A nurse manager was asked to select nurses for a new geriatric unit and interviewed several nurses for the job of patient care coordinator. The nurse who was selected has a master's degree in adult health with a focus on gerontologic nursing.
This nurse manager used which kind of change strategy?
a. Empirical-rational strategy
b. Normative-reeducative strategy
c. Power-coercive strategy
d. Interactional change strategy
Question 2First-line managers can apply Lewin's framework for planned change to nursing care. Which part of Lewin's framework is comparable to the evaluation step of the nursing process?
a. Unfreezing phase
b. Moving phase
c. Refreezing phase
d. Force-field analysis
Question 3A nurse manager requests in-service training about the new computerized system that is to be implemented once a planned merger between the nurse manager's agency and another agency is completed.
Based on Lewin's force-field analysis, the nurse manager's strategy is to:
a. Increase the restraining forces and strengthen the driving forces
b. Increase the restraining forces and decrease the driving forces
c. Reduce the restraining forces and strengthen the driving forces
d. Reduce the restraining forces and decrease the driving forces
Question 4Because the nurse manager has served the organization through two corporate buyouts, he has developed the skills of steward, inspirer, and promoter. This nurse manager is most likely to create what type of culture?
a. Control culture
b. Collaborative culture
c. Competence culture
d. Cultivation culture
Question 5The hospital was experiencing low staff morale and decreased productivity after it merged with another corporation.
The staff from the hospital became territorial when staff members from the other corporation were scheduled to work with hospital staff. This is an indication that the change induced by the merger has been influenced by:
a. Counterculture
b. Internal forces
c. External forces
d. Microsystems
Question 6Student nurses joined a professional organization for student nurses while enrolled in a baccalaureate nursing program. This is an example of:
a. A macrosystem
b. A subculture
c. Social cohesiveness
d. A counterculture
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