Test Bank For Professional Nursing Concepts:Competencies
For Quality Leadership 4th Edition By Anita Finkelman
9781284127270 Chapter 1-14 Complete Guide .
Accountability - ANSWER: Willingness to take credit and blame for actions.
Autonomy - ANSWER: the quality or state of being self-governing, the freedom to act on what you
know
Code of ethics - ANSWER: a list of provisions that makes explicit the primary goals, values and
obligations of the nursing profession, published by the American Nurses Association
Colleagueship - ANSWER: workplace relationships with common interests
Nursing - ANSWER: the profession of a nurse
Professional organization - ANSWER: an organization that represents a professional group, such as
nurses represented by the American Nurses Association
Professionalism - ANSWER: the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a
professional person
Responsibility - ANSWER: moral, legal, or mental accountability
Scope of practice - ANSWER: A statement that describes the who, what, where, when, why, and how
of nursing practice.
Social policy statement - ANSWER: A statement that describes the profession of nursing and its
professional framework and obligations to society; published by the American Nurses Association.
Standards - ANSWER: a reference point against which other things can be evaluated and that serve as
guidelines to practice
Advocate - ANSWER: a nurse who speaks for the patient but does not take away the patient's
independence
Applied or clinical research - ANSWER: research designed to find a solution to a practical problem
Basic research - ANSWER: research designed to broaden the base of knowledge rather than solve an
immediate problem
Caring - ANSWER: feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others
Change agent - ANSWER: someone who engages deliberately in, or whose behavior results in, social,
cultural, or behavioral change
Clinical judgement - ANSWER: The process by which nurses come to understand the problems, issues,
and concerns of patients; to attend to salient information; and to respond to patient problems in
concerned and involved ways. It includes both conscious decision making and intuitive response.
Clinical reasoning - ANSWER: the nurse's ability to assess patient problems or needs and analyze data
to accurately identify and frame problems within the context of the individual patient's environment
, Collaboration - ANSWER: cooperative effort among healthcare providers, staff, and multiple
organizations who work together to accomplish a common mission
Competency - ANSWER: a behavior of a student or staff member is expected to demonstrate
Counselor - ANSWER: a person trained to give guidance on personal, social, or psychological
problems.
Critical thinking - ANSWER: purposeful, reasoned, goal-directed thinking that involves solving
problems, formulating inferences, working with probabilities, and making carefully thought-out
decisions
Dichotomous thinking - ANSWER: seeing situations as either good or bad, black or white
Educator - ANSWER: a person who teaches others, typically a professional such as a nurse or teacher
Entrepreneur - ANSWER: an innovator who recognizes opportunities to introduce a new process or an
improved organization
Groupthink - ANSWER: the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-
making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives
Identity - ANSWER: sense of self as a professional nurse
Intuition - ANSWER: quick and ready insight
Knowledge - ANSWER: awareness and understanding of facts
Knowledge management - ANSWER: a method of gathering information and making it available to
others
Knowledge workers - ANSWER: a person who is effective in acquiring, analyzing, synthesizing and
applying evidence to guide practice decisions
Leader - ANSWER: one who has the ability to influence others, a role that nurses assume, either
formally by taking an administrative position or informally as others recognize that they have
leadership characteristics
Management - ANSWER: a formal administrative position that focuses on four major functions,
planning, organizing, leading and controlling
Provider of care - ANSWER: a healthcare provider who is the first contact for a patient at the entry
point of care and who then may manage overall care for the patient, examples of providers are
physicians and advance practice registered nurses
Reality shock - ANSWER: the reaction of students when they discover that the clinical experience does
not always match the values and ideals that they had anticipated
Reflective thinking - ANSWER: creativity and conscious self-evaluation over a period of time
Researcher - ANSWER: a person who studies a subject in detail in order to discover new information
about it
Research - ANSWER: investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of
facts
Role - ANSWER: behavior oriented to the patterned expectation of others
For Quality Leadership 4th Edition By Anita Finkelman
9781284127270 Chapter 1-14 Complete Guide .
Accountability - ANSWER: Willingness to take credit and blame for actions.
