Staff Nurses Have Been Asked to Comment on the Work

question 6

Multiple Choice

Staff nurses have been asked to comment on the work of a nurse manager as part of the manager's performance review. Which comments by the staff nurses would indicate to the supervisor that the manager is also a leader?

• A) "He helped me to understand the structure of the hospital's organization."
• B) "I hope to be as good a manager as he is someday."
• C) "He negotiated a pay increase for the RNs on the unit."
• D) "His example has encouraged me to get to know people in other departments in the hospital."
• E) "His assignments are always fair and appropriate for the client census."

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Definitions:

Unique Subjective Experience

The individual and personal perception or feeling that one undergoes, distinct and different for each person.

Characteristic Pattern

A distinctive or regular arrangement of traits or features that is typical of an individual or process.

Personality

describes the individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

Environmental Stimuli

External factors or changes in the environment that can elicit a response from organisms.