Nursing Administration Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Nursing Administration focuses on the principles and practices required to effectively manage and lead within healthcare organizations. The course explores topics such as leadership styles, healthcare policy, human resource management, organizational behavior, budgeting, and strategic planning in nursing settings. Students will learn to analyze the challenges faced by nurse administrators, including managing teams, ensuring quality patient care, regulatory compliance, and fostering a positive work environment. By integrating theory with real-world case studies, this course prepares students for leadership roles, emphasizing critical thinking, ethical decision-making, and effective communication in nursing administration.
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Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management 3rd Edition by Patricia Kelly
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Chapter 1: Nursing Leadership,Management,and Motivation
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Q1) One common employee motivation problem may be seen when staff have a lack of goals.One solution to this problem could include:
A)Well-defined job descriptions
B)pay for performance
C)feedback on performance
D)enhanced hygiene factors
Answer: A
Q2) Kirkpatrick and Locke identified six traits that separate leaders from nonleaders.These traits are:
A)respectability, trustworthiness, flexibility, self-confidence, intelligence, and sociability
B)self-confidence, progression of experiences, influence of others, personal life factors, honesty, and drive
C)intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity, sociability, and honesty
D)drive, desire to lead, honesty, self-confidence, cognitive ability, and knowledge of business
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Health Care Environment
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Q1) Which piece of federal legislation provides tax exclusions for medical savings accounts?
A)ERISA
B)COBRA
C)HIPAA
D)AHRQ
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is not considered to be one of the five most expensive health conditions?
A)heart disease
B)cancer
C)trauma
D)diabetes
Answer: D
Q3) Three components of health care systems are:
A)strategy, outcome, and performance
B)process, strategy, and opportunity
C)structure, process, and outcome
D)outcome, procedure, and structure
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Nursing Today
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Q1) Vulnerable populations are groups of people that are subgroups of a community with certain characteristics.Which of the following is not necessarily one of the criteria for vulnerable population groups?
A)powerless
B)marginalized
C)enfranchised
D)experiencing health disparities
Answer: C
Q2) The first Nightingale School for Nurses was founded when?
A)1825
B)1860
C)1885
D)1910
Answer: B
Q3) Which nursing theorist is responsible for the theory of self-care deficit?
A)Rogers
B)Orem
C)Roy
D)Orlando
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Technology, and Informatics
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Q1) Three types of thinking comprise the decision-making process.Which of the following is not one of these types of thinking?
A)reflective thinking
B)clinical thinking
C)intuitive thinking
D)critical thinking
Q2) What does the acronym P-F-A stand for?
A)Purpose-Format-Assessment
B)Purpose-Focus-Approach
C)Project-Financial-Analysis
D)Program-Functional-Analysis
Q3) Which of the following is not correct about the use of simulation as a means of training nurses in academic and hospital settings?
A)can contribute to patient safety
B)opportunities to intervene in clinical situations without risk to a patient
C)can experience specified scenarios in a supervised safe setting
D)uses sensors to detect whether a person has used hand sanitizer in a specific setting
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Chapter 5: Inter-Professional Teamwork and Collaboration
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Q1) The Tuckman and Jensen (1977)Conceptual Model of team process development includes five stages.However,not all teams go through them in order.During which stage do team members start to work together cooperatively within the group?
A)adjourning
B)forming
C)performing
D)norming
Q2) Who has the authority to enforce the Privacy Rule (HIPAA)?
A)The president
B)Agency for Healthcare Quality
C)The Office of Civil Rights
D)U.S. Department of Justice
Q3) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)has identified eighteen personal health identifiers that need to be protected under this law.Which of the following is not one of these recognized personal health identifiers?
A)telephone numbers
B)e-mail addresses
C)hospital or facility admission dates
D)number of items liked on Facebook or Pinterest
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Chapter 6: Change, Innovation, and Conflict
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Q1) There are three types of change described in the text: personal,professional,and organizational.Which of the following is an example of a professional change?