Autonomy - ANSWER: the quality or state of being self-governing, the freedom to act on what you
know
Code of ethics - ANSWER: a list of provisions that makes explicit the primary goals, values and
obligations of the nursing profession, published by the American Nurses Association
Colleagueship - ANSWER: workplace relationships with common interests
Nursing - ANSWER: the profession of a nurse
Professional organization - ANSWER: an organization that represents a professional group, such as
nurses represented by the American Nurses Association
Professionalism - ANSWER: the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a
professional person
Responsibility - ANSWER: moral, legal, or mental accountability
Scope of practice - ANSWER: A statement that describes the who, what, where, when, why, and how
of nursing practice.
Social policy statement - ANSWER: A statement that describes the profession of nursing and its
professional framework and obligations to society; published by the American Nurses Association.
Standards - ANSWER: a reference point against which other things can be evaluated and that serve as
guidelines to practice
Advocate - ANSWER: a nurse who speaks for the patient but does not take away the patient's
independence
Applied or clinical research - ANSWER: research designed to find a solution to a practical problem
Basic research - ANSWER: research designed to broaden the base of knowledge rather than solve an
immediate problem
Caring - ANSWER: feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others
Change agent - ANSWER: someone who engages deliberately in, or whose behavior results in, social,
cultural, or behavioral change
Clinical judgement - ANSWER: The process by which nurses come to understand the problems, issues,
and concerns of patients; to attend to salient information; and to respond to patient problems in
concerned and involved ways. It includes both conscious decision making and intuitive response.
Clinical reasoning - ANSWER: the nurse's ability to assess patient problems or needs and analyze data
to accurately identify and frame problems within the context of the individual patient's environment
, Collaboration - ANSWER: cooperative effort among healthcare providers, staff, and multiple
organizations who work together to accomplish a common mission
Competency - ANSWER: a behavior of a student or staff member is expected to demonstrate
Counselor - ANSWER: a person trained to give guidance on personal, social, or psychological
problems.
Critical thinking - ANSWER: purposeful, reasoned, goal-directed thinking that involves solving
problems, formulating inferences, working with probabilities, and making carefully thought-out
decisions
Dichotomous thinking - ANSWER: seeing situations as either good or bad, black or white
Educator - ANSWER: a person who teaches others, typically a professional such as a nurse or teacher
Entrepreneur - ANSWER: an innovator who recognizes opportunities to introduce a new process or an
improved organization
Groupthink - ANSWER: the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-
making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives
Identity - ANSWER: sense of self as a professional nurse
Intuition - ANSWER: quick and ready insight
Knowledge - ANSWER: awareness and understanding of facts
Knowledge management - ANSWER: a method of gathering information and making it available to
others
Knowledge workers - ANSWER: a person who is effective in acquiring, analyzing, synthesizing and
applying evidence to guide practice decisions
Leader - ANSWER: one who has the ability to influence others, a role that nurses assume, either
formally by taking an administrative position or informally as others recognize that they have
leadership characteristics
Management - ANSWER: a formal administrative position that focuses on four major functions,
planning, organizing, leading and controlling
Provider of care - ANSWER: a healthcare provider who is the first contact for a patient at the entry
point of care and who then may manage overall care for the patient, examples of providers are
physicians and advance practice registered nurses
Reality shock - ANSWER: the reaction of students when they discover that the clinical experience does
not always match the values and ideals that they had anticipated
Reflective thinking - ANSWER: creativity and conscious self-evaluation over a period of time
Researcher - ANSWER: a person who studies a subject in detail in order to discover new information
about it
Research - ANSWER: investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of
facts
Role - ANSWER: behavior oriented to the patterned expectation of others
