Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Chapter 26 - CORRECT ANSWER - Contemporary nursing roles in career opportunities
Nurse (RN) - CORRECT ANSWER - *Coordinator of the team
*Take licensure examinations
*Able to obtain specialty certifications for advance skills and/or advance degrees
*Use the nursing process in client care
Physician (MD or DO) - CORRECT ANSWER - *Leader of the team.
*Diagnoses and prescribes treatment interventions for clients.
*MD-Medical doctors.
*DO- Doctor Osteopathy
*Complete four year of medical school and board examinations
*Able to complete postgraduate training (internship, residency, and fellowship training).
*Complete Licensing examinations
Pharmacist (RPh or PharmD) - CORRECT ANSWER - *Provides drug therapy
information
*Drug information services to client
*Healthcare staff education
*Dispense medications
*Monitors adverse drug reaction
*Consultative services
* Complete bachelors, internship, Licensing board examinations
* In some states a Dr. degree is now a educational requirement for entering practice
,Physician assistant (PA) - CORRECT ANSWER - Words under supervision MD or DO
Performance assessment procedures or protocols
Complete a bachelorette with a specialized training (usually two years)
State licensure
Dietitian (RD or LD) - CORRECT ANSWER - Provides nutritional therapy
Activities involve both client and family in dietary assessment and teaching, identifying
resources for purchase and preparation and identifying areas of food-drug interactions.
Bachelorette degree from accredited nutrition or food service administration program
National board examinations
May complete state licensure and advance preparation
Physical therapist (PT) - CORRECT ANSWER - Attends client's needs for movement
Assess physical strength and mobility
Plans of strengthening exercises
Identify assistive devices needed
May be an expert in area of wound care
Basic bachelor degree in physical therapy National examination
Speech and language pathologist (SLP) - CORRECT ANSWER - Assist clients
communicatively impaired by intervening in speech language
Treatment of swallowing disorders
Master's from accredited school
A one yea fellowship
National certifying examinations
Occupational therapist (OT) - CORRECT ANSWER - Assist and teach clients to become
independent in activities of daily living (bathing, eating...)
,Once self-care goals have been met, he helps clients perform daily responsibilities of caring for a
home and/or returning to work Completion of occupational therapy program of study at
bachelorette or master degree level complete
Respiratory therapist (RT) - CORRECT ANSWER - Maintenance of clients airway and
respiratory equipment used for diagnosis and therapy of respiratory disorders
Assessment, aerosolized medication, sputum sampling and mixed venous blood sampling,
pulmonary function testing, sleep studies
Program of study
Take national certifying examination
Social worker - CORRECT ANSWER - Address psychosocial needs of the clients about
community resources
financial counseling
crisis intervention
abuse and neglect reporting
bachelor preparation in the field
may pursue advanced degrees
Chaplain or pastoral representative - CORRECT ANSWER - Spiritual and emotional
needs
Sacramental ministry
Liturgical celebrations
do not have to share the same religion as the client, must recognizedifferences among religions
multicultural, multi faith
Advanced practice nurse (APN) - CORRECT ANSWER - Includes nurse practitioners
(NPs), certified nurse midwives (CNMs), certified register nurse (NPs), certified registered nurse
anesthetist (CRNAs), clinical nurse specialist (CNSs)
They all make independent and collaborativehealth care decisions and engage in active practice
as expert clinicians Prepare by Masters level education
, Responsable for health promotion, assessment, diagnosis, prescription of medications
The patient protection and affordable care act (PPACA) - CORRECT ANSWER -
Authorized a grant program that funds community-based nurse- managed health centers and is
operated by advanced practice nurses
Nurse practitioner (general) - CORRECT ANSWER - Advanced practice of specialty
areas (emergency, family, mental health ...)
Assess , diagnoses and manages medical and nursing problems.
Health promotion for disease prevention is the emphasis of their practice
Manage acute and chronic diseases
Play a key role in expansion of healthcare services under PPACA
Able to practice without physician oversight
(Can set up individual practices)
Nurse practitioner (job responsibilities) - CORRECT ANSWER - Conducting physical
examinations, prescribing pharmacologic agents, treatments and therapies for the management of
client conditions
Serve as primary care provider and consultant
Have advance education with emphasis on physiology and pharmacology
Clinical nurse specialist - CORRECT ANSWER - Process expertise in a defined area for a
selected client population ( oncology, pediatric, psychiatric mental health)
Management of human responses to actual or potential health problems
Expert clinician, educator, consultant, researcher and administrator.
Monitors in the care of clients and collaborates with physicians