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Test Bank for Nursing Now: Today's Issues, Tomorrow's Trends, 9th Edition by Joseph Catalano
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Test Bank for Nursing Now: Today's Issues, Tomorrow'sTrends, 9th Edition by Joseph Catalano
,Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing
Questions, Answers, and Rationales
1. Nursing practitioners are often the primary, and frequently the only, defendants named when
errors are made that result in injury to the patient. This is due to which concept associated with
the nursing profession?
1. Autonomy
2. Accountability
3. Precision
4. Specificity
CORRECT ANSWER: 2
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RATIONALE
1. This is incorrect. The autonomous nature of the nursing profession has no impact
on nursing practitioners acting as defendants in court cases.
2. This is correct. Nursing practitioners 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 nursing practitioners must practice has
no impact on
nursing practitioners acting as defendants in court cases.
, 4. This is incorrect. The specificity in which nursing practitioners must practice has
no impact on
nursing practitioners acting as defendants in court cases.
2. If a nursing practitioner uses information from research as the basis for making decisions
about providing care, this nursing practitioner is engaging in which type of practice?
1. Patient-based practice
2. Physician-based practice
3. Evidence-based practice
4. Provider-based practice
CORRECT ANSWER: 3
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RATIONALE
1. This is incorrect. Patient-based care does not use information from research as the
basis for making decisions.
2. This is incorrect. Physician-based care does not use information from research as
the basis for making decisions.
3. This is correct. Evidence-based care uses information from research as the basis
for making decisions.
4. This is incorrect. Provider-based care does not use information from research as
the basis for making decisions.
, 3. Today’s nursing practitioners 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
CORRECT ANSWER: 1
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RATIONALE
1. This is correct.Nursing has beenviewed universally as an altruistic profession
composed of selfless individuals who placethe lives and well-being of their
patients above their personal safety.
2. This is incorrect. Nursing is not viewed universally as a synergistic profession.
3. This is incorrect.Nursing is not viewed universally as an optimistic profession.
4. This is incorrect.Nursing is not viewed universally as a pragmatic profession.
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4. With Florence Nightingale’s radically new idea abouta separateeducationalsetting for nurses,
the nursing profession took its first steps toward which of the following?
1. Autonomy
2. Accountability
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