Sullivan, Effective Leadership and Management, 8/e
Chapter 4
Question 1
Type: MCSA
A nurse is working in a unit with several less-experienced nurses. Which attribute displayed by the senior nurse
would make her leadership of the less-experienced nurses most effective?
1. Strong belief that the leader is accountable for actions taken by those working on the unit
2. Authority to carry out actions necessary to move the work of unit staff forward
3. Efficiency in actions and in words
4. Ability to inspire the others to commit to the team’s goals
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Evaluation
Learning Outcome: 4-6: Describe what makes a leader successful.
Question 2
Type: MCMA
According to the behavioral view of leadership, how are leaders formed?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
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Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. By being educated
2. From inborn traits
3. With training
4. Through life experiences
5. Through abilities
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. There is little training available for nurse management positions.
2. Entry-level educational programs for nurses do not contain sufficient managerial content.
3. Management techniques are often learned “on the job.”
4. Nurses are not good managers.
5. Nurses often experience poor supervision in their own careers.
Rationale 4: Transformational leadership is concerned not with the status quo but with effecting revolutionary
change in organizations and human service.
Global Rationale:
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 4-3: Discuss how different theories explain leadership and management.
Question 6
Type: MCMA
A nursing committee has been organized to help plan a new intensive care service at the hospital. Which questions
are essential for this committee to consider?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. Where will the service be housed?
2. Why were the nurses asked to participate?
3. When will the service begin?
4. Who will provide the services?
5. How will money for the project be raised?
Global Rationale:
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: 4-4: Describe what management roles nurses fill in practice.
Question 7
Type: MCMA
The nurse manager has been assigned the task of developing and implementing a new staffing system for the
emergency department. The nurse has reached the “directing” phase of this project. On which activities would the
nurse focus at this point?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. Deciding on the skill mix necessary for direct client care
2. Selling the new system to the current emergency department staff
3. Comparing the actual results of the new system to the projected results
4. Telling staff what to do
5. Coaching the staff through the implementation of a new schedule
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Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 4-6: Describe what makes a leader successful.
Question 8
Type: MCSA
The nurse manager consistently refocuses the staff on achieving outcomes and directly involves the staff in
decision making to achieve those outcomes. How would this style of leadership be described?
1. Quantum
2. Transactional
3. Contingency
4. Transformational
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Assessment
Learning Outcome: 4-3: Discuss how different theories explain leadership and management.
Question 9
Type: MCSA
The mother of a staff nurse is critically ill and the nurse must miss several shifts of work. If the leadership style of
the nursing manager is transactional, which approach to covering these shifts is most likely?
1. “I have made out a schedule of who will work to cover these shifts.”
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2. “I can work an extra shift tomorrow night. Who can cover tonight?”
3. “How can we work together to cover these shifts to help our coworker?”
4. “If you work overtime tonight I will authorize double your hourly pay rate.”
Rationale 2: Active, positive participation shows good followership.
Rationale 3: As long as the critique is private, this demonstrates that the nurse is engaged and thinking about the
processes.
Rationale 4: Taking the initiative to try out changes is considered good followership.
Rationale 5: This is an example of dependent thinking, which is not good followership.
Global Rationale:
Cognitive Level: Analyzing
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Evaluation
Learning Outcome: 4-5: Discuss how followership is essential to leadership.
Question 12
Type: MCSA
What is the most common skill shared by effective nurse leaders in leadership theories or models?
1. Critical care experience
2. Political knowledge
3. Communication
4. Informal power
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
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