Professional Nursing Practice
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Professional Nursing Practice introduces students to the foundational concepts, roles, and responsibilities of the professional nurse within contemporary healthcare systems. The course emphasizes ethical and legal standards, evidence-based practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and patient-centered care. Students explore professional values, leadership development, cultural competence, and critical thinking skills essential for effective clinical decision-making and quality improvement. Through case studies and real-world scenarios, learners develop communication, advocacy, and self-reflection techniques necessary for lifelong learning and advancement in the nursing profession.
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Guide to Nursing Management and Leadership 8th Edition by Ann Marriner Tomey
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Chapter 1: Communications
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Q1) For the nurse educator to prepare PowerPoint presentations,the nurse must be able to use which of the following?
A)Palm Pilot
B)Presentation software
C)Spreadsheet software
D)Handheld computers
Answer: B
Q2) In assessment of cross-cultural communication,which nonverbal behavior is the most important?
A)Placement of hands
B)Facial expression
C)Use of words
D)Eye contact
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following cultures views eye contact as indicating trustworthiness?
A)Hispanic Americans
B)Asian Americans
C)White Americans of European origin
D)Native Americans
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Stress Management
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Q1) An important way for nurse managers to maximize organizational time is to:
A)Use passive-aggressive communication with others
B)Delegate all aspects of nursing care to nursing assistants
C)Teach others how to do the work instead of doing it themselves
D)Look the other way when conflict arises
Answer: C
Q2) A nurse manager complains to another nurse about a new graduate who just began working on the unit.The nurse manager's behavior can best be described as:
A)Workaholism
B)Chronic fatigue
C)Burnout
D)Eustress
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following people is more likely to experience burnout?
A)A nurse who just celebrated her fifth year with the agency
B)A nurse manager who works 50 hours a week
C)A nursing assistant who just returned from vacation
D)A unit secretary who would like to return to school
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Decision-Making Process and Tools
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of effective decision making?
A)Counseling an employee for taking off one sick day
B)Implementing changes before explaining them to the staff
C)Including staff from one shift to help make a decision
D)Implementing the decision that has been made
Answer: D
Q2) In the decision-making process,the nurse identifies a problem by:
A)Referring to the standards of practice
B)Using the nurse's own experience
C)Drawing on his or her education
D)Analyzing available information
Answer: D
Q3) An ad hoc committee was formed to collect data about the increase in absenteeism throughout the hospital.To ensure that this ad hoc committee functioned efficiently,the hospital limited the number of committee members to:
D)18
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Motivation and Morale
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Q1) The charge nurses inform the nurse manager that the newly hired nurses are having difficulty with decision making and delegating.The best way for the nurse manager to handle this situation is to send the charge nurses to:
A)A conflict management course
B)A self-management course
C)A stress management course
D)Supervisory training
Q2) The nurse manager observed that the patients' trash cans were not being emptied by the night shift personnel.The nurse manager decided to set up a rotation schedule so that all night shift personnel would be responsible for emptying the trash cans.This is an example of:
A)Preventing workplace civility
B)Preventing burnout
C)Preventing horizontal violence
D)Preventing vertical violence
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Chapter 5: Power, Politics, and Labor Relations
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Q1) A school nurse is following the legislative path of a bill that supports human papillomavirus immunization of high school girls.The school nurse's most effective political strategy is to:
A)Become emotionally involved
B)Educate area nurses about the immunization bill
C)Refrain from attending town hall meetings
D)Discourage neighborhood petitions
Q2) A staff nurse volunteered to serve on a newly formed task force charged with developing evidence-based practice protocols.This participation gave the staff nurse:
A)Referent power
B)Interpersonal power
C)Reward power
D)Coercive power
Q3) Certification of the employees' bargaining unit was denied because of insufficient votes.The labor organization's next step is to:
A)Begin the decertification process
B)Seek certification among the same employees
C)Allow a 12-month moratorium and then seek certification again
D)Begin negotiations with the hospital's management
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Chapter 6: Conflict Management and Negotiation
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Q1) After working several years in the hospital setting,a master's-prepared nurse was hired at a local university.As a new faculty member,the nurse began to feel overwhelmed with the responsibilities of teaching,professional development,and community service.The nurse was also expected to develop on-line courses using specific software.Which type of conflict did the faculty member experience?
