Deck 4: Leadership As an Integral Component of a Professional Role

Question 1

Nurse manager Mary uses transformational leadership.She believes that by maximizing staff participation in unit decisions,the staff RNs are more likely to:

A)Enroll in a continuing education or graduate program.
B)Focus on maintaining cost-effectiveness for the unit.
C)Work cohesively and collaboratively in accomplishing unit goals.
D)Empower themselves to pursue their own personal goals.

Answer 1

Work cohesively and collaboratively in accomplishing unit goals.

Question 2

It is more and more apparent that nurses need to acquire leadership skills in a manner similar to how they learn:

A)Clinical skills
B)Communication when they are young
C)Psychological relatedness
D)Empathy skills

Answer 2

Clinical skills

Question 3

Ethical leadership combines which of the following elements?

A)Altruism,empathy,and sympathy
B)Moral values,charisma,and communication
C)Communication,collaboration,and quality
D)Knowledge,empathy,and collaboration

Answer 3

Communication,collaboration,and quality

Question 4

"Nurses can and must be leaders" is something we have heard over and over lately.One way every nurse could assist in gaining new leadership abilities is to:

A)Shadow a nurse leader(s)for a shift or parts of different work days.
B)Enroll in a Dale Carnegie course.
C)Volunteer to be a camp nurse on weekends or days off.
D)Become an advanced practice nurse.

Question 5

Sponsoring staff recognition days,celebrating staff-of-the-month days,and publishing accomplishments of staff members can foster an environment that is more conducive to increasing the staff's:

A)Knowledge
B)Competency
C)Emotional intelligence
D)Empathy

Question 6

To inspire nurses to "be all they can be," leaders must provide a revitalized care environment with which of the following elements?

A)Competitiveness and chaos
B)Collaboration and competitiveness
C)Chaos and constantly changing
D)Engaging and inspiring

Question 7

One nurse manager in an acute care center has the lowest absenteeism rate among all staff members in the institution.After speaking with the manager,you learn that there is a movie and pizza outing planned each month for those with perfect attendance.Which of the following reflects this philosophy?

A)Principle-centered leadership
B)Transformational leadership
C)Transactional leadership
D)Functional leadership

Question 8

An authentic leadership style can only be identified by others and consists of which of the following characteristics?

A)Authoritative and confident
B)Democratic and autonomous
C)Sincere and honest
D)Visionary and authoritative

Question 9

Kouzes and Posner describe which of the following as "encouraging the heart"?

A)Empathizing with followers
B)Developing strong friendly relationships with followers
C)Caring deeply about the vision of followers
D)Having the ability to change the vision of followers

Question 10

An empowered environment that is conducive for nurses to practice transformational leadership would include which of the following philosophies?

A)Nurses feel they make a difference.
B)Nurses believe in the handmaiden relationship with physicians.
C)Nurses are competitive with each other and are constantly competing for attention.
D)Nurses respect multiple "sacred cows" and feel they should not "rock the boat."

Question 11

Being competent and self-confident are characteristics of transformational leaders and followers.Thus,it would be most imperative for a transformational person to have which of the following characteristics?

A)Tremendous energy
B)High self-esteem
C)A high degree of motivation
D)High critical-thinking ability

Question 12

A transformational leader differs from a transactional leader in many ways.Which of the following ideas is conveyed by transformational leaders?

A)The bottom line is to empower staff to reach for maximum organizational financial success.
B)One does not necessarily have to complete every aspect of a planned task if an alternative method of generating similar outcomes appears.
C)The focus of the job is strictly to prevent employee dissatisfaction and decreased morale.
D)Management skills will empower employees more than leadership skills will.

Question 13

Nurses who feel entitled often become victims of the system because their lofty expectations are never fulfilled.Which of the following would be an exception to this rule?

A)A nurse with seniority who believes that she should not have to work holidays
B)A new nurse with a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN)who believes that she should be the Patient Care Manager
C)A nurse who makes a medication error
D)An experienced intensive care unit (ICU)nurse who believes that she should not have to float to the floor

Question 14

Positive self-regard is best described in the nursing profession as:

A)Regarding oneself as highly knowledgeable about nursing
B)Knowing exactly who is a competent nurse
C)Understanding others to the point that one can express others' ideas
D)Having self-awareness and trust of their followers

Question 15

Emotional intelligence is best described as:

A)Similar to intelligence quotient
B)Ability to sympathize with patients and families
C)Ability to respond to others and manage your own feelings
D)Similar to empathy

Question 16

Using the Transformational Model in an acute care setting would need to include which of the following three characteristics that the agency's leadership would want its staff to portray?

A)Risk taking,efficiency,and optimism
B)Integrity,flexibility,and hardiness
C)Hardiness,empowerment,and vision
D)Credibility,creativity,and optimism

Question 17

Leaders can best produce environments that are conducive to using emotional intelligence by working toward:

A)Offering baccalaureate and graduate courses at the health-care agency
B)Increasing staff nurses' self-esteem
C)Improving professional commitment of nurses to higher education
D)All staff nurses joining the American Nurses Association

Question 18

Which of the following is a major point of Covey's Principle-Centered Leadership Model?

A)Maintaining a professional image
B)Keeping promises and being true to one's self
C)Being aggressive to achieve goals
D)Being "number one" or brown-nosing the employer

Question 19

Most people believe that leaders are not born leaders but rather become leaders.Which of the following would greatly enable one to become a successful leader?

A)Knowing leadership theory
B)Being a "friend" to all followers
C)Being a graduate of an Ivy League university
D)Having many experiences and interactions with a variety of people

Question 20

Kouzes and Posner recommend several practices to assist leaders in realizing their visions.Which of the following practice would be included?

A)Be ready to react
B)Perform favors for selected followers
C)Motivate each follower to do her or his best
D)Not challenging the status quo

Question 21

The New Leadership Science incorporates patient-centered care,quality and safety,and interdisciplinary collaboration.Additional areas that are significant elements of the nurse's role in leading in all areas of health care include:

A)Evidence-based care and information management
B)Research projects and peer reviews
C)Decreasing patient length of stay and use of critical pathways
D)Primary and functional delivery of nursing care

Question 22

Transformational leadership,as compared to transactional leadership,involves which of the following ideas?

A)Unit goals set by a manager,not the staff,and discouragement of change
B)Leaders motivating employees with rewards for accomplishing tasks
C)Belief in a hierarchical organizational structure and lack of staff participation in decision making
D)Empowerment of staff and encouragement of change

Question 23

Which of the following characteristics are reflective of a transformational leader?

A)Honest,charismatic,passionate,and optimistic
B)Sympathetic,commanding,pessimistic,and controlling
C)Honest,competitive,goal-directed for self-achievement,and controlling
D)Unilateral decision maker,solely interested in the bottom line,and pessimistic

Question 24

Using the Leadership and Management Competency Checklist,the nurse preceptor can assist the orienting nurse to obtain skills in leadership and management and to professionally develop their role.Some of the areas involved on this checklist include:

A)Electrocardiogram (ECG),laboratory specimen collection,and physical assessment
B)Specimen collection,nasogastric tube insertion,cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR),and telemetry
C)Team building,communicating,professional role development,and unit management
D)Code cart,IV management,PYXIS classifications,and physical assessment

Question 25

Chaos in health care has been the driving force in creating which of the following new leadership opportunities for nurses?

A)Advanced nurse certification and a clinical practice doctorate in nursing
B)Patient care delivery teams and use of more ancillary healthcare workers
C)Nurse Resource Position for department and SWAT Team for hospital emergencies
D)Electronic documentation and Internet-driven communication with hospital employees