NUR 3805 STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE QUESTIONS 2026/2027
Which organization published a 1965 position paper that identified associate degree nurses as
"technical nurses"? 1. The American Medical Association 2. The American Nurses Association 3.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing 4. The National League for Nursing - Correct
answer ✔✔ 2
The student nurse is using Pavelko’s work to support the argument that nursing is a profession.
Which criteria should this student investigate as related to nursing? (Select all that apply.) 1.
Relevance to social values 2. A code of ethics 3. Theory 4. Individual identity 5. Abstract
knowledge - Correct answer ✔✔ 1,2,3,5
Which option best describes discipline as it applies to nursing? 1. The discipline of nursing refers
to autonomy of nursing practice. 2. The discipline of nursing is nursing's distinct body of
knowledge. 3. The discipline of nursing is nursing's standards of practice. 4. The discipline of
nursing refers to nursing's code of ethics. - Correct answer ✔✔ 2
What is the only major discipline that does not require its members to hold at least a
baccalaureate degree in order to be licensed?
1. Nursing
2. Medicine
3. Physical therapy
4. Dentistry - Correct answer ✔✔ 1
What is the issue most central to the controversy over level of entry into professional nursing?
1. Professional title 2. Reimbursement for services 3. Definition of a profession 4. Cost of tuition
- Correct answer ✔✔ 3
,The newly licensed nurse is modeling clinical actions and decisions after nurses who have
worked on the unit for many years. In which activity is this nurse engaging? 1. Socialization 2.
Ethics discrimination 3. Sanctioning 4. Norming - Correct answer ✔✔ 1
The newly licensed nurse committed a clinical error and was sanctioned by the unit manager.
What is the purpose of a sanction? 1. Enforcement of norms 2. Documentation of wrongdoing
3. Development of leader-follower leveling 4. Externalization of ethics - Correct answer ✔✔ 1
The newly licensed nurse finds many inconsistencies between what was taught in nursing school
and what occurs in the practice setting. How is this situation likely to affect this nurse's
socialization into nursing practice? 1. It probably won't have much effect. 2. It may hinder
socialization. 3. It will make the new graduate a better nurse. 4. It will force the nurse to
socialize more quickly. - Correct answer ✔✔ 2
How does a return to school for a baccalaureate degree affect socialization of practicing nurses?
1. It has little effect. 2. These nurses regress in socialization back to the pre-nursing levels. 3.
These nurses experience resocialization in many ways. 4. Resocialization does not occur until
the degree is completed. - Correct answer ✔✔ 3
One model of professional socialization consists of three stages: Stage 1, proficiency in specific
tasks; Stage 2, attachment to significant others in the work environment; and Stage 3,
internalization of the values of the professional group and adoption of behaviors it prescribes.
Who developed this model? 1. Simpson 2. Hinshaw 3. Davis 4. Benner - Correct answer ✔✔ 1
The first-semester nursing student expresses concern that staff actions in the clinical setting do
not reflect the same standards being taught in nursing classes. Which stage of Davis's model
does this represent? 1. Initial innocence 2. Labeled recognition of incongruity 3. Role simulation
4. Provisional internalization - Correct answer ✔✔ 2
The newly licensed nurse is experiencing reality shock related to first employment as a nurse.
Which socialization model should this nurse investigate for information on coping with this
issue? 1. Hinshaw 2. Davis 3. Kramer 4. Simpson - Correct answer ✔✔ 3
,What are Patricia Benner's five levels of proficiency in nursing? 1. Student, graduate, clinical
specialist, practitioner, clinician. 2. Pre-professional, technical, professional, advanced, expert. 3.
Novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, expert. 4. Student, staff nurse, manager,
supervisor, director - Correct answer ✔✔ 3
Which element of a role is described as how the person assuming the role believes he or she
should behave in the role? 1. Performed role 2. Ideal role 3. Perceived role 4. Provision role -
Correct answer ✔✔ 3
The newly licensed nurse has theoretical knowledge and technical skill abilities but has difficulty
working within the constraints of the nursing unit. What issue associated with role development
does this situation exemplify? 1. Sending 2. Role formation 3. Reality shock 4. Mastery - Correct
answer ✔✔ 3
Which term is used to describe the process by which a person assumes or develops a new role?
1. Norm validation 2. Role transition 3. Cognitive dissonance 4. Role incumbent - Correct answer
✔✔ 2
What determinants form the boundaries for nursing roles? (Select all that apply.) 1. Education
and licensure 2. Nursing practice 3. Standards of nursing practice 4. Nurse practice acts 5. Codes
of ethics - Correct answer ✔✔ 2,3,4,5
What is true of standards of nursing practice? 1. They are written by the American Medical
Association. 2. They outline the minimal care expected by patients. 3. They affect only the
nurse-patient relationship. 4. They define the nurse's professional legal obligations. - Correct
answer ✔✔ 4
The nurse manager is concerned that the nursing staff is experiencing role stress related to
higher acuity of clients. What is one way in which this manager could address this issue? 1.
