed are to be considered
Q2) To prepare staffing schedules, a nurse manager needs to calculate paid non-productive time.When calculating paid non-productive time, the nurse manager considers:
A)work time, educational time, and holiday time.
B)paid hours minus worked hours.
C)vacation time, holiday time, and sick time.
D)paid hours minus meeting time.
Q3) The difference between staffing and scheduling is that staffing:
A)puts the right person in the right position.
B)puts the right person in the right time and place.
C)refers to the number of nursing hours per patient per day.
D)looks after interpretation of benefits and compensation.
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Chapter 14: Work Force Engagement Through Collective
Action and Governance
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Q1) Martin, the unit manager, receives complaints from community agencies that patients who have been discharged from his unit seem to lack understanding about their disorder and immediate strategies for managing elements of their care.Martin checks the patient teaching sheets and notes that the sheets are initialed by staff.He calls the agencies and indicates that teaching has been done.Potential outcomes of Martin's actions include: (Select all that apply.)
A)poor morale on the unit.
B)disruption in community relationships.
C)corruption of patient-staff relationships.
D)patient outcomes for quality care are met.
Q2) The chief nursing officer utilizes the hospital's workplace advocacy to help the overwhelmed Emergency Department staff.Workplace Advocacy is designed to assist nurses by:
A)creating professional practice climates in their institutions.
B)equipping them to practice in a rapidly changing environment.
C)negotiating employment contracts.
D)representing them in labor-management disputes.
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Chapter 15: Making Decisions and Solving Problems
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Q1) The risk manager wants to evaluate the reasons for an increased number of falls on the rehab unit.The risk manager devises a fishbone diagram.A fishbone diagram is a useful tool to:
A)identify the root causes of problems.
B)list possible solutions to problems.
C)help leaders select the best options.
D)evaluate the outcomes of decisions made.
Q2) High-quality decisions are most likely to be made in nursing situations when:
A)team leaders make the crucial decisions.
B)individuals are advised of the problems.
C)group size is neither too small nor too large.
D)members are passively involved.
Q3) Several nurses on an adolescent psychiatric unit complain that the teens are becoming unmanageable on the 0700-1900 shift.To resolve this problem, the nurse manager decides that the staff should have a brainstorming session.The goal of brainstorming is to:
A)evaluate problem solutions.
B)critique the ideas of others.
C)generate as many solutions as possible.
D)identify only practical and realistic ideas.
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Chapter 16: The Impact of Technology
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Q1) A necessary, basic condition for successful integration of clinical information systems is:
A)software.
B)standard medical nomenclature.
C)confirmatory evidence from nursing-led studies.
D)strong interdisciplinary cultures.
Q2) As part of an information technology implementation team, you are implementing a clinical decision support system.Particular considerations for successful implementation of this project include:
A)ensuring that the system is reliable.
B)ensuring that patient information is reliable.
C)developing unique identifiers for individuals.
D)developing rules that support inferences.
Q3) Nurses need to know how to operate a computer, compare data across time, and look for patterns in client responses to treatments.These are examples of:
A)JCAHO standards.
B)information systems.
C)informatics competencies.
D)requirements for nursing licensure.
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Chapter 17: Delegating: Authority, Accountability,
Responsibility in Delegation Decisions
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Q1) You are working in a home health service and have three unlicensed nursing personnel (UNPs) assigned to your team.You have worked with two of them for 2 years; the third is new.The two experienced UNPs have patients with complex illnesses for whom they provide basic care.The third member of the team has been assigned to patients with less complex illnesses.Your best approach to supervising their care is to:
A)remain in the office and ask each UNP to check in with you upon arrival at their first patient care site.
B)ask another RN to supervise the two experienced assistants so you can be with the new person full time.
C)meet the new staff member at the first patient care site and ask the others to call if anything is unusual.
D)meet the new staff member at the first patient care site and call the others with questions to determine whether anything is unusual.
Q2) With delegation, responsibility and accountability remain with the:
A)physician.
B)professional who delegates.
C)individual who receives the delegation.
D)individual who previously performed the task.
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Chapter 18: Leading Change
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Q1) Resistance is most likely when change:
A)is not well understood.
B)involves many layers in an organization.
C)involves nonprofessional workers.
D)threatens personal security.
Q2) The nurse manager frequently interacts with staff and other hospice facility employees.Communication is purposeful because the manager assesses current issues, such as specific satisfactions and dissatisfactions with the newly implemented computerized documentation system.Informally, the manager gathers available staff members to address similar learning needs.Many times, staff members are found coaching other staff about improving use of the new system.According to Senge (1990), the activities demonstrated in this example are:
A)dialogue, team learning.
B)resilience, personal mastery.
C)shared vision, systems thinking.
D)mental models, teachable moments.
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Chapter 19: Building Effective Teams
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Q1) By following a shared leadership model, the nurse manager believes that staff members will learn to function synergistically.Some teams function synergistically because members:
A)do not volunteer unwanted information.
B)actively listen to each other.
C)listen to the person who believes he or she is an expert.
