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COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF MT.

CARMEL (PAMPANGA)
Compassionate, Assertive, Resilient, Moral, Excellent, Lifelong-Learner
Km.78. Mc.Arthur Highway, Brgy. Saguin, City of San Fernando, Pampanga
Contact Nos: (045) 435-8744 8/ (045) 455-2082 Email add: colmcpamp_2005@yahoo.com.ph

COLLEGE OF ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS


COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
First Semester S.Y 2021-2022

NURSING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (NCM 119-RLE)

PRELIM

TOPICS INCLUDED IN THE EXAMINATION NO. OF QUESTIONS


A. Leadership theories 30
B. Management theories 20
C. Delivering nursing care 20
D. Legal aspects in nursing 20
TOTAL 100

REFERENCE:
Sullivan, E. (2018). Effective leadership and management in nursing
Bessie L. Marquis, Carol J. Husto. (2017). Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing:
Theory and Application

PREPARED BY:

Evelyn E. Feliciano, RN, PhD, DScN(c)


Faculty

APPROVED BY:

Josephine V. Padilla RN, MAN


Program Head

Angelyn T. Salunga, RMT, DrPh(c)


Academic Head

NOTED BY:

Dr. Ma. Carmela B. Briones-Diaz, RN, MAEd(c)


Vice President for Academic Affairs
COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL (PAMPANGA)
Compassionate, Assertive, Resilient, Moral, Excellent, Lifelong-Learner
Km.78. Mc.Arthur Highway, Brgy. Saguin, City of San Fernando, Pampanga
Contact Nos: (045) 435-8744 8/ (045) 455-2082 Email add: colmcpamp_2005@yahoo.com.ph

COLLEGE OF ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS


COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
First Semester S.Y 2021-2022

NURSING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (NCM 119-RLE)


PRELIM EXAMINATION

STUDENT NAME: EXAM DATE: October 08, 2021


_____________________________________
COLLEGE ID: INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Evelyn E.
_________________________________________ Feliciano

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: Answer all the questions with only one
answer for each question.

The nurse manager is planning to implement a change in the nursing unit from team nursing to
primary nursing. The nurse anticipates that there will be resistance to the change during the change
process. The primary technique that the nurse would use in implementing this change is which of the
following?
*Introduce the change gradually
Confront the individuals involved in the change process
Use coercion to implement the change
Manipulate the participants in the change process

Former President Joseph Estrada is known by people with the charisma and sociability to lead as being
influenced by his fame as a movie actor in his time. He therefore influenced by the __________.
*Great Man Theory
Behavioral Theory
Contingency Theory
Quantum Theory

A nurse notes that a postoperative client has not been obtaining relief from pain with the prescribed
opioid analgesics when a particular licensed practical nurse (LPN) is assigned to the client. The
appropriate action for the nurse to take is to:
Reassign the LPN to the care of clients not receiving opioids
Notify the physician that the client needs an increase in opioid dosage
*Review the client’s medication administration record immediately and discuss the observations with
the nursing supervisor
Confront the LPN with the information about the client having pain control problems and ask if the LPN
is using the opioids personally

A nurse informs the employer that she is a licensed intravenous therapist that is incorrect information
to obtain a better position or job, it implies an intentional tort of _______.
*Fraud
Malpractice
False imprisonment
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Battery

President Duterte believes that he has the leadership traits which were taught by experience. You
know that this assumption is under _________.
*Behavioral Theory
Trait Theory
Great Man Theory
Contingency Theory

The nurse working in an acute care environment would utilize which strategies to reduce the risk of
malpractice litigation?
*Maintain expertise in practice
Never report unsafe staffing levels
None of the choices
Do nothing to be safe

When a leader is believed to be born and not made, then he is under the _________.
*Great Man Theory
Behavioral Theory
Contingency Theory
Quantum Theory

On a busy med-surg unit, a winter storm has prevented most of the staff members from getting to
work. One RN, two LPNs, and three UAPs have been able to get to work. What nursing care delivery
system should be implemented in this situation?
Team nursing
Primary nursing
*Functional nursing
Case management

Which of the following theories attempt to explain the appropriate leadership style based on the
leader, follower, and situation?
*Contingency Theory
Chaos Theory
Quantum Theory
Trait Theory

Which is an example of a staff nurse functioning in the role of a leader?


Verifying adequate staff coverage for a shift
Filling out a discipline form on a nursing assistant
*Encouraging a peer to join a committee
Attending a hospital-wide policy meeting

In this theory, the manager becomes more influential with a facilitative role rather than one of
control.
*Quantum Theory
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Transactional Theory
Transformational Theory
Behavioral Theory
Which is the best instructional guidance for the nurse-manager to include for the staff nurses when
delegating the responsibility to revise the unit’s educational policies?
Let me know if you need anything so we can discuss in the next meeting
*Complete the tasks in six weeks this is the most important to accomplish
Give your suggestions and later we may compromise
Tell me what you think after looking at everything and then let’s see

When a leader inspires many people to give their best in every task done in an organization, what
leadership style is adopted?
*Transformational leadership
Transactional leadership
Shared leadership
Servant leadership

What statement is true regarding leadership?


