TEST BANK for Nursing Now: Today's Issues, Tomorrows Trends 8th Edition by Joseph T. Catalano PhD RN

Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing Questions

1. Nurses are often the primary, and frequently the only, defendants named when errors are madethat 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 providingcare, this nurse is engaging in which type of practice?

1. Client-based practice

2. Physician-based practice

3. Evidence-based practice

4. Provider-based practiceAnswer:

3. Today’s nurses are often found in remote and often hostile areas, providing care for the sickand 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

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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

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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. Nurse practitioner

2. Certified nurse midwife

3. Clinical nurse specialist

4. Case manager

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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. Certified nurse midwife

3. Clinical nurse specialist

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4. Case manager

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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. Clinical nurse specialist

4. Case manager

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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. Case manager

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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