Deck 9: Developing As a Leader Throughout Ones Career

Question 1

Leaders go through stages in their leadership development and can gain the MOST leadership skills by:

A)Talking to leaders who are participating in change in their organization
B)Serving as a leader as much as possible and in a variety of situations
C)Reading leadership and management texts
D)Participating in critical-thinking exercises offered at Nurse Manager Workshops

Answer 1

Serving as a leader as much as possible and in a variety of situations

Question 2

Participation in sensitivity training sessions is considered excellent experience for those developing their leadership skills because it increases one's sensitivity:

A)Regarding another organization's needs
B)And improves one's ability to be visionary
C)Regarding the organization's policies and procedures
D)To others' needs and helps one appreciate the significance of shared decision making

Answer 2

To others' needs and helps one appreciate the significance of shared decision making

Question 3

Which of the following is thought to be TRUE about leadership development?

A)One can learn to be a leader by serving as a leader.
B)Leadership can be learned,but it cannot be taught.
C)Leadership develops in a haphazard way through everyday experiences.
D)It is essential to have been mentored to be a leader.

Answer 3

One can learn to be a leader by serving as a leader.

Question 4

Conflict will always exist,particularly as resources become more scarce and new health-care workers challenge traditional roles.Therefore,it will become more and more important to have excellent:

A)Conflict management skills
B)Aggressive communication skills
C)Clinical skills
D)Anger management skills

Question 5

Which of the following scenarios best depict empowerment?

A)The nurse manager sets the nurses' work schedules,chooses only his or her strongest supporters for committee appointments,and takes full responsibility for the actions of nurses on his or her unit.
B)The staff nurses blame "the system" for inadequacies in patient care and accept advice only from senior staff members.
C)Each nurse is held accountable for his or her actions and inactions,and each knows and uses his or her own strengths and talents and those of his or her coworkers.
D)Staff nurses accept unjust criticism from physicians and supervisors and are comfortable with providing minimal care to patients.

Question 6

As nurses progress through their careers,they face new challenges.So it becomes apparent that just as nurses need to improve their clinical knowledge and skills,they need to view acquiring leadership skills as:

A)An extra skill if time allows
B)Second to acquiring clinical skills
C)A lifelong process
D)A good opportunity for them to teach nurse managers

Question 7

Individuals who are already leaders need to maintain their leadership skills.As circumstances of our lives are constantly altered,our leadership skills also need to be:

A)Reflective of our position in an organization
B)Refined,renewed,and further developed
C)Correlated with our personal vision
D)Focused on just the nursing profession

Question 8

Individuals who are acknowledged as leaders often:

A)Are nurtured and guided by others
B)Seek opportunities to "test" the leader role
C)Study others who have been leaders
D)All of the above

Question 9

When considering entering a mentoring relationship,both the mentor and the protégé should consider all of the following caveats EXCEPT:

A)A mentoring relationship is different from a personal,emotional relationship.
B)The mentor and protégé need not have the same educational,ethnic,or racial background.
C)The mentor-protégé relationship goes through stages from dependence to separateness.
D)The mentor should be expected to fulfill every need and meet every demand of the protégé.

Question 10

It is helpful to have orientation sessions for acquiring leadership skills for nurses assuming the charge nurse role.Ideally,these sessions would include:

A)Practice with an experienced charge nurse who will offer constructive feedback and exercises to practice solving conflict management scenarios
B)Assertiveness training and practice time developing staff scheduling
C)Budget training and hints for running staff meetings
D)Homework covering development of a business plan for opening a unit's satellite program

Question 11

Which of the following statements is a MYTH about mentors and mentoring?

A)The mentor must be more experienced than the neophyte.
B)Mentoring is always beneficial to both parties.
C)Either the mentor or the neophyte can initiate the relationship.
D)A person may have several mentors throughout his or her career.

Question 12

Sometimes people are promoted to the next level of their job description solely as a result of their seniority and not their competency level.This idea of thinking about leadership would correlate with the idea that:

A)Every experienced nurse can do the same performance as a physician.
B)Nurses need to be a follower for the first 10 years of their career before assuming a leader role.
C)Every person in a position of authority is a leader.
D)Nurses are trained to follow a leader.

Question 13

Which of the following plans would you expect to be most effective in helping a nurse develop as a leader?

