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mynx · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

The manager's leadership style was found to be a significant predictor of nurses' job satisfaction (Duffield et al., 2007; Weberg, 2010) and retention of nurses.

Weberg's study showed significant increases in satisfaction and well-being with decreasing burnout and overall stress in staff nurses when which of the following leadership styles was used? a. Democratic
b. Laissez faire
c. Authoritarian
d. Transformational

Question 2

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is the selection and application of sensitive measures to identify patient care problems in which of the following ways?

a. Analyzing factors that are contributing to the problem and systematically rede-signing them to resolve the problem
b. Trying out different methods to resolve the problem
c. Conducting a complex analysis of the problem prior to testing the solution
d. Systematically testing multiple solutions

hugthug12 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

D
Weberg's study showed significance between transformational leadership and increases in satis-faction and well-being, with decreasing burnout and overall stress in staff nurses.

Answer to Question 2

A
A careful analysis of the factors contributing to the problem will help formulate a sound syste-matic redesign. Otherwise, as in options b, c, and d, you are dealing with trial and error prior to analyzing the root cause of the problem.