Concept 39: Professional Identity – Nursing Study Guide with
Key Terms, Concept Summary, and Review Questions from
Giddens 2nd Edition With Correct Answers||Latest
Version!!!Graded A+
The scope of professional nursing practice is determined by the rules
promulgated by which organization?
a. American Nurses' Association (ANA)
b. Institute of Medicine (IOM)
c. State Board of Nursing
d. State Nursing Association
C
Professional nursing practice is regulated by each state's Board of
Nursing. The ANA is the professional organization of registered
nursing in the United States and may influence, but it does not
regulate. The IOM collaborated with the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation to improve the fractured health care system in the United
States, and it makes recommendations, not rules. The state nursing
associations are state organizations of the ANA and may collaborate
with the public and boards of nursing to promote nursing rules which
improve health care.
A new registered nurse asks the registered nurse (RN) preceptor what
could be done to become more professional. What is the preceptor’s
best response?
a. “Attend nursing educational meetings.”
b. “Listen to other nurses.”
c. “Read the agency newsletter.”
d. “Pass the licensing exam.”
A
pg. 1
,Knowledge and commitment are essential components of
professionalism. Attending nursing educational meetings can promote
collaborative learning with peers and maintenance of competence in
an ever-changing health care environment. Listening can promote
professionalism, and communication is certainly a component of
professionalism; however, there is also a social sense to listening, and
without the educational/learning component, this is not the best
answer. An agency newsletter could include information about
professional opportunities, but it is not the best answer. The new nurse
would have already passed the licensing exam, the legal requirement
to be considered a nurse.
The qualities of leadership, clinical expertise and judgment,
mentorship, and lifelong learning would best describe which type of
nurse?
a. Administrator
b. Certified nurse specialist
c. Practitioner
d. Professional
D
The qualities listed are those of a professional nurse. The other
options are all nurses who may have these qualities, but the focus of
their title includes qualities not essential for the professional nurse.
The administrator would have management qualities; the clinical
nurse specialist would have specialty area knowledge; and the
practitioner would meet legal requirements as a health care provider.
The American Nurses' Association (ANA) outlines expectations of the
nursing profession in which type of documentation?
a. Gallup poll
b. Goldman report
c. Social Policy Statement
pg. 2
, d. Social identity theory
C
The ANA's Nursing's Social Policy Statement outlines expectations of
nurses. The national Gallup poll has found nursing to be one of the
most trusted professions for their honesty and ethical standards almost
every year, but it does not outline expectations. Emma Goldman was a
radical anarchist nurse who advocated and cared for indigent women
in New York. She demonstrated the expectations of a professional
nurse. Social identity theory posits that social identity is derived from
group membership and that most people work to attain a positive
social identity, and it not specific to nursing.
What nursing recommendations are published in the Institute of
Medicine (IOM’s) report The future of nursing: Leading change,
advancing health?
a.Teach, advocate, assess, and nurture.
b.Should have a graduate degree to practice.
c.Diagnose and recommend treatments.
d.Must have continuing education.
A
Professional nurses teach, advocate, assess, and nurture. The IOM
recommends that 80% of nurses have a minimum baccalaureate
degree (not graduate degree) by 2020. Physicians diagnose and
recommend treatments, and nurses provide the majority of these
treatments. Lifelong learning is recommended, and some, not all,
states require continuing education.
Nursing demonstrates dedication to improving public health through
which avenue?
a. Changing health care standards
b. Legal regulations
pg. 3
Key Terms, Concept Summary, and Review Questions from
Giddens 2nd Edition With Correct Answers||Latest
Version!!!Graded A+
The scope of professional nursing practice is determined by the rules
promulgated by which organization?
a. American Nurses' Association (ANA)
b. Institute of Medicine (IOM)
c. State Board of Nursing
d. State Nursing Association
C
Professional nursing practice is regulated by each state's Board of
Nursing. The ANA is the professional organization of registered
nursing in the United States and may influence, but it does not
regulate. The IOM collaborated with the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation to improve the fractured health care system in the United
States, and it makes recommendations, not rules. The state nursing
associations are state organizations of the ANA and may collaborate
with the public and boards of nursing to promote nursing rules which
improve health care.
A new registered nurse asks the registered nurse (RN) preceptor what
could be done to become more professional. What is the preceptor’s
best response?
a. “Attend nursing educational meetings.”
b. “Listen to other nurses.”
c. “Read the agency newsletter.”
d. “Pass the licensing exam.”
A
pg. 1
,Knowledge and commitment are essential components of
professionalism. Attending nursing educational meetings can promote
collaborative learning with peers and maintenance of competence in
an ever-changing health care environment. Listening can promote
professionalism, and communication is certainly a component of
professionalism; however, there is also a social sense to listening, and
without the educational/learning component, this is not the best
answer. An agency newsletter could include information about
professional opportunities, but it is not the best answer. The new nurse
would have already passed the licensing exam, the legal requirement
to be considered a nurse.
The qualities of leadership, clinical expertise and judgment,
mentorship, and lifelong learning would best describe which type of
nurse?
a. Administrator
b. Certified nurse specialist
c. Practitioner
d. Professional
D
The qualities listed are those of a professional nurse. The other
options are all nurses who may have these qualities, but the focus of
their title includes qualities not essential for the professional nurse.
The administrator would have management qualities; the clinical
nurse specialist would have specialty area knowledge; and the
practitioner would meet legal requirements as a health care provider.
The American Nurses' Association (ANA) outlines expectations of the
nursing profession in which type of documentation?
a. Gallup poll
b. Goldman report
c. Social Policy Statement
pg. 2
, d. Social identity theory
C
The ANA's Nursing's Social Policy Statement outlines expectations of
nurses. The national Gallup poll has found nursing to be one of the
most trusted professions for their honesty and ethical standards almost
every year, but it does not outline expectations. Emma Goldman was a
radical anarchist nurse who advocated and cared for indigent women
in New York. She demonstrated the expectations of a professional
nurse. Social identity theory posits that social identity is derived from
group membership and that most people work to attain a positive
social identity, and it not specific to nursing.
What nursing recommendations are published in the Institute of
Medicine (IOM’s) report The future of nursing: Leading change,
advancing health?
a.Teach, advocate, assess, and nurture.
b.Should have a graduate degree to practice.
c.Diagnose and recommend treatments.
d.Must have continuing education.
A
Professional nurses teach, advocate, assess, and nurture. The IOM
recommends that 80% of nurses have a minimum baccalaureate
degree (not graduate degree) by 2020. Physicians diagnose and
recommend treatments, and nurses provide the majority of these
treatments. Lifelong learning is recommended, and some, not all,
states require continuing education.
Nursing demonstrates dedication to improving public health through
which avenue?
a. Changing health care standards
b. Legal regulations
pg. 3