Encourage supportive relationships among the staff nurses. 2. Advocate for longer length of stay
for these higher acuity clients. 3. Limit the number of high-acuity clients that can be admitted to
, the unit. 4. Create a structured management system with no room for individual variance. -
Correct answer ✔✔ 1
A newly licensed nurse was previously employed as a unit secretary on the same unit where he
now works as a staff nurse. This role transition is causing the nurse to experience stress. What
information about role stress and transition would be most helpful for this nurse to consider? 1.
Role stress is limited to newly licensed nurses and won't continue after the first year of
employment. 2. Taking on multiple roles on the unit will be helpful, as it will broaden the
nurse's understanding of other people's jobs. 3. Nursing standards of care are different in the
"real world" situation than they are in a theoretical situation explained in nursing school. 4. Role
stress can be decreased by receiving clear and consistent information about expectations of the
new role. - Correct answer ✔✔ 4
Which option best describes the major emphasis of the approach traditionally taken by
physicians in their relationship with clients? 1. Caring 2. Communication 3. Clinical, biological 4.
Behavioral science - Correct answer ✔✔ 3
Which option best defines professional self-concept? 1. Being the physician's handmaiden. 2.
Achievement of Benner's levels of proficiency. 3. The set of beliefs held true as a result of
professional socialization. 4. The belief in one's own personal worth as a result of family culture.
- Correct answer ✔✔ 3
Which coping skill would be helpful as a strategy for stress reduction and time management? 1.
Avoid being assigned to committees at work. 2. Delegate only when it is absolutely necessary. 3.
Attend a support group to help give up the need for perfection. 4. Learn to use communication
skills to win conflicts at work. - Correct answer ✔✔ 3
The nursing instructor is analyzing the students in the clinical area to determine the level of
doctrinal conversion process according to Davis. When analyzing these students in which order
should the instructor make this analysis? 1. Stable internalization 2. Initial innocence work 3.
Increasing role simulation 4. Provisional internalization 5. Psyching out and role simulation 6.
Labeled recognition of incongruity - Correct answer ✔✔ 2,6,5,3,4,1
Which organization published a 1965 position paper that identified associate degree nurses as
"technical nurses"? 1. The American Medical Association 2. The American Nurses Association 3.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing 4. The National League for Nursing - Correct
answer ✔✔ 2
The student nurse is using Pavelko’s work to support the argument that nursing is a profession.
Which criteria should this student investigate as related to nursing? (Select all that apply.) 1.
Relevance to social values 2. A code of ethics 3. Theory 4. Individual identity 5. Abstract
knowledge - Correct answer ✔✔ 1,2,3,5
Which option best describes discipline as it applies to nursing? 1. The discipline of nursing refers
to autonomy of nursing practice. 2. The discipline of nursing is nursing's distinct body of
knowledge. 3. The discipline of nursing is nursing's standards of practice. 4. The discipline of
nursing refers to nursing's code of ethics. - Correct answer ✔✔ 2
What is the only major discipline that does not require its members to hold at least a
baccalaureate degree in order to be licensed?
1. Nursing
2. Medicine
3. Physical therapy
4. Dentistry - Correct answer ✔✔ 1
What is the issue most central to the controversy over level of entry into professional nursing?
1. Professional title 2. Reimbursement for services 3. Definition of a profession 4. Cost of tuition
- Correct answer ✔✔ 3
,The newly licensed nurse is modeling clinical actions and decisions after nurses who have
worked on the unit for many years. In which activity is this nurse engaging? 1. Socialization 2.
Ethics discrimination 3. Sanctioning 4. Norming - Correct answer ✔✔ 1
The newly licensed nurse committed a clinical error and was sanctioned by the unit manager.
What is the purpose of a sanction? 1. Enforcement of norms 2. Documentation of wrongdoing
3. Development of leader-follower leveling 4. Externalization of ethics - Correct answer ✔✔ 1
The newly licensed nurse finds many inconsistencies between what was taught in nursing school
and what occurs in the practice setting. How is this situation likely to affect this nurse's
socialization into nursing practice? 1. It probably won't have much effect. 2. It may hinder
socialization. 3. It will make the new graduate a better nurse. 4. It will force the nurse to
socialize more quickly. - Correct answer ✔✔ 2
How does a return to school for a baccalaureate degree affect socialization of practicing nurses?
