TEST BANK
Anderson's Nursing Leadership, Management, and Professional
Practice For The LPN/LVN in Nursing School and Beyond
Tamara R. Dahlkemper
5th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Historical Perspective and Current Trends 1
Chapter 02: Caring as a Personal and Professional Behavior 10
Chapter 03: Understanding the Changing Roles in Nursing 18
Chapter 04: Healthcare Environment 27
Chapter 05: Nursing and Informatics 36
Chapter 06: Fulfill Your Role as a Student 45
Chapter 07: The Importance of Critical Thinking 53
Chapter 08: Entry into Practice 59
Chapter 09: Employment Process 68
Chapter 10: Leadership and Management as a Professional Concept 76
Chapter 11: Communication Skills in Leadership and Management 85
Chapter 12: Considering Culture 94
Chapter 13: Understanding Benefits of Change 101
Chapter 14: Setting Meaningful Priorities 110
Chapter 15: Welcome to Conflict 117
Chapter 16: Dealing with Chaos 126
Chapter 17: Ethics and Law in Nursing Management 132
Chapter 18: Understanding Use of Power 143
Chapter 19: Motivating Employees 151
Chapter 20: Team Building 159
Chapter 21: Making Assignments, Coaching, and Analyzing Performance 167
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Test Bank - Anderson's Nursing Leadership, Management, & Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN, 5e (Dahlkemper, 2013)
Chapter 1: Historical Perspective and Current Trends
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The nursing student predominantly uses knowledge about the history of nursing for what
purpose?
a. To understand the professional choices open to the student
b. To prevent making medication errors in practice
c. To determine what geographical area is the best place to practice
d. To reduce the cost of delivering quality healthcare
ANS: A
Understanding nursing history helps the nurse to better recognize the many choices
available when choosing their own future path.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 1
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation |
Client Need: Safe, Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Applying
2. 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?
a. Pathogens and genetics
b. Evil spirits
c. Tides and planets
d. Plants and animals
ANS: B
A belief that disease was caused by evil spirits would result in lighting fires or candles and
making loud noise to try to ward off the spirits.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 2
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process | Client Need:
Psychosocial Integrity | Cognitive Level: Analyzing
3. The person credited with making a written record of healthcare practices and removing the
mythical aspect of healthcare is who?
a. Hammurabi
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Hippocrates
d. Apollo
ANS: C
Hippocrates wrote the first medical textbook, outlining current healthcare practices and
removed the mythical belief that Apollo was responsible for health. Hammurabi wrote a
code of laws to protect the patient and define legal limitations of caregivers, Florence
Nightingale introduced modern nursing during the Crimean War, and Apollo was a mythical
God who was believed to control health and wellness.
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Test Bank - Anderson's Nursing Leadership, Management, & Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN, 5e (Dahlkemper, 2013)
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 2
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation |
Client Need: Safe, Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Understanding
4. Who served as the first public health nurses, caring for the sick and the poor?
a. The Presbyterian Church
b. Salerno
c. Jewish scholars
d. Convent deaconesses
ANS: D
Deaconesses from local convents acted as the first public health nurses, providing care for
the sick and the poor based on the Christian belief in the importance of caring for one
another.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 2
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation |
Client Need: Safe, Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Understanding
5. What is a crucial issue the nurse working in the late industrialization era would need to
address in order to promote health?
a. Reducing spread of infection
b. Reducing sedentary lifestyle
c. Teaching proper use of medications
d. Teaching use of car seats
ANS: A
Many deaths resulted from communicable diseases and lack of cleanliness in hospitals, so
the nurse’s priority concern with health promotion would be reducing the spread of
infection.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 2
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Client Need:
Health Promotion and Maintenance | Cognitive Level: Analyzing
6. What types of skills would a nursing student learn while attending Kaiserworth Deaconess
Institution in 1836?
