Nursing Leadership and Management Test Bank
Course Introduction
Nursing Leadership and Management explores the essential concepts, principles, and practices required for effective leadership and management within healthcare settings. The course emphasizes the development of critical thinking, decision-making, and communication skills in the context of nursing administration. Students learn about leadership theories, team dynamics, ethical considerations, change management, conflict resolution, resource allocation, and quality improvement strategies. Through case studies and real-world applications, students gain practical insights into staffing, budgeting, policy development, and professional accountability, preparing them to assume leadership roles and positively influence patient outcomes and organizational success.
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Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing 2nd Canadian Edition by Margaret A. Burkhardt
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Chapter 1: Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces
Influencing the Development of Nursing
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Q1) What does the CNA's vision for the future of nursing embrace?
A) the varied roles that nurses must play in order to provide holistic care to a diverse and changing population
B) the formation of joint nursing professional organizations in both Canada and the United States
C) the important role of military and public health nursing
D) the relationship between social need and the evolution of the practice of nursing
Answer: A
Q2) Why were the Middle Ages significant for nursing?
A) Religions and church-sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only legitimate avenue for women wishing to become nurses.
B) There was an upsurge in the respect afforded to nursing and midwifery, and nurses began to practise autonomously.
C) Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests, priestesses, or shamans.
D) Most nurses were women of high social status.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Ethical Principles
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Q1) A nurse performs a pain assessment on a client and requests an order for an analgesic as an intervention. Which of the following ethical principles is being given a practical application in this situation?
A) beneficence
B) autonomy
C) veracity
D) non-maleficence
Answer: A
Q2) Which principle of the Canada Health Act requires that residents moving from one province or territory to another must continue to be covered for insured health care services?
A) comprehensiveness
B) portability
C) accessibility
D) public administration
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Values Clarification
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Q1) When a patient is unable to clearly articulate their values, what is most likely to occur?
A) It may result in distress and feelings of marginalization.
B) It may result in frustration and negatively affect care.
C) It may result in an unwillingness to seek healthcare advice.
D) It may result in confusion and inadequate decision-making.
Q2) When the values of the nurse and those of the institution are different, which of the following will the nurse likely experience?
A) incongruencies with personal values
B) judgment of values being imposed
C) divergence of moral beliefs and restraints
D) commitment to develop more awareness
Q3) A nurse informs her supervisor that she holds the belief that abortions should not be performed and finds conflict working on a unit where they are performed. Which of the following terms best describes this situation?
A) societal values
B) incongruent values
C) overt values
D) values clarification
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Chapter 5: Values Development
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Q1) Which of the following does Stage 1 of Gilligan's study of the Psychological Development of Women include?
A) a focus on what is best for the self, and includes selfishness and dependence on others
B) a sense of being responsible for others, so that one is regarded positively
C) a period when the imperatives of absolute love and justice become prime, and energy is focused on transforming the present reality toward transcendent actuality
D) a deep appreciation of connectedness, including responsibility to self and others as moral equals, and a clear imperative to harm no one
Q2) In Piaget's stages of cognitive development, what are the two stages of the pre-operational level called?
A) punishment and obedience
B) environmental interaction and stimuli
C) language and logical thought
D) magical thinking and some reasoning
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Chapter 7: Legal Issues
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a summary offence?
A) a nurse giving an injection without consent
B) a nurse who unintentionally causes the death of a patient
C) a nurse failing to provide competent care
D) a nurse signing an employment contract
Q2) A pregnant woman admits herself to the hospital to give birth under the care of her obstetrician and gives permission for the obstetrician to examine her. What is this an example of?
A) coercive consent
B) explicit consent
C) implied consent
D) informed consent
Q3) Which of the following legal issues would falsification of patient records to cover up an error be an example of?
A) assault
B) fraud
C) battery
D) intentional tort
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Chapter 8: Professional Issues
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Q1) Which of the following qualities relates to the ability of nurses to organize for the purpose of fulfilling the profession's promises and maintaining the relationship that nurses have with one another?
A) autonomy
B) unity
C) expertise
D) skill
Q2) What term best describes knowledge necessary to provide a service that is either essential or desired by society?
A) professional education
B) professional recognition
C) professional autonomy
D) professional responsibility
Q3) Which of the following terms is synonymous with "self-governing"?
A) expertise
B) authority
C) autonomy
D) accountability
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Chapter 9: Professional Relationship Issues
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Q1) A nurse chooses to go without lunch so that a patient can be taken outside to get a newspaper and a strong cup of coffee. Which of the following terms best applies to this situation?
A) self-sacrifice
B) beneficence
C) non-maleficence
D) obligation
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes the physician-nurse relationship in a hospital setting?
A) The physician is the nurse's "boss," and the nurse is obligated to follow the physician's orders.
B) The physician has total autonomy. The nurse is a limited moral agent.
C) Facility policies and procedures determine the nature and extent of each person's moral agency.
D) Both the nurse and the physician are autonomous moral agents whose primary obligation is owed to the patient.
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Chapter 10: Practice Issues Related to End-Of-Life Care
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Q1) Which of the following is synonymous with palliative care?
A) support of patients who face illness that is not responsive to curative treatment
B) aggressive treatment of chronic health problems to support symptom relief
C) short-term treatment for an episode of illness in an urgent manner
D) delivery of co-ordinated and continuous services for an acute disease or illness
Q2) What does the nurse need to understand about assessing a patient's quality of life (QOL)?
A) It is an objective measure of comfort and factors that make life worth living.
B) It is considered good only if the patient feels fulfilled and can be independent.
C) It generally means the same thing to most patients, families, and nurses.
D) It includes subjective ideas about conditions of life and functional ability.
Q3) What is the legal indication associated with a do not resuscitate (DNR) order?
