Which theory emphasizes that effective leadership depends on the executive nurses interpersonal skills?

Leadership EAQs

Functional model
The functional model of nursing is a method of providing client care by which each licensed and unlicensed staff member performs specific tasks for a large group of clients. Team nursing is a small group of licensed and unlicensed personn

Which model of nursing is focused on the task-oriented approach to client care?

A leader has a formal position."
A leader does not necessarily have a formal position to indicate that he or she is a leader; rather, leadership refers to the performance. Leaders are those medical professionals who can intervene with courage when needed

The registered nurse is teaching a group of nursing students about leadership principles. Which statement made by a nursing student indicates the need for further teaching?

Veracity
Veracity concerns telling the truth and demands involved, giving all the facts of a situation truthfully, and then assisting employees to make appropriate decisions. Justice is the principle of treating all persons equally and fairly and it often

The nursing manger wants to transfer a nurse to the intensive care unit (ICU) and describes the roles and responsibilities of the position in detail to the nurse. After disclosing all details, the nurse manager inquires about the nurse's decision. Which t

Cultural competence
Cultural competence is the process in which the health care provider continuously strives to achieve the ability to effectively work within the cultural context of a client, individual, family, or community. Cultural diversity describe

The nurse leader is teaching the staff that the health care provider continuously strives to work effectively within the cultural context of a client. Which cultural principle is the nurse leader explaining?

Modeling behavior
Giving timely feedback
Providing appropriate advice
The mentor should model professional and desired behavior and give timely feedback and appropriate advice to make the aspiring leader an effective leader. The mentor should not criticiz

Which actions can the mentor take to develop effective leadership qualities in the aspiring leader? Select all that apply.

Complexity theory
Complexity theory states that the leaders should expand and respond to engaging dynamic change and focus on relationships rather than on prescribing and approaching change as a lock-step, pre-prescribed method. Role theory is a framework

Which theory states that leaders should expand and respond to a dynamic change rather than prescribing and approaching change as a lock-step, pre-prescribed method?

Great Man theory
The trait theory is sometimes referred as the Great Man theory. According to this theory, the leadership traits such as a certain set of physical and emotional characteristics are innate and cannot be learned. Style theory focuses on what

Which theory states that the leadership traits in an individual are born and not made?

Management
The process of guiding, planning, and controlling others in a situation where communication is shared to improve clinical processes and outcomes is referred to as management. Leadership can be defined as a process of identifying a goal or targe

While auditing unit documents, a nurse finds some omissions. Which term best describes when the nurse meets with the staff to discuss the findings and communicates ways to achieve the desired goals?

Quantum theory
Quantum theory states that leaders must embrace uncertainty and understand behaviors before changing them. Therefore quantum leaders represent change catalysts and innovators. Role theory is a collection of concepts that predict circumstanc

Which theory states that leaders act as change catalysts and innovators?

Work individually
The core competency of a nurse leader is to work in interdisciplinary teams, but not individually. Utilizing informatics, providing client centered care, and employing evidence-based practice are the core competencies of a nurse leader.

Which is excluded from the competencies of nurse leader?

Empowerment
The role of the nurse executive as the leader is to empower followers or to share the authority with the followers by asking them to actively participate in the given task. Orientation of the employee, employee selection, and financial account

What is the role of the nurse executive as a leader?

Flexibility
Ability to listen to others
Ability to share information and ideas
In order to collaborate effectively, the nurse should be flexible, must be willing to listen to others, and must share information and ideas with others. The nurse manager shou

Which skills would be essential for an effective nurse manager to develop and improve collaboration with others? Select all that apply.

Accept responsibility for one's mistakes
Give credit to others where credit is due
Use business card when introducing yourself to new contacts
Accepting responsibility for one's mistakes and then learning from them is a power strategy for a nursing leader

What are the power strategies for nursing leaders? Select all that apply.

