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Catalano Nursing Now 8th Edition Test Bank| All Chapter 1-28 covered | Complete Guide with Questions and Correct Answers | Rated A+ Unit 1: The Growth of Nursing 1: The Development of a Profession 2: Historical Perspectives 3: Theories and Models of Nursing 4: The Process of Educating Nurses 5: The Evolution of Licensure, Certification, and Nursing Organizations Unit 2: Making the Transition to Professional 6: Ethics in Nursing 7: Bioethical Issues 8: Nursing Law and Liability 9: Reality Shock in the Workplace Unit 3: Leading and Managing 10: Leadership, Followership, and Management 11: Communication, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution 12: Understanding and Dealing Successfully With Difficult Behavior 13: Health-Care Delivery Systems 14: Ensuring Quality Care 15: Delegation in Nursing 16: Incivility: The Antithesis of Caring 17: Nursing Informatics 18: The Politically Active Nurse Unit 4: Issues in Delivering Care 19: The Health-Care Debate: Best Allocation of Resources for the Best Outcomes 20: Spirituality and Health Care 21: Diversity 22: Impact of the Aging Population on Health-Care Delivery 23: Client Education: A Moral Imperative 24: Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice 25: Integrative Health Practices 26: Preparing for and Responding to Disasters 27: Developments in Current Nursing Practice 28: NCLEX: What You Need to Know Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing Questions 1. Nurses are often the primary, and frequently the only, defendants named when errors are made that result in injury to the client. This is due to which concept associated with the nursing profession? 1. Autonomy 2. Accountability 3. Precision 4. Specificity Answer: 2. If a nurse uses information from research as the basis for making decisions about providing care, this nurse is engaging in which type of practice? 1. Client-based practice 2. Physician-based practice 3. Evidence-based practice 4. Provider-based practice Answer: 3. Today’s nurses are often found in remote and often hostile areas, providing care for the sick and dying, working 12-hour shifts, being on call, and working rotating shifts. This is why nursing is universally known as which type of profession? 1. Altruistic 2. Synergistic 3. Optimistic 4. Pragmatic Answer: 4. With Florence Nightingale’s radically new idea about a separate educational setting for nurses, the nursing profession took its first steps toward which of the following? 1. Autonomy 2. Accountability 3. Precision 4. Specificity Answer: 5. If an advanced practice nurse is prepared to provide direct client care in primary care settings, focusing on health promotion, illness prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of common health problems, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role? 1. Nurse practitioner 2. Certified nurse midwife 3. Clinical nurse specialist 4. Case manager Answer: 6. If an advanced practice nurse focuses on the care of pregnant women before, during, and after the birth process, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role? 1. Nurse practitioner 2. Certified nurse midwife 3. Clinical nurse specialist 4. Case manager Answer: 7. If an advanced practice nurse is comfortable working in high-tech environments with seriously ill individuals and their families, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role? 1. Nurse practitioner 2. Certified nurse midwife 3. Clinical nurse specialist 4. Case manager Answer: 8. If an advanced practice nurse functions to coordinate services for clients with high-risk or long-term health problems who require access to the full continuum of health-care services, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role? 1. Nurse practitioner 2. Certified nurse midwife 3. Clinical nurse specialist 4. Case manager Answer: 9. If a nurse taking action to perform the activities that promote patient care, this nurse is acting with which of the following? 1. Power 2. Control 3. Authority 4. Empowerment Answer: 10. Although the client likely would prefer to avoid taking medications, tolerating uncomfortable treatments, and participating in demanding activities, he or she cooperates because the nurse has a good relationship with the client; this is an example of which type of power? 1. Referent power 2. Expert power 3. Coercive power 4. Legitimate power Answer: 11. By demonstrating their knowledge of the client’s condition, recent laboratory tests, and other elements that are vital to the client’s recovery, nurses demonstrate which type of power? 1. Referent power 2. Expert power 3. Coercive power 4. Legitimate power Answer: 12. If a nurse employs the underlying principles in the process of behavior modification, the nurse is utilizing which type of power? 1. Referent power 2. Expert power 3. Coercive power 4. Power of rewards Answer: Catalano Nursing Now 8e 13. If a nurse uses which type of power, it can destroy therapeutic and personal relationships, and it can also be considered unethical and even illegal in certain situations? 1. Referent power 2. Expert power 3. Coercive power 4. Power of rewards Answer: 14. Nursing decisions made about client care can come only from individuals who have which source of power? 1. Referent power 2. Expert power 3. Coercive power 4. Legitimate power Answer: 15. The first, and certainly the most important, way in which nurses can gain power in all areas is through which action? 1. Professional unity 2. Political activity 3. Accountability and professionalism 4. Networking Answer: Chapter 2: Historical Perspectives Questions 1. In ancient civilizations, starting from about 3500 B.C., health care was intertwined with religion. Which religion emphasized balance and driving demons out of the ailing body? 1. Taoism 2. Hinduism 3. Buddhism 4. Catholicism Answer: 2. Which war caused more death and injury than any war in the history of the United States and dramatically increased the demand for nurses? 1. Civil War 2. Korean War 3. Vietnam War 4. Revolutionary War Answer: 3. World War II produced another nursing shortage and, in response, Congress passed which legislative act that shortened hospital-based diploma programs from 36 to 30 months? 1. HITECH Act 2. Bolton Act 3. Hill-Burton Act 4. EMTALA Catalano Page 2 of 19 Nursing Now 8e TB Answer: 4. For graduate nurses, which nursing symbol retains its significance as a symbol of the ideals and selfless devotion of Florence Nightingale? 