CONTEMPORARY NURSING LATEST EXAMS
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔How did the War in Iraq and Afghanistan affect health care? - ✔✔improved inital
care in the field prevents more death and increased the number of live soldiers with
serious injuries ( missing limbs, PTSD, neurological deficits)
✔✔How did the Johnson & Johnson campaign help nurses? - ✔✔It enhanced their
image and improved recruitment
✔✔How is genetics a technological development? - ✔✔genomics, epigenetic, and
pharmacogenetics will shape the foreseeable future of healthcare and nursing practice
✔✔How is Biomedical a technological development? - ✔✔nurses take responsibility for
monitoring and responding to data generated by complex machines or implantable
devices
✔✔How is Information a technological development? - ✔✔Nurses assume responsibility
for data entry and retrieval using computer-based applications to process information
✔✔Knowledge - ✔✔"technology of the mind" involves the use of computer systems to
transform info into knowledge and generate new knowledge
, ✔✔What are internal causes of nursing shortage? - ✔✔salary issues, long hours,
increased responsibilty for unlicensed workers, too little authority for RNs
✔✔What are external causes of nursing shortage? - ✔✔changes in demand for nurses,
increasing age of population and nurses, alternative career options for women
✔✔Why is it important to define nursing? - ✔✔It gives it a purpose and function,
differentiate nursing from other health occupations, and influences health policy
✔✔True or False... the definition of nursing is universally accepted - ✔✔true
✔✔Who focused on defining nursing that focused on the interpersonal relationship
between nurse and patient? - ✔✔Hildegard Peplau
✔✔How did Dortha Orem define nursing? - ✔✔it hinged on the belief that nurses should
do for a person only those things the person cannot do without assistance
✔✔Where are nurses employed? - ✔✔Hospitals, nursing home facilities, offices of
physicians, outpatient health services, schools, government, etc.
✔✔What percent of licesned RNs work full time? - ✔✔65%
✔✔Which is the primary worksite for RNs? - ✔✔Hospital
✔✔How could the influence of nursing become more powerful? - ✔✔A larger majority of
nurses joined the ANA to give a voice for nursing
✔✔What is the overarching goal of nursing education? - ✔✔to teach you to think like a
nurse, to see the world of healthcare through the lens of nursing, and to response to the
effect of both educational and clinical experiences
✔✔What is professional socialization? - ✔✔Absorbing and assimilating the culture of
nursing, its rites, rituals, and valued behaviors
✔✔What are examples of formal socialization? - ✔✔Classroom lectures, assignments,
lab experiences, and new vocabulary
✔✔What are examples of informal socialization? - ✔✔lessons that occur incidentally
such as unplanned observations, participating in a student nurse association, and
hearing nurses discuss patient care
✔✔What is more powerful informal or formal socialization? - ✔✔Informal
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔How did the War in Iraq and Afghanistan affect health care? - ✔✔improved inital
care in the field prevents more death and increased the number of live soldiers with
serious injuries ( missing limbs, PTSD, neurological deficits)
✔✔How did the Johnson & Johnson campaign help nurses? - ✔✔It enhanced their
image and improved recruitment
✔✔How is genetics a technological development? - ✔✔genomics, epigenetic, and
pharmacogenetics will shape the foreseeable future of healthcare and nursing practice
✔✔How is Biomedical a technological development? - ✔✔nurses take responsibility for
monitoring and responding to data generated by complex machines or implantable
devices
✔✔How is Information a technological development? - ✔✔Nurses assume responsibility
for data entry and retrieval using computer-based applications to process information
✔✔Knowledge - ✔✔"technology of the mind" involves the use of computer systems to
transform info into knowledge and generate new knowledge
, ✔✔What are internal causes of nursing shortage? - ✔✔salary issues, long hours,
increased responsibilty for unlicensed workers, too little authority for RNs
✔✔What are external causes of nursing shortage? - ✔✔changes in demand for nurses,
increasing age of population and nurses, alternative career options for women
✔✔Why is it important to define nursing? - ✔✔It gives it a purpose and function,
differentiate nursing from other health occupations, and influences health policy
✔✔True or False... the definition of nursing is universally accepted - ✔✔true
✔✔Who focused on defining nursing that focused on the interpersonal relationship
between nurse and patient? - ✔✔Hildegard Peplau
✔✔How did Dortha Orem define nursing? - ✔✔it hinged on the belief that nurses should
do for a person only those things the person cannot do without assistance
✔✔Where are nurses employed? - ✔✔Hospitals, nursing home facilities, offices of
physicians, outpatient health services, schools, government, etc.
✔✔What percent of licesned RNs work full time? - ✔✔65%
✔✔Which is the primary worksite for RNs? - ✔✔Hospital
✔✔How could the influence of nursing become more powerful? - ✔✔A larger majority of
nurses joined the ANA to give a voice for nursing
✔✔What is the overarching goal of nursing education? - ✔✔to teach you to think like a
nurse, to see the world of healthcare through the lens of nursing, and to response to the
effect of both educational and clinical experiences
✔✔What is professional socialization? - ✔✔Absorbing and assimilating the culture of
nursing, its rites, rituals, and valued behaviors
✔✔What are examples of formal socialization? - ✔✔Classroom lectures, assignments,
lab experiences, and new vocabulary
✔✔What are examples of informal socialization? - ✔✔lessons that occur incidentally
such as unplanned observations, participating in a student nurse association, and
hearing nurses discuss patient care
✔✔What is more powerful informal or formal socialization? - ✔✔Informal
