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, Professional Nursing Concepts 5E – Test Bank
Finkelman_CH01-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. In the 1970s, which publication established the connection between social issues and the
role of the nurse?
a. The IOM Report on Medicine
b. The IOM Core Competencies
✓ c. Hospitals, Paternalism, and the Role of the Nurse
d. National Nursing Journal
2. What did Isabel Hampton Robb do as the first president of the American Nurses
Association?
a. Ensured that vulnerable populations were recognized by nurses
b. Wrote forceful editorials
c. Obtained medical care for mothers and babies in rural America
✓ d. Organized the nursing profession at the national level
3. How did the Industrial Revolution affect health care?
a. It brought many more caretakers into the workforce as doctors and nurses.
✓ b. It created crowded workplaces that were breeding grounds for disease.
c. It forced children to become independent at a younger age.
d. It brought about many new public health laws.
4. How did the 1948 Brown report on nursing education change the focus of nursing
education?
✓ a. Nursing schools began to view accreditation and standardization as necessary steps for success.
b. Nurses were then required to attend baccalaureate programs.
c. There was a movement toward hospital-based nursing schools.
d. The National League for Nursing was created in response to this report.
5. What does belonging to a professional nursing association do for the nurse?
a. It costs money and time.
✓ b. It allows nurses to be nationally/locally active and to improve their leadership skills.
c. It gives lobbyists more money to use in Washington, DC.
d. It helps nurses get jobs.
6. The standards of practice for the American Nurses Association (ANA) include which of the
following?
✓ a. Assessment
b. Crisis management
c. Data recording
, d. Rounding practices
7. What are the public's views of nursing and nurses are based on?
a. Relationships with other healthcare professionals
b. Word of mouth
✓ c. Personal experiences
d. Recommendation
8. Describe how Florence Nightingale influenced the nursing profession in the 1850s.
9. Describe the recommendations of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in
response to the health profession's level of diversity in 2004. Think about the diversity of the
healthcare workforce today. Has anything changed? If so, has it improved or worsened? Use
your own experiences in your description.
10. Describe how the definition of nursing has changed over time. What do you think has
allowed these definitions to change?
Finkelman_CH02-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. A knowledge worker uses which of the following when serving as a nurse?
a. Consistency
b. Empathy
✓ c. Critical thinking
d. Experience
2. Knowledge workers recognize that change is:
a. something to be avoided.
✓ b. inevitable in health care.
c. a barrier in many situations.
d. experienced mostly by patients.
3. Dichotomous thinking limits choices because it means someone is looking at an issue as
being:
✓ a. either good or bad.
b. partially right and partially wrong.
c. clearly correct.
d. unfounded.
4. What is the best response to the statement that medicine focuses on curing, and nursing on
caring?
a. This is an accurate statement.
b. This statement is simplistic.
✓ c. This statement adds conflict and creates difficulty in conversation.
d. This statement puts nurses in the key role of understanding patients holistically.
,5. Which of the following is one of the key issues identified by the American Nurses
Association (ANA) related to a nurse's knowledge base?
a. Leadership
b. Informatics
c. Research
✓ d. Health literacy
6. Which of the following is an example of a routine part of a nurse's work?
a. Recognizing a lab value that is dangerously low
✓ b. Taking blood pressure
c. Responding to an emergent situation
d. Paging the physician to discuss a patient's pain management
7. Which nursing role is becoming increasingly prominent?
a. Researcher
b. Change agent
✓ c. Entrepreneur
d. Manager
8. What term has been applied to the definition “making sense of a problem”?
✓ a. Sensemaking
b. Clinical reasoning
c. Intuition
d. Groupthink
9. Consider the definition of nursing developed by the American Nurses Association (ANA):
“the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and
injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and
advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations” (p. 43). Discuss
the meaning of any three of the following terms found in this definition: promotion of health,
health, prevention of illness and injury, illness, injury, diagnosis, treatment, advocacy.
10. Using your own experiences or those of one of the nursing leaders you have read about,
describe your personal definition of nursing.
