Chapter 30: Thriving for the Future

Leading and Managing in Nursing 5th Edition by Patricia S. Yoder-Wise

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Chapter 30: Thriving for the Future

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

MULTIPLE CHOICE

 

  1. Nursing professionals in the twenty-first century will accomplish most of their work:
a. Through teams of internationally prepared professionals.
b. In teams and through group work.
c. Through long-term, secure jobs.
d. In competitive environments and work groups.

 

ANS:   B

The future is about teams and group work. Competition will be out and collaboration will be in. Job security will be out and career options will be in. Our brightest and best may leave more often than they do at present to pursue career options internationally.

 

REF:    Page 599         TOP:    AONE competency: Knowledge of Healthcare Environment

 

  1. Based on studies of workplace environments for nurses and future projections, the workplace of the future will be:
a. Less intense because of more technology.
b. About the same as it is now.
c. More intense because of more technology.
d. Fluctuating between intense periods and less intense periods.

 

ANS:   C

Technology will continue to revolutionize health care and contribute to complexity compression. Studies suggest that the greatest challenge in compression is systems and technology.

 

REF:    Page 603         TOP:    AONE competency: Business Skills

 

  1. Which of the following actions is most representative of how health care of the future might be delivered? As a nurse leader, you:
a. Refer families who require immediate help to a local food bank. You also work with local agencies and families to establish a mothers’ collective in which mothers learn about nutrition and prepare low-cost, nutritious meals that are shared with the mothers in the collective.
b. Work together with a local agency to set up a free clinic in which addicts and the homeless can receive free health care and prescriptions for immediate needs.
c. Ensure that individuals who are admitted to your unit are asked about their smoking history and that preoperative and postoperative planning takes into account how smoking will affect status during and after surgery.
d. Address the health of those who are overweight and obese on your unit by ensuring that hospital meals offer nutritious, healthy food choices that are satisfying.

 

ANS:   A

Referral to a food bank addresses an immediate need; teaching mothers about nutrition and engaging them in preparation of low-cost, healthy meals provides nutrition while promoting longer-term changes in healthy eating. Of responses offered, this response best exemplifies the need in the future to retain a focus on the immediate needs of patients and clients while capitalizing on an opportunity to think longer term. This response also exemplifies one of the six leadership strengths for the future: thinking long-term, acting short-term.

 

REF:    Pages 600, 601                        TOP:    AONE competency: Leadership

 

  1. A local nurse is responsible for developing a new service. She spends many hours contacting the presidents of three community groups, and she works with the neighborhood association. The effort reflects which of the leadership strengths proposed by Lipman-Blumen (2000)?
a. Ethical political savvy
b. Authenticity and accountability
c. Politics of commonalities
d. Leadership through expectation

 

ANS:   C

Politics of commonalities refers to creating an environment that enables as many stakeholders as possible (in this case, community groups) to achieve part or all of their agendas.

 

REF:    Page 600         TOP:    AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building

 

  1. After working for a nurse manager for the past 8 months, a staff nurse notices that many decisions made by the nurse manager benefit her more than the staff members. Which leadership quality is this nurse manager lacking?
a. Ethical political savvy
b. Authenticity and accountability
c. Leadership through expectation
d. Quest for meaning

 

ANS:   B

Authenticity and accountability are reflected in concern for others.

 

REF:    Page 600         TOP:    AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-

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