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Mastery Exam
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Situation: A professional nurse is assumed to update herself about the
profession to maintain competence in practice. The nursing management
process is a topic for both staff and head nurses.
1. This major function of the management process establishes formal
authority. It defines qualifications and also includes staffing:
a. Planning
b. Organizing
c. Directing
d. Controlling
2. On the other hand, this major function of the management process
actuates efforts towards the accomplishment of goals. It includes
updating policies and procedures:
a. Planning
b. Organizing
c. Directing
d. Controlling
3. She noticed that policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
are strictly implemented in the hospital. What management function is
this?
a. Planning
b. Organizing
c. Controlling
d. Directing
4. When giving responsibilities to the staff members she should consider
the following:
a. Job description
b. Abilities of the staff
c. Preference of the staff
d. Her own decision
Situation:
Head nurses are unit managers and are expected to
demonstrate administrative and managerial competence in running the
operation of their respective units.
5. The
registered
nurse is
planning
to
delegate
tasks
to
unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). Which of the following task could
the registered nurse safely assigned to a UAP?
a. Monitor the I&O of a comatose toddler client with salicylate
poisoning
b. Perform a complete bed bath on a 2-year-old with multiple
injuries from a serious fall
c. Check the IV of a preschooler with Kawasaki disease
d. Give an oatmeal bath to an infant with eczema
c.
d.
a.
b.
c.
d.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Situation: Miss Andy is the newly promoted head nurse of the ambulatory
care unit.
26.
As the head of the unit, she noticed increasing incompetence
among the members. The first action that she should do is:
a. Bring the group together and discuss the problem
b. Ignore the problem, its a minor issue
c. Present the problem to the charge nurse
d. Discuss the problem with the other unit managers
27.
Which of the following can best motivate her staff when such
conflict arises?
a. Strict enforcement of rules
b. Encouraging good interpersonal relationship
c. Maintaining an open communication
d. Providing guidelines in doing procedures
28.
Decision-making occurs at many levels. Which from among the
following is the most empowering to the staff members?
a. The supervisor makes decision without consulting anyone
b. The supervisor ask reports to decide on the solution of the
problem
c. The supervisor makes decision after convening a task
force to analyze the issues
d. The supervisor makes decision after the report has been
presented
29.
Katherine is a young Unit Manager of the Pediatric Ward. Most of
her staff nurses are senior to her, very articulate, confident and
sometimes aggressive. Katherine feels uncomfortable believing that
she is the scapegoat of everything that goes wrong in her department.
Which of the following is the best action that she must take?
a. Identify the source of the conflict and understand the
points of friction
b. Disregard what she feels and continue to work independently
c. Seek help from the Director of Nursing
d. Quit her job and look for another employment.
30.
As a young manager, she knows that conflict occurs in any
organization. Which of the following statements regarding conflict is
NOT true?
a. Can be destructive if the level is too high
b. Is not beneficial; hence it should be prevented at all
times
c. May result in poor performance
d. May create leaders
Situation: Mr. Nicandro is an Operating Room head nurse for three years.
He strongly felt that his unit needs some changes in order to be competitive
with other hospitals.
31.
Which of the following is incompatible with the planning process
in the organization?
a. Establishes goals and objectives
b. Places goals of nursing personnel above organizational
goals
c. Evaluates goal implementation
d. Revises and updates plan
32.
Which of the following is not included in the capital expense
budget?
a. Renovation of the OR suites
c.
Purchase of heart-lung
machine
b. Purchase of anesthetic machine
d.
Repair
of
air
conditioning
33.
An old ventilator often malfunctions and has inefficiencies
resulting from the speed of the equipment or downtime (amount of
time it is out of service for repairs). The organization decided to
purchase new technology because the old one is too expensive to
maintain. What type of budget is allotted for the equipment?
a. Operational budget
b. Capital Budget
c. Construction budget
d. Any of the above
34.