It is an analysis of the situation
It is closely related to evaluation
*It involves choosing between courses of action
It is dependent upon finding the cause of the problem

It involves personal and social competence. This leadership style is known as ___________.
*Emotional leadership
Shared governance
Followership
Servant leadership

You are a leader that influences multiple team members in the healthcare organization you are
working at. What leadership have you adapted?
*Shared leadership
Servant leadership
Chaos leadership
Contingency leadership

You always expect everyone in the organization to meet a standard and best at delivering defined
results. You are considered a ____________.
*Transactional leader
Transformational leader
Emotional leader
Servant leader

All EXCEPT one are considered under the umbrella of Contemporary leadership theories.
*Contingency theory
Quantum leadership
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Servant leadership
Chaos Theory

Which of the following theories that Quantum Theory is based on the reality is constantly shifting, and
the level of complexity are constantly shifting?
*Chaos Theory
Contingency Theory
Emotional Theory
Transactional Theory

All the following are involved in shared leadership in nursing, EXCEPT:


Self-directed work teams
Shared governance
Co-leadership
*Transformation

You are a nurse that desires to serve patients with the course of serving, you may be called to lead.
Therefore, you are considered a/an _____________.
*Servant leader
Emotional leader
Transactional leader
Transformational leader

All EXCEPT one the following characteristics of a servant leader.


*Co-parenting
Empathy
Awareness
Persuasion

You are a nurse leader that has the chance to work together with another nurse leader to execute a
leadership role. You are both performing ________.
*Co-leadership
Self-directed work teams
Co-parenting
Shared governance

A type of leadership that mutually influences team member interactions related to providing
direction, motivation, and support.
*Shared leadership
Servant leadership
Chaos leadership
Contingency leadership

You are trying your best as a leader at delivering innovation in your group. You are a ___________.
*Transformational leader
Transactional leader
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Servant leader
Shared leader

In this theory, we expect a change in which leaders should have a different way of thinking about
work and leadership.
*Quantum Theory
Emotional Theory
Conventional Theory
Contingency Theory

If you, as a leader, influence claiming and granting exchanges in an organization, what leadership do
you adapt?
*Shared leadership
Chaos leadership
Servant leadership
Emotional leadership

You are a nurse manager that is formally given to you to lead staff nurses and that reflects your
position at an organizational level to make decisions. Therefore, you do perform:
*Shared governance
Co-leadership
Self-directed work teams
Self-awareness competence

As an employee, you become directly involved in decision-making as an equitable and accountable


partner in an organization. Therefore, it identifies that you work under __________.
*Quantum Theory
Contingency Theory
Behavioral Theory
Trait Theory

Which theory proposes specific behaviors that a leader must possess which differentiate them from
non-leaders?
*Behavioral Theory
Emotional Theory
Quantum Theory
Chaos Theory

A nursing model of care that is designed to meet the needs of the patients and use nurses effectively.
*Traditional
Integrated
Evolving
Partnership

To help hospitals achieve affordable and lasting improvements of care, which models of care are
developed?
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*Evolving
Traditional
Integrated
Pathways

You are a nurse that very much aware of your responsibilities towards all aspects of the care of one or
more of the assigned patients. Which type of care model do you use?
*Total patient care
Functional nursing
Team nursing
Primary nursing

With an LPN and two less experienced RNs with you in the morning shift, you agree to work together.
You do __________.
*Practice partnership
Functional nursing
Primary nursing
Patient-centered care

You are assigned for identifying, coordinating, and monitoring the implementation of services to
achieve desired patient care outcomes within a specified period. You are performing ______.
*Case management
Practice partnership
Functional nursing
Team nursing

What model is for delivering primary care to ensure that adequate and appropriate care is provided to
a population of patients?
*Patient-centered medical home
Primary care nursing
Functional nursing
Synergy model of care

It refers to expected outcomes and care strategies developed by the collaborative practice team.
*Critical pathways
Synergy model of care
Patient-centered medical home
Case management

Which delivery care nursing can be used to assure continuity of patient care?
*Total patient care
Primary nursing
Functional nursing
Team nursing
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Due to understaffing of nurses, you assigned nurses based on the needs of a group of patients
separated into tasks. Which type of delivering nursing care is utilized?
*Functional nursing
Primary care nursing
Team nursing
Critical pathways

In the ICU, you are solely assigned to a patient to implement all necessary nursing care management
and are accountable for the duration of the patient’s stay on the unit. You are adapting the
___________.
*Primary nursing
Team nursing
Case management
Functional nursing

