Introduction to Professional and Clinical Concepts in Nursing | The University of Texas at Arlington | Fall
2026 Practice
Name: ________________________________________ Date: __________________
Instructions: Choose the one best answer for each question.
Based on the uploaded NURS 3364 Quiz 1 Blueprint. The source lists learning objectives and question counts, not
textbook explanations or actual quiz items; these questions stay within the stated objectives and are not confirmed Fall
2026 lecturer questions.
1. Which topic best matches the blueprint's stated emphasis for the Week 2 nursing-image
questions?
A. How the public sees nurses
B. Licensure requirements for advanced practice roles
C. Methods of payment for health care
D. A detailed chronology of nursing history
✓ Correct answer: A. How the public sees nurses
Rationale: The blueprint says Week 2 questions will focus on the image of nursing and specifically lists describing
how the public sees nurses. It also says there are no history questions.
2. A student wants to explore an action that supports nursing's professional image. Which
learning objective from the blueprint is most directly relevant?
A. Describe methods of health-care payment
B. Identify ways students and nurses can promote the profession of nursing
C. Compare associate and bachelor degree programs
D. Explain supply and demand in health care
✓ Correct answer: B. Identify ways students and nurses can promote the profession of nursing
Rationale: The Week 2 objectives include identifying ways students and nurses can promote the profession of
nursing.
3. When considering nursing's image and development in the United States, which
perspective is named in the Week 2 objectives?
A. Social and demographic factors that influence nursing's development
B. Research barriers in evidence-based practice
C. Price sensitivity and health-care costs
D. Licensure and certification requirements
✓ Correct answer: A. Social and demographic factors that influence nursing's development
Rationale: The blueprint asks students to identify social and demographic factors that influence the development of
nursing in the United States.
4. Which broad practice perspective is included in the Week 3 objectives for professional
nursing roles?
A. The differences among health-care payment methods
B. The stages of a research process
C. The range of settings and roles in which registered nurses practice
D. The public image of nurses only
✓ Correct answer: C. The range of settings and roles in which registered nurses practice
Rationale: The professional-nurse role objective covers the wide range of settings and roles in which registered
nurses practice.
5. A learner is reviewing professional nursing roles. Which role category is explicitly named
in the blueprint?
A. Health-care price-setting roles
B. Nursing-history research roles
C. Insurance payment-processing roles
D. Advanced practice nursing roles
✓ Correct answer: D. Advanced practice nursing roles
Rationale: The Week 3 professional-nurse objective explicitly includes advanced practice nursing roles.
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, 6. Which question best reflects the blueprint's objective about today's registered nurses?
A. How did nursing react to shortages in past decades?
B. How is universal health care financed?
C. Which research method is used to study a nursing intervention?
D. In what settings do registered nurses practice, and what roles may they fill?
✓ Correct answer: D. In what settings do registered nurses practice, and what roles may they
fill?
Rationale: The objective is to recognize the wide range of settings and roles in which today's registered nurses
practice, including advanced practice.
7. When studying professional nursing roles for this quiz, which scope should a student
expect to consider?
A. Different practice settings and roles, including advanced practice
B. Only historical nursing roles
C. Only hospital-based roles
D. Only roles in health-care payment
✓ Correct answer: A. Different practice settings and roles, including advanced practice
Rationale: The blueprint describes a wide range of settings and roles and specifically includes advanced practice
nursing.
8. Which population-level concern is named in the Week 3 health-care objectives?
A. Differences between licensure and certification
B. Health-care disparities disproportionately affecting minority and poor populations
C. The public image of nurses
D. The transition from student to professional nurse
✓ Correct answer: B. Health-care disparities disproportionately affecting minority and poor
populations
Rationale: The health-care objectives ask students to explain how disparities disproportionately affect minority and
poor populations.
9. A learner is asked to prepare for a discussion of the interprofessional health-care team.
What should the learner be ready to explain?
A. How nursing history is organized by decade
B. How an RN becomes certified in every specialty
C. How to calculate a patient's price sensitivity
D. Who the key team members are and what each contributes
✓ Correct answer: D. Who the key team members are and what each contributes
Rationale: The blueprint's objective is to identify key members of the interprofessional health-care team and
explain each member's contribution.
10. Which set of economic concepts is explicitly linked to health-care costs in the blueprint?
A. Benner's model, professional socialization, and licensure
B. Supply and demand, free-market economies, and price sensitivity
C. Nursing image, public perception, and demographics
D. Research theory, practice, and barriers
✓ Correct answer: B. Supply and demand, free-market economies, and price sensitivity
Rationale: The objective names supply and demand, free-market economies, and price sensitivity and asks
students to discuss their relevance to health-care costs.
11. Which paired topics are both included in the health-care objectives for Week 3?
A. Nursing image and historical shortages
B. Research steps and nursing theory
C. Advanced practice roles and Benner's model
D. Current methods of payment and the possibility of universal health care as an outcome of reform
✓ Correct answer: D. Current methods of payment and the possibility of universal health care as
an outcome of reform
Rationale: The blueprint includes describing current methods of payment for health care and discussing the
possibility of universal health care as an outcome of reform.
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