A) Medical therapies and interventions are to be avoided.
B) Life-sustaining interventions are to be discontinued.
C) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is to be avoided.
D) Palliative care is to be discontinued or avoided.
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Chapter 11: Practice Issues Related to Patient
Self-Determination
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Q1) Which of the following elements must be included in an informed consent?
A) description of common practices of the healthcare institute
B) needs and expectations of the patient
C) description of the health concern
D) verification of understanding
Q2) Which of the following elements must be present when evaluating a patient's decision-making capacity?
A) the ability to determine a positive outcome
B) the ability to communicate understanding
C) the ability to behave in an ethical manner
D) the ability to understand medical terminology
Q3) Which source document acknowledges the importance of living wills and clearly identifies promoting and respecting informed decision making?
A) Substitute Decision Maker Proxy
B) Code of Ethics
C) Lifestyle Choices Policy
D) Advance Directives Act
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Chapter 12: Scholarship Issues
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Q1) Which of the following statements is an example of ethical treatment of data?
A) removal of invalid research values and entries
B) authentically describing the experiences of others
C) adjustment of facts for positive outcomes
D) episodic treatment of vulnerable participants
Q2) A nurse researcher decides to discontinue a research project because the findings indicate that the risks of the study outweigh the benefits. Which principle is the nurse researcher applying?
A) beneficence
B) justice
C) trustworthiness
D) confidentiality
Q3) Which of the following is an example of fraudulent research?
A) reporting studies that were never conducted
B) reporting outcomes of studies
C) reporting of a research hypothesis
D) reporting of exclusion and inclusion criteria
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Chapter 13: The Future of Canadian Health Care: Challenges and Priorities
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Q1) Which of the following contribute to the challenge of providing health care for populations across the globe?
A) infant mortality and globalization
B) ecology and traditional healing systems
C) war and national crises
D) relationships and curative measures
Q2) Which report emphasized that the determinants of health did not simply exist within the health care system but also in other sectors?
A) Canadian Health Report
B) Tommy Douglas Health Report
C) Quinquennial Report
D) Lalonde Report
Q3) Which of the following is an example of the federal responsibility for health care?
A) evaluating physician and hospital care
B) delivering direct health care services to native Canadians
C) delivering and managing insured health services
D) managing some public health and prescription care
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Chapter 14: Health Policy Issues
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Q1) A nurse becomes concerned because her facility consistently requires mandatory overtime, up to 40 additional hours per week. The nurse brings the issue to the attention of her professional organization, and together they approach their legislator. What are these acts considered?
A) policy formulation
B) policy implementation
C) policy evaluation
D) policy modification
Q2) What is the term for pieces of legislation that have been enacted by legislative bodies and approved by the government?
A) allocative policies
B) regulations
C) judicial decisions
D) statutes
Q3) Which of the following is both an ethical and a political issue?
A) genetic testing and research
B) urban and rural health priority setting
C) safety and workplace legislation
D) food safety and labelling
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Chapter 15: Economic Issues
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Q1) How does the Canada Health Act describe Canadian health care?
A) as a constitutional right
B) as facilitating reasonable access to health services
C) as the protection of basic needs, including a right to the protection of health
D) as treating health care as a commodity, not a right
Q2) A "health care system willing to be held accountable both clinically and financially for the health outcomes of an enrolled population for a capitated (fixed) payment" describes which of the following health care financing systems?
A) fee for service
B) universal health care
C) categorical financing
D) managed care
Q3) What is a natural consequence of utilitarian forms of health care financing?
A) Resources and services will be distributed equally.
B) Some people will not receive resources and services.
C) The people with the greatest need will receive the bulk of resources and services.
D) People who have greater personal resources will receive greater benefit.
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Chapter 17: Issues of Gender and Culture
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Q1) Which of the following governs employment equity and equal pay for equal work as a right protected in provinces across Canada?
A) Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
B) Equal Wages Guidelines
C) Pay Gap Act
D) Fair-Labour Legislation
Q2) Which forms of discrimination are clearly prohibited by Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms ?
A) any form of practised inequality
B) unwelcome conduct that detrimentally affects the work environment
C) nurses' functioning subordinate to multiple layers of authority
D) disparity in earnings existing between men and women
Q3) A nurse's Aboriginal patient tells her that his health problem was caused by the Manitou and that he needs some blue beads for protection and healing. What does cultural sensitivity direct the nurse to do?
A) caringly inform the patient that the Manitou is an old belief and is not real
B) make a mental health referral to a local Aboriginal therapist
C) listen respectfully to the patient's story and go on with the treatment
D) explore more about the blue beads and try to get some for the patient
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Chapter 18: Rural and Aboriginal Nursing in Canada
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Q1) Which of the following individuals would self-identify as being a part of at least one Aboriginal group?
A) Amish
B) Acadian
C) Québécois
D) Inuit
Q2) Which of the following does the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) identify as one of the eight attributes of nursing professional practice?
A) collegiality
B) consistency
C) accessibility
D) predictability
Q3) Which of the following is a factor that impacts the health and well-being of Aboriginal persons?
A) social inclusion
B) civil war
C) population growth
D) physical environment
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Chapter 19: Empowerment for Nurses
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Q1) To enable patient empowerment, what do nurses need to recognize?
A) Health professionals know what is best for patients.
B) Patients need help in making health care decisions.
C) Patients are responsible for their own health.
D) Health professionals give power to patients.
Q2) Which of the following factors influences professional empowerment in nursing?
A) professional disobedience
B) support of professional colleagues
C) faith that the right thing is done
D) abdicating responsibility for decision making
Q3) Which of the following does the process of motivating and empowering individuals and groups require?
A) positive self-esteem
B) protectionism
C) attitude of superiority
D) obligations of beneficence
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