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Course Introduction
Introduction to Nursing provides an overview of the nursing profession, exploring its history, foundational principles, and the role of nurses within healthcare systems. The course introduces students to core nursing concepts such as patient-centered care, ethical and legal responsibilities, communication skills, and health promotion. Through a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical examples, students gain insight into the diverse settings and specialties in nursing, fostering a comprehensive understanding of the educational pathways, professional standards, and collaborative nature of nursing practice.
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Conceptual Foundations The Bridge to Professional Nursing Practice 6th Edition by Elizabeth E. Friberg
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Chapter 1: A Brief History of Professional Nursing in the
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Q1) Mildred Montag's major contribution to nursing is considered to be
A)encouraging minority women and men to enter nursing.
B)establishing associate degree nursing programs.
C)fighting for improved wages and recognition for nurses.
D)paving the way for the military to use trained nurses.
Answer: B
Q2) What change is anticipated that will guide advanced practice nursing roles?
A)Changes in federal funding for advanced education
B)Declining demand for advanced practice roles
C)Requirement of a doctor of nursing practice
D)Third-party payer restrictions on this type of practice
Answer: C
Q3) Benefits of the apprenticeship model of nursing education included (Select all that apply. )
A)a well-trained graduate nursing hospital staff.
B)opportunities for further education in nursing.
C)providing a skilled but inexpensive workforce.
D)providing working-class women employment.
E)reforms in the care of sick and injured individuals.
Answer: C,D,E
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Chapter 2: Pathways of Nursing Education
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Q1) A university nursing dean is particularly interested in attracting more male students.What action by the dean would most likely result in the best outcome for this goal?
A)Create an accelerated baccalaureate degree program.
B)Establish a "fast track" program for business leaders.
C)Partner with the local community college on seamless entry.
D)Recruit heavily among male-dominated occupations.
Answer: A
Q2) A faculty member explains to students that one concern of the American Nurses Association's 1965 position statement designating the baccalaureate degree (BSN)as the educational entry point for nursing is that
A)diploma programs remain the most popular educational program for nurses.
B)it is difficult to monitor other programs for congruency with BSN programs.
C)multiple educational paths create confusion for the public and the profession.
D)some states are creating different licensure exams for different pathways.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Beyond Professional Socialization
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Q1) A nurse manager is evaluating staff members for the strength of their professional identity and ability to contribute to the profession into the future.Which nurse best demonstrates these qualities?
A)Consistently incorporates knowledge,judgment,and ethics into everyday situations
B)Provides information on the latest research findings related to patient populations
C)Serves as the research "champion" on the hospital unit-based council structure
D)Uses evidence-based practice consistently when working with patients
Answer: A
Q2) A nursing faculty would determine that a student was developing a strong sense of professional identity when the student takes which action?
A)Writes a paper describing nursing as being available to help patients and physicians
B)Establishes a discussion group to debate interdisciplinary care activities
C)Starts a letter writing campaign to boycott products advertised by "sexy nurses"
D)Volunteers to serve the community at a free flu shot clinic for the uninsured
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Professional Nursing Roles
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Q1) A health care organization is investigating a new computerized documentation system.Which question by nursing management would address a source of work-related distress in nurses related to documentation?
A)"How can we ensure the nurses get adequate training or updates?"
B)"How can we make these computerized units more portable?"
C)"How much more accurate and complete will this charting be?"
D)"How will this system save my nurses time when documenting?"
Q2) An informal leader on the inpatient unit has just returned to work after giving birth and finds it increasingly stressful to manage the roles of nurse,informal leader at work,and new parent at home.What suggestion by the manager might help this nurse find more life balance?
A)Limit work-related activities at home to when your baby is sleeping.
B)Try some role segmentation techniques after you leave the hospital.
C)Use role integration techniques to create a seamless blend between roles.
D)You might consider working part time until your child is older.
Q3) The emotional response to an occurrence of role stress is called role
A)ambiguity.
B)conflict.
C)overload.
D)strain.
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Chapter 5: Theories and Frameworks for Professional
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Q1) A nurse whose practice is most strongly guided by Nightingale's theory would likely incorporate which intervention into the patient's plan of care?
A)Allow the patient to have uninterrupted periods of rest.
B)Assist the patient with activities of daily living (ADLs)and other self-care deficits.
C)Encourage the patient to be as independent as possible.
D)Use installation of faith and hope to encourage the patient.
