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Dimensions Exam 1: Study Guide Chapter 1 1. Identify the most important element in nursing’s attempt to gain full autonomy of practice. 2. In its attempt to gain freedom ... and independence, what corresponding factors must the nursing profession embrace? 3. Select the most effective method that nurses can use to gain power over their practice. 4. What allows a nurse to exert referent power over a client when providing nursing care? 5. What is a group of jobs that is similar in type of work and found throughout an industry or country? 6. Which of the following types of nurses are classified as technical nurses? 7. Identify the approach that describes a profession as being in a continual state of development along a continuum. 8. A nursing student is approached by a friend who is not majoring in nursing. The friend asks why the nursing profession does not seem to be actively involved in the women’s rights movement. How can the student best respond to this question? 9. Identify the element that is the best indicator of increasing accountability in the profession of nursing. 10. What is the best method for nurses to prepare for future professional practice? 11. What allows a nurse to exert coercive power over a client when providing nursing care? 12. What allows a nurse to exert legitimate power over a client when providing nursing care? 13. Select the trait of a profession that requires the most improvement in the promotion and recognition of nursing as a full and equal profession. 14. Which statement is the best description of a profession from the power approach method of defining a profession? COMPLETION 1. List in correct order the progression of the levels of health-care providers from the most educated to the least educated. (Enter the letter of each in the proper sequence; do not use commas or spaces.) 2. Fill in the blank with the appropriate word to complete the statement: The overall goal of nurses who work as case managers is to _______________ the use of health-care services in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. Chapter 2 1. The early Christian era brought which of these important changes in health care? 2. Which development during the European Middle Ages led to a major improvement in health care? 3. Who is called the “father of modern medicine”? 4. What are the dates of Florence Nightingale’s birth and death? 5. Identify a key element in the success of Nightingale’s school of nursing. 6. What was a major goal of Lavinia Dock? 7. Which belief about what nurses needed to do shaped Lillian D. Wald’s nursing practice? 8. Which problem had the most severe effect on nursing education during the 1920s and 1930s? 9. Identify a negative effect that World War II had on health care in the United States. 10. Select the statement that most accurately states the effects of increasing populations on health care. 11. Which characteristic of health care in ancient civilizations distinguishes it from the health care of today? 12. What are two similarities between the health care provided by the ancient Hebrews and that practiced by the ancient Egyptians? ………………………………….CONTINUED……………………………………….. [Show More]

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