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Nurse Leader and Manager

CHAPTER^23

PRACTICING FOR NCLEX

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

Circle the letter that corresponds to the best

answer for each question.

1.In which of the following styles of leadership

are group satisfaction and motivation primary

benefits?

a.Democratic

b.Autocratic

c.Laissez-faire

d.Transformational

2.Which of the following styles of leadership is

rarely used in a hospital setting because of the

difficulty of task achievement by independent

nurses?

a.Democratic

b.Autocratic

c.Laissez-faire

d.Transformational

3.When a nurse arranges all the resources avail-

able to teach a teenage girl how to manage her

asthma, he/she is performing which of the fol-

lowing roles of a nurse manager?

a.Planning role

b.Organizing role

c.Directing role

d.Controlling role

4.Which of the following is a characteristic of a

decentralized management system?

a.Decisions are generally made by senior

managers.

b.Nurses further down the hierarchy of an

organization are often responsible for

implementing decisions into which they

had little input.

c.Decisions are made by those who are most

knowledgeable about the issues being

decided.

d.Nurse managers are not accountable for

patient census, staffing, supplies, or budgets.

5.In which of the following nursing care

delivery models is one nurse responsible for

overseeing the quality and financial outcomes

of patient care while working collegially with

physicians and other caregivers as well as with

payers to manage patients along an agreed-on

clinical pathway?

a.Functional nursing

b.Case management

c.Primary nursing

d.Collaborative practice model

6.According to Lewin, in which of the following

stages of change is change initiated after a

careful process of planning?

a.Moving

b.Freezing

c.Unfreezing

d.Transforming

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