In team nursing, you avoid duplication of work, overriding distributed assignments. What skill is
reflected and is required?
*Delegating
Communicating
Problem-solving
Decision-making

What delivery care nursing involves an efficient way of using the skills of a mix of professional and
non-professional staff with differing levels of expertise?
*Practice partnership
Functional nursing
Team nursing
Patient-centered care

When nurse leaders work together, they do:


*Co-leadership
Self-directed work teams
Co-parenting
Shared governance

Which delivery care nursing is very efficient and effective for staff nurses in performing their regularly
assigned tasks yet may have problems with continuity of patient care?
*Functional nursing
Team nursing
Case management
Practice partnership

Which delivery care nursing is used to practice decentralized decision-making by the staff nurses with
the responsibility and authority for nursing care?
*Primary nursing
Team nursing
COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL (PAMPANGA)
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Functional nursing
Synergy model of care

To decrease the waiting time in providing patient care services through the promotion of efficiency,
quality, and cost control, which of the following should be utilized?
*Patient-centered care
Case management
Synergy model of care
Critical pathways

A leader inspires many people to give their best in every task done in an organization. He or she is a
______________ leader.
*Transformational
Transactional
Shared
Servant

A nurse serves patients with the course of serving, may be called to lead. Therefore, you are
considered a/an _____________.
*Servant leader
Emotional leader
Transactional leader
Transformational leader

The framework of contingency leadership includes:


*Followers, leaders, situation
Followers, shared governance, empathy
Awareness, social competence, situation
Personal traits, environment, persuasion

Which of the following skills is required especially in team nursing?


*Delegating
Communicating
Problem-solving
Decision-making

When delivering primary care to a population of patients, which model is presented to ensure that
adequate and appropriate care is provided?
*Patient-centered medical home
Primary care nursing
Functional nursing
Synergy model of care

Which type of delivering nursing care is utilized when assigned nurses based on the needs of a group
of patients separated into tasks?
*Functional nursing
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Primary care nursing


Team nursing
Critical pathways

One of the disadvantages of total patient care include _________.


*The nurse spends more time doing tasks and is expensive.
Difficulties with follow-ups.
Lack of understanding of the total patient.
Problems with continuity of patient care.

Which of the following is not included skills required in team nursing?


Delegating
Communicating
Problem-solving
*Synergizing

A nurse intentionally touching without consent, contact is harmful & causes an injury, merely
offensive to patient’s dignity is known for ________.
*Battery
Assault
Negligence
Malpractice

A rule of conduct pronounced by controlling authority may be enforced.


*Law
Ethics
Good governance
Nursing standards of care

It comprises all legal rules and principles affecting the practice of nursing.
*Nursing jurisprudence
Professional regulation commission
Code of good governance
Negligence and malpractice

One of the functions of law in nursing delineates the nurse's responsibilities from those of other
professionals.
*True
False
Partially true
Partially false

It is concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes is known as:
Civil law
*Criminal law
Crime of passion
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Civil service law

When there is a better hospital environment for nurses, it is most likely associated with a lower
mortality rate and nurse satisfaction.
*True
False
Partially true
Partially false

Which of the following statements correctly describes an authority?


*This is the legitimate rights of a position that requires others to obey; the right to command as granted
by the organization.
This is permissive or nondirective.
This is the capacity an individual has that enables him/her to get others to do something.
None of the choices.

A nurse performs a negligent action towards care of the patient, the nurse can be sued for _________.
*Unintentional tort
Intentional tort
Malpractice
Infidelity

It is concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes.


Unintentional tort
*Intentional tort
Malpractice
Infidelity

Written policies and procedures of an employing institution that defines the standards of care for
nurses.
Law
Ethics
Good governance
*Nursing standards of care

A nurse’s conduct falls below the standard of care.


*Negligence
Ethics
Infidelity
Veracity

A nurse unskillfully performs a nursing procedure on an older adult patient, the nurse can be charged
with _____.
*Malpractice
Battery
Assault
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Fraud

A patient who was put in confinement in a locked room without proper consent is an example of ___.
*False imprisonment
Fraud
Battery
Assault

A law that deals with behavior that constitutes an injury to a person or other private party and seeks
to achieve a remedy such as compensation for the injured is called ________.
*Civil law
Criminal law
Crime of passion
Civil service law

When patient characteristics and nurses’ competencies are matched, what delivery care nursing can
be used?
*Synergy model of care
Patient-centered medical home
Patient-centered care
Case management

It is occasionally used in long-term care facilities yet lacks understanding of total patient care.
*Functional nursing
Team nursing
Case management
Critical pathways

To better integrate disparate nursing care delivery, which models of care can be adopted?
*Integrated models of care
Evolving models of care
Traditional models of care
Total patient care models

All the following are integrated models of care, EXCEPT:


Practice partnership
Case management
Critical pathways
*Synergy model of care

Which of the following can be a disadvantage of total patient care?


