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Issues, Tomorrows Trends, 9th Edition by
Joseph T. Catalano
COMPLETE CHAPTERS 1-28| EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWERS
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, Table of Contents
Unit 1: The Growth of Nursing
1: The Development of a Profession
2: Historical Perspectives
3: Theories and Models of Nursing
4: The Process of Educating Nurses
5: The Evolution of Licensure, Certification, and Nursing Organizations
Unit 2: Making the Transition to Professional
6: Ethics in Nursing
7: Bioethical Issues
8: Nursing Law and Liability
9: Reality Shock in the Workplace
Unit 3: Leading and Managing
10: Leadership, Followership, and Management
11: Communication, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution
12: Understanding and Dealing Successfully With Difficult Behavior
13: Health-Care Delivery Systems
14: Ensuring Quality Care
15: Delegation in Nursing
16: Incivility: The Antithesis of Caring
17: Nursing Informatics
18: The Politically Active Nurse
Unit 4: Issues in Delivering Care
19: The Health-Care Debate: Best Allocation of Resources for the Best Outcomes
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20: Spirituality and Health Care
21: Diversity
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,22: Impact of the Aging Population on Health-Care Delivery
23: Client Education: A Moral Imperative
24: Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
25: Integrative Health Practices
26: Preparing for and Responding to Disasters
27: Developments in Current Nursing Practice
28: NCLEX: What You Need to Know
Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing Questions
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
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, 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. Casemanager 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:
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Issues, Tomorrows Trends, 9th Edition by
Joseph T. Catalano
COMPLETE CHAPTERS 1-28| EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWERS
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, Table of Contents
Unit 1: The Growth of Nursing
1: The Development of a Profession
2: Historical Perspectives
3: Theories and Models of Nursing
4: The Process of Educating Nurses
5: The Evolution of Licensure, Certification, and Nursing Organizations
Unit 2: Making the Transition to Professional
6: Ethics in Nursing
7: Bioethical Issues
8: Nursing Law and Liability
9: Reality Shock in the Workplace
Unit 3: Leading and Managing
10: Leadership, Followership, and Management
11: Communication, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution
12: Understanding and Dealing Successfully With Difficult Behavior
13: Health-Care Delivery Systems
14: Ensuring Quality Care
15: Delegation in Nursing
16: Incivility: The Antithesis of Caring
17: Nursing Informatics
18: The Politically Active Nurse
Unit 4: Issues in Delivering Care
19: The Health-Care Debate: Best Allocation of Resources for the Best Outcomes
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20: Spirituality and Health Care
21: Diversity
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,22: Impact of the Aging Population on Health-Care Delivery
23: Client Education: A Moral Imperative
24: Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
25: Integrative Health Practices
26: Preparing for and Responding to Disasters
27: Developments in Current Nursing Practice
28: NCLEX: What You Need to Know
Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing Questions
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:
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, 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. Casemanager 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:
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