A)Intrasender conflict
B)Intersender conflict
C)Intragroup conflict
D)Role overload
Q2) The nurse manager,using the nominal group process,made a list of ways to handle conflicts on the unit.The next step was to decide who should be involved in decision making and who would be responsible for implementing that decision.This is known as:
A)A round-robin session
B)A negotiating session
C)Decision charting
D)Implementation charting
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Chapter 7: Theories of Leadership and Management Development
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Q1) A school nurse planned a health promotion program on character development for a group of seventh-graders.Which behavior most likely prompted the school nurse to develop the program?
A)Increased teacher involvement
B)Manifestations of students' trust of each other
C)Students' increasing use of sexual language while walking down the halls
D)Decrease in sexual activity among teens
Q2) According to Peter Senge's theory,all of the following are disciplines for building a learning organization except:
A)Systems thinking
B)Personal mastery
C)Mental models
D)Emotional competence
Q3) Which of the following trends is most important for the twenty-first-century leader and manager?
A)Shortage of health care facilities
B)Spread of Asian flu
C)Shortage of medication
D)Globalization
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Chapter 8: Strategic and Operational Planning
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Q1) Chief executive officers began using strategic planning to manage the rising cost of health care by:
A)Focusing on pain management clinics
B)Seeking out partnerships
C)Increasing duplication of services
D)Decreasing informal networking
Q2) Which of the following contributed to increased health care spending?
A)Aging of the population
B)Increased numbers of people with private insurance
C)Decreased incidence of violence
D)Decreased use of technology
Q3) Procedure manuals provide:
A)An abbreviated course of action
B)A basis for orientation and staff development
C)A resource only for nurse managers
D)A low degree of regularity
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Chapter 9: Financial Management, Cost Containment, and Marketing
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Q1) Which of the following reimburses according to the cost of treatment of specific diagnosis-related groups (DRGs)?
A)Health promotion programs
B)Managed care systems
C)Prospective reimbursement system
D)Health maintenance organizations
Q2) The nurse manager wanted to implement a new indirect cost savings strategy on the unit.An example of an indirect cost savings strategy is:
A)Instituting a new 15-minute break policy
B)Holding staff meetings on company time
C)Charging for the coffee served to employees
D)Eliminating the nurses' lounge area
Q3) A nurse manager acts as a fiscal manager on the unit.The nurse manager's most likely duty is to:
A)Be proactive in the fiscal planning
B)Guide the formulation of justification for requests for resources
C)Coordinate the fiscal planning
D)Analyze expenses
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Chapter 10: Organizational Concepts and Structure
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Q1) One way that nurse leaders who are employed by an organization can best fit into a corporate model instead of a traditional bureaucratic model is to:
A)Meet every 3 months to approve by-laws
B)Increase autocratic leadership
C)Create a network instead of preserving a pyramid
D)Establish vertical communications
Q2) The dean of the school of nursing decided to implement a shared governance model.The principal foundation of this model is:
A)Self-governance
B)Autocratic leadership
C)Participatory management
D)European-style management
Q3) The roles of the nurse manager throughout organizational redesign,restructuring,and reengineering include all of the following except:
A)Team building
B)Change initiation
C)Case management
D)Cost reduction
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Chapter 11: Organizational Culture, Change, and Innovation
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Q1) The hospital's mission statement includes the phrase,"We are committed to providing multicultural services." An example of carrying out this mission is:
A)Supporting dialogue between individuals of different cultures
B)Ensuring that patients of different cultures have translation services available
C)Providing services only for English-speaking patients
D)Excluding different cultural practices
Q2) One way that administration can handle incompetent executives is to:
A)Hire new managers
B)Move them from line to staff authority
C)Terminate their employment
D)Counsel them toward satisfactory performance
Q3) Because the nurse manager has served the organization through two corporate buyouts,he has developed the skills of steward,inspirer,and promoter.This nurse manager is most likely to create what type of culture?
