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WorksheetsThe RN The Leader Pretest
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 8mins
Nurses can be leaders without being managers. Which nursing action demonstrates leadership?
Calling a provider for new order clarification.
Adjusting assignments after a staff member calls in sick.
Counseling a new nurse regarding attendance.
Assisting a new nurse with enteral tube feedings.
Nurse managers can best be described as people who _____
develop institutional goals based on staff suggestions.
develop institutional goals based on a personal theory.
motivate staff to meet institutional goals through positional power.
inspire staff to meet institutional goals through personal power.
In a health care organization, equity is _____
the best method for integrating staff roles and relationships into structures and processes to achieve positive patient outcomes.
a willingness to invest in decision-making and express ownership in those decisions.
recognition and acceptance of the importance of everyone’s work and of the fact that an organization’s success is bound to individual performance.
linking health care providers and patients along all points in the system.
Nursing shared governance models have always focused on ______
physician groups controlling all practice models.
nurses and physicians making nursing practice decisions.
nurses controlling their professional practice.
national accreditors controlling nursing practice decisions.
What is a Professional Practice Model (PPM)?
The conceptual framework and philosophy of nursing at a specific organization
Practice standards of an organization
A model of a specific theorist
Organizational philosophy
The challenges facing nurses today include which of the following?
Stressed nurse managers
Increased patient acuity
Increased overtime
Increased patient length of stay
Team players show many positive characteristics. Which of the following characteristics should be expected of a good team player when asked to participate in a continuing education class for the unit?
“Sure, but my schedule is full right now.”
"I did this last time. Let’s give someone else a chance.”
“Sure, I will need to make some changes to my schedule.”
“Sure. How about next month?”
Which of the following should be used to evaluate the staff’s performance when deciding high, middle, or low? (Select all that apply.)
Never late
Teamwork
Communication
Knowledge and competence
Responsive to constructive criticism.