Finkelman_CH03-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. What is one factor that leads to fewer new nurses entering the profession?
a. Lack of nursing jobs
✓ b. Lack of nursing faculty
c. Lack of nursing schools
d. Increase in nursing master's programs
2. What is the difference between training and education in nursing?
, a. Training focuses on self-discipline, responsibility, accountability, and self-mastery; education focuses on
fixed habits and skills.
b. Training is associated with Florence Nightingale's definition of nursing, and education is a more modern
term.
✓ c. Education focuses on self-discipline, responsibility, accountability, and self-mastery; training focuses
on fixed habits and skills.
d. Education is associated with physicians and medical degrees, and training is associated with nurses.
3. What has caused a decrease in diploma schools of nursing?
a. Some diploma programs have a weak curriculum.
b. There is not a decrease in these programs.
c. Some hospitals could not survive without these programs.
✓ d. Many programs have transitioned to degree programs.
4. Which of the following would be considered a practice that meets one of the five core
competencies suggested by the Institute of Medicine?
✓ a. Using evidence to support a change in bedside practice
b. Working individually as nurses to care for patients in the hospital
c. Avoiding the use of technology at the bedside to minimize complexity
d. Working to separate the nurse and the physician at the bedside
5. What is one way nursing schools are overcoming the barrier of decreased clinical settings?
a. Ensuring that programs are always run on a 9-month schedule
✓ b. Using simulation experiences to provide opportunities that students would get in the clinical setting
c. Hiring more clinical instructors
d. Decreasing the amount of clinical time necessary to graduate
6. The NCSBN strategic plan for 2020–2022 focuses on what strategic initiative, defined as
"promote agile regulatory systems for relevance and responsiveness to change”?
✓ a. Strategic Initiative A
b. Strategic Initiative B
c. Strategic Initiative C
d. Strategic Initiative D
7. True or False? The use of distance education in nursing is not very common at this point.
8. True or False? Accreditation is a voluntary process.
9. Describe how the Goldmark Report of 1918 impacted nursing education, and then describe
how this report affected your own experiences when applying to nursing school. What would
have been different if things had not changed?
10. Describe how self-directed learning is important for nursing in particular. Evaluate your
own ability to learn; what are your strengths and weaknesses, and how will this affect nursing
school for you?
,Finkelman_CH04-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. Which of the following is one of the main aspects of a nursing program?
a. Videos
b. Self-study
c. Journal research
✓ d. Didactic learning
2. A student listening to a lecture and making a connection to something he or she learned in
a clinical setting is an example of what?
a. Active listening
✓ b. Application
c. Didactic learning
d. Memorization
3. Professional socialization can best be described as which of the following?
a. A routine
b. A task
✓ c. A transition
d. A gathering
4. Two very important tools for success in nursing education are:
a. prioritization and time management.
b. concentration and prioritization.
✓ c. time management and organization.
d. organization and prioritization.
5. Which of the following is a major goal of reading in preparation for nursing classes?
✓ a. Memorization
b. Reviewing
c. Scanning
d. Speed reading
6. How is a nursing curriculum different from other types of curricula?
a. It requires studying.
✓ b. It is a continuum, and each course is meant to build on the previous one.
c. It is only clinical.
d. Faculty is less available to help students.
7. What makes simulation an effective method for developing clinical competency in nursing?
a. It provides real-life experience.
b. It only prepares the student for lab work.
✓ c. It gives the student a risk-free environment for guided practice.
d. It provides the best practice of bedside manner.
,8. Define “reality shock” in relation to nursing.
a. The shock that occurs when someone takes care of a patient for the first time
b. The shock of working in a team with physicians
✓ c. The shock of joining a nursing workforce with one view of the nursing profession and realizing an
entirely different view in real practice
d. The shock of graduating from nursing school and searching for a job
9. Which of the following is one of Kolb's learning styles?
a. Active experiences
b. Concrete conceptualization
✓ c. Reflective observation
d. Abstract experimentation
10. Describe a mentor you have had in your life. How has he or she prepared you for nursing
school? If you can't think of anyone in particular, describe your vision of an ideal mentor.
