Chapter 20 Leadership And Management Nurses Core Competencies 3rd Edition By Finkelman

Chapter 20 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 Health Professions Education report indicates change is needed in healthcare professions education. What are the core competencies the report identifies?

1. Utilize informatics.
2. Provide patient-centered care.
3. Demonstrate leadership
4. Work in interprofessional teams.
5. Communicate clearly.

Correct Answer: 1, 2, 4

Rationale 1: Utilize informatics is one of the five core competencies.

Rationale 2: Provide patient-centered care is one of the five core competencies

Rationale 3: Leadership is important, but not a specific core competency and is integrated in many of the five core competencies.

Rationale 4: Work in interprofessional teams is one of the five core competencies

Rationale 5:  Communicate clearly is not a specific core competency mentioned; it is integrated in all the core competencies.

Global Rationale: NA

Cognitive Level: Applying

Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: Evidence-based practice

AACN Essential Competencies: III. Scholarship for evidence-based practice

NLN Competencies: Knowledge and science

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning

Learning Outcome: LO 01. Discuss the impact of the Institute of Medicine reports on nursing staff education.

Page: p. 469

 

Question 2

Type: MCSA

What is unique about the NAM approach to healthcare professions education?

1. Focus is on medical education
2. Focus is on all healthcare professions
3. Focus is on nursing education
4. Focus is on continuing education

Correct Answer: 2

Rationale 1: The report Health Professions does not just focus on medical education.

Rationale 2: The focus of the report Health Professions Education is on core competencies for all healthcare professions.

Rationale 3: The report Health Professions does not just focus on nursing education.

Rationale 4: The report Health Professions does not focus on continuing education.

Global Rationale: NA

Cognitive Level: Applying

Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: Evidence-based practice

AACN Essential Competencies: III. Scholarship for evidence-based practice

NLN Competencies: Knowledge and science

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning

Learning Outcome: LO 01.  Discuss the impact of the Institute of Medicine reports on nursing staff education.

Page: p. 467-468

 

Question 3

Type: MCSA

 

What did the NAM recognize as it was developing the Quality Chasm series of reports on healthcare?

1. Healthcare quality must consider staff competency.
2. Nursing education is meeting the practice needs.
3. Interprofessional education is effective.
4. Continuing education meets the five core healthcare professions competencies.

Correct Answer: 1

Rationale 1: The NAM developed the Health Professions Education report to address the need for better education to meet major goal of improving care.

Rationale 2: NAM did not indicate that nursing education was meeting the needs.

Rationale 3: At the time of the development of the Quality Chasm series, interprofessional education was rare.

Rationale 4: There was no recognition that continuing education met the five core competencies.

Global Rationale: NA

Cognitive Level: Analyzing

Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: Evidence-based practice

AACN Essential Competencies: III. Scholarship for evidence-based practice

NLN Competencies: Knowledge and science

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning

Learning Outcome: LO 02.  Examine the impact of staff education on quality health care.

Page: pp. 467-468

 

Question 4

Type: MCSA

 

The 2008 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) edition of The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice 
is best described as supporting which of the following statements in its Essentials to be met by its accredited schools of nursing with BSN programs?

1. Leadership is needed to support quality, safe care.
2. Nursing education requires major changes.
3. Knowledge and skills support leadership and quality safe care.
4. Provide quality safe care.

Correct Answer: 3

Rationale 1: Leadership and quality safe care are important, but the Essentials describes so that it can be applied to nursing education needs.

Rationale 2: The Future of Nursing report emphasized need for improvement in nursing education. The Essentials is not a report on need for change in nursing education, but rather standards for nursing programs

Rationale 3: The emphasis is on knowledge and skills related to leadership and quality safe care.

Rationale 4: Providing quality safe care is important, but the Essentials emphasizes the connection with the need for leadership and also elements that are required in a nursing education program.

Global Rationale: NA

Cognitive Level: Applying

Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: Evidence-based practice

AACN Essential Competencies: III. Scholarship for evidence-based practice

NLN Competencies: Knowledge and science

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning

Learning Outcome: LO 02.  Examine the impact of staff education on quality health care.

Page: p. 468

 

Question 5

Type: MCSA

What is the core concern of the ANA staff development standards?

1. Set academic standards for nursing education.
2. Provision of quality care in healthcare organizations.
3. Provide staff development requirements.
4. Provide protection of the public and provision of quality care.

Correct Answer: 4

Rationale 1: These standards are for organizations that develop and provide staff education; not for academic programs.

Rationale 2: There is more to the core concern; it is broader and does not just focus on healthcare organizations as could be a public/community health program.

Rationale 3: The standards do describe information related to staff development, but this is a guide and is not so specific as to provide requirements. This is not the core concern, but leads to meeting the core concern.

Rationale 4: The core concern is to protect the public and provide quality care.

Global Rationale: NA

Cognitive Level: Applying

Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: Evidence-based practice

AACN Essential Competencies: III. Scholarship for evidence-based practice

NLN Competencies: Knowledge and science

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning

Learning Outcome: LO 03.  Examine the nursing professional staff development standards

Page: p. 468