Yoost 12 Review Questions Flashcards
Processes used in management parallel the nursing process. Which sentence describes a nurse using a management principle paralleled with the nursing process?
Organizing is demonstrated when the nurse coordinates care for patients
Which statement most closely reflects the differences between nurse leaders and managers?
Nurse leaders rely primarily on interpersonal skills to accomplish goals
The nurse manager is monitoring overtime for the unit. She closely monitors staff hours and does not allow staff to come in for extra hours if they are over their allotted time per week. This is an example of which of Mintzberg’s decisions roles of the manager?
Resource handler
A nurse manager is trying to improve patient satisfaction ratings for her area of responsibility. The manager meets with the staff and forms an ad hoc committee to address the issues around the problem. This is an example of what style of leadership?
Democratic
A nurse is volunteering in the community to educate parents to increase the number of children in the school district who are immunized. The nurse oversees the activities of a group of volunteers. Which role best describes the nurses activity in this situation?
Leadership
Which statement is an example of the use of situational leadership?
The emergency room manager takes a vote on holiday coverage and then responds to a Code Blue by directing orders at the nursing staff
To be effective, nurse managers should focus on which area?
The patients and their needs
A nurse states she believes in the dignity of each patient. At break, she is overheard talking about a patient in a persistent vegetative state as a “lump.” This represents an inconsistency in which quality of an effective leader?
Integrity
A nurse delegates a bed bath to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). After lunch, the patient rings for the nurse and complains that he has not yet been cleaned up. He is very upset and angry. What should the nurses next action be?
Assist the patient in getting cleaned up
The registered nurse on an inpatient medical unit delegates vital signs and morning care to the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) for five stable patients. The nurse asks the UAP to document the vital signs and report and abnormal results immediately. Which rights of delegation is the nurse demonstrating?
Right person
Right circumstance
Right supervision
The 5 rights of delegation are?
Right task Right person Right circumstance Right communication Right supervision
