Deck 6: Organizational Decision Making and Shared Governance

Question 1

Which of the following are Centralized or self-governance interactions?
1)Position-based
2)Hierarchical communication
3)Synergistic work environment.
4)Separates responsibility/managers are accountable
5)We-they work environment
6)Direct communication

A)1, 2, 3, 5
B)2, 3, 5, 6
C)1, 2, 4, 5
D)1, 3, 5, 6

Answer 1

1, 2, 4, 5

Question 2

Which council advances the practice of nursing and fosters the nursing role in patient education through staff and development and evidence-based research initiatives?

A)Nursing Staff Development, Education and Research Council
B)Nurse executive council
C)Advanced practice nurse council
D)Nursing informatics and communication council

Answer 2

Nursing Staff Development, Education and Research Council

Question 3

Which of the following are Decentralized or Shared governance interactions?
1)Hierarchical communication
2)Occurs at point of care/service
3)Direct communication
4)High staff input
5)Synergistic work environment
6)Collegiality, collaboration, partnership

A)1, 2, 4, 5, 6
B)1, 3, 4, 5, 6
C)2, 3, 4, 5, 6
D)1, 2, 3, 5, 6

Answer 3

2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Question 4

Which council is concerned with the management of resources as defined in the strategic plan and nursing conceptual framework?

A)Nurse Executive Council
B)Unit-Based Council
C)Nursing quality and patient safety council
D)Advanced practice nurse council

Question 5

Nursing shared governance models have always focused on

A)physician groups controlling all practice models.
B)nurses and physicians making nursing practice decisions.
C)nurses controlling their professional practice.
D)national accreditors controlling nursing practice decisions.

Question 6

In a health care organization, ownership is

A)a willingness to invest in decision-making and express ownership in those decisions.
B)the best method for integrating staff roles and relationships into structures and processes to achieve positive patient outcomes.
C)recognition and acceptance of the importance of everyone's work and of the fact that an organization's success is bound to individual performance.
D)linking health care providers and patients along all points in the system.

Question 7

In a health care organization, equity is

A)a willingness to invest in decision-making and express ownership in those decisions.
B)the best method for integrating staff roles and relationships into structures and processes to achieve positive patient outcomes.
C)recognition and acceptance of the importance of everyone's work and of the fact that an organization's success is bound to individual performance.
D)linking health care providers and patients along all points in the system.

Question 8

Equity maintains a focus on which of the following?

A)Services, executive management and staff
B)Services, patients, and staff
C)Staff, the management team and services
D)Staff, patients and resources