11. What does lifelong learning mean to you? How will you commit to this as a new nurse?
Finkelman_CH05-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of advocacy?
a. To persuade the patient on a particular issue
b. To tell the patient specifically what to do
✓ c. To “play the game” in the legislative arena
d. To discuss the needs of patients' families
2. What are the two main types of public policies?
a. Regulatory and advocacy
✓ b. Regulatory and allocative
c. Responsive and allocative
d. Responsive and regulatory
3. When physicians and other healthcare providers order tests and procedures to protect
themselves from lawsuits, which also increases costs, which type of medicine is this
considered?
✓ a. Defensive
b. Aggressive
c. Offensive
d. Protective
4. Which act established the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the two major government-run
healthcare reimbursement programs?
a. Public Health Act
✓ b. Social Security Act
, c. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
d. State Children's Health Insurance Program
5. True or False? Politics can affect public policies.
6. True or False? The United States is an excellent example of a country with a universal
healthcare system.
7. True or False? Politics is the process of influencing the authoritative allocation of abundant
resources.
8. Why is the cost of health care rising in the United States?
9. After reading the American Nurses Association agenda on health care and healthcare
reform, what do you think is most important for nurses to do moving forward?
10. Describe how nurses can be vital to the policy arena.
Finkelman_CH06-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. Ethical dilemmas occur when a nurse is:
✓ a. forced to select between two or more alternatives.
b. forced to select an ideal solution.
c. trying to make a decision that matches all relevant standards of care.
d. making a decision for the patient.
2. Which of the following is an example of Medicaid fraud?
a. Billing for patient care
b. Billing for services provided
c. Billing for 24 hours in a day
✓ d. Paying a kickback to someone who refers your services
3. Which of the following is an example of a nursing-related legal issue?
a. Administering an appropriate dose of narcotics at the right time to the right patient
✓ b. Restraining a patient without a physician's order
c. Documenting patient care in an ER
d. Taking care of a patient on suicide precautions
4. What is the law of private rights?
✓ a. Civil law
b. Criminal law
c. Good Samaritan law
d. Battery
5. Which of the following is an example of a confidentiality breach by a nurse?
, a. Telling the physician about a recent lab value
✓ b. Talking loudly on a mobile phone in a café about a patient
c. Discussing patient needs with the charge nurse
d. Telling a family advocate about a recent patient event
6. What legal term refers to a law that protects a healthcare professional from being sued
when providing emergency care outside a healthcare setting?
a. Emancipation
b. Doctrine of res ipsa loquitur
✓ c. Good Samaritan law
d. Battery
7. True or False? Healthcare organizations are more concerned with morals today than ever
before.
8. True or False? Rationing care in the United States means that not everyone can have
access to care because there is not enough to go around.
9. True or False? The ANA's code of ethics does not support the use of social media.
10. What ethical principle stands out the most to you in health care: autonomy, veracity,
beneficence, or justice? Describe this principle and explain why you find it so important in the
healthcare setting.
11. Define negligence. How can you avoid it as a nurse?
Finkelman_CH07-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. Which government body developed Healthy People 2030 ?
a. Department of Defense
b. Department of Health Promotion
✓ c. Department of Health and Human Services
d. Congress
2. What is the goal of the Healthy People 2030 ?
a. Identify chronic illness among Americans
✓ b. Develop programs to promote health and prevent illness
c. Identify international health concerns
d. Engage individual sectors to act solitarily
3. Using a primary care physician as the entry point in health care is an example of what type
of continuity of care?
a. Informational continuity
b. Management continuity
✓ c. Relational continuity
Important Notes
The file includes the complete test bank, organized chapter by chapter.
A sample of selected pages has been provided for preview.
All available appendices and Excel files (if included in the original resources) are
provided.
Quizzes, Midterm and final exams are included (if available in the original resources).
We continuously update our files to ensure you receive the latest and most accurate
editions.
New editions are added regularly – stay connected for updates!
⚠️Note on Answer Keys: If the answer key is not included within the chapter
questions, you will find the complete answers and solutions at the end of each
chapter.
✅ Why Buy From Us?
📚 Complete & organized chapter-by-chapter – no missing content, no guessing.
