Catalano Nursing Now 8th Edition Test Bank| Chapter 1-28| Complete Guide A+

Catalano Nursing Now 8th Edition Test Bank| Chapter 1-28| Complete Guide A+ Catalano Nursing Now 8th Edition Test Bank| Chapter 1-28| Complete Guide A+ Catalano Nursing Now 8th Edition Test Bank Contents 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 Answers are at the end of Each Chapter 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. Casemanager 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: 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: 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 Page: 00 Feedback 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 Page: 00 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 Page: 00 Feedback 1. This is correct. Nursing has been viewed universally as an altruistic profession composed of selfless individuals who place the lives and well-being of their clients above their personal safety.