When facing trivial issues
When the other person's solutions appear better
When harmonious relationships have to be preserved
Appropriate reasons for accommodating to resolve conflict include when the issues are trivial or not important, when the other pe

The nurse resolves a conflict with another nurse by using accommodation. In what situations is accommodation appropriate for resolving conflict? Select all that apply.

Supporting the team
Motivating the other nurse
Using skills to expand social networks
Supporting the team describes the interpersonal competence which is a characteristic of emotional intelligence of leadership. Motivating others promotes emotional self-c

The registered nurse (RN) is evaluating the student nurse in the aspect of leadership qualities. Which behaviors of the student nurse express emotional intelligence in leadership? Select all that apply.

Focusing on the needs of all the residents in a long-term care facility
Knowing about the complications of emergency department overcrowding in an urban setting
Focusing on the needs of all residents in a long-term care facility and knowing about the comp

Which nursing actions indicate effective implementation of systems thinking theory principle with respect to "thinking of the Big Picture"? Select all that apply.

Delphi technique
The Delphi technique is a decision-making strategy that involves systematic collection and summarization of opinions and judgments on a particular issue from respondents in order to achieve consensus among the team members and the leader.

Which decision-making strategy involves systematic collection and summarization of opinions and judgments on a particular issue from the respondents?

An environment that is rapidly changing and dynamic
"Quantum theory" lays its foundation on an environment that is rapidly changing. It does not focus on a single event. Hygienic factors in the environment are an aspect of the two-factor theory. The nurse

The chief operating officer (COO) discusses the performance of a newly appointed leader with the nursing staff. The team communicates that the practical approach of the leader fulfills the quantum theory. What type of work environment does the COO underst

Emphasizing the good qualities of the staff and giving positive direction for growth
The principle of non-maleficence states that one should not do harm. Therefore the approach towards this while evaluating the performance of staff includes emphasizing th

A nurse leader wants to implement the principle of non-maleficence while evaluating the staff. What is an effective way to perform this action?

Number of staff
Leader competency
Nurse education level
While implementing any change in an organization, the number of staff should be considered to avoid administrative burdens and duplication of endeavors for that change. Effective leadership abilities

Which internal factors should be considered while implementing any change in an organization? Select all that apply.

The nurse manager orders the direct care nurse to assist in providing tertiary care to a client. Which type of treatment would the direct care nurse be involved in?

Creativity
Experience
Group process
A situation with unpredictable results requires creativity, experience, and group process. Enthusiasm is an important quality of a follower but it would be a secondary factor to be considered in this situation. Independ

The leader encounters a situation where the nursing outcomes are unpredictable. Which attributes or approaches should the leader utilize to navigate this situation? Select all that apply.

Expectancy theory
Expectancy theory focuses on the motivations for good behavior. Good behavior is increased if a positive relationship exists between good performance and outcomes or rewards. Style theory focuses on pursuing effective relationships betwe

Which leadership theory is being followed in a hospital if the nurse leader tells newly hired team members that they will be appreciated and rewarded if they perform well?

Being sensitive to nonverbal communication
Providing the opportunity for dialogue and feedback
Presenting information that addresses the listener's self-interest
The nurse should be sensitive to nonverbal communication because it may require interpretatio

The nurse, as a leader, is planning to provide information about personal hygiene to a group of clients. Which communication methods should the nurse use to talk to the clients? Select all that apply.

Information power
The information power of the nurse's colleague is being utilized to provide education to clients about use of glucose-monitoring devices. Position power is utilized when a person holds a position of authority within the organization. Rew

A nurse working in a medical unit finds that diabetic clients have a knowledge deficit regarding use of glucose-monitoring devices. The nurse requests that a colleague who works in the outpatient diabetic counseling department provide health teaching to t

Situational-contingency theories
Situational-contingency theories, which are leadership theories, hold that leadership effectiveness depends on a leader's interpersonal skills. The hierarchy of needs explains that people are motivated first by physiologic

Which theory emphasizes that leadership effectiveness depends on the executive nurse's interpersonal skills?