1. Nursing cap 2. Nursing pin 3. Lamp 4. Coat of arms Answer: 5. Unlikely as it may seem, which nursing symbol can trace its origins to the heavy protective war shields used by soldiers as far back as the Greek and Roman Empires? 1. Nursing cap 2. Nursing pin 3. Lamp 4. Coat of arms Answer: 6. Which nursing symbol indicated that the student was now off probation and had earned the right to wear it during clinical rotations in the hospital? 1. Nursing cap 2. Nursing pin 3. Lamp 4. Coat of arms Answer: Catalano Page 3 of 19 Nursing Now 8e TB 7. At the height of her work in the war, which nursing leader supervised 125 nurses in several large hospitals and was recognized for her accomplishments by the Queen of England with an Order of Merit, the highest award given to English civilians? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Isabel Adams Hampton Robb 3. Lillian Wald 4. Lavinia Lloyd Dock Answer: 8. Which nursing leader helped develop the American Journal of Nursing, the first professional journal dedicated to the improvement of nursing, which is still the official journal of the American Nurses Association? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Isabel Adams Hampton Robb 3. Lillian Wald 4. Lavinia Lloyd Dock Answer: 9. Many child health and wellness programs in use today are based on the efforts of which nursing leader? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Isabel Adams Hampton Robb 3. Lillian Wald 4. Lavinia Lloyd Dock Answer: Catalano Page 4 of 19 Nursing Now 8e TB 10. When World War I was over, which nursing leader became a nursing educator, eventually serving as dean at the Yale School of Nursing? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Isabel Adams Hampton Robb 3. Lavinia Lloyd Dock 4. Annie Goodrich Answer: 11. Which nursing leader was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011 for being recognized as an internationally renowned nursing leader who transformed the profession of nursing and made health care more accessible to the general public? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Loretta C. Ford 3. Lavinia Lloyd Dock 4. Annie Goodrich Answer: 12. In general, travel nurse staffing companies require which standard that allows the nurses to meet any staffing requirements of individual facilities? 1. LVN 2. LPN 3. ADN 4. BSN Catalano Page 5 of 19 Nursing Now 8e TB 13. Which nursing leader noticed that many of her fellow students struggled to learn about all the medications that were becoming available and later wrote the first medication textbook for nurses? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Loretta C. Ford 3. Lavinia Lloyd Dock 4. Annie Goodrich Answer: 14. Which of the following focused on what we now call holistic-health practices, which included special diets, massage therapy, and rest to drive evil spirits from a body? 1. Hebrews 2. Buddhism 3. Roman Empire 4. Babylonian Empire Answer: 15. Which of the following developed quite an advanced system of medicine and a pharmacology that included more than 600 medications derived from herbs and plants? 1. Hebrews 2. Buddhism 3. Roman 4. Babylonian Chapter 3: Theories and Models of Nursing Questions 1. The nursing profession tends to use which term when attempting to explain apparent relationships between observed behaviors and their effects on a client’s health? 1. Model 2. Theory 3. Hypothesis 4. Evidence Answer: 2. Which of the following is a very important element in the Roy adaptation model because it provides baseline data about the client that the nurse obtains through assessment techniques? 1. Input 2. Output 3. Feedback 4. Throughput Answer: 3. Factors in the client’s past, such as personality characteristics, past experiences, religious beliefs, and social norms, that have an indirect effect on the client’s health status are referred to as which type of stimuli? 1. Focal stimuli 2. Contextual stimuli 3. Residual stimuli Catalano Page 2 of 22 Nursing Now 8e TB 4. Factual stimuli Answer: 4. The current widely accepted practice of establishing health-care goals for clients and directing client care to meet these goals has its origins in which model? 1. Roy adaptation model 2. Orem self-care model 3. King model of goal attainment 4. Watson model of human caring Answer: 5. Which element of the King model of goal attainment refers to a life situation in which perceivers and things perceived are encountered and entered into as active participants? 1. Action 2. Reaction 3. Interaction 4. Transaction Answer: ANSWERDONE.COM 6. According to which model, illness is the client’s inability to integrate life experiences and the failure to achieve full potential or inner harmony? 1. Roy adaptation model 2. Orem self-care model 3. King model of goal attainment 4. Watson model of human caring Catalano Page 3 of 22 Nursing Now 8e TB 7. According to the Johnson behavioral system model, nurturing and promoting self-image is the primary type of activity of which behavioral subsystem? 1. Security 2. Dependency 3. Taking in 4. Eliminative behavior Answer: 8. Select from the following the model in which the client-system’s boundaries are called lines of defense and resistance and may be represented graphically as a series of concentric circles that surround the basic core of the individual. 1. Orem self-care model 2. Neuman health-care systems model ANSWERDONE.COM 3. King model of goal attainment 4. Watson model of human caring Answer: 9. According to the Neuman health-care systems model, which type of stressors occur within the client and include physiological responses, psychological reactions, and internal thought processes? 1. Extrapersonal stressors 2. Interpersonal stressors 3. Intrapersonal stressors 4. Transpersonal stressors Catalano Page 4 of 22 Nursing Now 8e TB 10. According to the Neuman health-care system model, teaching clients about stress management, giving immunizations, and encouraging aerobic exercise to prevent heart disease are examples of which type of intervention? 1. Primary intervention 2. Secondary intervention 3. Tertiary intervention 4. Quaternary intervention Answer: 11. Teaching a client how to care for a colostomy bag at home after discharge from the hospital is an example of a nursing activity at which level? 1. Primary level 2. Secondary level 3. Tertiary level 4. Quaternary level Answer: ANSWERDONE.COM 12. Formulated in 1987, which model is widely used as the theoretical framework for research on prenatal care and pregnancy? 