Q2) A patient is angry and frustrated and is complaining bitterly to the nurse about these feelings.The nurse sits quietly and listens attentively,nodding occasionally.What Watson caritas process is the nurse using?
A)Creating a healing environment
B)Developing helping,trusting,and caring relationships
C)Practicing loving kindness
D)Promoting and accepting positive and negative feelings
Q3) Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs,which patient should the nurse assess first?
A)Complains of pain of 6 on a scale of 1 to 10
B)Crying after receiving a terminal diagnosis
C)Disoriented and agitated
D)Waiting for discharge teaching
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Chapter 6: Health Policy and Planning and the Nursing
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Q1) A chief nursing officer (CNO)wishes to demonstrate to the community that the quality of nursing in his or her particular hospital meets or exceeds professional standards.The best method for demonstrating this would be for the CNO to
A)advertise nurse-patient ratios.
B)apply for magnet hospital status.
C)hire advanced practice nurses.
D)publish complication rates.
Q2) An elected member of Congress wishes to arrange discussion of a new bill related to heart disease during February,which has been declared National Heart Month.Which action by the legislator would most likely lead to this happening as desired?
A)Arrange the dates for discussion with the party whip's secretary.
B)Hire a lobbyist to present the proposed bill and timeline for debate.
C)Meet with the appropriate committee chairperson to make the request.
D)Reserve rooms in chambers for public discussion and debate on the issue.
Q3) Bills that include funding requests are known as __________ bills.
A)authorization
B)finalized
C)funded
D)supplemental
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Chapter 7: Economic Issues in Nursing and Health Care
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Q1) A state nurses association has convinced hospitals in that state to offer very attractive wage and benefits packages to nurses.To determine whether this strategy is working to provide a long-term solution to the nursing shortage,the association would measure the
A)comparative RN vacancy rates before and after the change.
B)hospitals' use of agency personnel to fill nursing positions.
C)number of students admitted to nursing schools in that state.
D)percentage of nurses stating on a survey that they work second jobs.
Q2) A nurse performing a technology assessment understands that the results of the assessment will be used to
A)compare different brands of equipment.
B)determine whether up-to-date items are being used.
C)distribute technology evenly across units.
D)make decisions on resource allocation.
Q3) The student nurse know that employer-sponsored health insurance was
A)a new idea for health care financing invented after World War II.
B)created by the federal government to stimulate the economy.
C)never envisioned as being a permanent part of the health care arena.
D)originally a way to increase revenue for doctors and hospitals.
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Chapter 8: Effective Communication
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Q1) A patient has just made some statements that seem vague and ambiguous to the nurse.The best statement by the nurse after the patient finishes speaking would be,
A)"Are you afraid these tests will bring results that will upset you?"
B)"I'd like to understand more about what happened earlier today."
C)"Why do you think this happened to you today instead of earlier?"
D)"You said earlier that you were upset by the physician on rounds."
Q2) The student studying group processes learns about the four phases of groups,which include (Select all that apply. )
A)forming.
B)norming.
C)organizing.
D)storming.
E)working.
Q3) A nurse explains to a preceptor student that values clarification helps with intrapersonal communication because
A)communication is enhanced when it occurs between people with similar values.
B)it allows the nurse to separate his or her values from those of the patient.
C)it helps the nurse avoid saying things that might offend or anger others.
D)understanding values will help prevent communication misunderstandings.
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Chapter 9: Think Like a Nurse: Essential Thinking Skills for Professional Nurses
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Q1) A nurse wishes to obtain data about a new patient's self-esteem.To gain the clearest picture,the nurse uses the assessment technique of (Select all that apply. )
A)asking about the patient's perception of self-esteem.
B)completing an entire head-to-toe assessment first.
C)conducting a structured interview with direct questions.
D)interviewing the patient in an unstructured format.
E)observing for relevant verbal and nonverbal clues.
Q2) A faculty member explains to a class of nursing students that the primary goal of critical thinking in clinical practice is to
A)compete with other health professionals.
B)create diverse theories of nursing practice.
C)determine an effective course of action.
D)judge the relative value of chosen actions.
Q3) When applying the nursing process to patients,the nurse knows that the goal of data analysis is
A)to decide when new assessments should occur.
B)to ensure that enough data have been collected.
C)the creation of appropriate nursing diagnoses.
D)to discovery disparities in the collected data.