D)do not speak unless they are absolutely sure they are correct in their views.
Q2) The SBAR system of communications is one of the most used communication systems in health care because:
A)it deals with all aspects of communications in patient care except communication with the physician.
B)the nurse is on the same communication level as administration.
C)it honors a familiar, structured transfer of information among health professionals.
D)it honors an unstructured transfer of information.
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Chapter 20: Managing Costs and Budgets
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Q1) After a major flu vaccination campaign, an agency bills a private insurance company for allowable costs for administration of each vaccination according to the schedule established by the insurance company for reimbursement.This is an example of which major payment method?
A)Cost-based reimbursement
B)Charges
C)Contractual allowance
D)Prospective reimbursement
Q2) In preparing her budget, a nurse manager determines that she needs to budget for six FTE RN positions in the upcoming year.Based on a 40-hour week, this means that the nurse manager has determined that the budget will provide for _____ hours.
A)12,480 productive
B)10,820 productive
C)12,480 paid
D)10,800 patient care
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Chapter 21: Selecting, Developing, and Evaluating Staff
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Q1) John notes that the next section is specific to the organizational philosophy and has a 4-point ordinal scale that describes performance from "always meets expectations" to "does not meet expectations." This type of evaluation is most commonly known as:
A)a behavior-anchored rating scale.
B)management by objectives/learning goals.
C)the forced distribution scale.
D)a graphic rating scale.
Q2) As part of orientation to your unit, you decide to administer Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) to new staff.The most likely reason for your decision is that the use of Kolb LSI:
A)reduces the cost of orientation.
B)determines if there is fit between learner and organizational values.
C)develops the strengths of the new staff member.
D)enables individualization of learning to the learner's needs.
Q3) Anecdotal notes:
A)should be completed only when there are performance concerns.
B)can be used to support and justify fairness in termination discussions.
C)are unnecessary if the evaluation instrument is thorough.
D)need to be completed at the end of a performance period.
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Chapter 22: Person-Centered Care
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Q1) Corrine, a student nurse, often hears that nurses are gatekeepers and wonders what that term means.As a nurse leader, you explain that this is a reference to the:
A)assessment and admission of patients into care.
B)orientation of patients to services once they are admitted.
C)function of controlling which patients see the physician and which do not.
D)coordination of care, services, advocacy, and access for patients within the healthcare system.
Q2) A 27-year-old woman is admitted to your ICU in a coma, following an accident.The family of the patient, who is a Native American, places a medicine pouch in the bed with the young woman.As the nurse in this situation, it is important to:
A)explain to the family that the medicine pouch may contain herbs that may bother other patients.
B)ask the family about the significance of the medicine pouch for them.
C)remove the pouch when the family is not present.
D)put the medicine pouch on the shelf beside the bed.
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Chapter 23: Managing Quality and Risk
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Q1) A nurse is explaining the pediatric unit's quality improvement (QI) program to a newly employed nurse.Which of the following would the nurse include as the primary purpose of QI programs?
A)Evaluation of staff members' performances
B)Determination of the appropriateness of standards
C)Improvement in patient outcomes
D)Preparation for accreditation of the organization by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
Q2) Hospital Magnet decides against creating a separate department to lead and monitor quality activities because:
A)total organizational involvement is critical to QI.
B)data generated by a single, separate department are generally flawed.
C)monitoring and commitment to QI can come only from senior-level managers.
D)staff resent suggestions for improvement that originate outside of their unit.
Q3) Patient perceptions are useful in:
A)determining disciplinary actions in QI.
B)establishing the competitive advantage of QI decisions.
C)providing one source of data for QI initiatives.
D)establishing blame for poor-quality care.
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Chapter 24: Translating Research Into Practice
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Q1) At an organizational level, which of the following strategies would assist in ensuring that EBP is incorporated into nursing care?
A)Formation of nursing-only implementation teams
B)Restriction of evidence to RCTs
C)Formation of a network of individuals doing research and/or interested in research utilization
D)Avoidance of partnership with experienced researchers
Q2) What is a strategy that can be used by a small community hospital with limited resources to develop an evidence-based nursing practice program?
A)Hiring a nurse researcher
B)Partnering with nurse researchers at a local university
C)Subscribing to journals devoted to evidence-based nursing
D)Including research competencies in managers' job descriptions
Q3) To help staff nurses adjust to using research in practice, what strategy would the nurse manager use?
A)Attendance at a regional research conference
B)Formal classes in electronic search techniques
C)Establishing a journal club
D)Issuing reports on the adverse consequences of outdated practices
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Chapter 25: Managing Personal and Personnel Problems
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Q1) Before terminating an employee, a nurse manager must:
A)be an expert in all legal aspects of termination and discipline practices.
B)follow the organization's specific policies for addressing disciplinary problems and termination.
C)function as a counselor for problem employees.
D)do everything to assist and protect the employee by adjusting standards and policies.
