Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future ............................................................................................... 4
MULTIPLE CHOICE .................................
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Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future ............................................................................................... 4
MULTIPLE CHOICE ................................................................................................................................................ 4
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ........................................................................................................................................... 8
Chapter 02: Assessing Yourself and Designing Success ............................................................................................... 9
MULTIPLE CHOICE ................................................................................................................................................ 9
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ......................................................................................................................................... 13
Chapter 03: Study Habits and Test-Taking Skills ........................................................................................................ 15
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 15
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ......................................................................................................................................... 18
Chapter 04: Distinguishing the RN Role from the LPN/LVN Role............................................................................. 20
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 20
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ......................................................................................................................................... 25
Chapter 05: Using Nursing Theory to Guide Professional Practice ............................................................................. 27
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 27
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ......................................................................................................................................... 33
Chapter 06: Providing Patient-Centered Care Through the Nursing Process .............................................................. 35
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 35
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ......................................................................................................................................... 42
Chapter 07: Critical and Diagnostic Thinking for Better Clinical Judgment ............................................................... 44
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 44
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ......................................................................................................................................... 50
Chapter 08: Practicing Evidence-Based Decision Making .......................................................................................... 51
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 51
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ......................................................................................................................................... 57
Chapter 09: Communicating With Patients and Co-Workers ...................................................................................... 60
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 60
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ......................................................................................................................................... 66
Chapter 10: Teaching Patients and Their Families ...................................................................................................... 68
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 68
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ......................................................................................................................................... 74
Chapter 11: The Nurses, Ideas, and Forces That Define the Profession ...................................................................... 75
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 75
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ......................................................................................................................................... 77
Chapter 12: Upholding Legal and Ethical Principles ................................................................................................... 79
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 79
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ......................................................................................................................................... 86
Chapter 13: Care and Safety Standards, Competence, and Nurse Accountability ....................................................... 88
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 88
Chapter 14: Leading, Delegating, and Collaborating ................................................................................................... 94
MULTIPLE CHOICE .............................................................................................................................................. 94
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ....................................................................................................................................... 101
Chapter 15: Promoting Healthful Living in the Primary Care Setting ....................................................................... 102
MULTIPLE CHOICE ............................................................................................................................................ 102
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ....................................................................................................................................... 108
Chapter 16: Managing Care in Secondary and Tertiary Health Care......................................................................... 109
MULTIPLE CHOICE ............................................................................................................................................ 109
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ....................................................................................................................................... 113
Chapter 17: Reflecting on Your Transition ................................................................................................................ 114
MULTIPLE CHOICE ............................................................................................................................................ 114
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ....................................................................................................................................... 120
Chapter 18: Prepare Now to Pass NCLEX-RN® ....................................................................................................... 122
MULTIPLE CHOICE ............................................................................................................................................ 122
MULTIPLE RESPONSE ....................................................................................................................................... 126
Chapter 01: Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nursing advisor is meeting with a student who is interested in earning her RN degree. She knows that licensed
practical nurse/license vocational nurse (LPN/LVNs) who enter nursing school to become RNs come into the
learning environment with prior knowledge and understanding. Which statement by the nursing advisor best
describes her understanding of the effect experience may have on learning?
a. “Experience may be a source of insight and motivation, or a barrier.”
b. “Experience is usually a stumbling block for LPN/LVNs.”
c. “Experience never makes learning more difficult.”
d. “Once something is learned, it can never be truly modified.”
ANS: A
Experience accentuates differences among learners and serves as a source of insight and motivation, but it can also be
a barrier. Experience can serve as a foundation for defining the self.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application
OBJ: Identify how experiences influence learning in adults. TOP: Adult Learning
2. There is a test on the cardiovascular system on Friday morning, and it is now Wednesday night. The student has
already taken a vacation day from work Thursday night so that she can stay home and study. She is considering
skipping her exercise class on Thursday morning to
N go to the library to prepare for the test. Which response best identifies the
student’s outcome priority?
a. Exercise class
b. Going to the library
c. Avoiding work by taking a vacation
d. Doing well on the test on Friday
ANS: D
The outcome priority is the essential issue or need to be addressed at any given time within a
set of conditions or circumstances.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application
OBJ: Identify motivations and personal outcome priorities for returning to school. TOP:
Motivation to Learn
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