1. It has little effect. 2. These nurses regress in socialization back to the pre-nursing levels. 3.
These nurses experience resocialization in many ways. 4. Resocialization does not occur until
the degree is completed. - Correct answer ✔✔ 3
One model of professional socialization consists of three stages: Stage 1, proficiency in specific
tasks; Stage 2, attachment to significant others in the work environment; and Stage 3,
internalization of the values of the professional group and adoption of behaviors it prescribes.
Who developed this model? 1. Simpson 2. Hinshaw 3. Davis 4. Benner - Correct answer ✔✔ 1
The first-semester nursing student expresses concern that staff actions in the clinical setting do
not reflect the same standards being taught in nursing classes. Which stage of Davis's model
does this represent? 1. Initial innocence 2. Labeled recognition of incongruity 3. Role simulation
4. Provisional internalization - Correct answer ✔✔ 2
The newly licensed nurse is experiencing reality shock related to first employment as a nurse.
Which socialization model should this nurse investigate for information on coping with this
issue? 1. Hinshaw 2. Davis 3. Kramer 4. Simpson - Correct answer ✔✔ 3
,What are Patricia Benner's five levels of proficiency in nursing? 1. Student, graduate, clinical
specialist, practitioner, clinician. 2. Pre-professional, technical, professional, advanced, expert. 3.
Novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, expert. 4. Student, staff nurse, manager,
supervisor, director - Correct answer ✔✔ 3
Which element of a role is described as how the person assuming the role believes he or she
should behave in the role? 1. Performed role 2. Ideal role 3. Perceived role 4. Provision role -
Correct answer ✔✔ 3
The newly licensed nurse has theoretical knowledge and technical skill abilities but has difficulty
working within the constraints of the nursing unit. What issue associated with role development
does this situation exemplify? 1. Sending 2. Role formation 3. Reality shock 4. Mastery - Correct
answer ✔✔ 3
Which term is used to describe the process by which a person assumes or develops a new role?
1. Norm validation 2. Role transition 3. Cognitive dissonance 4. Role incumbent - Correct answer
✔✔ 2
What determinants form the boundaries for nursing roles? (Select all that apply.) 1. Education
and licensure 2. Nursing practice 3. Standards of nursing practice 4. Nurse practice acts 5. Codes
of ethics - Correct answer ✔✔ 2,3,4,5
What is true of standards of nursing practice? 1. They are written by the American Medical
Association. 2. They outline the minimal care expected by patients. 3. They affect only the
nurse-patient relationship. 4. They define the nurse's professional legal obligations. - Correct
answer ✔✔ 4
The nurse manager is concerned that the nursing staff is experiencing role stress related to
higher acuity of clients. What is one way in which this manager could address this issue? 1.
Encourage supportive relationships among the staff nurses. 2. Advocate for longer length of stay
for these higher acuity clients. 3. Limit the number of high-acuity clients that can be admitted to
, the unit. 4. Create a structured management system with no room for individual variance. -
Correct answer ✔✔ 1
A newly licensed nurse was previously employed as a unit secretary on the same unit where he
now works as a staff nurse. This role transition is causing the nurse to experience stress. What
information about role stress and transition would be most helpful for this nurse to consider? 1.
Role stress is limited to newly licensed nurses and won't continue after the first year of
employment. 2. Taking on multiple roles on the unit will be helpful, as it will broaden the
nurse's understanding of other people's jobs. 3. Nursing standards of care are different in the
"real world" situation than they are in a theoretical situation explained in nursing school. 4. Role
stress can be decreased by receiving clear and consistent information about expectations of the
new role. - Correct answer ✔✔ 4
Which option best describes the major emphasis of the approach traditionally taken by
physicians in their relationship with clients? 1. Caring 2. Communication 3. Clinical, biological 4.
Behavioral science - Correct answer ✔✔ 3
Which option best defines professional self-concept? 1. Being the physician's handmaiden. 2.
Achievement of Benner's levels of proficiency. 3. The set of beliefs held true as a result of
professional socialization. 4. The belief in one's own personal worth as a result of family culture.
- Correct answer ✔✔ 3
Which coping skill would be helpful as a strategy for stress reduction and time management? 1.
Avoid being assigned to committees at work. 2. Delegate only when it is absolutely necessary. 3.
Attend a support group to help give up the need for perfection. 4. Learn to use communication
skills to win conflicts at work. - Correct answer ✔✔ 3
The nursing instructor is analyzing the students in the clinical area to determine the level of
doctrinal conversion process according to Davis. When analyzing these students in which order
should the instructor make this analysis? 1. Stable internalization 2. Initial innocence work 3.
Increasing role simulation 4. Provisional internalization 5. Psyching out and role simulation 6.
Labeled recognition of incongruity - Correct answer ✔✔ 2,6,5,3,4,1