A)Control culture
B)Collaborative culture
C)Competence culture
D)Cultivation culture
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Chapter 12: Selection and Development of Personnel
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Q1) Nurse managers are legally liable for the quality of nursing services.They must be able to differentiate between staff development needs and administrative needs.Which of the following is an example of an administrative need?
A)Need for provision of a staff development budget
B)Need for better availability of supplies and equipment on the unit
C)Need for clarification of current organizational goals
D)Need for technical and professional training
Q2) Given the severe nursing shortage,nurse managers should give their attention to retention efforts.Nurse managers understand that it is important to:
A)Meet the psychosocial needs of personnel
B)Encourage nurses to reapply for jobs from which they were fired
C)Inform nurses of the disadvantages of the job
D)Choose nurses who have been educated in other countries
Q3) The nurse manager will use which of the following groups as a major source for selection of personnel?
A)Dissatisfied employed individuals
B)Satisfied employed individuals
C)Persons who have had many jobs
D)Employees terminated due to absenteeism
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Chapter 13: Staffing and Scheduling
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Q1) The nurse manager used variable staffing for a 25-bed postoperative unit at full capacity.On the unit,there were four patients who had undergone total knee replacement and four who had undergone total hip replacement who required blood transfusions.What kind of variable staffing mix would the nurse manager most likely use?
A)All-registered nurse (RN)staffing
B)One RN,two licensed practical nurses (LPNs),and four unlicensed personnel
C)One RN,one LPN,and five unlicensed personnel
D)One RN,four LPNs,and two unlicensed personnel
Q2) Leaders and managers play different roles in staffing;therefore,one of the functions of the nurse manager with regard to staffing is:
A)Communicating the need for a staff mix
B)Examining the unit standard of productivity
C)Matching staff to patient needs
D)Considering the impact of extraneous factors on staffing
Q3) An adequate number of nursing staff has a positive effect on:
A)Acuteness of care
B)Length of patient stay
C)Family safety
D)Number of staffed beds
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Chapter 14: Evaluation and Discipline of Personnel
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Q1) One common effect in evaluation is the halo effect.In the halo effect,a logical error occurs when:
A)Evaluators give a person a low rating
B)Some evaluators are lenient
C)The rating for one characteristic is influenced by a high rating on another characteristic
D)A good worker on a weak team gets a lower rating
Q2) After the nurse manager counseled a staff member about excessive absenteeism,the nurse manager expected his behavior to change.What type of consequence should the staff nurse expect if he changes his behavior?
A)Favorable
B)Punitive
C)Absent
D)Insufficient
Q3) All of the following are purposes of the performance appraisal except:
A)Determining job competence
B)Improving communication between managers and physicians
C)Identifying unsatisfactory employees
D)Inventorying talent within the organization
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Chapter 15: Continuous Quality Improvement, Risk
Management, and Program
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Q1) Establishing the validity of the tools used to measure the extent of goal achievement is an important step in continuous quality improvement.Which type of validity is theory oriented?
A)Content validity
B)Construct validity
C)Concurrent validity
D)Face validity
Q2) The purpose of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 was to ensure safe and healthful working conditions.Workplace inspections are usually conducted without prior notice.What type of workplace condition is the top priority for an inspection?
A)Imminent dangers
B)Catastrophic accidents
C)Fatal accidents
D)Employee complaints
Q3) The most common law affecting nursing practice is:
A)Public law
B)Private law
C)Tort law
D)Civic law
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