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ESSENTIALS FOR NURSING PRACTICE 9
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POTTER TESTBANK/COMPLETE GUIDE 2024-2025
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Chapter 01: Professional Nursing
Potter: Essentials for Nursing Practice, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.A professional nurse uses effective strategies to communicate and handle conflict with professional nurses and other primary care professionals. Which Quality and Safety Education for Professional nurses (QSEN) competency is the professional nurse demonstrating?
a.Informatics b.Quality improvement c.Teamwork and collaboration d.Evidence-based practice
CORRECT CHOICE:- C
Feedback:->>>Teamwork and collaboration uses effective strategies to communicate and handle conflict.Informatics includes navigating electronic health records. Quality improvement uses tools such as flow charts and diagrams to improve care. Evidence-based practice integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and client/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal primary care.
PTS:1DIF:Cognitive Level: Applying (Application)
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OBJescribe the purpose of professional standards of nursing practice.
TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation MSC: NCLEX: Management of Care
2.A professional nurse is employed by a primary care agency that provides an informal training session on how to properly use a new vital sign monitor. Which type of education did the professional nurse receive?
a.In-service education b.Advanced education c.Continuing education d.Registered professional nurse education
CORRECT CHOICE:- A
Feedback:->>>In-service education programs are instruction or training provided by a primary care agency or institution designed to increase the knowledge, skills, and competencies of professional nurses and other primary care professionals employed by the institution. Some roles for RNs in nursing require advanced graduate degrees, such as a clinical professional nurse specialist or professional nurse practitioner. There are various educational routes for becoming a registered professional nurse (RN), such as associate, diploma, and baccalaureate.Continuing education involves formal, organized educational programs offered by universities, health centers, state professional nurses associations, professional nursing organizations, and educational and primary care institutions.PTS:1DIF:Cognitive Level: Applying (Application)
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OBJ: Discuss the importance of education in professional nursing practice.
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3.A professional nurse listens to a clients lungs and determines that the client needs to cough and deep breath. The professional nurse has the client cough and deep breath. Which concept did the professional nurse demonstrate? a.Accountability b.Autonomy c.Licensure d.Certification
CORRECT CHOICE:- B
Feedback:->>>Autonomy is essential to professional nursing and involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders. Accountability means that you are professionally and legally responsible for the type and quality of nursing care provided. To obtain licensure in the United States, RN candidates must pass the NCLEX- RN examination administered by the individual State Boards of Nursing to obtain a nursing license. Beyond the NCLEX-RN, some professional nurses choose to work toward certification in a specific area of nursing practice.PTS:1DIF:Cognitive Level: Analyzing (Analysis)
REF: 6 OBJ: Discuss the characteristics of professionalism in nursing.TOP: Nursing Process: Evaluation MSC: NCLEX: Management of Care 4.A registered professional nurse is required to participate in a simulation to learn how to triage clients who are arriving to the health center after exposure to an unknown gas. This is an example of a response to what type of influence on nursing?
a.Workplace hazards b.Nursing shortage c.Professionalism d.Emergency preparedness
CORRECT CHOICE:- D
Feedback:->>>Many primary care agencies, schools, and communities have educational programs to prepare for nuclear, chemical, or biological attack and other types of disasters. Professional nurses play an active role in emergency preparedness. Workplace hazards include violence, harassment, and ergonomics. A person who acts professionally is conscientious in actions, knowledgeable in the subject, and responsible to self and others. There is an ongoing global nursing shortage, which results from insufficient qualified registered professional nurses (RNs) to fill vacant positions and the loss of qualified RNs to other professions.PTS:1DIF:Cognitive Level: Applying (Application)
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OBJ: Discuss the influence of social, political, and economic changes on nursing practices.TOP: Nursing Process: Evaluation MSC: NCLEX: Safety and Infection Control 5.A professional nurse is an advanced practice registered professional nurse (APRN) who cares for geriatrics.This professional nurse is which type of advanced practice professional nurse?
a.Clinical professional nurse specialist b.Professional nurse practitioner c.Certified professional nurse- 3 / 4
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midwife d.Certified registered professional nurse anesthetist
CORRECT CHOICE:- A
Feedback:->>>The clinical professional nurse specialist (CNS) is an APRN who is an expert clinician in a specialized area of practice, such as geriatrics or pediatrics. The professional nurse practitioner (NP) is an APRN who provides primary care to a group of clients, usually in an outclient, ambulatory care, or community-based setting. A certified professional nurse-midwife (CNM) is an APRN who is educated in midwifery and is certified by the American College of Professional nurse-Midwives. A certified registered professional nurse anesthetist (CRNA) is an APRN with advanced education in a professional nurse anesthesia accredited program.PTS:1DIF:Cognitive Level: Applying (Application)
REF: 8 OBJ: Describe the roles and career opportunities for professional nurses. TOP: Nursing Process: Evaluation MSC: NCLEX: Management of Care 6.A client does not want the treatment that was prescribed. The professional nurse helps the client talk to the primary primary care provider and even talks to the primary primary care provider when needed. The professional nurse is acting in which professional role?
a.Educator b.Manager c.Advocate d.Provider of care
CORRECT CHOICE:- C
Feedback:->>>As an advocate you act on behalf of your client, securing and standing up for your clients primary care rights. As an educator you explain concepts and facts about health, describe the reason for routine care activities, demonstrate procedures such as self-care activities, reinforce learning or client behavior, and evaluate the clients progress in learning. Most professional nurses provide direct client care in an acute care setting, and this describes the role of provider of care. A manager coordinates the activities of members of the nursing staff in delivering nursing care and has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific nursing unit or agency.PTS:1DIF:Cognitive Level: Applying (Application)
REF: 7 OBJ: Describe the roles and career opportunities for professional nurses. TOP: Nursing Process: Evaluation MSC: NCLEX: Management of Care 7.A professional nurse must follow legal laws that protect public health, safety, and welfare. Which law is the professional nurse following?
a.Code of Ethics b.Professional nurse Practice Act c.Standards of practice d.Quality and safety education for professional nurses CORRECT
CHOICE:- B
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