Encouraging and developing the leadership of the new nurse
Effective leadership is responsible for achieving an effective workplace, and therefore succession of the leadership is an important consideration. This can be done by encouraging and developing t

The senior nurse finds that a novice nurse is mainly emphasizing leadership activities in a healthcare facility. Which action of the senior nurse indicates effective leading ability?

The change will not affect your treatment
A nurse leader ensures the changes made by the federal government or organization will not cause harm or financial burden to the client. Therefore a nurse leader should support the client by saying that the change

A client is concerned about not receiving treatment due to a Medicare policy change. What is the accurate response of a nurse as a leader?

To inspire followers
The primary role of a leader is to inspire the followers by actively participating in the task along with the followers. It also involves changing the workplace to increase work satisfaction. The other roles of a leader are to provide

During an interview for a nurse manager position, the panel asks the nurse about the primary role of a leader. Which answer provided by the nurse would be most appropriate?

Explaining the reason behind the change
Providing the opportunity for dialogue and feedback
Giving information that addresses the listener's self-interest
While communicating and explaining the rules of the hospital, listeners should be informed about the

A nurse leader wants to communicate and explain changes to hospital rules to team members. Which approaches should the nurse leader follow for effective communication? Select all that apply.

Vaccinating children in school
The nurse as a community leader has the unique opportunity to work with schools, city or county governments, and other community entities. The nurse as a community leader formulates a vision for improving the health of the c

Four nurse leaders are performing different tasks. Which nurse leader's action indicates the role of the community nurse leader?

Managing
Managing is the Gardner leadership task that involves assisting the client with planning, priority setting, and decision making. Explaining involves teaching and interpreting information to promote functioning of the client and well-being. Develo

While serving as a leader, the nurse assists the client with planning, priority setting, and decision making. Which of Gardner's leadership tasks is the nurse putting into practice?

Inspiring a shared vision
Improving interpersonal skills
Being able to motivate the nursing staff
Having a shared vision helps effective transformational leaders and their teams become inspired and committed to a shared goal. Being an effective transforma

Which characteristics should a nurse focus on to become an effective transformational leader? Select all that apply

Maslow's theory
Maslow's theory prioritizes the needs of the client and, if applying Maslow's theory, the nurse leader would provide for safety needs of the client first. Role theory is associated with an appreciable framework for the development and eval

The nurse leader finds that a client with a severe vitamin B12 deficiency is extremely fatigued and tends to fall. Which theory does the student nurse think that the nurse leader would find appropriate for prioritizing the need of the client?

The members are talking and discussing with one another while writing down their ideas
As per the nominal group technique, members are asked not to talk and discuss anything while writing down their ideas. This may be because a period of silence may lead

A nurse leader implements the nominal group technique while making decisions about a critical issue but is unable to find a proper solution. What could be the reason for the failure of technique?

The nurse manager hires the student nurse she advised to work in the agency after graduation
Referent power is granted by a powerful person having an association. Therefore managers hiring student nurses to work in the agency is considered a use of refere

Which statement reflects the concept of "referent power" to the nurse?

OVID
EBSCO
OVID and EBSCO are search platforms for a variety of databases including CINAHL and MEDLINE. PubMed is an abstract database of the National Library of Medicine, providing access to over 15 million citations from 1950s to the present. PsycINFO i

The nurse leader is monitoring a student nurse who is accessing various databases. Which search platform should the nurse leader suggest to access a variety of databases including Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and MEDLI

it will identify medication errors."
An electronic medication administration record will generate reports to track medication errors with the visibility of near misses. The electronic medication administration record will be accessible to multiple users.

The nursing leader is teaching the newly hired nurse about the use of an electronic medication administration record. Which statement of the newly hired nurse indicates effective learning?