Q2) Ellen is a novice nurse on your unit.Even though she has come to you highly recommended, as her supervisor, you have noticed some knowledge and skill deficiencies.These deficiencies have been noticed by her peers as well, who cover for her because she is new and they like her.Which of the following is likely to be the greatest asset to Ellen in improving her performance?
A)Ignore Ellen's errors until she has more experience.
B)Instruct staff to avoid working with Ellen until she learns to how do things herself.
C)Ask Ellen to complete a self-assessment, using a standard skills checklist.
D)Encourage staff to report every behavior of Ellen's that is different from theirs.
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Chapter 26: Role Transition
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Q1) The chief nursing officer develops a mentoring program to help new staff members adjust to their new jobs.The main purpose of mentoring is:
A)promoting staff retention.
B)promoting staff attrition.
C)developing new role expectations.
D)promoting staff supervision.
Q2) After several months in the role of manager of a dialysis unit, Maryanne finds herself still questioning the gap in expectations between her and her staff and management and is also questioning if she can reconcile her concerns about quality care with the strong cost-containment orientation of the facility.At this point, Maryanne is in which stage of role transition?
A)Internalization
B)Acceptance
C)Development
D)Discrepancy
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Chapter 27: Managing Your Career
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Q1) Which of the following needs revision on a résumé or CV?
A)John Jones 87 Highway Drive City, MI 79110 Jjones@gmail.com
B)M.Howes Anyway Highway City, MO 77700 (H) 777-777-0000
E-mail: mh@gmail.com
C)Dr.L.Jones 99 Carway Drive City, NY 84003 (H) 999-999-0000 (Cell) 999-000-9999
D)Tanya Jones 67 Honeywell Drive City, MO 66907 Beerhog@hotmail.com
Q2) A functional résumé focuses on:
A)experience and skills gained in positions.
B)positions held and specific roles in the positions.
C)academic qualifications and achievements.
D)relating skills and experience to qualifications in a specific position.
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Chapter 28: Developing the Role of Leader
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Q1) The style of leadership that Kari is exhibiting is likely to:
A)ensure that the organization is financially stable.
B)stifle innovative thinking about ways to move out of financial jeopardy.
C)lead to apathy and disinterest in the organizational goals.
D)lead to decreased attrition of staff on her unit.
Q2) The director of nursing has been observing staff interactions in a 20-bed coronary care unit.Based on her observations, which of the following staff members is an obvious leader?
A)The unit secretary who knows everyone's business
B)The chief nursing officer who is in charge and is responsible for nursing services
C)The chief cardiologist who admits the largest number of patients and brings in more revenue than any other physician
D)The staff nurse who persuades other staff members to practice by making evidence-based decisions
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Chapter 29: Developing the Role of Manager
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Q1) In planning a new wing, the nurse manager complies with the workplace safety requirements of the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA).Which of the following groups is considered to be at high risk for violence in the workplace?
A)Pediatric staff
B)Postsurgical unit staff
C)Emergency Department staff
D)Medical oncology unit staff
Q2) A manager who is concerned with ensuring that patients on her surgical unit have the necessary information to make informed choices is:
A)practicing legal nursing care.
B)demonstrating respect for patient rights.
C)avoiding risks.
D)likely experiencing staff issues with informed consent.
Q3) The nurse manager plays a unique role in institutional management in that the nurse manager:
A)encourages shared decision making.
B)models professional nursing behavior.
C)interprets healthcare trends and their impact on revenues.
D)coordinates care and allocates resources.
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Chapter 30: The Strategic Planning Process
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Q1) Which of the following represents an effective goal statement?
A)Involve patients and families in planning health care.
B)To revise clinical guidelines for incontinence care from evidence within 6 months.
C)Patients and families are partners first in care planning.
D)To acquire $4 million in additional funding within 12 months to support clinical education programs for dementia.
Q2) Assessment of the needs of the consumer or client (in developing a strategic marketing plan) focuses on:
A)present needs only.
B)present and future needs.
C)the development of surveys.
D)secondary analysis of existing data.
Q3) The clinic nurse understands that the advantages of planning include:
A)assisting staff in critical thinking and improving decisions.
B)orienting people to react instead of act.
C)forcing managers to be cost-efficient and cost-effective.
D)focusing on activities, not results.
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Chapter 31: Thriving for the Future
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Q1) A stroke unit experiences numerous changes related to implementation of new technology, a changed nursing care delivery model, and staff turnover within a period of 6 months.Staff members begin to show signs of reluctance to implement any more changes.The phenomenon experienced by the staff is termed:
A)eustress.
B)care process.
C)stereotypical thinking.
D)complexity compression.
Q2) Nathan tells you that he has selected nursing as a career because many jobs are available and he will have job security.Your best response to Nathan is:
A)"With many young people going overseas, many jobs and options will be available.Stable jobs and job security will be part of the nursing employment market."
B)"The job market for nurses will be diminished with funding cuts to hospitals."
C)"The employment prospects for nurses are positive with many options to choose from.Flexibility and adaptability are essential to income security."
D)"It is unlikely that nursing will survive in the long term with funding cuts and a declining population of seniors."
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