Chapter 3 Theories and Principles of Nursing Leadership and Management

The nurse leader is working with a team to develop a more effective admission assessment process. Which team member is an example of one who participates in the team by "standing by"?

4. A team member who requires detailed instructions concerning the leader's expectations

The nurse leader believes that a mentorship program for new nursing graduates would benefit the organization in what way?

2. Mentorship leads to new nurses remaining with the organization longer than those nurses who did not engage in a mentorship program.

A nurse is aspiring to move from a staff nurse's position to a leadership and management role. What activity would be most helpful to this nurse in achievement of this goal?

2. Enroll in a graduate leadership program.

A new chief operating executive believes that patients will receive better care and be more satisfied in a unit that is specific to their disorder. A nurse manager heads a unit that has functioned for the last 10 years as a general medical-surgical unit but will now become a specialty unit for patients with chronic respiratory issues. What is the nurse manager's priority responsibility during this transition?

2. Ensure that the patients receive safe care by qualified staff.

A staff nurse approached the director of nursing to discuss steps that would be helpful in moving to an administrative position. The director of nursing told the staff nurse not to consider leadership because this nurse was not a "born leader." What leadership theory is the director of nursing using to make this judgment?

4. Great Man theory

A new nurse leader has adopted a laissez-faire style of leadership that may result in what characteristics of those who report to this leader?

3. Team members experience disagreements among themselves.

The nurse student is aware that what feature is now a part of the newest nursing leadership theories?

2. Flexibility

The nurse manager is aware that what aspect of leadership relates to the ability to make a promise, keep it, and carry through on that promise?

3. Connectedness

The nurse manager is evaluating several nurses who have expressed an interest in leadership activities and knows that the nurse who demonstrates which type of followership has the most potential for a leadership role?

2. Doing following

A nurse seeking to advance to a leadership position within the health-care organization has become the mentee of a nurse manager. What is the primary responsibility of the mentee in this relationship?

2. Work to dialogue with other nurse leaders and managers.

A nursing student is required to take a nursing leadership course and questions why this type of course is necessary when the initial primary role of the graduate nurse is to perform bedside patient care. What is the nurse educator's best response to this student?

3. "Leadership competencies are required even at the bedside to help in navigating the evolving health-care landscape."

A nurse who is endeavoring to increase emotional intelligence knows that what are the core components necessary to the development of this leadership characteristic? Select all that apply.

1. Empathy

2. Motivation

5. Self-awareness

A nurse manager has begun to use transformational leadership theory and knows that this theory uses what aims of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)? Select all that apply.

2. Efficient

3. Timely

4. Safe