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cartlidgeashley · **on:** Jun 25, 2018

The novice nurse is interviewing with managers in the hospital. The nurse has decided that working for a manager who demonstrates an autocratic style of leadership would be the best match for the nurse.

To determine the manager's style, which question should the novice nurse ask the manager?
A) What is your view of nurses working overtime?
B) How do you implement orientation?
C) What shift will I be working?
D) Do you seek input from staff when implementing new policies?

Question 2

The nurse completes a teaching session on wound care for a client who will require dressing changes after discharge. The nurse evaluates the effectiveness of a teaching session for wound care with the family and determines that more education is required.

Which statement by the nurse is appropriate in this situation?
A) Let me clarify again some of the steps that are required during wound care.
B) You did not pay attention, did you?
C) Here, let me do it for you.
D) I do not think you understood me correctly the first time.

dreamfighter72 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

In order to determine the leadership style of the manager, the nurse would ask the manager how he or she handles new unit policies. If the manager states that policies are determined by leadership who will give orders and directions to the group, then the new graduate knows this manager is autocratic in nature. Asking about the shift will not tell the nurse about leadership style. How the manager implements orientation would not necessarily reveal the manager's leadership style. Working overtime is a unit or hospital rule, not a leadership style.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: A

Responding with some clarifications indicates the client understood some of the teaching and preserves the client's dignity and trust in the nurse. Saying that the client did not understand the information is belittling. Beginning a negative phrase with you is assigning blame, which impedes the therapeutic relationship. Telling the client the nurse can do it better defeats the goal of the feedback; the nurse would want to instill self-confidence in the client, and this type of action will hurt that goal.