Exam 12: Selection and Development of Personnel

One purpose of an interview is to:

Hospitals use various recruitment and retention strategies.One strategy adopted by hospitals is to arrange for a resource person to support the development of a younger nurse through influence and promotion.Such a person is called:

Which generation would benefit from a mentoring program in the workplace?

Which of the following is an underlying principle that a nurse manager should use in the screening process?

When hiring a Filipino nurse,a nurse manager needs to guide the nurse's performance by:

A new telemetry unit was opened.The nurse manager selected several newly graduated students who had just passed their board examinations to fill the staff nurse positions.In planning for the staff development needs of the new nurses,the nurse manager would most likely organize a nurse internship program,which would include all of the following except:

Which generation views retirement as a period of renewal?

A Mexican-American woman was admitted to the labor and delivery room.To be culturally sensitive,what actions should the nurse manager take?

The leader's responsibility with regard to recruitment and retention of personnel is to:

The nurse manager will use which of the following groups as a major source for selection of personnel?

The director of nursing at a nursing home interviewed an applicant for the position of wound care nurse.This position is an example of:

A 40-year-old staff nurse just graduated from an associate degree nursing program and was hired to fill a new position at a local hospital.This staff nurse is progressing through what career stage?

When interviewing an applicant,the nurse manager understands that an appropriate question is:

The human resources (HR)department has begun the process of orientation for a group of new nurses.After the HR department provides information about salaries,pay scale,holidays,and so on,the next most likely step in the orientation process,which is carried out by the nurse manager,is:

Part of leadership development for nurse managers is to help managers better understand their own and others' personalities and how they can best work with others.One way to assess nurse managers' personalities in terms of styles of thinking and feeling is by using which of the following tools?

The nurse manager introduced the new secretary for the unit.The unit secretary,who originally came from Cuba,had lived in "Little Cuba" on the outskirts of Miami.The secretary's primary language was Spanish,and English was the secretary's second language.One staff member openly voiced a mistrust of Spanish-speaking people,regardless of the country from which they came.This staff nurse was demonstrating:

A nurse born in 1952 is more likely to value:

A 55-year-old community-based nurse is seeking employment at the Department of Health and Human Services.She is in the applicant pool with several younger nurses who have less experience than she in community-based nursing.Which federal law protects the older community-based nurse?

Nurse managers are legally liable for the quality of nursing services.They must be able to differentiate between staff development needs and administrative needs.Which of the following is an example of an administrative need?

To promote nurses who are successful leaders within the organization,a hospital may institute what type of planning?