⚡ Instant digital delivery – get your file the moment you pay, no waiting.
📅 Always up to date – we track new editions so you always get the latest version.
💬 Friendly support – real humans ready to help, anytime you need us.
🔒 Safe & secure – thousands of satisfied students trust us every semester.
🛡️Our Guarantees
💰 Money-Back Guarantee: Not satisfied? We offer a full refund – no questions asked.
🔄 Wrong File? No Problem: Contact us and we will replace it immediately with the
correct version, free of charge.
⏰ 24/7 Support: We are always here – reach out anytime and expect a fast response.
, Professional Nursing Concepts 5E – Test Bank
Finkelman_CH01-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. In the 1970s, which publication established the connection between social issues and the
role of the nurse?
a. The IOM Report on Medicine
b. The IOM Core Competencies
✓ c. Hospitals, Paternalism, and the Role of the Nurse
d. National Nursing Journal
2. What did Isabel Hampton Robb do as the first president of the American Nurses
Association?
a. Ensured that vulnerable populations were recognized by nurses
b. Wrote forceful editorials
c. Obtained medical care for mothers and babies in rural America
✓ d. Organized the nursing profession at the national level
3. How did the Industrial Revolution affect health care?
a. It brought many more caretakers into the workforce as doctors and nurses.
✓ b. It created crowded workplaces that were breeding grounds for disease.
c. It forced children to become independent at a younger age.
d. It brought about many new public health laws.
4. How did the 1948 Brown report on nursing education change the focus of nursing
education?
✓ a. Nursing schools began to view accreditation and standardization as necessary steps for success.
b. Nurses were then required to attend baccalaureate programs.
c. There was a movement toward hospital-based nursing schools.
d. The National League for Nursing was created in response to this report.
5. What does belonging to a professional nursing association do for the nurse?
a. It costs money and time.
✓ b. It allows nurses to be nationally/locally active and to improve their leadership skills.
c. It gives lobbyists more money to use in Washington, DC.
d. It helps nurses get jobs.
6. The standards of practice for the American Nurses Association (ANA) include which of the
following?
✓ a. Assessment
b. Crisis management
c. Data recording
, d. Rounding practices
7. What are the public's views of nursing and nurses are based on?
a. Relationships with other healthcare professionals
b. Word of mouth
✓ c. Personal experiences
d. Recommendation
8. Describe how Florence Nightingale influenced the nursing profession in the 1850s.
9. Describe the recommendations of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in
response to the health profession's level of diversity in 2004. Think about the diversity of the
healthcare workforce today. Has anything changed? If so, has it improved or worsened? Use
your own experiences in your description.
10. Describe how the definition of nursing has changed over time. What do you think has
allowed these definitions to change?
Finkelman_CH02-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. A knowledge worker uses which of the following when serving as a nurse?
a. Consistency
b. Empathy
✓ c. Critical thinking
d. Experience
2. Knowledge workers recognize that change is:
a. something to be avoided.
✓ b. inevitable in health care.
c. a barrier in many situations.
d. experienced mostly by patients.
3. Dichotomous thinking limits choices because it means someone is looking at an issue as
being:
✓ a. either good or bad.
b. partially right and partially wrong.
c. clearly correct.
d. unfounded.
4. What is the best response to the statement that medicine focuses on curing, and nursing on
caring?
a. This is an accurate statement.
b. This statement is simplistic.
✓ c. This statement adds conflict and creates difficulty in conversation.
d. This statement puts nurses in the key role of understanding patients holistically.
,5. Which of the following is one of the key issues identified by the American Nurses
Association (ANA) related to a nurse's knowledge base?
a. Leadership
b. Informatics
c. Research
✓ d. Health literacy
6. Which of the following is an example of a routine part of a nurse's work?
a. Recognizing a lab value that is dangerously low
✓ b. Taking blood pressure
c. Responding to an emergent situation
d. Paging the physician to discuss a patient's pain management
7. Which nursing role is becoming increasingly prominent?
a. Researcher
b. Change agent
✓ c. Entrepreneur
d. Manager
8. What term has been applied to the definition “making sense of a problem”?
✓ a. Sensemaking
b. Clinical reasoning
c. Intuition
d. Groupthink
9. Consider the definition of nursing developed by the American Nurses Association (ANA):
“the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and
injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and
advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations” (p. 43). Discuss
the meaning of any three of the following terms found in this definition: promotion of health,
health, prevention of illness and injury, illness, injury, diagnosis, treatment, advocacy.
