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Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing
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
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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
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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
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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
ANS: 1
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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.Nursepractitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager
ANS: 1
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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.Certifiednursemidwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager
ANS: 2
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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.Clinicalnursespecialist
4. Case manager
ANS: 3
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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.Casemanager
ANS: 4
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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
ANS: 4
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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.Referentpower
2. Expert power
3. Coercive power
4. Legitimate power
ANS: 1
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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
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2.Expertpower
3. Coercive power
4. Legitimate power
ANS: 2
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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.Powerofrewards
ANS: 4
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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.Coercivepower
4. Power of rewards
ANS: 3
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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
ANS: 4
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15. The first, and certainly the most important, way in which nurses can gain power in all areas
is through which action?
1.Professionalunity
2. Political activity
3. Accountability and professionalism
4. Networking
ANS: 1
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Chapter 2: Historical Perspectives
Questions, Answers, and Rationales
1. In ancient civilizations, starting from about 3500 B.C., health care was intertwined with
religion. Which religion emphasized balance and driving demons out of the ailing body?
1. Taoism
2. Hinduism
3. Buddhism
4. Catholicism
ANS: 1
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2. Which war caused more death and injury than any war in the history of the United States
and dramatically increased the demand for nurses?
1. Civil War
2. Korean War
3. Vietnam War
4. Revolutionary War
ANS: 1
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3. World War II produced another nursing shortage and, in response, Congress passed which
legislative act that shortened hospital-based diploma programs from 36 to 30 months?
1. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act
2.BoltonAct
3. Hill-Burton Act
4. The Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
ANS: 2
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4. For graduate nurses, which nursing symbol retains its significance as a symbol of the ideals
and selfless devotion of Florence Nightingale?
1. Nursing cap
2. Nursing pin
3. Lamp
4. Coat of arms
ANS: 3
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5. Unlikely as it may seem, which nursing symbol can trace its origins to the heavy protective
war shields used by soldiers as far back as the Greek and Roman Empires.
1. Nursing cap
2.Nursingpin
3. Lamp
4. Coat of arms
ANS: 2
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6. Which nursing symbol indicated that the student was now off probation and had earned the
right to wear it during clinical rotations in the hospital?
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Catalano
Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing
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
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
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
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
ANS: 1
Page: 00
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.Nursepractitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager
ANS: 1
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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.Certifiednursemidwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager
ANS: 2
Page: 00
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.Clinicalnursespecialist
4. Case manager
ANS: 3
Page: 00
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.Casemanager
ANS: 4
Page: 00
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
ANS: 4
Page: 00
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.Referentpower
2. Expert power
3. Coercive power
4. Legitimate power
ANS: 1
Page: 00
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
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2.Expertpower
3. Coercive power
4. Legitimate power
ANS: 2
Page: 00
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.Powerofrewards
ANS: 4
Page: 00
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.Coercivepower
4. Power of rewards
ANS: 3
Page: 00
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
ANS: 4
Page: 00
15. The first, and certainly the most important, way in which nurses can gain power in all areas
is through which action?
1.Professionalunity
2. Political activity
3. Accountability and professionalism
4. Networking
ANS: 1
Page: 00
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Chapter 2: Historical Perspectives
Questions, Answers, and Rationales
1. In ancient civilizations, starting from about 3500 B.C., health care was intertwined with
religion. Which religion emphasized balance and driving demons out of the ailing body?
1. Taoism
2. Hinduism
3. Buddhism
4. Catholicism
ANS: 1
Page: 2
2. Which war caused more death and injury than any war in the history of the United States
and dramatically increased the demand for nurses?
1. Civil War
2. Korean War
3. Vietnam War
4. Revolutionary War
ANS: 1
Page: 10
3. World War II produced another nursing shortage and, in response, Congress passed which
legislative act that shortened hospital-based diploma programs from 36 to 30 months?
1. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act
2.BoltonAct
3. Hill-Burton Act
4. The Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
ANS: 2
Page: 13
4. For graduate nurses, which nursing symbol retains its significance as a symbol of the ideals
and selfless devotion of Florence Nightingale?
1. Nursing cap
2. Nursing pin
3. Lamp
4. Coat of arms
ANS: 3
Page: 15
5. Unlikely as it may seem, which nursing symbol can trace its origins to the heavy protective
war shields used by soldiers as far back as the Greek and Roman Empires.
1. Nursing cap
2.Nursingpin
3. Lamp
4. Coat of arms
ANS: 2
Page: 17
6. Which nursing symbol indicated that the student was now off probation and had earned the
right to wear it during clinical rotations in the hospital?
