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Test Bank for Nursing Now Today's Issues, Tomorrows Trend
8th Edition By Joseph T. Catalano
Chapter 1-30 Complete


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,Catalano Nursing Now 8th Edition
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Contents
Unit 1: The Growth of Nursing
1: The Development of a Profession
2: Historical Perspectives
3: Theories and Models of Nursing
4: The Process of Educating Nurses
5: The Evolution of Licensure, Certification, and Nursing Organizations
Unit 2: Making the Transition to Professional
6: Ethics in Nursing
7: Bioethical Issues
8: Nursing Law and Liability
9: Reality Shock in the Workplace
Unit 3: Leading and Managing
10: Leadership, Followership, and Management
11: Communication, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution
12: Understanding and Dealing Successfully With Difficult Behavior
13: Health-Care Delivery Systems
14: Ensuring Quality Care
15: Delegation in Nursing
16: Incivility: The Antithesis of Caring
17: Nursing Informatics
18: The Politically Active Nurse
Unit 4: Issues in Delivering Care
19: The Health-Care Debate: Best Allocation of Resources for the Best Outcomes
20: Spirituality and Health Care
21: Diversity
22: Impact of the Aging Population on Health-Care Delivery
23: Client Education: A Moral Imperative
24: Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
25: Integrative Health Practices
26: Preparing for and Responding to Disasters
27: Developments in Current Nursing Practice
28: NCLEX: What You Need to Know

,Answers are at the end of Each Chapter
Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing

Questions

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

Answer:

2. If a nurse uses information from research as the basis for making decisions about providing
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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

Answer:

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

Answer:

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

Answer:

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
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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

Answer:

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

,4. Case manager

Answer:

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

Answer:

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?
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1. Nurse practitioner

2. Certified nurse midwife

3. Clinical nurse specialist

4. Case manager

Answer:

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

,Answer:

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. Referent power

2. Expert power

3. Coercive power

4. Legitimate power

Answer:

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. Expert power

3. Coercive power

4. Legitimate power

Answer:

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. Power of rewards

Answer:

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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. Coercive power

4. Power of rewards

Answer:

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
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4. Legitimate power

Answer:

15. The first, and certainly the most important, way in which nurses can gain power in all areas is

through which action?

1. Professional unity

2. Political activity

3. Accountability and professionalism

4. Networking

Answer:

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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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Feedback
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1. This is incorrect. The autonomous nature of the nursing profession has no impact

on nurses acting as defendants in court cases.

2. This is correct. Nurses must be accountable and demonstrate a high level of

responsibility for the care and services they provide.

3. This is incorrect. The precision in which nurses must practice has no impact on

nurses acting as defendants in court cases.

4. This is incorrect. The specificity in which nurses must practice has no impact on

nurses acting as defendants in court cases.



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?

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