A)Seeking a mentor,expanding professional networks,and becoming more involved in professional association(s)
B)Strengthening relationships with current circle of nurse colleagues,attending an in-service program,and observing other nurses interacting with a legislator on television
C)Writing personal career goals,demonstrating that one can "make it on your own" without help or guidance from others,and beginning a graduate program
D)Developing a highly specialized knowledge base so that others rely on you for information,reading professional journals regularly,and attending functions in one's local community

Question 14

The concept of networking is based most prominently on which of the following assumptions?

A)Sharing of information and experiences is most effective when done informally.
B)Whom one knows is important and can be helpful.
C)People enjoy being called on to help others.
D)The more people one claims to know ensures one of career success.

Question 15

The need for change will always exist,and groups will need leaders to help them weather the forces of change.One significant skill leaders can assist the group with is:

A)To serve as a mother figure between staff
B)To be the arbitrator at union meetings
C)To discipline group members not working to accomplish the change(s)
D)To carve out new visions

Question 16

Nurses are empowered in their organizations when they are held accountable.This allows each accountable nurse to have:

A)Similar decision-making ability as the physicians
B)More power in the practice arena
C)Excuses for not being able to complete patient assignments on time
D)The ability to automatically negate other health-care team members' recommendations

Question 17

A "relationship" between an experienced individual and a neophyte in the field,which is known only to the neophyte and may last for only a brief time,is referred to as:

A)Guiding
B)Role modeling
C)Supporting
D)Mentoring

Question 18

The strategy for leadership development that provides an opportunity to "test" the role and that can serve as a "diagnostic technique" regarding one's strengths and areas needing improvement is:

A)Attending a lecture on leadership
B)Observing a role model
C)Analyzing a screen capture of a staff meeting
D)Role-playing

Question 19

Environments that promote the development and enhancement of leadership:

A)Are trusting,open,and dynamic
B)Maintain the status quo and use previously demonstrated areas of expertise
C)Encourage questioning and expect perfection
D)Are highly competitive and leader-dominated,and limit interaction among members

Question 20

It has been said that leaders are made and not born.This idea supports the fact that nurses have the potential to:

A)Practice in any clinical setting they choose
B)Gain much needed anger management skills
C)Lead and make a difference in their unit or organization
D)Become an effective nurse manager

Question 21

Creators of a virtual world hierarchy of leadership model (Guthrie,Phelps,and Downey)identified six different levels of leadership skill sets.Which of the following represent three of these levels?

A)Technology,organizational skills,and delegation skills
B)Facilitation skills,communication,and delegation skills
C)Problem solving,organizational skills,and facilitation skills
D)Communication,mentoring,and problem solving

Question 22

The creators of the StrengthsFinder Assessment Tool found that effective leaders were generally involved with three actions that assisted them in their leading.These three actions include:

A)Being surrounded by the right people,always investing in their own strengths,and knowledgeable of their team's needs
B)Knowing when to delegate,empowering self,and keeping followers at a distance
C)Always changing vision,keeping culture chaotic,and favoring specific members of the team to maximize their loyalty
D)Encouraging others to leave the organization,being sure one's own vision was known by all,and having multiple consultants to keep the team from being "status quo"

Question 23

Nursing education programs need to do more to create a leadership mind-set in nurses.Research has demonstrated it may be more effective educationally to:

A)Provide all of the leadership content in one course.
B)Apply leadership content to the first course of the undergraduate and graduate curricula so other courses can remain clinically focused only.
C)Integrate the leadership content throughout the curricula.
D)Teach two separate courses in the first-year curricula-one being leadership and the other being management.

Question 24

There are leadership development programs being created for virtual worlds.Given this method of educational pedagogy,which of the following would need to be created for students to progress and acquire more complex leadership skills?

A)A template of a hierarchy of leadership skills
B)Virtual role models who are able to portray only ineffective leadership so negative role modeling would reinforce the correct leadership skills
C)A template of definitions of leadership skills
D)Virtual role models who represent international leaders who have been deemed "effective" by the United Nations

Question 25

Loue identified stages that the mentor and mentee experienced in their mentoring relationship.She suggests that all mentoring relationships ultimately experience a stage when:

A)The mentee feels he or she is giving more than the mentor.
B)The mentor feels he or she is giving more than the mentee.
C)The mentor and mentee separate or,in some instances,terminate.
D)The mentor is exploiting the mentee.