Exam 30: Thriving for the Future

The chief nursing officer has been developing her portfolio for years.She has been modeling:

Janice is a school nurse in a large urban high school.She observes the numbers of students smoking and understands the possibility for increased evidence of acute and chronic disorders related to smoking.After involving teachers,parents,students,and the community,she implements a smoking cessation program.Her program reflects which strength of connected leadership?

The starfish analogy is exemplified in which of the following?

Nursing professionals in the twenty-first century will accomplish most of their work:

Healthcare demographics,changing funding levels,and alternative approaches to care all interact with and influence one another.Nursing at individual,unit,and systems levels influences health care and society and vice versa.The implication of this is:

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 trend that may have an impact on the future availability of the nursing workforce in the face of increasing need for health care is:

Which of the following hampers the ability of nurses to be leaders?

Which of the following strategies is most important in developing a strong vision?

To move beyond stereotypical thinking and toward thinking about the future,which of the following would be most helpful?

Which of the following actions is most representative of how health care of the future might be delivered? As a nurse leader,you:

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.This exemplifies:

Based on studies of workplace environments for nurses and future projections,the workplace of the future will be:

During an interview with a new staff nurse applicant,the nurse manager assesses for leadership strengths.Which of the following is a characteristic of leadership strength?

After working for a nurse manager for the past 8 months,a staff nurse notices that many decisions made by the nurse manager benefit her more than the staff members.Which leadership quality is this nurse manager lacking?

The phenomenon experienced by the staff in Question 18 is termed:

In developing curricula that will address needs based on forecasts for the future,nursing educators need to contemplate

Nursing research has indicated that the foundation for becoming a nursing leader is the ability to:

A number of changes are introduced to a unit,including changes to familiar clinical procedures and the use of PDAs to enable bedside documentation.You,as unit manager,anticipate which of the following will contribute most to complexity compression?

A local nurse is responsible for developing a new service.She spends many hours contacting the presidents of three community groups,and she works with the neighborhood association.The effort reflects which of the leadership strengths proposed by Lipman-Blumen (2000)?