Chapter 1: Nursing Leadership and Management MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. According to Henri Fayol, the functions of planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling are considered which aspect of management?

1. Roles

2. Process

3. Functions

4. Taxonomy

ANS: B, The management process includes planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling. Management roles include information processing, interpersonal relationships, and decision making. Management functions include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting. A taxonomy is a system that orders principles into a grouping or classification.

2. Which of the following is considered a decisional managerial role?

1. Disseminator

2. Figurehead

3. Leader

4. Entrepreneur

ANS: D, The decisional managerial roles include entrepreneur, disturbance handler, allocator of resources, and negotiator. The information processing managerial roles include monitor, disseminator, and spokesperson. The interpersonal managerial roles include figurehead, leader, and liaison.

3. A nurse manager meets regularly with other nurse managers, participates on the organizations committees, and attends meetings sponsored by professional organizations in order to manage relationships. These activities are considered which function of a manager?

1. Informing

2. Problem solving

3. Monitoring

4. Networking

ANS: D, The role functions to manage relationships are networking, supporting, developing and mentoring, managing conflict and team building, motivating and inspiring, recognizing, and rewarding. The role functions to manage the work are planning and organizing, problem solving, clarifying roles and objectives, informing, monitoring, consulting, and delegating.

4. A nurse was recently promoted to a middle-level manager position. The nurses title would most likely be which of the following?

1. First-line manager

2. Director

3. Vice president of patient care services

4. Chief nurse executive