A)change made in one's life, often for self-improvement
B)change made to acquire BSN degree
C)change made to achieve goal of best health care facility in the state
D)change made to one's appearance
Q2) Who is responsible for the implementation of a change project?
A)mental model
B)change agent
C)sender
D)receiver
Q3) Which strategy for change relies on social orientation as its power base?
A)rational-empirical
B)power-coercive
C)normative-reeducative
D)systems thinking
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Chapter 7: Power and Politics
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Q1) The primary benefit to the nurse having power is that the nurse can:
A)do more good
B)move up the clinical ladder
C)gain more education
D)obtain a management position
Q2) Politics exist because:
A)resources are limited
B)resources are abundant
C)hospitals control resources
D)organizations control resources
Q3) Which are some of the disadvantages of belonging to a collective bargaining group? Select all that apply.
A)there is reduced allowance for individuality
B)other union members may outvote your decisions
C)individual employees may not agree with the collective voice
D)the union contract guides standards
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Chapter 8: Delegation of Patient Care
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Q1) Five factors to consider when _____ are: potential for harm,complexity of the task,amount of problem solving and innovation required,predictability of outcome,and level of patient interaction.
A)supervising
B)delegating
C)directing
D)staffing
Q2) Which of the following is not part of the five steps in the NCSBN decision-making tree used for delegation?
A)assessment, planning, and communication
B)intervention and supervision
C)surveillance and supervision
D)evaluation and feedback
Q3) When the nurse considers the effectiveness of the delegation,the nurse should evaluate all except:
A)was the task performed properly
B)was the outcome optimal
C)were there any problems
D)the availability of resources
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Chapter 9: Effective Staffing
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Q1) Some new options in staffing patterns for nursing units include which of the following? Select all that apply.
A)8-hour shifts
B)12-hour shifts
C)weekend programs
D)week day shifts.
Q2) You are a perioperative nurse in a small rural hospital and have just received your schedule for the upcoming month.You are dismayed to find that you seem to be scheduled to work on the one day you requested off in order to attend an event at your son's elementary school.Whose responsibility is it to schedule staff,and whom should you talk to about this?
A)staff members themselves
B)nursing staffing office
C)nurse manager
D)director of nursing
Q3) When there is inadequate NHPPD which of the following is increased?
A)patient satisfaction
B)medication errors
C)balanced budget
D)nurse satisfaction
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Chapter 10: Budget Concepts for Patient Care
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Q1) Gas,electricity,and telephone costs are considered:
A)fixed costs
B)variable costs
C)direct expenses
D)indirect expenses
Q2) The concept of _____ does not work well when applied to health care,because the general rule that when the price of an item or service goes up then the demand goes down does not necessarily apply to the public's demand for (or their belief in their right to obtain)a health care item or service.
A)price elasticity
B)scarcity
C)economics
D)cost maximization
Q3) Not-for-profit organizations refer to their profit as:
A)margin
B)appreciation
C)economics
D)revenue.
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Chapter 11: Strategic Planning and Organizing of Patient
Care for Quality and Safety
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Q1) Quality outcomes can be achieved through the development of:
A)core measures
B)work processes
C)organizational charts
D)clinical practice councils
Q2) The purpose of the _____ council is to assess staff learning needs,and develop and implement evidence-based programs to meet those needs.
A)clinical practice
B)education
C)quality
D)nursing coordinating
Q3) A small group of individuals,who have a common characteristic and who meet together as a group and respond to questions on a particular topic about which they are expected to have an interest or expertise,is called:
A)stakeholder
B)stakeholder assessments
C)focus group
D)managerial epidemiology
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Chapter 12: Time Management and Setting Patient Care
Priorities
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Q1) A patient who requires to be placed in contact isolation would be said to be in the ___ priority of care.
A)third
B)second
C)first
D)fourth
Q2) If a nurse keeps an activity log and realizes the activities have not achieved the desired outcomes,the nurse should:
A)define the most energetic time of day
B)evaluate how many activities are on the list
C)evaluate what type of activities are on the list
D)go to the gym daily to increase energy levels
Q3) Which of these time management strategies does not belong?