a. Administering immunizations
b. Assisting in surgery
c. Washing and changing bed linens
d. Developing a plan of care
ANS: C
Washing and changing bed linens, mopping floors, and housekeeping tasks were included as
part of the nurse’s education. Immunizations did not exist at that time in history, and surgery
was uncommon and very primitive with frequent poor outcomes. Thus assistants were rarely
required and not part of nursing school. Plan of care considerations were not used until after
the mid 1900s.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 2
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Test Bank - Anderson's Nursing Leadership, Management, & Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN, 5e (Dahlkemper, 2013)
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Client Need: Safe,
Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Understanding
7. The nurse demonstrates Florence Nightingale’s theory of nursing with what intervention?
a. Respecting the patient’s culture and incorporating cultural needs in the plan of care
b. Promoting good health and treating those who are ill in a holistic manner
c. Understanding how to motivate people to practice a healthy lifestyle and reduce
risks
d. Teaching other nurses how to deliver the highest quality of nursing care.
ANS: B
Nightingale believed the nurse’s primary responsibilities included promoting health and
treating the ill.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 3
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process | Client Need: Health
Promotion and Maintenance | Cognitive Level: Applying
8. What action performed by the nurse directly resulted from the contribution made by Linda
Richards?
a. Using an antiseptic before administering an injection
b. Exploring the psychosocial needs of the patient
c. Documenting patient care in the medical record
d. Listening to a patient describe his or her condition
ANS: C
Linda Richards developed a system for recording details about patients and patient care.
This system evolved into today’s documentation system.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 3
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation |
Client Need: Safe, Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Applying
9. After graduating from nursing school, the graduate takes a licensure examination as the
result of what nurse’s contribution?
a. Florence Nightingale
b. Mary Adelaid Nutting
c. Lavinia L. Dock
d. Isabel Hampton Robb
ANS: D
Isabel Hampton Robb fought for licensing examinations and registration to protect patients
from incompetent nurses, in order to raise the standard of the profession.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 3
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Caring | Client Need: Safe, Effective
Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Applying
10. In addition to caring for the sick, what other skills would the first LPN students learn when
attending the Ballard School in New York in 1893?
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Test Bank - Anderson's Nursing Leadership, Management, & Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN, 5e (Dahlkemper, 2013)
a. Political advocacy
b. Homemaking
c. Communication
d. Carpentry
ANS: B
LPN students learned homemaking skills, because much of the patient care they provided
was within the patient’s home.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 4
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Client Need: Safe,
Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Understanding
11. The nurse responds to an alarm on a pulse oximeter and sees the patient’s oxygen saturation
is reading 38%. The nurse observes the patient, noting a respiratory rate of 12 breaths per
minute, pink mucous membranes, and easy regular respirations. The nurse concludes the
pulse oximeter is not reading accurately. Whose theory of nursing is this nurse
demonstrating?
a. Annie Goodrich
b. Lillian D. Wald
c. Florence Nightingale
d. Linda Richards
ANS: C
Florence Nightingale promoted treating the patient based on the patient’s individual needs
rather than treating the disease or, in this case, the machinery.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 3
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation |
Client Need: Safe, Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Analyzing
12. What statement describes Florence Nightingale’s beliefs about nursing?
a. Practicing nurses should be licensed.
b. Promotion of good health and treating the ill are nursing priorities.
c. Nurses could simultaneously have a career and a marriage.
d. Organisms cause infection.
ANS: B
One of Florence Nightingale’s strongest beliefs was that promoting good health and treating
the ill were nursing priorities. Throughout her career, Nightingale implemented changes in
the nursing practice to enhance the health of all who were ill.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 3
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process | Client Need: Health
Promotion and Maintenance | Cognitive Level: Understanding
13. What was Mary Eliza Mahoney’s contribution to nursing?
a. She organized the first visiting nurse association.
b. She founded the American Journal of Nursing.
c. She founded the National League of Nursing.
