Exam 10: Organizational Concepts and Structure

The nurse manager of the unit is responsible for:

A hospital established a professional partnership with a local nursing program.A joint practice agreement was signed between the two agencies.This is an example of what type of multiorganizational arrangement?

Nurses need to be prepared for globalization and its implications for health care.Nurses would be most likely to focus on which of the following as the groundwork for the management of outcomes in global health care?

One way that nurse leaders who are employed by an organization can best fit into a corporate model instead of a traditional bureaucratic model is to:

The dean of the school of nursing decided to implement a shared governance model.The principal foundation of this model is:

To survive the changes in the health care field,many nurses have become entrepreneurial and have established their own programs or agencies to hire others to provide care to the community.What type of organizational model would best fit this approach?

In response to managed care,many hospitals have set up disease management programs.One benefit of such programs is:

A nurse manager has begun working in an organization with decentralized decision making.Decentralized decision making allows the nurse manager to:

The nurse manager develops an organizational chart that includes all of the following except:

An urban hospital decided to sponsor a school-based clinic in a nearby ghetto area as part of the services of the hospital.The service is viewed as:

In what is called a "new" organizational structure,versus a traditional structure,what is true of the chain of command?

The nurse manager resigned from an organization that had formal channels of communication to begin working at an organization with a flat structure.The nurse manager can expect to find which of the following?

As a leader in the organization,the chief nursing officer should:

A staff nurse who recently graduated from a health systems management graduate program was relieved of her duties on the unit and given a temporary assignment along with other staff members who were working on their certifications.The staff members were participating in:

To increase performance effectiveness,the nurse manager must:

On the unit,the nurse manager assigned one staff member to pass medications and give treatments.In this case,span of control is defined in terms of:

In a large medical center,the chief nursing officer met with the vice president of information systems to schedule training for the nursing staff on the new information systems that were to be installed.What type of organizational structure does this medical center have?

An advanced practice nurse was hired to help establish a trauma unit.While working on the project,he found that he had to report to the chief nursing officer and the newly hired medical director of the trauma unit.This organizational design is known as:

A hospital decided to restructure the organization by changing from a bureaucratic model to European-style management.The primary difference between these two styles is that European-style management:

The roles of the nurse manager throughout organizational redesign,restructuring,and reengineering include all of the following except: