Nursing Leadership and Management Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Nursing Leadership and Management explores the principles and practices essential to effective leadership and management within healthcare organizations. The course examines leadership theories, decision-making models, and communication strategies, emphasizing their application to nursing practice. Students gain insight into the roles and responsibilities of nurse leaders and managers, including resource allocation, conflict resolution, team building, and quality improvement. Through case studies and real-world examples, the course prepares future nurses to inspire and guide teams, foster a culture of safety, and navigate the complexities of todays dynamic healthcare environment.
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Professional Nursing Concepts and Challenges 7th Edition by Beth Black RN MSN PhD
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Chapter 1: Nursing Today: A Time of Transformation
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Q1) Which of the following nursing roles is not considered an advanced practice role?
A) Certified nurse-midwife (CNM)
B) Community health nurse
C) Certified nurse practitioner (CNP)
D) Clinical nurse specialist (CNS)
Answer: B
Q2) The clinical nurse leader (CNL) is a recently proposed role. The responsibilities of the person in this role include which of the following?
A) Oversee and manage care delivery in specific settings.
B) Manage and streamline operations in multiple nursing units.
C) Replace the outdated CNS role.
D) Provide daily care to a specific subset of patients with similar needs.
Answer: A
Q3) Faith community nursing (FCN) was founded on which of the following premises?
A) Nurses' faith beliefs do not play a part in healing.
B) The spiritual aspect takes precedence over the physical body in healing.
C) Spiritual health is central to a person's well-being.
D) Faith community nurses must receive formal training as a minister or clergy.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The History and Social Context of Nursing
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Q1) A shift in population growth is expected to place stress on nursing resources. Which age-group is expected to experience the greatest population growth in the next decade?
A) Older than 85 years of age
B) 75 to 85 years of age
C) 35 to 65 years of age
D) 18 to 35 years of age
Answer: A
Q2) Which early nursing organization is credited with first recommending state registration for nurses?
A) ICN
B) NLN
C) ANA
D) National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Nursing's Pathway to Professionalism
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Q1) A component that separates occupations from professions is commitment. Which of the following is the best way that nurses can show commitment to each other?
A) Reporting substandard practice by unlicensed personnel
B) Reading the professional literature
C) Mentoring nursing students and novice nurses
D) Making a financial donation to a professional organization
Answer: C
Q2) The nursing profession has experienced barriers to professionalism. Which of the following is the primary current barrier to nursing's professionalism?
A) Too many men in nursing
B) Unquestioning obedience to doctors
C) Limitations placed on practice by state legislators
D) Variability of educational backgrounds of nurses
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Legal Aspects of Nursing
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Q1) Which of the following is a legitimate defense to a charge of assault and battery?
A) Presence of a medical order
B) Knowledge of what is best for the patient
C) Informed consent
D) Living will
Q2) A nursing student got a thank-you card from a patient's family and had another student take a photo of the student with the family. The student asks the nursing instructor if it would be alright to post the photo on Facebook. Which response by the instructor is best?
A) "Yes, as long as you ask the family if that would be OK."
B) "I think that would be OK, but you should check hospital policy."
C) "No, posting pictures of patients and families on social media sites is not acceptable."
D) "No, that could lead to a malpractice suit by the patient or family."
Q3) Which of the following nursing responsibilities can never be delegated?
A) Complex tasks
B) Evaluation
C) Medication administration
D) Accountability
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Chapter 5: Ethics: Basic Concepts for Nursing Practice
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Q1) A patient who is terminally ill is experiencing great pain. To relieve the patient's suffering, the nurse needs to administer larger doses of morphine. This relieves the pain but also inhibits respiration. Which principle justifies the risk of harm?
A) Justice
B) Fidelity
C) Veracity
D) Double effect
Q2) Which of the following ethical theories is illustrated by the example of following the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you"?
A) Deontology
B) Principalism
C) Utilitarianism
D) Virtue ethics
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Chapter 6: Becoming a Nurse: Defining Nursing and
Socialization into Professional Practice
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Q1) A nursing student says, "I can now see how developing care plans helps organize my thoughts and patient care." In which stage of Cohen's model of professional socialization is this student?
A) Stage I: Unilateral dependence
B) Stage II: Negativity/independence
C) Stage III: Dependence/mutuality
D) Stage IV: Interdependence
Q2) The legal definition of nursing for any particular state can be found in the A) state legislature's official newsletter.
B) state board of nursing's bylaws.
C) governor's official papers.
D) state's nurse practice act.
Q3) Which early nursing theorist defined nursing in interpersonal terms by stating that nursing is a significant, therapeutic, and interpersonal process?
A) Virginia Henderson
B) Hildegard Peplau
C) Martha Rogers
D) Dorothea Orem
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Chapter 7: The Education of Nurses: On the Leading Edge of Transformation
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Q1) The 1948 Brown Report recommended which of the following?
A) Limit enrollment of men and minorities in nursing programs.
B) Students admitted to nursing programs should not be required to meet admission requirements of the university.
C) Schools of nursing should be associated with teaching hospitals.
D) Schools of nursing should be located in institutions of higher learning.
Q2) The single most important reason for the decline in the number of hospital-based diploma programs was
A) shift in hospital occupancy from acute care to home care.
B) increase in hospital-based medical residency programs competing for educational dollars.
C) beginning of associate degree programs that were shorter in length.
D) diploma education's position outside the mainstream of higher education.
Q3) The purpose of mandatory continuing education for license renewal is to
A) ensure that nurses remain up to date in knowledge.
B) ensure that nurses remain competent in psychomotor skills.
C) ensure that nurses attend regular staff development meetings.
D) ensure consistency between states regarding continuing education requirements.
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Chapter 8: Critical Thinking, the Nursing Process, and Clinical Judgment
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Q1) The nurse observes a patient lying rigidly in bed and taking shallow breaths. The patient reports a pain score of 4 out of 5 and says, "My leg hurts." The nurse determines that the objective and subjective data are
A) incongruent and require more assessment.
B) insufficient to make any conclusions.
C) congruent and support that the patient is in pain.
D) unclear; the nurse needs to talk to the patient's family for more information.
Q2) What is the primary method of obtaining patient data?
A) Medical record
B) Speaking with family
C) Interview with patient
D) Physical examination
Q3) Which of the following is considered objective data obtained from the patient?
A) "I can't catch my breath."
B) Patient expresses concern about missing work.
C) Patient nods, indicating an affirmative answer to a question.
D) Blood pressure is 110/70 at 8 PM.
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Chapter 9: Communication and Collaboration in Nursing
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Q1) The nurse says to a newly diagnosed diabetic patient, "I will be working with you during your 3-day stay to help you practice insulin injections and to review your new diet. I'm wondering if we could find a time of day to begin the teaching sessions that is good for us." This conversation would occur in which phase of the nurse-patient relationship?
A) Acquaintance phase
B) Orientation phase
C) Working phase
D) Termination phase
Q2) When should the preparation for the termination phase of the nurse-patient relationship begin?
A) In the orientation phase
B) During the working phase
C) As part of the termination phase
D) Right before termination
Q3) Within nurse-patient communication, the use of silence can
A) block further therapeutic communication.
B) allow the patient to not feel pressured to provide information.
C) demonstrate trust.
D) provide the nurse with an opportunity to complete the patient's care.
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Chapter 10: Illness, Culture, and Caring: Impact on
Families, and Nurses
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Q1) What is the primary difference between acute illness and chronic illness?
A) In acute illness, symptoms begin suddenly, progress quickly, and subside quickly.
B) In acute illness, symptoms begin suddenly, progress gradually, and do not subside.
C) In chronic illness, symptoms begin gradually, progress suddenly, and subside quickly.
D) In chronic illness, symptoms begin suddenly, require ongoing management, and subside quickly.
Q2) A patient states, "I have knowledge about my diet and how to do my insulin injections, so I can get on with my life." In which stage of illness is this patient?
A) Disbelief and denial
B) Irritability and anger
C) Attempting to gain control
D) Acceptance and participation
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Chapter 11: The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
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Q1) What is the current name of the agency that serves as an important source of funding for nursing research?
A) NIH
B) National Institute of Nursing Research
C) National Center for Nursing Research
D) National Nursing Research Agenda
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a research question based on a clinical problem?