*The nurse spends more time doing tasks and is expensive.
Difficulties with follow-ups.
Lack of understanding of the total patient.
Problems with continuity of patient care.
COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL (PAMPANGA)
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Km.78. Mc.Arthur Highway, Brgy. Saguin, City of San Fernando, Pampanga
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One of the legal issues related to nursing refers to a legal document stating the wishes of persons
regarding healthcare in institutions in which they are no longer capable of giving personal informed
consent.
*Advance directive
Confidentiality
Authority
Autonomy

Threatening a patient to give an injection or even restrain a patient for an x-ray procedure which
he/she refused despite a consent is signed is an example of:
*Assault
Battery
False imprisonment
Fraud

A key aspect of team nursing can be _____________.


*Nursing care conference
Work partnership
Synergy
Progressive of care

What is the role of the nurse is expected in patient-centered care nursing delivery?
*Broadened to coordinate a team of multifunctional unit-based caregivers
Provision of direction for managing the care of an individual patient during a stipulated time
Decentralized decision-making by the staff nurses
The direction made by the team leader

All the following are the skills required in team nursing, EXCEPT:
Delegating
Communicating
Problem-solving
*Synergizing

Which of the following statements is the purpose of the nursing care delivery system?
*To optimize nurses’ knowledge and skills for letting patients receive appropriate care.
To increase patient mortality rates and nurse satisfaction.
To increase nurses’ satisfaction towards monetary compensation.
To ensure the quantity of care rather than its quality.

Which of the following laws Filipino nurses can use as their best guide for it defines the scope of
nursing practice?
*Philippine Nursing Act of 2002
Republic Act No. 9172
Magna Carta of Public Health Workers
Republic Act No. 7305
COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL (PAMPANGA)
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Which law is enacted to ensure that health workers are properly compensated, thereby helping to
promote better delivery of quality health care service?
Philippine Nursing Act of 2002
Republic Act No. 9172
Magna Carta of Healthcare Nurses
*Republic Act No. 7305

Intentional touching without consent, contact is harmful & causes an injury, merely offensive to
patient’s dignity is known for ________.
*Battery
Assault
Negligence
Malpractice

What is a rule of conduct pronounced by controlling authority which may be enforced?


*Law
Ethics
Good governance
Nursing standards of care

The authority or the right to declare the rule never exists when the source can be identified.
*False
True
Partially true
Partially false

Which department of law comprises all legal rules and principles affecting the practice of nursing?
*Nursing jurisprudence
Professional regulation commission
Code of good governance
Negligence and malpractice

A system of law concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes is known as:
Civil law
*Criminal law
Crime of passion
Civil service law

A civil wrong or injury for which the court provides a remedy in the form of money damages is known:
*Tort
Ethics
Code
Truth
COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL (PAMPANGA)
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When on the part of the nurse is a negligent action towards care of the patient, the nurse can be sued
for _________.
*Unintentional tort
Intentional tort
Malpractice
Infidelity

These are written policies and procedures of an employing institution that defines the standards of
care for nurses.
Law
Ethics
Good governance
*Nursing standards of care

A system of law is concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes.
Unintentional tort
*Intentional tort
Malpractice
Infidelity

When giving incorrect information to obtain a better position or job, it implies an intentional tort of
_______.
*Fraud
Malpractice
False imprisonment
Battery

Conduct that falls below the standard of care.


*Negligence
Ethics
Infidelity
Veracity

Acting or non-acting is the proximate cause of injury to another person or his property.
*Professional negligence
Professional competence
Nursing standards of care
Magna Carta of Public Health Workers

When a nurse improperly or unskillfully cares for a patient, the nurse can be charged with _____.
*Malpractice
Battery
Assault
Fraud
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Restraining or confining a patient to a locked room without proper consent is an example of ___.
*False imprisonment
Fraud
Battery
Assault

Which of the following statements is considered an element of professional negligence?


*Foreseeability of harm resulting from failure to meet the standard
Deals with behavior that constitutes an injury to a person or other private party
Intentional touching without consent, contact is harmful
Willful & purposeful misrepresentation that could cause or cause harm

An obligation one has incurred or might incur through any act or failure to act is called _____.
*Liability
Accountability
Responsibility
Competency

The execution of duties associated with a nurse's particular role is known as:
Liability
Accountability
*Responsibility
Competency

The ability to answer for one's actions for oneself, patient, profession, work institution, and society is
called _____.
Liability
*Accountability
Responsibility
Competency

When a person desires medical treatment despite non-informed consent. This is known as:
*Living wills
A durable power of attorney
Confidentiality
Veracity

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