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Catalano Nursing Now 8e
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Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing
Questions
- Nurses are often the primary, and frequently the only, defendants named when errors are made
- Autonomy
that result in injury to the client. This is due to which concept associated with the nursing profession?
- Accountability
- Precision
- Specificity
Answer:
- If a nurse uses information from research as the basis for making decisions about providing
- Client-based practice
care, this nurse is engaging in which type of practice?
- Physician-based practice
- Evidence-based practice
- Provider-based practice
Answer:
- Today’s nurses are often found in remote and often hostile areas, providing care for the sick
and dying, working 12-hour shifts, being on call, and working rotating shifts. This is why nursing is universally known as which type of profession?
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- Altruistic
- Synergistic
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- Optimistic
- Pragmatic
Answer:
- With Florence Nightingale’s radically new idea about a separate educational setting for nurses,
- Autonomy
the nursing profession took its first steps toward which of the following?
- Accountability
- Precision
- Specificity
Answer:
- If an advanced practice nurse is prepared to provide direct client care in primary care settings,
- Nurse practitioner
focusing on health promotion, illness prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of common health problems, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
- Certified nurse midwife
- Clinical nurse specialist
- Case manager
Answer:
- If an advanced practice nurse focuses on the care of pregnant women before, during, and after
- Nurse practitioner
the birth process, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
- Certified nurse midwife
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- Case manager
Answer:
- If an advanced practice nurse is comfortable working in high-tech environments with seriously
- Nurse practitioner
ill individuals and their families, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
- Certified nurse midwife
- Clinical nurse specialist
- Case manager
Answer:
- If an advanced practice nurse functions to coordinate services for clients with high-risk or
- Nurse practitioner
long-term health problems who require access to the full continuum of health-care services, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
- Certified nurse midwife
- Clinical nurse specialist
- Case manager
Answer:
- If a nurse taking action to perform the activities that promote patient care, this nurse is acting
- Power
with which of the following?
- Control
- Authority
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Answer:
- Although the client likely would prefer to avoid taking medications, tolerating uncomfortable
- Referent power
treatments, and participating in demanding activities, he or she cooperates because the nurse has a good relationship with the client; this is an example of which type of power?
- Expert power
- Coercive power
- Legitimate power
Answer:
- By demonstrating their knowledge of the client’s condition, recent laboratory tests, and other
- Referent power
elements that are vital to the client’s recovery, nurses demonstrate which type of power?
- Expert power
- Coercive power
- Legitimate power
Answer:
- If a nurse employs the underlying principles in the process of behavior modification, the
- Referent power
nurse is utilizing which type of power?
- Expert power
- Coercive power
- Power of rewards
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