A)outcome delivery
B)analysis of time cost and use
C)focus on priorities
D)visualization of the big picture
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Chapter 13: Quality Improvement and Evidence Based Patient Care
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Q1) A sentinel event is:
A)a major change in a patient's status
B)an unexpected incident involving a death or serious physical or psychological injury to a patient
C)a way to identify processes for improvement based on an analysis of care over a long period of time
D)an occurrence involving a sentinel or someone who is watching
Q2) Outcomes research:
A)is used in EBP
B)studies mortality and end-of-life issues
C)is a way of evaluating the goal/outcome of an educational program
D)provides evidence concerning the continuum of disease processes
Q3) A systematic process of organization-wide participation and partnership in planning and implementing improvement methods to understand and meet customer needs is called:
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Chapter 14: Legal Aspects of Health Care
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Q1) The use of a whiteboard to organize nursing assignments per shift or to give patients information about their practitioners and/or diagnosis is a violation of:
A)civil law
B)tort law
C)HIPAA
D)OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
Q2) One way to avoid or decrease professional liability is to:
A)have every employee take a flu shot
B)have a risk management department
C)avoid taking telephone or verbal orders
D)deliver care in teams
Q3) Which United States-based entity has the largest electronic health record system?
A)U.S. Indian Health Services
B)U.S. Public Health Service
C)U.S. Department of Health Services and Resources
D)U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Chapter 15: Ethical Aspects of Health Care
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Q1) According to Lawrence Kohlberg's theory on moral development,conformity to expected social and religious morals and a sense of loyalty emerge at:
A)the postconventional level
B)the preconventional level
C)the conventional level
D)the unconventional level
Q2) When a nurse chooses in the process of values clarification,the nurse will:
A)make that choice part of their behavior
B)analyze alternative beliefs
C)share the choice with others
D)be satisfied with the choice
Q3) A virtuous person,according to Burkhardt and Nathaniel (2008),has:
A)compassion, discernment, integrity, and trustworthiness
B)discernment, compassion, understanding, and empathy
C)trustworthiness, integrity, sympathy, and follows the rules
D)integrity, compassion, understanding, and makes the best decision that is fair for all
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Chapter 16: Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality
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Q1) According to DeRosa and Kochura's (2006)article entitled "Implement Culturally Competent Health Care in Your Workplace," cultures have different patterns of verbal and nonverbal communication.Which of the following communication behaviors is not one of the noted communication differences?
A)conversational style
B)personal behavior
C)eye contact
D)subject matter
Q2) Which of the following are characteristics of the Traditional generation?
A)workaholic, strong-willed, and work for material gain, promotions, job security, and corner offices
B)seek a balance between work and leisure
C)they expect countless options and focus on early retirement
D)obligated to conform and believe that work is one's duty
Q3) Which group has the lowest life expectancy of any group in the United States?
A)Hispanics
B)Blacks
C)Asian/Pacific Islanders
D)Native Americans
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Chapter 17: NCLEX-RN Preparation and Your First Job
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Q1) Some illegal questions may come up during interviews.Which of the following is not an illegal question area?
A)citizenship
B)career goals
C)cultural heritage
D)medical history
Q2) The NCLEX-RN exam has how many questions?
A)50 to 300
B)75 to 265
C)100 to 450
D)125 to 500
Q3) What percent of NCLEX-RN exam test questions are related to the management of care?
A)16%-22%
B)10%-16%
C)13%-19%
D)8%-14%
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Chapter 18: Career Planning and Achieving Balance
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Q1) A number of safeguards have arisen as a means of preventing occupational hazards.An example of one of these preventive measures for environmental agents is:
A)use personal protection equipment
B)assess the work area for the amount of noise
C)develop standards of care for handling hazardous agents
D)be aware of bioterrorist alerts
Q2) The statement "I maintain a daily journal" is an example of which type of health assessment area question?
A)intellectual
B)emotional
C)social
D)spiritual
Q3) Statistical data from 2008 noted that the average age of nurses was:
A)30.8
B)34.2
C)52.1
D)46.0
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