Table of Contents - 1.Historical Perspective and Current Trends 2.C...

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Table of Contents

• The Nursing Profession in Today’s Health-Care Environment

1.Historical Perspective and Current Trends 2.Caring as a Personal and Professional Behavior 3.Understanding the Changing Roles in Nursing 4.Health-Care Environment 5.Nursing and Informatics

• From Student to Nurse

6.Fulfill Your Role as a Student 7.The Importance of Critical Thinking 8.Entry into Practice 9.Employment Process 10.Leadership and Management as a Professional Concept 11.Communication Skills in Leadership and Management 12.Understanding Benefits of Change 13.Setting Meaningful Priorities

• Handling Conflict in the Nursing Profession

15.Dealing with Chaos 16.Ethics and Law in Nursing Management 17.Understanding Use of Power

• Motivating Employees
• Team Building

20.Delegating, Coaching, and Evaluating Performance 2 / 4

Nursing Leadership, Management, and Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN 7th Edition Dahlkemper Test Bank Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives and Current Trends

Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

• The nursing student predominantly uses knowledge about the history of

nursing for what purpose?

• To understand the professional choices open

to the student

• To prevent making medication errors in

practice

• To determine what geographical area is the

best place to practice

• To reduce the cost of delivering quality

healthcare

• The nurse is working in an underdeveloped country and observes the

natives lighting ritual fires and pounding on primitive drums around the sick person to promote recovery. The nurse interprets this behavior as indicating the natives believe illness results from what?

• Pathogens and genetics
• Evil spirits
• Tides and planets
• Plants and animals

• The person credited with making a written record of healthcare practices

and removing the mythical aspect of healthcare is who?

• Hammurabi
• Florence Nightingale
• Hippocrates
• Apollo

• Who served as the first public health nurses, caring for the sick and the

poor?

• The Presbyterian Church
• Salerno 3 / 4

• Jewish scholars
• Convent deaconesses

• What is a crucial issue the nurse working in the late industrialization era

would need to address in order to promote health?

• Reducing spread of infection
• Reducing sedentary lifestyle
• Teaching proper use of medications
• Teaching use of car seats

• What types of skills would a nursing student learn while attending

Kaiserworth Deaconess Institution in 1836?

• Administering immunizations
• Assisting in surgery
• Washing and changing bed linens
• Developing a plan of care

• The nurse demonstrates Florence Nightingale’s theory of nursing with

what intervention?

• Respecting the patient’s culture and

incorporating cultural needs in the plan of care

• Promoting good health and treating those who

are ill in a holistic manner

• Understanding how to motivate people to

practice a healthy lifestyle and reduce risks

• Teaching other nurses how to deliver the

highest quality of nursing care.

• What action performed by the nurse directly resulted from the contribution

made by Linda Richards?

• Using an antiseptic before administering an

injection

• Exploring the psychosocial needs of the

patient

• Documenting patient care in the medical

record

• Listening to a patient describe his or her

condition

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