Section one - multiple-choice questions (MCQ)s x 10 questions.
(1 point per
question) Some will have more than 1 correct answer, be sure to read the
questions carefully
1. What are included in the 6 C’s of nursing?
a. All options apply.
b. Compassion
c. Competence
d. Communication
2. Where does the funding of income flow start from within the healthcare
organisation in England?
a. Parliament
b. NHS England
c. Local Authorities
d. Primary Care/GP
3. What is NOT strategic management?
a. Staff skill mix
b. Quality Provision
c. Measurement of Quality Indicators
d. Stakeholder Engagement
4. What is the primary focus of a nurse manager when conducting a root
cause analysis for a safety incident?
a. Understanding system failures
b. Identifying individuals to blame
c. Concealing information from the team
d. Minimizing the impact on the organisation
5. A nurse manager is implementing evidence-based practice within the
clinical area. What do you think is the rationale for this approach?
a. It improves patient outcomes based on research
b. It aligns with the latest trends in healthcare
c. Tradition and routine tasks are more effective
d. It reduces costs for the healthcare provider
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6. What is the purpose of performance appraisals with staff in a nursing
leadership role?
a. Identifying areas for professional development
b. Rewarding high performing staff
c. Maintaining strict control over employees
d. Assigning blame for mistakes
7. Within nursing leadership, what does the term “shared governance” refer
to?
a. Involving team members in the decision-making process
b. Delegating all decision making to the nursing manager
c. Centralised decision-making teams within the hospital
d. Strict hierarchical decision-making structures
8. A leader in the NHS is focused on building strong relationships with team
members and creating a positive work environment. What leadership
style aligns with this approach?
a. Transformational
b. Transactional
c. Autocratic
d. Charismatic
9. A healthcare team on a busy ward area are implementing a new change
protocol for patient safety. What is the importance of team training and
education?
a. To enhance team members understanding and competence
b. To assign blame in case of protocol failure
c. To avoid involving team members in the process
d. Isolation of healthcare professionals from other areas
[Link] the context of nursing management, what does the term “strategic
planning” refer to?
a. Long term planning for the nursing department
b. Day to day operational decisions
c. Solely financial planning
d. Avoiding planning to maintain flexibility
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11. Which of the following is a characteristic of autocratic leadership?
a. Top-down direction
b. Very reliant on trusting staff
c. Can be chaotic
d. Workers left to their own initiative
12. Which of these might be viewed as an ‘enabler to change’.
a. Motivated staff
b. Lack of support from management team
c. Staffing shortages
d. Unwilling to change
[Link] Care Quality Commission is an independent regulator for health care
within the UK. Who is regulated by the CQC?
a. All options apply
b. NHS Hospital Trusts
c. GP Practices
d. Independent Nursing Homes
[Link] of the following is a Professional Trade Union which offers help
advice and support for nurses in England?
a. The RCN
b. The CQC
c. The NMC
d. NICE
[Link] often do nurses have to undertake the process of revalidation in
order to stay on the nursing register?
a. Every three years
b. Yearly
c. Every two years
d. Every four years
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[Link] many steps are there in Lewins model of change?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 8
d. 6
[Link] one of the following is one of the six C’s of Nursing?
a. Courage
b. Careful
c. Creative
d. Conscientious
18. When attempting to implement a change in practice, which of the
following would be seen as a barrier to change?
a. Lack of information about the change
b. Planned timing for intervention
c. Motivated staff
d. A clear vision
19. Which one of Goleman’s recognised leadership styles is excellent for
empowering staff on a 1-1 basis?
a. Coaching
b. Pacesetting
c. Coercive
d. Autocratic
[Link] is this statement describing? ‘A process that seeks to create an
environment in which participants have an opportunity to evaluate, reflect
and develop their own clinical practice and provide a support system for
one another’.
a. Clinical supervisor
b. Clinical governance
c. The values and beliefs of staff within the NHS
d. The code
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21. Which of the following is one of the 7 pillars of clinical governance?
a. Patient centred care
b. Staff focused approaches
c. Change management
d. Patient compliance
[Link] of these is not a recognised tool for quality improvement?
a. Rolfes model for reflection
b. Fishbone diagram
c. Audit
d. Plan Do Study Act Model
[Link] of this best describes a laissez faire leaders approach?
a. Directing people what has to happen
b. Including all of the team in decision making
c. Use of Rewards and Consequences
d. Hands off Trusting approach
[Link] many different types of team members are there according to
Belbin’s theory of teamwork?
a. 7
b. 9
c. 6
d. 5
[Link] does CQC stand for?
a. Creative Quality Control
b. Collective Quality Commission
c. Care Quality Corporation
d. Care Quality Commission
26. Which one of the following is a known consequence of toxic leadership?
a. Low team morale
b. Innovative team
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c. Motivated staff
d. High staff turnover
[Link] of the following leadership styles is most effective when
implementing something urgently and quickly such as new safety
syringes.
a. Compassionate
b. Autocratic
c. Transformational
d. Democratic
[Link] Royal College of Nursing is?
a. An voluntary and charitable organisation which offers support to nurses
across the United Kingdom.
b. A professional trade union which Professional Trade Union which offers
help advice and support for nurses in England
c. An organisation which all nurses have to register onto to practice within the
UK
d. An organisation which regulates the practice of all nurses across England
and Wales
29. A part of change management theory is known as force field analysis.
Whose theory is this?
a. Covey
b. Lewin
c. Kotter
d. Lippit
Which of the following does not produce policies or guidance which underpin
Health Care in the UK?
a. Central Government
b. RCN
c. NICE
d. NHS England