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Anderson's Nursing Leadership, Management, and Professional
Practice For The LPN/LVN in Nursing School and Beyond
Tamara R. Dahlkemper
5th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Historical Perspective and Current Trends 1
Chapter 02: Caring as a Personal and Professional Behavior 10
Chapter 03: Understanding the Changing Roles in Nursing 18
Chapter 04: Healthcare Environment 27
Chapter 05: Nursing and Informatics 36
Chapter 06: Fulfill Your Role as a Student 45
Chapter 07: The Importance of Critical Thinking 53
Chapter 08: Entry into Practice 59
Chapter 09: Employment Process 68
Chapter 10: Leadership and Management as a Professional Concept 76
Chapter 11: Communication Skills in Leadership and Management 85
Chapter 12: Considering Culture 94
Chapter 13: Understanding Benefits of Change 101
Chapter 14: Setting Meaningful Priorities 110
Chapter 15: Welcome to Conflict 117
Chapter 16: Dealing with Chaos 126
Chapter 17: Ethics and Law in Nursing Management 132
Chapter 18: Understanding Use of Power 143
Chapter 19: Motivating Employees 151
Chapter 20: Team Building 159
Chapter 21: Making Assignments, Coaching, and Analyzing Performance 167
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Test Bank - Anderson's Nursing Leadership, Management, & Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN, 5e (Dahlkemper, 2013)
Chapter 1: Historical Perspective and Current Trends
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The nursing student predominantly uses knowledge about the history of nursing for what
purpose?
a. To understand the professional choices open to the student
b. To prevent making medication errors in practice
c. To determine what geographical area is the best place to practice
d. To reduce the cost of delivering quality healthcare
ANS: A
Understanding nursing history helps the nurse to better recognize the many choices
available when choosing their own future path.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 1
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation |
Client Need: Safe, Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Applying
2. 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?
a. Pathogens and genetics
b. Evil spirits
c. Tides and planets
d. Plants and animals
ANS: B
A belief that disease was caused by evil spirits would result in lighting fires or candles and
making loud noise to try to ward off the spirits.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 2
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process | Client Need:
Psychosocial Integrity | Cognitive Level: Analyzing
3. The person credited with making a written record of healthcare practices and removing the
mythical aspect of healthcare is who?
a. Hammurabi
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Hippocrates
d. Apollo
ANS: C
Hippocrates wrote the first medical textbook, outlining current healthcare practices and
removed the mythical belief that Apollo was responsible for health. Hammurabi wrote a
code of laws to protect the patient and define legal limitations of caregivers, Florence
Nightingale introduced modern nursing during the Crimean War, and Apollo was a mythical
God who was believed to control health and wellness.
______________________________________________________________________________________________
1|Page
, ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Test Bank - Anderson's Nursing Leadership, Management, & Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN, 5e (Dahlkemper, 2013)
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 2
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation |
Client Need: Safe, Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Understanding
4. Who served as the first public health nurses, caring for the sick and the poor?
a. The Presbyterian Church
b. Salerno
c. Jewish scholars
d. Convent deaconesses
ANS: D
Deaconesses from local convents acted as the first public health nurses, providing care for
the sick and the poor based on the Christian belief in the importance of caring for one
another.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 2
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation |
Client Need: Safe, Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Understanding
5. What is a crucial issue the nurse working in the late industrialization era would need to
address in order to promote health?
a. Reducing spread of infection
b. Reducing sedentary lifestyle
c. Teaching proper use of medications
d. Teaching use of car seats
ANS: A
Many deaths resulted from communicable diseases and lack of cleanliness in hospitals, so
the nurse’s priority concern with health promotion would be reducing the spread of
infection.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 2
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Client Need:
Health Promotion and Maintenance | Cognitive Level: Analyzing
6. What types of skills would a nursing student learn while attending Kaiserworth Deaconess
Institution in 1836?
