Answer to Question 1
Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Critical thinking is a creative process that includes problem solving and decision making.
Rationale 2: Good communication skills are essential to managers and include assertiveness, clear expression of ideas, accuracy, and honesty.
Rationale 3: Networking is a process whereby professional links are established through which people can share ideas, knowledge, and information; offer support and direction to each other; and facilitate accomplishment of professional goals.
Rationale 4: Responsibility is one of the principles of management, not a management skill.
Answer to Question 2
Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Planning involves assessing a situation, establishing goals and objectives that identify priorities, delineating who is responsible, determining deadlines, and describing how the intended outcome is to be achieved and evaluated.
Rationale 2: Organizing is an ongoing process of management that involves determining responsibilities, communicating expectations (which job descriptions would fall under), and establishing the chain of command for authority and communication.
Rationale 3: Directing is the process of getting the organization's work accomplished. Coordinating is the process of ensuring that plans are carried out and evaluating outcomes.
Rationale 4: Coordinating is the process of ensuring that plans are carried out and evaluating outcomes.
The tone of the nurse-patient introduction sets the stage for the patient interview and patient care
The nurse is using Standard Precautions to draw blood.
Entry level nurse competencies
Nurse collaboration
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Nurse measuring the recumbent height of a toddler