10. Using your own experiences or those of one of the nursing leaders you have read about,
describe your personal definition of nursing.
Finkelman_CH03-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. What is one factor that leads to fewer new nurses entering the profession?
a. Lack of nursing jobs
✓ b. Lack of nursing faculty
c. Lack of nursing schools
d. Increase in nursing master's programs
2. What is the difference between training and education in nursing?
, a. Training focuses on self-discipline, responsibility, accountability, and self-mastery; education focuses on
fixed habits and skills.
b. Training is associated with Florence Nightingale's definition of nursing, and education is a more modern
term.
✓ c. Education focuses on self-discipline, responsibility, accountability, and self-mastery; training focuses
on fixed habits and skills.
d. Education is associated with physicians and medical degrees, and training is associated with nurses.
3. What has caused a decrease in diploma schools of nursing?
a. Some diploma programs have a weak curriculum.
b. There is not a decrease in these programs.
c. Some hospitals could not survive without these programs.
✓ d. Many programs have transitioned to degree programs.
4. Which of the following would be considered a practice that meets one of the five core
competencies suggested by the Institute of Medicine?
✓ a. Using evidence to support a change in bedside practice
b. Working individually as nurses to care for patients in the hospital
c. Avoiding the use of technology at the bedside to minimize complexity
d. Working to separate the nurse and the physician at the bedside
5. What is one way nursing schools are overcoming the barrier of decreased clinical settings?
a. Ensuring that programs are always run on a 9-month schedule
✓ b. Using simulation experiences to provide opportunities that students would get in the clinical setting
c. Hiring more clinical instructors
d. Decreasing the amount of clinical time necessary to graduate
6. The NCSBN strategic plan for 2020–2022 focuses on what strategic initiative, defined as
"promote agile regulatory systems for relevance and responsiveness to change”?
✓ a. Strategic Initiative A
b. Strategic Initiative B
c. Strategic Initiative C
d. Strategic Initiative D
7. True or False? The use of distance education in nursing is not very common at this point.
8. True or False? Accreditation is a voluntary process.
9. Describe how the Goldmark Report of 1918 impacted nursing education, and then describe
how this report affected your own experiences when applying to nursing school. What would
have been different if things had not changed?
10. Describe how self-directed learning is important for nursing in particular. Evaluate your
own ability to learn; what are your strengths and weaknesses, and how will this affect nursing
school for you?
,Finkelman_CH04-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. Which of the following is one of the main aspects of a nursing program?
a. Videos
b. Self-study
c. Journal research
✓ d. Didactic learning
2. A student listening to a lecture and making a connection to something he or she learned in
a clinical setting is an example of what?
a. Active listening
✓ b. Application
c. Didactic learning
d. Memorization
3. Professional socialization can best be described as which of the following?
a. A routine
b. A task
✓ c. A transition
d. A gathering
4. Two very important tools for success in nursing education are:
a. prioritization and time management.
b. concentration and prioritization.
✓ c. time management and organization.
d. organization and prioritization.
5. Which of the following is a major goal of reading in preparation for nursing classes?
✓ a. Memorization
b. Reviewing
c. Scanning
d. Speed reading
6. How is a nursing curriculum different from other types of curricula?
a. It requires studying.
✓ b. It is a continuum, and each course is meant to build on the previous one.
c. It is only clinical.
d. Faculty is less available to help students.
7. What makes simulation an effective method for developing clinical competency in nursing?
a. It provides real-life experience.
b. It only prepares the student for lab work.
✓ c. It gives the student a risk-free environment for guided practice.
d. It provides the best practice of bedside manner.