1. Parse model 2. Pender’s health promotion model 3. Swanson’s theory of caring 4. Orem self-care model Answer: Catalano Page 5 of 22 Nursing Now 8e TB 13. Although originally studied in the perinatal setting, which of the following has been adopted into many other health-care settings, including critical care, mental health, public health, hospice, gerontology, and oncology? 1. Parse model 2. Pender’s health promotion model 3. Swanson’s theory of caring 4. Orem self-care model Answer: 14. In which model is nursing an activity that helps the individual achieve and maintain an optimal level of behavior through the manipulation and regulation of the environment? 1. Parse model 2. Johnson behavioral system model ANSWERDONE.COM 3. Swanson’s theory of caring 4. Orem self-care model Answer: 15. The main concern in the development of which model was to balance the impersonal aspects of nursing care that are found in the technological and scientific aspects of practice with the personal and interpersonal elements that grow from a humanistic belief in life? 1. Watson model of human caring 2. Johnson behavioral system model 3. Swanson’s theory of caring 4. Orem self-care model Chapter 4: The Process of Educating Nurses Questions 1. Because of society’s demands for an increased level of safety and high-quality nursing care, nursing education institutions began using the competencies of which organization to develop the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competency model for nursing curricula? 1. American Nurses Association 2. The Joint Commission 3. Institute of Medicine 4. World Health Organization Answer: 2. Which type of nursing practice will always have an important place in any health-care system? ANSWERDONE.COM 1. Hospital-based acute care nursing practice 2. Hospital-based chronic care nursing practice 3. Community-based acute care nursing practice 4. Community-based chronic care nursing practice Answer: 3. In 1952, which organization assumed accrediting responsibilities for all schools of nursing? 1. American Nurses Association 2. National Nursing Accrediting Service 3. National League for Nursing 4. American Association of Colleges of Nursing Answer: Catalano Page 2 of 20 Nursing Now 8e TB 4. Which type of nursing program was developed by Mildred Montag as a short-term solution to the nursing shortage experienced after World War II? 1. Practical nursing programs 2. Associate degree nursing programs 3. Baccalaureate degree nursing programs 4. Licensed vocational nursing programs Answer: 5. Which nursing degree is now being considered as the terminal degree for advanced practice nurses? 1. Doctor of nursing science (DNSc) 2. Doctor of science in nursing (DSN) 3. Doctor of nursing (DN or ND) ANSWERDONE.COM 4. Doctor of nursing practice (DNP) Answer: 6. Which agency noted that poor communication and lack of teamwork among health-care professionals were major contributors to the increased number of medicine and other errors in the hospital setting? 1. American Nurses Association 2. The Joint Commission 3. Institute of Medicine 4. World Health Organization Answer: Catalano Page 3 of 20 Nursing Now 8e TB 7. Which model of interprofessional nursing education considers the current education system for health professionals as a “silo” where members interact only among themselves? 1. Medical home model 2. D’Amour and Oandasan model 3. World Health Organization model 4. Commission on Education of Health Care Professionals in the 21st Century model Answer: 8. To this day, which organization remains firmly committed to its stand that all nursing education should be housed in institutions of higher learning? 1. American Nurses Association 2. The Joint Commission 3. Institute of Medicine 4. World Health Organization Answer: 9. In the real world, which type of nurses are often required to provide care well outside their scope of practice, leaving them in legal limbo and vulnerable to lawsuits? 1. Registered nurses 2. Licensed practical nurses 3. Advanced practice nurses 4. Case managers Answer: Catalano Page 4 of 20 Nursing Now 8e TB 10. Which type of program allows nurses to upgrade their education and move from one educational level to another with relative ease by granting credit for previous coursework and experience and without loss of credits from previous education? 1. Ladder programs 2. Practical nursing programs 3. Associate degree nursing programs 4. Baccalaureate degree nursing programs Answer: 11. The advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) certification has become the recognized credential for nurses receiving which degree in a specialized expanded practice role? 1. Bachelor’s degree 2. Master’s degree ANSWERDONE.COM 3. Doctor of nursing practice degree 4. Doctor of nursing science degree Answer: 12. Which role of advanced practice nursing is a generalist with a master’s degree who can coordinate care for clients, use evidence-based practice in care, focus on quality improvement, and oversee risk management and client safety? 1. Clinical nurse specialist 2. Clinical nurse leader 3. Clinical registered nurse anesthetist 4. Rehabilitation nurse practitioner Answer: Catalano Page 5 of 20 Nursing Now 8e TB 13. Which terminal degree has been the gold standard for nursing education since the beginning of college-level nursing baccalaureate degrees? 1. PhD 2. DSN 3. DNSc 4. DNP Answer: 14. Which model of interprofessional nursing education takes the emphasis placed on primary care in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and expands it to all areas of health care? 1. Medical home model 2. D’Amour and Oandasan model 3. World Health Organization model ANSWERDONE.COM 4. Commission on Education of Health Care Professionals in the 21st Century model Answer: 15. Which type of skills have long been stressed by mental health nursing faculty as a key element in the treatment of psychiatric problems? 1. Critical thinking skills 2. Therapeutic relationship skills 3. Case management skills 4. Interdisciplinary skills Answer: Catalano Page 6 of 20 Nursing Now 8e TB Questions, Answers, and Rationales 1. Because of society’s demands for an increased level of safety and high-quality nursing care, nursing education institutions began using the competencies of which organization to develop the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competency model for nursing curricula? 1. American Nurses Association 2. The Joint Co ...

