A chief nursing officer in a busy, downtown, urban hospital has a major collaborative vision regarding nursing and would like to see the vision become reality by the year 2015.
The chief nursing officer creates a plan to communicate the vision and to empower individual nurses to help meet the goals and objectives that accompany it. Which of the following three keys to empowering people within an organization is defined as trusting people with information so they can act responsibly with it?
A) Assisting in releasing motivation employees possess
B) Creating autonomy through boundaries
C) Replacing the traditional hierarchy with self-directed teams
D) Sharing information
Question 2A client learns how to bathe her baby and shares with the nurse her hesitation of a return demonstration stating that she is afraid when she gets him wet he will slip and get hurt.
The nurse replies that with the bassinet under the baby, there should be no time that the baby is not safe. The client performs the bath and the nurse congratulates her on a great job. Which of the following correlates with information from the text that this behavioral change was well integrated?
A) The client understands the educational material.
B) The client has mastered a particular health care skill.
C) The client uses the new information or skill effectively.
D) The client must be validated by persons significant to the client.
Question 3A client receives feedback on her breast-feeding technique by the lactation consultant. Constructive feedback such as this causes what to occur in learners?
A) Learners present more questions.
B) Learners learn faster.
C) Learners identify barriers.
D) Learners want to learn more.
Question 4A nurse educator in a college setting has developed leadership skills as a result of attaining further education and sharing positive change within her department.
When looking at leadership in the contemporary sense, what leadership trait is characteristic of transformational leaders?
A) Influencing others
B) Guiding others
C) Directing others
D) Empowering others
Question 5A nurse is beginning to plan the teaching activities for a client who is learning how to take care of his wound at home.
Which of the following is one of the six pieces of information that highlights the identification of the client's perspective of the need to learn?
A) How the client perceives the health situation
B) Physical, cultural, linguistic, or psychological limitations that may impede learning
C) Intended learning outcomes
D) Client's conscious intentions and desires regarding health behaviors
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