Interpersonal Relationships – 9th Edition (Arnold) – Professional Communication Skills for Nurses – Test Bank 2025 – GRADED A+

TEST BANK INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR NURSES
9TH EDITION

,CH 1: Theory Based Perspectives and Contemporary
DynamicsArnold: Interpersonal Relationships, 9th Edition


MULTIPLE CHOICE



1. When describing nursing to a group of nursing students, the nursing instructor lists all of thefollo
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wing characteristics of nursing except
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a. historically nursing is as old as mankind. s s s s s s


b. nursing was originally practiced informally by religious orders dedicated to care ofthe
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sick.
c. nursing was later practiced in the home by female caregivers with no formaledu
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cation.
d. nursing has always been identifiable as a distinct occupation.
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ACCURATE ANSWER:-A s




Hypothesis:-
>>>Historically, nursing is as old as mankind. Originally practiced informally by religious orders de
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dicated to care of the sick and later in the home by female caregivers with noformal education, nursin
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g was not identifiable as a distinct occupation until the 1854 Crimean war. There, Florence Nightinga
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le‘s Notes on Nursing introduced the world to the functional rolesof professional nursing and the need
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for formal education.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension s s




REF: p.1TOP: Step of the Nursing Process: All phasesMSC: Client Needs: Psychosocial Integr
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ity

2. The nursing profession‘s firstnursing attendant researcher, who served as an early advocate forhigh-
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quality care and used statistical data to document the need for handwashing in preventing infection,
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was
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b. Martha Rogers. s


c. Hildegard Peplau. s


d. Florence Nightingale. s




ACCURATE ANSWER:-D s




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quality care, Florence Nightingale‘s use of statistical data to document the need for handwashing i
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n preventing infection marks her as theprofession‘s firstnursing attendant researcher.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge s s


REF: p.1TOP: Step of the Nursing Process: Al
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l phases
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MSC: Client Needs: Management of Care
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3. Today, professional nursing education begins at the
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d. administrative level. s




ACCURATE ANSWER:-A s




Hypothesis:-
>>>Today, professional nursing education begins at the undergraduate level, with agrowing number
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ofnursing attendants choosing graduate studies to support differentiated practice roles and/or researc
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h opportunities.nursing attendants are prepared to function as advanced practicenursing attendant pr
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actitioners, administrators, and educators. s s s




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REF: p.2TOP: Step of the Nursing Process: Al s s s s s s s s


l phases
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MSC: Client Needs: Management of Care
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4. Nursing‘s metaparadigm, or worldview, distinguishes the nursing profession from other discipline
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s and emphasizes its unique functional characteristics. The four key concepts that formthe foundatio
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n for all nursing theories are
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b. respect, integrity, honesty, and advocacy. s s s s


c. person, environment, health, and nursing. s s s s


d. nursing, teaching, caring, and health promotion. s s s s s




ACCURATE ANSWER:-C s




Hypothesis:-
>>>Individual nursing theories represent different interpretations of the phenomenonof nursing, but
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central constructs—person, environment, health, and nursing—
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are found in all theories and models. They are referred to as nursing‘s metaparadigm.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge s s


REF: p.2TOP: Step of the Nursing Process: Al s s s s s s s s


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MSC: Client Needs: Management of Care
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5. When admitting a client to the medical-surgical unit, thenursing attendant asks the client about cultural
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issues. Thenursingattendant is demonstrating use of the concept of
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a. person.
b. environment.
c. health.
d. nursing.

ACCURATE ANSWER:-B s




Hypothesis:-
>>>The concept of environment includes all cultural, developmental, and social determinants that inf
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luence a client‘s health perceptions and behavior. A person is defined as therecipient of
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nursing care, having unique bio-psycho-
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social and spiritual dimensions. The word health derivesfrom the word whole. Health is a multidimen
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sional concept, having physical, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual characte
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ristics. The World Health Organization (WHO, 1946) defines health as ―a state of complete physical,
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mental, social well-
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being, not merelythe absence of disease or infirmity.‖ Nursing includes the promotion of health, preve
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, ntionof illness, and the care of ill, disabled, and dying people.
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