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,Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing

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Questions, Answers, and Rationales

1. Nurses are often the primary, and frequently the only, defendants named when errors are made

that result in injury to the client. This is due to which concept associated with the nursing

profession?


1. Autonomy

2. Accountability

3. Precision

4. Specificity

ANS: 2

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1. This is incorrect. The autonomous nature of the nursing profession has no impact

on nurses acting as defendants in court cases.

2. This is correct. Nurses must be accountable and demonstrate a high level of

responsibility for the care and services they provide.

3. This is incorrect. The precision in which nurses must practice has no impact on

nurses acting as defendants in court cases.

, 4. This is incorrect. The specificity in which nurses must practice has no impact on

nurses acting as defendants in court cases.




2. If a nurse uses information from research as the basis for making decisions about providing

care, this nurse is engaging in which type of practice?

1. Client-based practice

2. Physician-based practice

3. Evidence-based practice

4. Provider-based practice

ANS: 3

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Feedback

1. This is incorrect. Client-based care does not use information from research as the

basis for making decisions.

2. This is incorrect. Physician-based care does not use information from research as
the basis for making decisions.


3. This is correct. Evidence-based care uses information from research as the basis

for making decisions.

4. This is incorrect. Provider-based care does not use information from research as

the basis for making decisions.

, 3. Today’s nurses are often found in remote and often hostile areas, providing care for the sick

and dying, working 12-hour shifts, being on call, and working rotating shifts. This is why

nursing is universally known as which type of profession?


1. Altruistic

2. Synergistic

3. Optimistic
4. Pragmatic

ANS: 1

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1. This is correct.Nursing has beenviewed universally as an altruistic profession

composed of selfless individuals who placethe lives and well-being of their

clients above their personal safety.

2. This is incorrect. Nursing is not viewed universally as a synergistic profession.

3. This is incorrect.Nursing is not viewed universally as an optimistic profession.

4. This is incorrect.Nursing is not viewed universally as a pragmatic profession.

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4. With Florence Nightingale’s radically new idea abouta separateeducationalsetting for nurses,

the nursing profession took its first steps toward which of the following?

1. Autonomy

2. Accountability

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