Test Bank For Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing Theory and Application 11th Edition By Bessie L. Marquis, Carol Jorgensen Huston

Test Bank for Leadership Roles
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Functions in Nursing 10th Edition
by Bessie L Marquis & Carol
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Chapter 1: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning: Requisites for
Successful Leadership and
Management
Chapter 2: Classical Views of Leadership and Management
Chapter 3: Twenty-First-Century Thinking About Leadership and
Management
Chapter 4: Ethical Issues
Chapter 5: Legal and Legislative Issues
Chapter 6: Patient, Subordinate, Workplace, and Professional
Advocacy
Chapter 7: Organization Planning
Chapter 8: Planned Change
Chapter 9: Time Management
Chapter 10: Fiscal Planning and Health-Care Reimbursement
Chapter 11: Career Planning and Development in Nursing
Chapter 12: Organization Structure

Chapter 13: Organization, Political, and Personal Power
Chapter 14: Organizing Patient Care
Chapter 15: Employee Recruitment, Selection, Placement, and Indoctrination
Chapter 16: Educating and Socializing Staff in a Learning Organization
Chapter 17: Staffing Needs and Scheduling Policies
Chapter 18: Creating a Motivating Climate
Chapter 19: Organization, Interpersonal, and Group Communication in Team Building
Chapter 20: Delegation
Chapter 21: Conflict, Workplace Violence, and Negotiations
Chapter 22: Collective Bargaining, Unionization, and Employment Laws
Chapter 23: Quality Control in Creating a Culture of Patient Safety
Chapter 24: Performance Appraisal
Chapter 25: Problem Employees: Rule Breakers, Marginal Employees, and the Chemically or
Psychologically Impaired
Chapter 1 Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning:
Requisites for successful leadership and management

1. What statement is true regarding decision making?
   A) It is an analysis of a situation
   B) It is closely related to evaluation
   C) It involves choosing between courses of action
   D) It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem Ans: C
   Feedback:
   Decision making is a complex cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular course
   of action. Problem solving is part of decision making and is a systematic process that focuses
   on analyzing a difficult situation. Critical thinking, sometimes referred to as reflective
   thinking, is related to evaluation and has a broader scope than decision making and problem
   solving.
2. What is a weakness of the traditional problem-solving model?
3. A) Its need for implementation time
4. B) Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
5. C) Its failure to gather sufficient data
6. D) Its failure to evaluate alternatives
   Ans: A
   Feedback:
   The traditional problem-solving model is less effective when time constraints are a
   consideration. Decision making can occur without the full analysis required in problem
   solving. Because problem solving attempts to identify the root problem in situations, much
   time and energy are spent on identifying the real problem.
7. Which of the following statements is true regarding decision making?
8. A) Scientific methods provide identical decisions by different individuals for the same
   problems
9. B) Decisions are greatly influenced by each person’s value system
10. C) Personal beliefs can be adjusted for when the scientific approach to problem solving
    is used
11. 4. D) Past experience has little to do with the quality of the decision
    Ans: B
    Feedback:
    Values, life experience, individual preference, and individual ways of thinking will influence a
    person’s decision making. No matter how objective the criteria will be, value judgments will
    always play a part in a person’s decision making, either consciously or subconsciously.

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4. What influences the quality of a decision most often?
   A) The decision makers immediate
   superior
   B) The type of decision that needs to be made
   C) Questions asked and alternatives generated
   D) The time of day the decision is made
   Ans: C
   Feedback:
   The greater the number of alternatives that can be generated by the decision maker, the better
   the final decision will be. The alternatives generated and the final choices are limited by each
   persons value system.
5. What does knowledge about decision making lead one to believe?
6. A) Good decision makers are usually right-brain, intuitive thinkers
7. B) Effective decision makers are sensitive to the situation and to others
8. C) Good decisions are usually made by left-brain, logical thinkers
9. D) Good decision making requires analytical rather than creative processes
   Ans: B
   Feedback:
   Good decision makers seem to have antennae that make them particularly sensitive to other
   people and situations. Left-brain thinkers are typically better at processing language, logic,
   numbers, and sequential ordering, whereas right-brain thinkers excel at nonverbal ideation
   and holistic synthesizing.
10. What is the best definition of decision making?
11. A) The planning process of management
12. B) The evaluation phase of the executive role
13. C) One step in the problem-solving process
14. D) Required to justify the need for scarce items
    Ans: C