,8. Define “reality shock” in relation to nursing.
a. The shock that occurs when someone takes care of a patient for the first time
b. The shock of working in a team with physicians
✓ c. The shock of joining a nursing workforce with one view of the nursing profession and realizing an
entirely different view in real practice
d. The shock of graduating from nursing school and searching for a job
9. Which of the following is one of Kolb's learning styles?
a. Active experiences
b. Concrete conceptualization
✓ c. Reflective observation
d. Abstract experimentation
10. Describe a mentor you have had in your life. How has he or she prepared you for nursing
school? If you can't think of anyone in particular, describe your vision of an ideal mentor.
11. What does lifelong learning mean to you? How will you commit to this as a new nurse?
Finkelman_CH05-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of advocacy?
a. To persuade the patient on a particular issue
b. To tell the patient specifically what to do
✓ c. To “play the game” in the legislative arena
d. To discuss the needs of patients' families
2. What are the two main types of public policies?
a. Regulatory and advocacy
✓ b. Regulatory and allocative
c. Responsive and allocative
d. Responsive and regulatory
3. When physicians and other healthcare providers order tests and procedures to protect
themselves from lawsuits, which also increases costs, which type of medicine is this
considered?
✓ a. Defensive
b. Aggressive
c. Offensive
d. Protective
4. Which act established the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the two major government-run
healthcare reimbursement programs?
a. Public Health Act
✓ b. Social Security Act
, c. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
d. State Children's Health Insurance Program
5. True or False? Politics can affect public policies.
6. True or False? The United States is an excellent example of a country with a universal
healthcare system.
7. True or False? Politics is the process of influencing the authoritative allocation of abundant
resources.
8. Why is the cost of health care rising in the United States?
9. After reading the American Nurses Association agenda on health care and healthcare
reform, what do you think is most important for nurses to do moving forward?
10. Describe how nurses can be vital to the policy arena.
Finkelman_CH06-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. Ethical dilemmas occur when a nurse is:
✓ a. forced to select between two or more alternatives.
b. forced to select an ideal solution.
c. trying to make a decision that matches all relevant standards of care.
d. making a decision for the patient.
2. Which of the following is an example of Medicaid fraud?
a. Billing for patient care
b. Billing for services provided
c. Billing for 24 hours in a day
✓ d. Paying a kickback to someone who refers your services
3. Which of the following is an example of a nursing-related legal issue?
a. Administering an appropriate dose of narcotics at the right time to the right patient
✓ b. Restraining a patient without a physician's order
c. Documenting patient care in an ER
d. Taking care of a patient on suicide precautions
4. What is the law of private rights?
✓ a. Civil law
b. Criminal law
c. Good Samaritan law
d. Battery
5. Which of the following is an example of a confidentiality breach by a nurse?
, a. Telling the physician about a recent lab value
✓ b. Talking loudly on a mobile phone in a café about a patient
c. Discussing patient needs with the charge nurse
d. Telling a family advocate about a recent patient event
6. What legal term refers to a law that protects a healthcare professional from being sued
when providing emergency care outside a healthcare setting?
a. Emancipation
b. Doctrine of res ipsa loquitur
✓ c. Good Samaritan law
d. Battery
7. True or False? Healthcare organizations are more concerned with morals today than ever
before.
8. True or False? Rationing care in the United States means that not everyone can have
access to care because there is not enough to go around.
9. True or False? The ANA's code of ethics does not support the use of social media.
10. What ethical principle stands out the most to you in health care: autonomy, veracity,
beneficence, or justice? Describe this principle and explain why you find it so important in the
healthcare setting.
11. Define negligence. How can you avoid it as a nurse?
Finkelman_CH07-Professional Nursing Concepts 5E Premier Digital
1. Which government body developed Healthy People 2030 ?
a. Department of Defense
b. Department of Health Promotion
✓ c. Department of Health and Human Services
d. Congress
2. What is the goal of the Healthy People 2030 ?
a. Identify chronic illness among Americans
✓ b. Develop programs to promote health and prevent illness
c. Identify international health concerns
d. Engage individual sectors to act solitarily
3. Using a primary care physician as the entry point in health care is an example of what type
of continuity of care?
a. Informational continuity
b. Management continuity
✓ c. Relational continuity
