,ANSWERS 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
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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
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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
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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?
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
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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
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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
NURSINGTB.COM
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?