An operational budget is a financial tool that outlines anticipated
revenue and expenses over a specified period. Which of the following
are incorrect regarding budget?
a. The budget translates operational plans into financial and
statistical terms so that income can be projected with associated
costs
b. Budget serve as standards to plan, monitor, and evaluate
the performance of a health care system
c. Budget account for the relationship of income to the expenses
needed to deliver the services
d. All of the above
35.
Which among the following is the purpose of monitoring a
budget?
a. Keep expenses above budget
b. Maintain revenue above the previous years budget
c. Ensure revenue is generated monthly
d. Generate revenue and control expenses within a
projected framework
Situation: Jun just received his appointment paper as permanent employee.
He was told by the head nurse that it was his loyalty, commitment,
competence, and caring attitude that contributed to his present
appointment.
36.
56.
In your review of literature, under what appropriate topic would
you focus?
a.
Care of terminally ill patients
c. Attitude and
religion
b.
Concept on death and dying
d. The dying patient
57.
The variables in your study are the following, except:
a. Religion
c. Setting of the study
b. Care of the dying
d. Attitude of the staff nurses on
dying
58.
Which of the following research designs would be most
appropriate for the study?
a. Descriptive
c. Ex post facto
b. Case study
d. Quasi-experimental
59.
This is an example of a continuous variable:
a. Religion
c. Staff nurses
b. Patients
d. Age
60.
If you choose to concentrate in one community alone, which
research design would be appropriate?
a. Descriptive
c. Exploratory
b. Survey
d. Case study
Situation: A research was conducted on The Effects of the Nurse
Expressive Role in the Reduction of Anxiety in Patients who will Undergo
Nasogastric Tube Insertion
61.
The research is experimental which means that it utilized:
a. An interview schedule
b. Control and experimental groups
c. A survey
d. A questionnaire
62.
The independent variable is
a. Patients
c. reduction of anxiety
b. Expressive role
d. nasogastric insertion
63.
The dependent variable is
a. Nasogastric insertion
c. expressive role
b. Patients
d. reduction of anxiety
64.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of experimental
research?
a. Value plays a significant part in research
b. Research ideas are capable of being tested
c. Results of tests made on the groups are compared
d. Research subjects are randomly selected and placed into groups
for the purpose of manipulation
Situation: A non- experimental, one group, pretest-posttest research design
was used to evaluate the effectiveness of a newly developed training
program for nurses working with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for
Psychiatric patients.
65. The study was approved by the Health Services Ethics Committee.
Prior to completing the questionnaire at the start of the training
program, the consent would be provided by:
a. Nurse Supervisor
c. Hospital Administrator
b. Patients undergoing ECT
d.
Nurse
Participants
66.
An evaluation questionnaire included 14 TRUE- FALSE items,
which measured Nurses knowledge of key components of providing
assistance in an ECT procedure. In this study, participants knowledge
were measured:
a. Solely after the study
b. Solely before the training
c. Before and after training
d. In the middle of the training
67.
Six items of the evaluation questionnaire used a 10- point scale
(ranging from not confident to very confident) measure nurses
perceived level of confidence with setting up an appropriate ECT
machine. The type of scale used is:
a. interval
c. ratio scale
b. ordinal
d. nominal scale
68.
If the hypothesis is Highly experienced nurses will decrease the
post procedure risk associated with ECT. The nurse will use which type
of test to analyze the data?
a. Two-tailed test because the hypothesis is non-directional
b. One- tailed test because the hypothesis is directional
c. Two-tailed test because the hypothesis is directional
d. One-tailed test because the hypothesis is non-directional
69.
A scattergram is a graphic presentation of relationship between
two variables. The graph contains variables on the X and Y axis. Which
of the following would indicate that there is no correlation at all?
a. When the dots seemed to be distributed from the upper corner
down toward the lower right corner
b. When the dots are scattered all over the graph
c. When the dots seemed to be distributed from the left lower
corner to the upper right corner of the graph
d. None of the above
70.
In the hypothesis: Taller people and people with higher caloric
intake weigh more than shorter people and those with lower caloric
intake. Which is the dependent variable of the study?
a. Height and weight
b. Height and caloric intake
c. Weight and caloric intake
d. Weight
71.
