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Role and Scope - Exam 3 Questions With
Correct Answers
What are the recommendations for nurses that are published in the IOM's report The future of
nursing?
[Future of Nursing report focuses on the convergence of knowledge, quality, and new functions
in nursing.] - answer✔-Recommendation 1: *Remove scope-of-practice barriers.*
-Recommendation 2: *Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative
improvement efforts. *
-Recommendation 3: *Implement nurse residency programs. *
-Recommendation 4: *Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80
percent by 2020.*
-Recommendation 5: *Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020.*
-Recommendation 6: *Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning.*
-Recommendation 7: *Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health.*
-Recommendation 8: *Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of interprofessional
health care workforce data.*
What are the components of a professional identity in nursing? - answer✔-First steps,
education process and passing state boards [NCLEX]
-Professional ethics; principles [Rules, codes, standards], Consequences [outcome], virtue
[based on character]
-Continued development
-Doing and being a good nurse
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Who determines laws and rules for professional nurses? - answer✔The Nurses Practice Act
[State board of Nursing]
-Laws coming into being is a political process: 3 Branches; Judicial [interprets laws], legislative
[represent the people in forming the laws], executive [enforce the laws]
What can nurses do to become more professional? - answer✔-Be active in a professional
organization such as; ANA, NLN, or other nursing organization
Care coordination in nursing - answer✔Using the nursing process to develop plan of care for
patient; using interdisciplinary care teams working together to achieve optimal health for the
patient
Collaboration - answer✔*Several categories of collaboration*: Nurse-patient, Nurse-Nurse
[INTRAprofessional; mentoring, "shift handoffs"], INTERprofessional collaboration [PT, OT,
medicine, pharmacy, social worker],
Interorganizational [Hospice, health care consortiums]
How can nurses work with researchers to improve evidence based practice? -
answer✔integrate best research with clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care,
and participate in learning and research activities to the extent feasible
Nursing informatics - answer✔The blending of information and computer science to study
processes, management, and retrieval of health-related information.
-Technologically driven organizations have improved competitive edge
Assertive Communication - answer✔-allows expression in direct, honest, and nonthreatening
ways do not infringe upon the rights of others
-It accurately expresses a person's feelings, beliefs, ideas, and opinion
Aggressive Communication - answer✔-Used to humiliate, control, or embarrass the other
person or lower self-esteem
-Creates an "I win, you loss" situation
Conflictual Communication - answer✔Conflict proceeds through four stages: frustration,
conceptualization, action, and outcomes
-Resolve conflicts productively depends on addressing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that
form barriers to resolution.
Educational Communication - answer✔-Learned from classes, workshops, books, seminars
11/7/2024 12:35 PM
Role and Scope - Exam 3 Questions With
Correct Answers
What are the recommendations for nurses that are published in the IOM's report The future of
nursing?
[Future of Nursing report focuses on the convergence of knowledge, quality, and new functions
in nursing.] - answer✔-Recommendation 1: *Remove scope-of-practice barriers.*
-Recommendation 2: *Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative
improvement efforts. *
-Recommendation 3: *Implement nurse residency programs. *
-Recommendation 4: *Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80
percent by 2020.*
-Recommendation 5: *Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020.*
-Recommendation 6: *Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning.*
-Recommendation 7: *Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health.*
-Recommendation 8: *Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of interprofessional
health care workforce data.*
What are the components of a professional identity in nursing? - answer✔-First steps,
education process and passing state boards [NCLEX]
-Professional ethics; principles [Rules, codes, standards], Consequences [outcome], virtue
[based on character]
-Continued development
-Doing and being a good nurse
, ©THEBRIGHT EXAM SOLUTIONS
11/7/2024 12:35 PM
Who determines laws and rules for professional nurses? - answer✔The Nurses Practice Act
[State board of Nursing]
-Laws coming into being is a political process: 3 Branches; Judicial [interprets laws], legislative
[represent the people in forming the laws], executive [enforce the laws]
What can nurses do to become more professional? - answer✔-Be active in a professional
organization such as; ANA, NLN, or other nursing organization
Care coordination in nursing - answer✔Using the nursing process to develop plan of care for
patient; using interdisciplinary care teams working together to achieve optimal health for the
patient
Collaboration - answer✔*Several categories of collaboration*: Nurse-patient, Nurse-Nurse
[INTRAprofessional; mentoring, "shift handoffs"], INTERprofessional collaboration [PT, OT,
medicine, pharmacy, social worker],
Interorganizational [Hospice, health care consortiums]
How can nurses work with researchers to improve evidence based practice? -
answer✔integrate best research with clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care,
and participate in learning and research activities to the extent feasible
Nursing informatics - answer✔The blending of information and computer science to study
processes, management, and retrieval of health-related information.
-Technologically driven organizations have improved competitive edge
Assertive Communication - answer✔-allows expression in direct, honest, and nonthreatening
ways do not infringe upon the rights of others
-It accurately expresses a person's feelings, beliefs, ideas, and opinion
Aggressive Communication - answer✔-Used to humiliate, control, or embarrass the other
person or lower self-esteem
-Creates an "I win, you loss" situation
Conflictual Communication - answer✔Conflict proceeds through four stages: frustration,
conceptualization, action, and outcomes
-Resolve conflicts productively depends on addressing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that
form barriers to resolution.
Educational Communication - answer✔-Learned from classes, workshops, books, seminars
