TEST BANK FOR BASIC NURSING CONCEPTS SKILLS AND REASONING 2ND EDITION TREAS WILKINSON
Table of Contents Chapter 1. Nursing Past & Present ......................................................................................................... 3 Chapter 2. Critical Thinking & the Nursing Process ....
1. Which is the most influential factor that has shaped the nursing profession?
1) Physicians’ need for handmaidens
2) Societal need for healthcare outside the home
3) Military demand for nurses in the field
4) Germ theory influence on sanitation
ANS: 3
Chapter number and title: 1, Nursing Past & Present
Chapter learning objective: Define nursing in your own words.
Chapter page reference: p. 7
Heading: Historical Context of Nursing
Integrated Processes: Teaching and
Learning
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of
CareCognitive level: Comprehension [Understanding]
Concept:
ProfessionalismDifficulty:
Easy
Feedback
1 The physician's handmaiden was/is a nursing stereotype rather than an
influenceon nursing.
2 Although there has been a need for healthcare outside the home throughout
history, this has more influenceonthedevelopm
ent of hospitals than on nursing; this
need provided one more setting for nursing work.
3 Throughout the centuries, stability of the government has been related to
the success of the military to protect or extend its domain. As the survival
and well-being of soldiers are both critical, nurses provided healthcare to
the sickand injured at the battle site.
4 Germ theory and sanitation helped to improve healthcare but did not
shapenursing.
PTS: 1 CON: Professionalism
2. Which is an example of an illness-prevention activity?
1) Encouraging the use of a food diary
2) Joining a cancer support group
3) Administering immunization for HPV
4) Teaching a diabetic patient about his diet
ANS: 3
Chapter number and title: 1, Nursing Past & Present
Chapter learning objective: Name and recognize the four purposes of nursing
care.Chapter page reference: p. 15
Heading: Nursing Practice: Caring for Clients
Integrated Processes: Nursing Process –
ImplementationClient Need: Health Promotion and
Maintenance
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, Cognitive level: Application [Applying]
Concept: Health Promotion
Difficulty: Moderate
Feedback
1 Illness-prevention activities focus on avoiding a specific disease. A food diary is
a health-promotion activity.
2 Although cancer is a disease, it is assumed that a person joining a support
groupwould already have the disease; therefore, this is not disease prevention
but treatment.
3 Administering immunization for HPV is an example of illness prevention.
4 Teaching a diabetic patient about diet is a treatment for diabetes; the
patientalready has diabetes, so it cannot prevent diabetes.
PTS: 1 CON: Health Promotion
3. Which contribution of Florence Nightingale had an immediate impact on improving patients’
health?
1) Providing a clean environment
2) Improving nursing education
3) Changing the delivery of care in hospitals
4) Establishing nursing as a distinct profession
ANS: 1
Chapter number and title: 1, Nursing Past & Present
Chapter learning objective: Name nine expanded roles for
nursing.Chapter page reference: p. 9
Heading: Table 1-1 Roles andF unctionsoftheNurseIntegrated
Processes: Caring
Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance
Cognitive level: Comprehension [Understanding]
Concept: Evidence-Based Practice
Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 Improved sanitation (a clean environment) greatly and immediately reduced
therate of infection and mortality in hospitals.
2 This is an activity of Florence Nightingale that improved healthcare or nursing,
but the impact is long range, not immediate.
3 This is an activity of Florence Nightingale that improved healthcare or nursing,
but the impact is long range, not immediate.
4 This is an activity of Florence Nightingale that improved healthcare or nursing,
but the impact is long range, not immediate.
PTS: 1 CON: Evidence-Based Practice
4. Which aspect of the full-spectrum nursing role is essential for the nurse to do in order
tosuccessfully carry out all the others?
1) Thinking and reasoning about the client’s care
2) Providing hands-on client care
3) Carrying out physician orders
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