72.
In the hypothesis: Patients receiving warmed solution for body
cavity irrigation during surgical procedures will maintain a higher core
body temperature than patients receiving a room temperature
solution. Which is the independent variable in the study?
a. Surgical procedures
b. Solution for body cavity irrigation
c. Core body temperature
d. Temperature of the room
73.
74.
Women who have participated in Lamaze classes request pain
medication during labor less often than women who have not taken
these classes. Which of the following is the independent variable?
a. Request of pain medication
b. Women in labor
c. Attendance in Lamaze classes
d. Labor
75.
b. Women in labor
c. Attendance in Lamaze classes
d. Labor
Situation: After 5 years of working as a staff in the medical ward, you were
asked by the chief nurse to be part of the team that will undertake a hospital
wide research on costing of nursing service. You recall that one of the first
lessons in your research class is the method by which knowledge is based on
76.
Having worked in the emergency ward for 6 months, you are
convinced that crisis intervention is one of those services for which a
nurse can charge professional fee. This knowledge is based on:
a. Scientific Method
b. Experience
c. Consulting expert
d. Trial and error
77.
While working in the ICU, the head nurse and supervisor
conducted a small scale study The effects of Music Therapy on Pain
Relief among Selected Patients in ICU. The knowledge obtained from
his activity is through:
a. Scientific method
b. Trial and error
c. Experience
d. Tradition
78.
The research team learned that some of the nursing services of
few hospitals are already approved for costing and are about to be
submitted to Department of Health for approval. The team invited the
proponents of the study Determination of Cost of Nursing Services in
Hospital A, for information. The knowledge obtained from this activity
is through:
a. Experience
b. Consulting expert
c. Trial and error
d. Tradition
79.
One of the problems encountered by the other members of the
research team concerns bed sore. In one unit, it was learned that they
tried using the bark of banana to line the skin where possible pressure
sore is suspected. Eventually, they tried water pads to lessen pressure
on the affected part. The knowledge obtained in this situation is
through:
a. Trial and error
b. Scientific method
c. Tradition
d. Experience
80.
One member of the research team used to be assigned in the
Reproductive Health Clinic of the OPD. The nurses in that clinic were
trained on infection control and for a long time have not been using
disinfectant solution for the sterile pick up forceps. Instead, they just
keep it in a dry sterile container after use and have a new sterile pick
up forceps and sterile dry container every day. The knowledge of
keeping the pickup sterile in this manner has been through.
a. Trial and error
b. Scientific method
c. Consulting Expert
d. Tradition
Situation: A group of student nurses is writing the research methodology of
their thesis. Knowledge of the following concepts can help in writing the said
chapter.
81.
When evaluating the instruments validity, the researcher may
consider the following:
a. Content of the questionnaire
b. A theory that may be compared to the variable under study
c. The tool can detect even small variations in the attribute
d. All of the above
82.
The split half technique, test, retest and equivalent test
administration are ways to evaluate the instruments:
a. Validity
c. Sensitivity
b. Efficiency
d. Reliability
83.
An investigator wanted to determine if there is a significant
difference in the mean systolic blood pressure of 10 women before and
after oral contraceptive use for 3 months. The appropriate statistical
test for significance of this study is:
a. Analysis of variance
c. Chi-square analysis
b. Student t-test
d. Paired t-test
84.
Considering the said study, what is the independent variable of
the study?
a. Systolic
c. Mean systolic blood pressure
b. Oral contraceptive
d. Women
85.
If the investigator studied the relationship between the timing of
hemodialysis and the levels of daytime sleepiness, what appropriate
statistical treatment would be significant for this study?
a. Analysis of variance
c. Chi-square analysis
b. Student t-test
d. Paired t-test
86.
Considering the hypothesis for the study is; The timing of
hemodialysis is not related to the levels of daytime sleepiness of
patients in the renal unit. What is the independent variable in the
study?
a. Patients in the renal unit
c. Levels of daytime
sleepiness
b. Renal disorder
d. Timing of hemodialysis
87.
