TEST BANK
Nursing Now: Today's Issues, Tomorrows Trends
JOSEPH T. CATALANO
Eighth Edition
,TEST BANK: NURSING NOW 8TH EDITION CATALANO
Well Elaborated Questions & Answers (Answers at the End of Each Chapter)
Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing
1. Nurses are often the primary, and frequently the only, defendants named when
errors are made that result in injury to the client. This is due to which concept
associated with the nursing profession?
1. Autonomy
2. Accountability
3. Precision
4. Specificity
Answer:
2. If a nurse uses information from research as the basis for making decisions about
providing care, this nurse is engaging in which type of practice?
1. Client-based practice
2. Physician-based practice
3. Evidence-based practice
4. Provider-based
practice Answer:
3. 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?
1. Altruistic
2. Synergistic
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,3. Optimistic
4. Pragmatic
Answer:
4. With Florence Nightingale’s radically new idea about a separate educational setting
for nurses, the nursing profession took its first steps toward which of the following?
1. Autonomy
2. Accountability
3. Precision
4. Specificity
Answer:
5. If an advanced practice nurse is prepared to provide direct client care in primary
care settings, focusing on health promotion, illness prevention, early diagnosis, and
treatment of common health problems, this nurse is acting in which advanced
practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case
manager
Answer:
6. If an advanced practice nurse focuses on the care of pregnant women before,
during, and after the birth process, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice
role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
, 4. Case
manager
Answer:
7. If an advanced practice nurse is comfortable working in high-tech environments with
seriously ill individuals and their families, this nurse is acting in which advanced
practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case
manager
Answer:
8. If an advanced practice nurse functions to coordinate services for clients with
high-risk or long-term health problems who require access to the full continuum of
health-care services, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager
Answer:
9. If a nurse taking action to perform the activities that promote patient care, this
nurse is acting with which of the following?
1. Power
2. Control
3. Authority
4. Empowerment
Nursing Now: Today's Issues, Tomorrows Trends
JOSEPH T. CATALANO
Eighth Edition
,TEST BANK: NURSING NOW 8TH EDITION CATALANO
Well Elaborated Questions & Answers (Answers at the End of Each Chapter)
Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing
1. Nurses are often the primary, and frequently the only, defendants named when
errors are made that result in injury to the client. This is due to which concept
associated with the nursing profession?
1. Autonomy
2. Accountability
3. Precision
4. Specificity
Answer:
2. If a nurse uses information from research as the basis for making decisions about
providing care, this nurse is engaging in which type of practice?
1. Client-based practice
2. Physician-based practice
3. Evidence-based practice
4. Provider-based
practice Answer:
3. 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?
1. Altruistic
2. Synergistic
2|Page
,3. Optimistic
4. Pragmatic
Answer:
4. With Florence Nightingale’s radically new idea about a separate educational setting
for nurses, the nursing profession took its first steps toward which of the following?
1. Autonomy
2. Accountability
3. Precision
4. Specificity
Answer:
5. If an advanced practice nurse is prepared to provide direct client care in primary
care settings, focusing on health promotion, illness prevention, early diagnosis, and
treatment of common health problems, this nurse is acting in which advanced
practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case
manager
Answer:
6. If an advanced practice nurse focuses on the care of pregnant women before,
during, and after the birth process, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice
role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
, 4. Case
manager
Answer:
7. If an advanced practice nurse is comfortable working in high-tech environments with
seriously ill individuals and their families, this nurse is acting in which advanced
practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case
manager
Answer:
8. If an advanced practice nurse functions to coordinate services for clients with
high-risk or long-term health problems who require access to the full continuum of
health-care services, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager
Answer:
9. If a nurse taking action to perform the activities that promote patient care, this
nurse is acting with which of the following?
1. Power
2. Control
3. Authority
4. Empowerment