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Chapter 10: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
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Q1) A patient has been attending an outpatient diabetes education group.On assessing the patient after several sessions,the nurse determines that the patient's knowledge is far below what the diabetic educator expects.The patient states,"I can't stand that group! All that talk mixes me up." The nurse concludes the most likely reason for this response is that the patient
A)is not an auditory learner and is frustrated.
B)should give the group experience more time.
C)really does not like the people in the group.
D)would respond better to personal discussion.
Q2) A nurse has planned a detailed and individualized teaching plan for a patient who had a double mastectomy.While working with her,the nurse notes that the patient seems distracted and unable to remember what was just taught;also,her skill at changing her dressings is poor.The nurse is frustrated and consults a colleague,who explains that the most likely reason for this behavior is
A)denial of the need to learn self-care.
B)inadequate pain relief or treatment.
C)lack of emotional readiness to learn.
D)not enough time to perform the skills.
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Chapter 11: Legal Aspects of Nursing Practice
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Q1) A nurse has received a charging document.The nurse manager advises the nurse that this document means
A)a lawsuit charging nursing malpractice has been filed,and the nurse is being sued.
B)someone filed a motion with the state board requesting a license revocation hearing.
C)the board of nursing has cause to believe the nurse violated the state practice law.
D)the nurse has been charged with a civil or criminal offense and must appear in court.
Q2) A faculty member is explaining to the senior nursing class that to become licensed,applicants must (Select all that apply. )
A)demonstrate good moral character.
B)graduate from an approved program.
C)maintain a certain grade point average.
D)pass the standard licensure examination.
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Chapter 12: Ethical Dimensions of Nursing and Health Care
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Q1) A nurse speaking in the legislature in favor of providing universal health care would best support this cause by calling on the ethical principle of A)autonomy.
B)beneficence.
C)justice.
D)veracity.
Q2) A nurse feels strongly that nursing practice should be based on justice.The action by the nurse that best demonstrates this principle is to
A)allow patients to make their own decisions regarding nursing care.
B)make sure all patients get their meals ordered at the same time.
C)spend the same amount of time with each patient during the shift.
D)use a consistent approach in deciding which patients to see first.
Q3) The nurse explains to a co-worker that in order to practice in an ethical manner,the first thing the nurse must do is to
A)clarify one's own values to be sure they can be helpful in ethical dilemmas
B)find an employer with organizational goals consistent with ethical practice.
C)follow an established set of rules when confronted with an ethics dilemma.
D)understand nursing's role in meeting the professional goals of nursing.
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Chapter 13: Information Management
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Q1) A nurse manager is assessing the unit staff on their degree of information literacy.What actions by staff members best indicate good information literacy skills? (Select all that apply. )
A)Able to conduct relevant computer searches for information
B)Evaluate sources of information as to their validity and reliability
C)Notice that a particular problem exists and recognize the need for information
D)Search common lay Internet sites for health care-related information
E)Use information to inform best practices and improve patient care
Q2) A student is confused about standardized language in nursing and asks the faculty to explain its value.What response by the faculty is best?
A)Allows easier data base searching especially for novice researchers
B)Combines several similar terms for the same item under one heading
C)Eventually will lead to third-party reimbursement for nursing care
D)Makes the value of nursing care explicit and comparable in electronic systems.
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Chapter 14: Diversity in Health and Illness
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Q1) The nursing dean knows that in regard to minority and male nursing student enrollment,
A)male faculty numbers are approaching numbers similar to the overall male population.
B)male and minority enrollments have been growing exponentially.
C)minorities are well represented in nursing and health care today.
D)minority numbers have increased but still underrepresent the population.
Q2) A faculty member explains that four states and Washington,DC are known as "majority-minority" areas,meaning
A)areas where the minority population is expected to become the majority.
B)non-white,non-Hispanic individuals make up the population majority.
C)places where the majority group alternates between white and nonwhite.
D)regions where there is no dominant population group to make a majority.
Q3) A nurse works with a diverse population.This nurse can conclude that care planning has been successful when
A)all patients meet the objectives set forth.
B)high levels of compliance are demonstrated.
C)patient care plans are culturally relevant.
D)patients understand what is expected of them.
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Chapter 15: Health and Health Promotion
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Q1) The nurse who is interested in the eudaemonistic model of health would likely assess patients regarding their position related to
A)a broad range of feelings about health.
B)ease of making health care changes.
C)Maslow's level of self-actualization.
D)the importance of health in their lives.
Q2) A nurse assessing a patient with the adaptive model of health in mind would most likely ask which question as part of an admission database?
A)"Does this illness cause problems in your relationships?"
