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Shared governance is a vehicle for engaging organizations and creating the necessary forums and intersections that assure the decisions and actions remain dynamic and as close to the point of service as possible. Shared governance promotes:
 
  a. dependence.
  b. nonpunitive culture.
  c. horizontal relationships.
  d. executive decision making.

Question 2

Which of the following is a possible result of faulty encoding?
 
  a. The intended message is not received by the receiver.
  b. The content of the message is incomplete.
  c. The receiver of the message distorts the intent.
  d. The sender of the message is unable to receive feedback.

Question 3

The marketing department of a major children's hospital is hosting a fund-raiser for the local Ronald McDonald House. In the past, fund-raisers were successful when scheduled in the spring.
 
  This year, the fund-raiser is scheduled in the fall, when the city and several local organizations have community festivals. The first fund-raiser was scheduled 10 years ago in the fall and raised 50,000, only one eighth of the goal. This depicts an example of which of the following deci-sion-making distortions? a. Confirming evidence trap
  b. Estimating and forecasting trap
  c. Status quo trap
  d. Sunk cost trap

Question 4

In transitioning to a primary nursing model, it is important for a nurse manager who enjoys a high level of control over patient care to understand that his or her decision making at the patient care level:
 
  a. Is increased.
  b. Is decreased.
  c. Is relinquished.
  d. Remains the same.

Answer to #1

C
Shared governance is an accountability-based model through which nurses actively engage in making decisions regarding nursing practice, quality of patient care, education, nursing peer is-sues, and issues in the work environment. Shared governance promotes involvement, investment, participation, sharing of power, interdependence, cooperation, horizontal relationships, autonomy, and accountability for nursing decisions. Nursing effectiveness is enhanced through the sense of ownership that comes with more active involvement in the leadership of the organization.

Answer to #2

A

Answer to #3

B
Estimating and forecasting trap is the natural tendency of human behavior to disregard negative outcomes and remember the positive ones. In this case, the marketing department is not taking the failure of a previous fall fund-raiser into account when planning this event.

Answer to #4

B
The nurse manager who is considering movement to primary nursing needs to consider how the role of the manager changes, as well as the roles of the staff. The role of decision making at the patient care level is relinquished to the primary nurse, and the role of manager becomes that of facilitator, coach, mentor, role model, and clinical resource.

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