A) Published observations of a nurse who practiced many years in elder care
B) Nursing intuition about what measures are most useful with anxious patients before surgery
C) Stories of a flight nurse's experiences with posttraumatic stress disorder
D) Relationship between hours of bright light and irritability of preterm infants
Q3) What body has been established to protect participants of research?
A) Institutional review board
B) State board of nursing
C) Nursing research board
D) Peer review panel
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Chapter 12: Conceptual and Philosophical Bases of Nursing
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Q1) The nursing process is an example of which of the following branches of philosophy?
A) Aesthetics
B) Ethics
C) Epistemology
D) Logic
Q2) Family structures have experienced change in the second half of the twentieth century. What is the most dramatic difference seen in families today?
A) Increased incidence of single-parent families
B) Reemergence of large, extended families
C) Increased incidence of nuclear families
D) Nuclear families moving closer to extended families
Q3) A school-aged child with spina bifida uses a wheelchair, attends school, and is actively involved in Scouting and science club. This child is meeting which of Maslow's basic needs?
A) Safety needs
B) Love and belonging needs
C) Esteem needs
D) Self-actualization
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Chapter 13: Nursing Theory: The Basis for Professional Nursing
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Q1) Which nursing model is based on the assumption that people want to be in control of their lives?
A) Orem
B) King
C) Roy
D) Watson
Q2) What are the reasons nursing theory is important to the profession? (Select all that apply.)
A) Nursing theory is used to guide research but not practice.
B) The goal of nursing theory is to support excellence in practice.
C) Nursing as a profession becomes stronger when nursing knowledge is built on sound theory.
D) Theory is a useful tool for reasoning, critical thinking, and decision making.
E) Nursing theory is used by other disciplines.
Q3) Which component of nursing theory describes a testable outcome?
A) Conceptual model
B) Proposition
C) Framework
D) Metaparadigm
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Chapter 14: Health Care in the United States
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Q1) Which of the following is a responsibility of many health care agencies' chief executive officers (CEOs)?
A) Managing the budgets of each department in the agency
B) Recruiting and hiring of staff
C) Overall operation of the agency on a daily basis
D) Establishing policies governing the operation for the agency
Q2) Which of the following is not included as an overarching goal of Healthy People 2020?
A) Eliminating health disparities
B) Creating environments that promote good health
C) Lengthening the average lifespan by a decade
D) Attaining longer lives free of preventable diseases and injury
Q3) A nurse caring for a preoperative patient is told by the patient, "The doctor just had me sign a paper. I wish I knew what it was all about." The nurse goes to report this to the physician. The nursing role adopted by the nurse is
A) provider of care.
B) counselor.
C) change agent.
D) patient advocate.
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Chapter 15: Political Activism in Nursing: Communities, Organizations,
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Q1) Which of the following is an effective method for the practicing nurse to achieve leadership skills?
A) Becoming active in professional organizations
B) Changing jobs frequently to improve skills
C) Learning about collective bargaining
D) Avoiding involvement in politics
Q2) The principles and values that govern actions directed at influencing and determining decisions, actions, and other matters are known as A) policy.
B) politics.
C) political power.
D) power.
Q3) A variety of benefits result from membership in professional organizations, including (Select all that apply.)
A) availability of practice guidelines to influence policy development.
B) discount on licensure fees.
C) continuing education opportunities.
D) opportunities to develop personal leadership skills.
E) increased pay and prestige in the work setting.
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Chapter 16: Nursing's Challenge: The Call for Transformation
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Q1) According to Cooper, what is one important measure nurses can take to reduce burnout?
A) Being aware of stressors and acting on them
B) Refusing to work in a nonproductive environment
C) Reporting bullying when it is noticed in the workplace
D) Keeping a diary of unhealthy behaviors one indulges in
Q2) How could changes in world population affect health?
A) Decreasing populations in third world countries frees up limited resources for the remaining population's needs.
B) Feeding, immunizing, and providing clean water will become an overwhelming task.
C) Massive population increases in some areas will lead to abundant health care in countries with smaller populations.
D) More health care resources can be utilized fighting regional problems based on shifting population dynamics.
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