Role and Scope Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers

Role and Scope Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers



Question 1.
As the head of a nursing program, you always invite the ideas of your team about
innovations in teaching and curriculum design, and invite participation in de-cisions. Many
of these ideas have been implemented, and your staff members are keen to try other new
ideas. You are employing _______ leadership.

Correct Answer: transformational

Question 2.
the director of nursing has been observing staff inter-actions in a 20 bed coronary care
unit. Based on her observations, which of the following staff members is an obvious
leader?

Correct Answer: d. the staff nurse who per-suades other staff mem-bers to
by making evidence based decisions.

Question 3.
After being interviewed for the unit manager position, the staff nurse reflects on the
interview process. The staff nurse is aware that leadership begins:

Correct Answer: within

Question 4.
The nurse manager decides to involve those to be affected by change early in the change
management process. This can positively result in:

Correct Answer: Conflict

Question 5.
The CEO asks the nurse manager of the telemetry unit to justify the disproportionately
high number of registered nurses on the telemetry unit. The nurse manager explains that
nursing research has validated which statement about a low nurse-to-pationt ratio? It:

Correct Answer: Improves patient out-comes

Question 6.
Identify the primary position advocated by the 1965 ANA position Paper on Education for
Nurses

Correct Answer: b. baccalaureate educa-tion should be the ba-sic level of
for professional nurse.

Question 7.
Identify the primary purpose for the development of the QSEN project.

,Correct Answer: c. focus nursing education on competencies to re-duce the
of med-ical errors

Question 8.
Which of the following elements from the list below are not QSEN competencies?

Correct Answer: b. outcome based educa-tion

Question 9.
Which is a joint commission on accreditation of health-care organizations (JCAHO)
requirement for client ed-ucation?

Correct Answer: a. nursing staff must pro-vide and document client education

Question 10.
Statistically, which of the following factors is most like-ly to increase a client's motivation
to learn?

Correct Answer: b. the presence of the client's significant other during teaching

Question 11.
What is the primary reason a nurse should develop learning objectives for all client
teaching?

Correct Answer: c. Learning objectives help the nurse to organize the teaching

Question 12.
Identify what a new graduate nurse who is having unresolved role conflicts may
experience.

Correct Answer: d. high levels of anxiety

Question 13.
Identify the most important element in nursing's at-tempt to gain full autonomy of
practice

Correct Answer: c. gaining and maintain-ing control of nursing practice by

Question 14.
Identify the element that is the best indicator of in-creasing accountability in the
profession of nursing.

Correct Answer: c. demonstration of com-petency and high quality care through
review

Question 15.
What is the recommended method for nurses to pre-pare for future professional practice?

Correct Answer: b. understand and explore the issues involved in

, as nurses

Question 16.
After her first week working on a busy medical/sur-gical unit, a new charge nurse notes
that the nurses, although highly competent, are unable to function productively as a
team. What can she do to facilitate team-building on her unit?

Correct Answer:

Question 17.
a. Provide an opportunity for the nurses to express their feelings and emotions

Correct Answer:

Question 18.
b. hire more staff members to reduce stress and fa-tigue from understaffing

Correct Answer:

Question 19.
c. allow the staff more input into important policy decision-making

Correct Answer:

Question 20.
d. give the staff members more time to adjust to the change in charge nurses

Correct Answer:

Question 21.
A or C?

Correct Answer:

Question 22.
The oxygen saturation for a client with acute infective bronchitis drops to 84% and the
client develops severe dyspnea. there is a standing order for a handheld nebulizer
treatment PRN for SOB. the respiratory ther-apy department is designated to give all
respiratory treatments in the facility. when the nurse calls the RT, he states that he has
several more treatments to give but he should be there in 10 or 15 minutes. which action
by the nurse is most appropriate at this time?

Correct Answer: c. do not wait for the res-piratory therapist, give the HHN
himself or herself

Question 23.
Identify the two most important ethical issues sur-rounding organ transplantation

Correct Answer: beneficence and non-maleficence