Leadership And Management Nurses Core Competencies 3rd Edition By Finkelman – Test Bank
Finkelman, Leadership and Management for Nurses: Core Competencies for Quality Care 3rd Edition Test Bank
Chapter 3
Question 1
Type: MCSA
The manager of a maternal-child health unit announces that the unit will be redesigned to help meet the Institute of Medicine healthcare competencies. What scenario is one that the staff of this unit might expect?
1. Nursery, labor and delivery, and postpartum nurses will be cross-trained to work in each of these areas.
2. The nurses will be expected to participate in telehealth throughout a three state region.
3. There will be a reduction in staff numbers.
4. The unit will be closed for remodeling.
Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Cross-training is an example of redesign or re-engineering of healthcare.
Rationale 2: This would require re-regulating professional practice.
Rationale 3: This is an example of rightsizing.
Rationale 4: This is not what is meant by redesign in this case.
Global Rationale: NA
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub:
QSEN Competencies: Patient-centered care; Teamwork and collaboration; quality improvement, safety
AACN Essential Competencies: II. Basic organizational and systems leadership for quality care and patient safety; VI. Interprofessional communication and collaboration for improving patient health outcomes; V. Healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments
NLN Competencies: Personal and professional development; relationship centered care; teamwork
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: LO 02. Discuss critical nursing issues related to reengineering, redesigning, re-regulating, rightsizing, and restructuring.
Page: pp. 67-68
Question 2
Type: MCMA
In which situation would it be necessary to re-regulate practice?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. Nurses are asked to cross-train to another specialty.
2. An insurance company opens a nationwide nurse call line.
3. The hospital hires unlicensed assistive personnel.
4. A nursing school revises its curriculum.
5. The healthcare organization goes national and hopes to encourage mobility among its administrative nurses.
Correct Answer: 2,5
Rationale 1: This is a redesign practice used by many organizations to compensate for the nursing shortage.
Rationale 2: The use of telemedicine requires re-regulating professional practice because nurses can use this technology to provide care in situations in which the patient is in a different state from the one where the nurse is licensed and located.
Rationale 3: This is a redesign practice used by many organizations to compensate for the nursing shortage.
Rationale 4: This is an example of restructuring in which nursing education attempts to prepare nurses for the “real world.”
Rationale 5: This mobility would result in the nurses working in different states from where they live and are licensed.
Global Rationale: NA
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub:
QSEN Competencies: Patient-centered care; Teamwork and collaboration; quality improvement, safety
AACN Essential Competencies: II. Basic organizational and systems leadership for quality care and patient safety; VI. Interprofessional communication and collaboration for improving patient health outcomes; V. Healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments
NLN Competencies: Personal and professional development; relationship centered care; teamwork
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: LO 02. Discuss critical nursing issues related to reengineering, redesigning, re-regulating, rightsizing, and restructuring.
Page: p. 68
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