a. Administering immunizations
b. Assisting in surgery
c. Washing and changing bed linens
d. Developing a plan of care
ANS: C
Washing and changing bed linens, mopping floors, and housekeeping tasks were included as
part of the nurse’s education. Immunizations did not exist at that time in history, and surgery
was uncommon and very primitive with frequent poor outcomes. Thus assistants were rarely
required and not part of nursing school. Plan of care considerations were not used until after
the mid 1900s.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 2
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, ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Test Bank - Anderson's Nursing Leadership, Management, & Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN, 5e (Dahlkemper, 2013)
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Client Need: Safe,
Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Understanding
7. The nurse demonstrates Florence Nightingale’s theory of nursing with what intervention?
a. Respecting the patient’s culture and incorporating cultural needs in the plan of care
b. Promoting good health and treating those who are ill in a holistic manner
c. Understanding how to motivate people to practice a healthy lifestyle and reduce
risks
d. Teaching other nurses how to deliver the highest quality of nursing care.
ANS: B
Nightingale believed the nurse’s primary responsibilities included promoting health and
treating the ill.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 3
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process | Client Need: Health
Promotion and Maintenance | Cognitive Level: Applying
8. What action performed by the nurse directly resulted from the contribution made by Linda
Richards?
a. Using an antiseptic before administering an injection
b. Exploring the psychosocial needs of the patient
c. Documenting patient care in the medical record
d. Listening to a patient describe his or her condition
ANS: C
Linda Richards developed a system for recording details about patients and patient care.
This system evolved into today’s documentation system.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 3
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation |
Client Need: Safe, Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Applying
9. After graduating from nursing school, the graduate takes a licensure examination as the
result of what nurse’s contribution?
a. Florence Nightingale
b. Mary Adelaid Nutting
c. Lavinia L. Dock
d. Isabel Hampton Robb
ANS: D
Isabel Hampton Robb fought for licensing examinations and registration to protect patients
from incompetent nurses, in order to raise the standard of the profession.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 3
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Caring | Client Need: Safe, Effective
Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Applying
10. In addition to caring for the sick, what other skills would the first LPN students learn when
attending the Ballard School in New York in 1893?
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Test Bank - Anderson's Nursing Leadership, Management, & Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN, 5e (Dahlkemper, 2013)
a. Political advocacy
b. Homemaking
c. Communication
d. Carpentry
ANS: B
LPN students learned homemaking skills, because much of the patient care they provided
was within the patient’s home.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 4
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Client Need: Safe,
Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Understanding
11. The nurse responds to an alarm on a pulse oximeter and sees the patient’s oxygen saturation
is reading 38%. The nurse observes the patient, noting a respiratory rate of 12 breaths per
minute, pink mucous membranes, and easy regular respirations. The nurse concludes the
pulse oximeter is not reading accurately. Whose theory of nursing is this nurse
demonstrating?
a. Annie Goodrich
b. Lillian D. Wald
c. Florence Nightingale
d. Linda Richards
ANS: C
Florence Nightingale promoted treating the patient based on the patient’s individual needs
rather than treating the disease or, in this case, the machinery.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 3
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation |
Client Need: Safe, Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Analyzing
12. What statement describes Florence Nightingale’s beliefs about nursing?
a. Practicing nurses should be licensed.
b. Promotion of good health and treating the ill are nursing priorities.
c. Nurses could simultaneously have a career and a marriage.
d. Organisms cause infection.
ANS: B
One of Florence Nightingale’s strongest beliefs was that promoting good health and treating
the ill were nursing priorities. Throughout her career, Nightingale implemented changes in
the nursing practice to enhance the health of all who were ill.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 1 OBJ: Objective: 3
KEY: Content Area: History | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process | Client Need: Health
Promotion and Maintenance | Cognitive Level: Understanding
13. What was Mary Eliza Mahoney’s contribution to nursing?
a. She organized the first visiting nurse association.
b. She founded the American Journal of Nursing.
c. She founded the National League of Nursing.
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