Role discrepancy
Role discrepancy is the development of gaps between role expectations and the role performances that may lead to discomfort and frustration of the team. In role exploration, the new nurse leader will be happy, excited, and is confident in

The nursing staff of a unit is frustrated and uncomfortable with the newly appointed nurse leader. Which role transition process is involved?

Time-management skills are important for stress reduction
Symptoms such as anxiety and frequent errors in work indicate mental stress. The direct care nurse should develop time-management skills to help manage the stress. Practicing yoga would help to red

A leader observes the direct care nurse making more frequent errors and being anxious. Which advice provided by the leader to the direct care nurse would help to manage the stress?

Organizing a group of colleagues to address organizational problems
An individual can become an effective leader when he or she mainly focuses on the well-being of the others. Therefore organizing the group of colleagues and addressing organizational prob

A senior nurse is teaching about leadership qualities to a new nurse. Which action of the new nurse represents his or her leadership quality?

Generate an open dialogue about external and internal realities.
Develop a core group of change advocates.
Create a vision for change.
Communicate the change vision regularly and consistently.
Keep an alert for barriers in structure and processes.
Report

What is the correct order of steps that should be followed by a leader to create a vision and foster major organizational transformation?

Analyze the mission and culture
Assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities
Analyze the future environment the marketer is likely to face
Determine objectives and goals
Formulate the core marketing stratgey
Establish benchmarks
While implementing strategi

Arrange the steps in the order that a nurse leader would implement while following the strategic marketing planning process.

I will call your daughter
Did you take your medicine this morning when i was late
It is important as a nurse to show visible caring to the client. When the student says "I will call your daughter" and "Did you take your medicine this morning when I was la

The leader teaches the student nurse about the way to make caring visible to a client who has undergone a hip replacement surgery. Which statements made by the student nurse to the client indicate ineffective learning? Select all that apply.

22
The formula is client days for a given time period divided by the number of days in the time-period. There are 31 days in July, so 679/31 = 21.9. Therefore, the ADC is 21.9, rounded to 22.

The leader nurse is calculating the average daily census (ADC) in a 40-bed medical surgical unit, which accrued 679 client days in the month of July. What is the ADC on this unit? Record your answer using a whole number. ____________

Emotions and personality
The staff nurse may be experiencing distress and pent up emotions and may not be able to receive another message. Distractions most commonly come through sensory perceptions, such as poor lighting or background noise, including mu

The nursing leader is giving a demo on using computerized provider order entry (CPOE) to a newly hired nurse for automatic dose calculation. The nurse leader observed that the staff nurse was not concentrating on the instructions and seemed distressed. Af

Recognition
Achievement
Recognition and achievement are motivating factors that transformational leaders use to inspire work performance. According to two-factor theory, organizations need both hygiene and motivator factors to recruit and retain staff. Sa

Which motivator factors to inspire work performance are in accordance with the two-factor theory? Select all that apply.

Identifiy
Assemble
Collect data to measure
Establish
Select
Collect data to evaluate
The quality improvement process starts with identifying the needs that are most important to the consumer of healthcare services. It further proceeds with assembling an i

How would the nurse arrange the steps in the quality improvement process to help the leader to minimize errors and achieve satisfaction on the part of the consumer of healthcare services?

Inspiring the student nurse to take active participation
The leader should inspire and motivate his or her followers to complete the task successfully. Therefore inspiring the student nurse to participate actively in the program explores the leadership ab

The registered nurse (RN) finds that a student nurse is unwilling to participate in a community health literacy program conducted for clients with diabetes mellitus . Which action of the RN portrays his or her leadership ability?

Assisting clients to accomplish optimal functioning
Assisting clients to accomplish optimal functioning is a behavior of Gardner's task of Achievable Work Unity. It is applied in practice to benefit the transition to enhanced health functions. Relating to

The leader has planned to assist staff in order to achieve workplace unity. Which of Gardner's tasks would the leader apply in practice?