B)"How have these symptoms interfered with your daily life?"
C)"What impact has this illness had on your usual lifestyle?"
D)"What type of support systems do you have to help you?"
Q3) A nurse has worked to teach patients disease prevention strategies and is frustrated by the low level of compliance.This nurse would most likely conclude that
A)it is hard to convince people that they can attain higher wellness levels.
B)most people have very low levels of motivation to make changes.
C)patients do not like being told that good health requires deprivation.
D)the information being given is too difficult for patients to follow.
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Chapter 16: Genetics and Genomics in Professional Nursing
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Q1) The nurse knows that the science of all the genes in the human genome,along with their interactions with each other,the environment,and other influences,is known as the study of A)genes.
B)genetics.
C)genomics.
D)inheritance.
Q2) A genetics nurse is working with a couple undergoing genetic counseling.The nurse would evaluate that goals for counseling have been met when the couple A)decides not to have children because of the chance of genetic illness.
B)is able to consider consequences of testing without cultural influences.
C)makes informed decisions regarding testing and subsequent actions.
D)understands a particular genetic illness and how it can be transmitted.
Q3) A patient wishes to construct a family medical history but does not know how to begin.The best response by the nurse would be to A)have the patient use the U.S.Surgeon General's Family History Tool. B)interview the patient and try to construct as good a history as possible.
C)refer the patient to a qualified genetics and genomics counselor for help.
D)send the patient home with a list of questions to ask his or her relatives.
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Chapter 17: Global Rural Nursing Practice
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Q1) The nursing instructor explains that defining "rural" is often difficult because A)agencies use multiple different definitions.
B)everyone's ideas of "rural" are different.
C)there has been no need to define this population.
D)there is no interest in defining this population.
Q2) The nurse working in a rural community understands that the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)include (Select all that apply. )
A)achieve universal primary education.
B)create employment opportunities.
C)improve maternal health.
D)promote gender equality and empower women.
E)reduce child mortality.
Q3) The nurse knows that the Rural Healthy People (RHP)2020 project identified the top priority health care need as
A)access to quality health care.
B)emergency department care.
C)more inpatient hospital beds.
D)the need for female doctors.
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Chapter 18: Violence Against Women: An Epidemic and a Health Issue
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Q1) A nurse has assessed that a woman is a victim of intimate partner violence (IPV).The woman feels safe to go home from the clinic.The priority action by the nurse would be to
A)give the woman resources she can keep with her at all times.
B)help the woman create a safety plan for her and her children.
C)let the woman make phone calls from the clinic telephones.
D)tell the woman that the nurse is available to help her if needed.
Q2) A nursing student asks the clinic nurse why it is important to find out whether a woman in a violent relationship feels safe leaving the clinic.The best response by the nurse would be to tell the student that
A)femicide is a major cause of death,especially in African American women.
B)if the woman is not safe,the nurse can have the police escort her.
C)the law requires asking about patient safety in this situation.
D)women who are not safe need to be given referral information.
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Chapter 19: Telehealth
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Q1) A rural hospital's director of nursing (DON)is establishing a telehealth system.What actions by the DON are important policy measures? (Select all that apply. )
A)Creating work agreements that consider licensure issues
B)Educating staff on telehealth practice and procedures
C)Ensuring confidentiality in telehealth records and encounters
D)Reducing patient perception of "distance" in interactions
E)Writing policies that include ethics applied to telehealth
Q2) The nurse understands that the phrase "the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient's clinical health status" refers to what aspect of health care?
A)Computerized charting systems
B)Electronic medical records
C)Telehealth
D)Telemedicine
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Chapter 20: Patient Safety
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Q1) A nursing manager for a cardiac unit wishes to improve collaborative teamwork to improve patient care outcomes.Which action by the manager would best accomplish this goal?
A)Create permanent nurse-aide work groups.
B)Formulate nurse-cardiologist work teams.
C)Implement daily multidisciplinary rounds.
D)Require face-to-face reports between nurses.
Q2) A nursing manager explains to a group of newly hired graduate nurses that maintaining situational awareness means
A)being aware of possible problems encountered in patient situations.
B)remaining aware of patient status and how it can change quickly.
C)the ability to recover quickly from mistakes once they do occur.
D)understanding how everyone's role is related to patient outcomes.
Q3) The nurse knows that the purpose of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)is to
A)prioritize patient safety regulations.
B)promote use of research in practice.
C)protect the health of all Americans.
D)provide guidance on hospital policy.
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