Complete Test Bank - LPN to RN Transitions, 6th Edition
By Lora Claywell
(All Chapters Covered, Latest Edition, 100% Verified Answers with Rationales)
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future 1
Chapter 02 Assessing Yourself and Designing Success 5
Chapter 03 Study Habits and Test-Taking Skills 12
Chapter 04 Distinguishing the RN Role from the LPN LVN Role 18
Chapter 05 Using Nursing Theory to Guide Professional Practice 26
Chapter 06 Providing Patient-Centered Care Through the Nursing Process 35
Chapter 07 Critical and Diagnostic Thinking for Better Clinical Judgment 45
Chapter 08 Practicing Evidence-Based Decision Making 54
Chapter 09 Communicating With Patients and Co-Workers 65
Chapter 10 Teaching Patients and Their Families 74
Chapter 11 The Nurses, Ideas, and Forces That Define the Profession 83
Chapter 12 Upholding Legal and Ethical Principles 88
Chapter 13 Care and Safety Standards, Competence, and Nurse Accountability 99
Chapter 14 Leading, Delegating, and Collaborating 106
Chapter 15 Promoting Healthful Living in the Primary Care Setting 116
Chapter 16 Managing Care in Secondary and Tertiary Health Care 125
Chapter 17 Reflecting on Your Transition 132
Chapter 18 Prepare Now to Pass NCLEX-RN® 141
,Chapter 01: Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nursing advisor is meeting with a student who is interested in earning her RN degree. She knows that
licensed practical nurse/license vocational nurse (LPN/LVNs) who enter nursing school to become RNs come
into the learning environment with prior knowledge and understanding. Which statement by the nursing advisor
best describes her understanding of the effect experience may have on learning?
a. ―Experience may be a source of insight and motivation, or a barrier.
b. ―Experience is usually a stumbling block for LPN/LVNs.
c. ―Experience never makes learning more difficult.
d. ―Once something is learned, it can never be truly modified.
Answer: A
Experience accentuates differences among learners and serves as a source of insight and motivation, but it can
also be a barrier. Experience can serve as a foundation for defining the self.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application
OBJ: Identify how experiences influence learning in adults. TOP: Adult Learning
2. There is a test on the cardiovascular system on Friday morning, and it is now Wednesday night. The
student has already taken a vacation day from work Thursday night so that she can stay home and study. She is
considering skipping her exercise class on Thursday morning to go to the library to prepare for the test. Which
response best identifies the student‘s outcome priority?
a. Exercise class
b. Going to the library
c. Avoiding work by taking a vacation
d. Doing well on the test on Friday
Answer: D
The outcome priority is the essential issue or need to be addressed at any given time within a set of conditions
or circumstances.
, DIF: Cognitive Level: Application
OBJ: Identify motivations and personal outcome priorities for returning to school. TOP: Motivation to Learn
3. A nurse who has been an LPN/LVN for 10 years is meeting with an advisor to discuss the possibility of
taking classes to become an RN. The advisor interprets which statement by the nurse as the driving force for
returning to school?
a. ―I‘ll need to schedule time to attend classes.
b. ―I‘ll have to budget for paying tuition.
c. ―I‘ll have to rearranging my schedule.
d. ―There is a possibility of advancement into administration.
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Answer: D
Driving forces are those that push toward making the change, as opposed to restraining forces, which are those
that usually present a challenge that needs to be overcome for the change to take place or present a negative
effect the change may initiate.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application
OBJ: Identify motivations and personal outcome priorities for returning to school. TOP: Motivations for
Change
By Lora Claywell
(All Chapters Covered, Latest Edition, 100% Verified Answers with Rationales)
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future 1
Chapter 02 Assessing Yourself and Designing Success 5
Chapter 03 Study Habits and Test-Taking Skills 12
Chapter 04 Distinguishing the RN Role from the LPN LVN Role 18
Chapter 05 Using Nursing Theory to Guide Professional Practice 26
Chapter 06 Providing Patient-Centered Care Through the Nursing Process 35
Chapter 07 Critical and Diagnostic Thinking for Better Clinical Judgment 45
Chapter 08 Practicing Evidence-Based Decision Making 54
Chapter 09 Communicating With Patients and Co-Workers 65
Chapter 10 Teaching Patients and Their Families 74
Chapter 11 The Nurses, Ideas, and Forces That Define the Profession 83
Chapter 12 Upholding Legal and Ethical Principles 88
Chapter 13 Care and Safety Standards, Competence, and Nurse Accountability 99
Chapter 14 Leading, Delegating, and Collaborating 106
Chapter 15 Promoting Healthful Living in the Primary Care Setting 116
Chapter 16 Managing Care in Secondary and Tertiary Health Care 125
Chapter 17 Reflecting on Your Transition 132
Chapter 18 Prepare Now to Pass NCLEX-RN® 141
,Chapter 01: Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nursing advisor is meeting with a student who is interested in earning her RN degree. She knows that
licensed practical nurse/license vocational nurse (LPN/LVNs) who enter nursing school to become RNs come
into the learning environment with prior knowledge and understanding. Which statement by the nursing advisor
best describes her understanding of the effect experience may have on learning?
a. ―Experience may be a source of insight and motivation, or a barrier.
b. ―Experience is usually a stumbling block for LPN/LVNs.
c. ―Experience never makes learning more difficult.
d. ―Once something is learned, it can never be truly modified.
Answer: A
Experience accentuates differences among learners and serves as a source of insight and motivation, but it can
also be a barrier. Experience can serve as a foundation for defining the self.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application
OBJ: Identify how experiences influence learning in adults. TOP: Adult Learning
2. There is a test on the cardiovascular system on Friday morning, and it is now Wednesday night. The
student has already taken a vacation day from work Thursday night so that she can stay home and study. She is
considering skipping her exercise class on Thursday morning to go to the library to prepare for the test. Which
response best identifies the student‘s outcome priority?
a. Exercise class
b. Going to the library
c. Avoiding work by taking a vacation
d. Doing well on the test on Friday
Answer: D
The outcome priority is the essential issue or need to be addressed at any given time within a set of conditions
or circumstances.
, DIF: Cognitive Level: Application
OBJ: Identify motivations and personal outcome priorities for returning to school. TOP: Motivation to Learn
3. A nurse who has been an LPN/LVN for 10 years is meeting with an advisor to discuss the possibility of
taking classes to become an RN. The advisor interprets which statement by the nurse as the driving force for
returning to school?
a. ―I‘ll need to schedule time to attend classes.
b. ―I‘ll have to budget for paying tuition.
c. ―I‘ll have to rearranging my schedule.
d. ―There is a possibility of advancement into administration.
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Answer: D
Driving forces are those that push toward making the change, as opposed to restraining forces, which are those
that usually present a challenge that needs to be overcome for the change to take place or present a negative
effect the change may initiate.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application
OBJ: Identify motivations and personal outcome priorities for returning to school. TOP: Motivations for
Change