What is the dependent variable in the study?
a. Patients in the renal unit
c. Levels of daytime
sleepiness
b. Renal disorder
d. Timing of hemodialysis
88.
The investigator would like to compare the levels of postpartum
depression in three groups of women: middle-class white mothers of
term infants, middle-class white mothers of preterm infants, and lowincome African-American mothers of term infants. The appropriate
statistical test for significance of this study is:
c. Analysis of variance
c. Chi-square analysis
d. Student t-test
d. Paired t-test
89.
In considering the above study, what is the dependent variable/s
of the study?
a. Race, term of infants and levels of postpartum depression
b. Postpartum depression
c. Race, term or infants and economic status
d. Postpartum depression, term of infants and economic status
90.
What is the independent variable/s of the study?
a. Race, term of infants and levels of postpartum depression
b. Postpartum depression
c. Race, term or infants and economic status
d. Postpartum depression, term of infants and economic status
91.
You have noted that the shape of a frequency distribution you
used to present your data is negatively skewed. This means
a. The tail of distribution points to the left
b. The tail of the distribution points to the right
c. The tail of the distribution either points to the left or right
d. The curve is shaped like a bell
92.
If a newly registered nurse got a board rating at the 75 th
percentile, it means:
a. That 75% of the board passers received a higher rating than him
b. That 25% of the other board passers received lower rating than
him
c. That 20% of the other board passers received higher rating and
the other 5% got the same rating with the nurse
d. That 75% of the board passers got a lower rating than
him
93.
The statistical tool that is used in determining the magnitude and
direction of the relationship between two variables:
a. Test of relationship
b. Analysis of Variance
c. Pearson R
d. Spearman rho
94.
In the hypothesis which states A 5-day training course in
aggression management will positively influence the psychiatric nurses
tolerance towards aggression and their feelings towards aggressive
patients is:
a. Simple, alternative, directional
b. Null hypothesis
c. Complex, alternative, directional
d. Simple, non- directional
95.
A researcher decides to include only graduates of 2014 and 2015
as documented by the Registrars office. Which of the following terms
refer to this?
a. Scope
b. Limitation
c. Variable
d. Concept
96.
Evidence-based nursing practice is the end result of:
a. Prescriptive theory
b. Use of practical knowledge
c. Application of theoretical knowledge
d. Theory-generating and theory-testing research
Situation: Three brands of infants formula were given to three groups of 8 infants each and the results
were monitored for a certain period of time. The researcher tests if there is a significant difference in the
average weight plain (in lb.) among the 3 groups of respondents using the 3 brands, at 0.01 levels. The
results in terms of weight gains are tabulated below.
Respondent
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Brand A
4.5
4.1
3.0
5.3
4.8
2.7
4.3
3.8
Brand B
3.2
3.0
3.8
3.9
4.2
3.1
4.0
3.3
Brand C
3.0
2.8
3.2
3.6
3.5
3.5
3.9
3.6
97. The appropriate statistical test that the researcher may used is the :
a. T test
d. Pearson
product
moment
b. ANOVA
correlation
c. Chi square
98. The critical value was set at 5.78 and the computed value for the test above was 4.94, the nurse
will interpret this as:
a. Accept null hypothesis
c. Type I error
b. Reject null hypothesis
d. Type II error
99. The nurse researcher could also interpret the decision above as:
a. The mean growth of the 3 groups of infants given the 3 brands of infants formula has a
significant difference at 0.01 level
b. The mean growth of the 3 groups of infants given the 3 brands of infants formula
has a no significant difference at 0.01 level
c. The mean growth of the 3 groups of infants given the 3 brands of infants formula has a
greater difference at 0.01 level
d. The mean growth of the 3 groups of infants given the 3 brands of infants formula has a
lesser difference at 0.01 level
100.
If the researcher interpreted that the mean growth of the 3 groups of infants given the 3
brands of infants formula has a significant difference at 0.01 level, the researcher committed a:
a. Correct decision
b. Type I error
c. Type II error
d. Null error
e.
f.