Chapter 12 Leadership And Management Nurses Core Competencies 3rd Edition By Finkelman

Chapter 12 Leadership And Management Nurses Core Competencies 3rd Edition By Finkelman

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

Question 1

Type: MCSA

The hospital’s strategic building plan calls for the nursing unit to double in size within the next year. How can planning for this increase best be accomplished?

1. A consultant who can gather ideas from all involved while avoiding the confrontations and clashes that would occur if all parties gathered to plan together.
2. The nursing manager, who then can offer direct feedback to team members regarding their active roles in the change process.
3. A well-coordinated team to represent all involved, to ensure that all difficult aspects of the change process are considered.
4. An open forum of all staff, so that no workplace teamwork issues go unaddressed.

Correct Answer: 3

Rationale 1: An outside consultant is less likely to gain access to important information or to assist the nursing team to address teamwork issues.

Rationale 2: A well-led team would can best offer feedback in a direct fashion, member to member.

Rationale 3: A well-coordinated team will address all relevant points in an organized fashion.

Rationale 4: The forum for addressing workplace issues needs to be planned and managed in a controlled and constructive way.

Global Rationale: NA

Cognitive Level: Applying

Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: Patient-centered care; Teamwork and collaboration; quality improvement, safety

AACN Essential Competencies: II. Basic organizational and systems leadership for quality care and patient safety; VI. Interprofessional communication and collaboration for improving patient health outcomes; V. Healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments

NLN Competencies: Personal and professional development; relationship centered care; teamwork

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning

Learning Outcome: LO 01. Discuss the importance of teams in the healthcare delivery system.

Page:  p. 299

 

Question 2

Type: MCSA

A group of nurses is known for its ability to perform well together to achieve its primary objectives. This group of nurses is demonstrating which characteristics?

1. Teamwork
2. Shared governance
3. A working group
4. Collective individuality

Correct Answer: 1

Rationale 1: Teamwork is defined by the members’ ability to coalesce around achievement of an objective.

Rationale 2: Shared governance is not necessarily involved in this situation.

Rationale 3: A working group is known more as a collection of individuals with a lesser commitment to a common goal.

Rationale 4: Collective individuality is the situation when groups of people work entirely independently of one another, even though they are classified as a group or a team.

Global Rationale: NA

Cognitive Level: Applying

Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: Patient-centered care; Teamwork and collaboration; quality improvement, safety

AACN Essential Competencies: II. Basic organizational and systems leadership for quality care and patient safety; VI. Interprofessional communication and collaboration for improving patient health outcomes; V. Healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments

NLN Competencies: Personal and professional development; relationship centered care; teamwork

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Assessment

Learning Outcome: LO 01. Discuss the importance of teams in the healthcare delivery system.

Page:  pp. 299-300

 

Question 3

Type: MCMA

Choose the situations that represent the qualities of a team rather than those of a group.

Standard Text: Select all that apply.

1. Nurse recruiters and nurse educators gather to explore and implement a program to recruit males into the profession.
2. Three nurses, a respiratory therapist, two residents, and a nursing assistant all are fully involved in a “code blue.”
3. Nurses at a unit meeting attempt to address and resolve interpersonal differences that they have assessed as interfering with nursing care.
4. Nurses meet with a representative of a Master’s degree program.
5. Nurses, physicians, and paramedics from around the state attend a trauma symposium where information about traumatic brain injury is presented.

Correct Answer: 1,2,3

Rationale 1: These participants have a common goal and will work together to achieve the goal.

Rationale 2: These participants are working toward a common goal.

Rationale 3: These participants are working toward a common goal.

Rationale 4: These participants have separate interests, with no commitment to a common goal and will not necessarily work together.

Rationale 5: These participants likely have a common goal of improving their individual practice with traumatic brain injury patients, but there is no indication that they will work together to achieve the goal.

Global Rationale: NA

Cognitive Level: Analyzing

Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment

Client Need Sub:

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Assessment

Learning Outcome: LO 01. Discuss the importance of teams in the healthcare delivery system.

Page: pp. 299-300

QSEN Competencies: Patient-centered care; Teamwork and collaboration; quality improvement, safety

AACN Essential Competencies: II. Basic organizational and systems leadership for quality care and patient safety; VI. Interprofessional communication and collaboration for improving patient health outcomes; V. Healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments

NLN Competencies: Personal and professional development; relationship centered care; teamwork