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Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing 10th Edition Marquis Huston .Test Bank

Chapter 1 Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning: Requisites for successful
leadership and management

1. What statement is true regarding decision making?
A) It is an analysis of a situation
B) It is closely related to evaluation
C) It involves choosing between courses of action
D) It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem

Ans: C

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Decision making is a complex cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular course of action.
Problem solving is part of decision making and is a systematic process that focuses on analyzing a
difficult situation. Critical thinking, sometimes referred to as reflective thinking, is related to evaluation
and has a broader scope than decision making and problem solving.

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