The student nurse, shadowing on a medical-surgical unit, observes the charge nurse. Which action would the student identify as a leadership quality in the nurse's actions?
a. Making patient care assignments distrib-uted equally to staff
b. Sitting with a confused combative patient
c. Calling the nursing office for extra staff when an RN calls in sick
d. Assisting in a code
ANS: B
Leaders act as role models and do what is right for the patient. The other options are incorrect because these actions are expected as part of the functioning of the unit.
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