Taking an active role in the work of change
Bringing everyone together to move toward a goal
Encouraging people by giving attention to personal things that are important

According to Kouzes and Posner, what key practices in transformational leadership would a nurse teach? Select all that apply.

Setting program priorities
Capital budgeting
Developing cash budget
negotiating and revising
analysis of variance
The first step in the budgeting process is gathering information and planning, which includes setting priorities for programs. The second ste

Arrange the following steps of the budgeting process performance in chronological order.

Assigning individual duties to different nurses and nursing students for different tasks
In the functional model of nursing, different types of duties are assigned to different people and they work independently. A single nurse cares for a single client d

A hospital is planning to implement the functional model of nursing. Which action performed by a nurse leader would be effective under this model?

Communicating in a simple language with followers
Giving a chance to the followers to express their views
Ensuring proper eye contact while communicating with followers
An effective leader should use the simplest and fastest method to communicate with fol

The nurse is learning about the rules of leaders. Which actions of the nurse indicate effective implementation of these rules in the profession? Select all that apply.

To work on the plan implemented by the primary nurse
In the primary nursing model, the associate nurse has to take charge if the primary nurse is absent and should implement the plan according to the primary nurse's specifications. The associate nurse has

A client with cardiac failure is admitted to the hospital. The primary nurse is unable to attend to the client. The nurse leader appoints the associate nurse in providing care to the client. Which strategy does the associate nurse implement in providing c

The leader should provide specific feedback for positive performance
The leader should elicit feedback from peers, followers, and higher authority
Providing specific feedback for positive performance is an important aspect of expectancy theory, not situat

A newly promoted nurse manager is studying the critical factors that are needed to be an effective leader according to situational-contingency theory. Which statement by the nurse manager indicates the need for further study? Select all that apply.

A successful manager should take risks
A successful manager should tolerate uncertainty
A successful manager should experiment with ideas for a unique situation
A successful manager shows positive qualities in his or her work such as taking risks, tolerat

During an interview for the position of manager in the healthcare industry, the candidate is asked about the important qualities of a successful manager. Which responses would be appropriate? Select all that apply.

Providing self-care to enhance the ability to care for clients, families, staff, and the organization
When the nurse as a leader provides self-care to enhance his or her ability to care for clients, families, staff, and the organization, it indicates Gard

Which behavior of the nurse as a leader indicates Gardner's task of renewing at an executive level?

Role conflict
Role conflict is easier to recognize because the employees know what is expected from them, but they are either unwilling or unable to meet the requirements. Role theory provides an appreciable framework for the development and evaluation of

The leader nurse noticed that a staff nurse is unable to meet the responsibilities assigned, though the staff nurse is aware of the working requirements. What is the staff nurse experiencing?

Style theory
In style theory, it is important for leaders seek feedback from followers, peers, or higher authorities in order to understand their style. These leaders are employee-centered and tend to foster an effective, productive work environment. Two-

During a status meeting for a research project, the project leader asks the team members for feedback. What leadership theory is represented by the action of the leader?

Knowledge
persuasion
Decision
Implementation
Confirmation
Gaining knowledge is the first step of the innovation-decision process, followed by persuasion, decision, implementation, and, finally, confirmation.

The leader asks the student nurse to arrange the steps of the innovation-decision process in the chronological order that would be useful for individual change. What sequence organized by the student nurse shows effective learning?

Offering rewards and recognition to individuals and teams
Offering rewards and recognition to individuals and teams is a management task, not a task of followership. Demonstrating accountability to the team effort; offering knowledge, skills, and abilitie

The nurse manager is evaluating different Bleich's tasks of followership performed by members of the nursing team. Which team member's action indicates incorrect implementation of Bleich's tasks of followership?

How does the nurse leader being in an executive position perform Gardner's motivating task?

What is the role of the nurse executive as a leader quizlet?

Which explanation is the key idea of role theory in nurse leadership?

Which is the role of the nurse executive as a leader?