Professional Development in Nursing
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Course Introduction
Professional Development in Nursing explores the continuous process of growth and learning essential for nurses to maintain competence and advance their practice in a dynamic healthcare environment. The course covers strategies for setting career goals, engaging in lifelong learning, reflecting on practice, and adapting to new technologies and evidence-based procedures. It emphasizes the importance of leadership, effective communication, ethical decision-making, and collaboration within interdisciplinary teams. Students will critically examine professional standards, regulatory requirements, and the role of professional organizations, preparing them to actively shape their own careers while contributing to high-quality patient care and the advancement of the nursing profession.
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LPN to RN Transitions 4th Edition by Lora Claywell
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Chapter 1: Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future
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Q1) 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 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
Answer: D
Q2) A student nurse and the staff RN are discussing recent changes on the nursing unit. Which of the following are examples of change processes? (Select all that apply.)
A) Coercive
B) Collaborative
C) Technocratic
D) Planned
E) Organized
Answer: A, C, D
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Chapter 2: Assessing Yourself and Designing Success
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Q1) A nursing professor is grading an assignment on self-defeating behavior. The professor can expect to find which statement written by the student who has a good understanding of perfectionism?
A) Perfection is impossible to attain, and therefore constantly falling short of perfection leads to negative feelings and beliefs about oneself.
B) Perfection is the ultimate goal, and it is not a self-defeating behavior to demand it of oneself.
C) Perfectionism is the only means by which we can truly improve.
D) Perfectionism is a character flaw and cannot be addressed.
Answer: A
Q2) The student is listening to a lecture on self-defeating behaviors. Which statement by the student indicates that teaching has been effective?
A) "Nit-picking is viewing situations from a negative aspect."
B) "Pessimism is looking for all imperfections."
C) "Worrying is being concerned over issues that may or may not be in your control."
D) "Perfectionism is rejecting responsibility for actions or inactions."
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Study Habits and Test-Taking Skills
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Q1) The student is listening to a lecture on better study habits. Which statement indicates that teaching has been effective?
A) "I should study for 3 to 4".
B) "I should study for 2 to 3".
C) "I should study for 4 to 5".
D) "I should study for 5 to 6".
Answer: B
Q2) The RN is performing an assessment on a patient being admitted for back pain. The nurse interprets which of the patient's statements as a minor detail?
A) The patient has not been able to void in 12 hours.
B) The patient ate 90% of his meal.
C) The patient reports being unable to walk.
D) The patient was involved in a car accident 2 days ago.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Distinguishing the RN Role from the LPN/LVN Role
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Q1) Which action defines the nurse as a care provider in an inpatient setting?
A) Holding an information session on diabetes management and prevention
B) Running a blood pressure screening in the lobby of the hospital
C) Assisting new parents after the delivery of preterm twins
D) Handing out pamphlets on how to lower cholesterol
Q2) The RN utilizes problem-solving skills to do all of the following except
A) establish mutual goals with the patient and family.
B) formulate a care plan.
C) assist patients to achieve expected outcomes in the plan of care.
D) oversee implementation and evaluation of the plan.
Q3) The student understands that the LPN/LVN role differs from the RN role in many areas. She shows understanding when she can state that the LPN/LVN and RN are similar in which area?
A) Educational preparation
B) Thinking skills
C) Assessment skills
D) Basic psychomotor skills
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Chapter 5: Using Nursing Theory to Guide Professional Practice
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Q1) Which theory focuses on patterns, life processes, and wholeness and describes seeing the life process as a progression believing that health and the evolving pattern of consciousness are the same?
A) Theory of Goal Attainment
B) Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness: Margaret Newman
C) Theory of Interpersonal Relations
D) Roy Adaptation Model
Q2) Which of the following is an example of the application of Levine's Conservation Model to the clinical setting?
A) Teaching the patient to self-administer insulin
B) Encouraging the patient to ambulate
C) Obtaining a wheelchair for the patient
D) Arranging for the patient's family to visit
Q3) The nurse providing teaching on a weight loss program to the obese patient is applying which nursing model developed by Nola Pender?
A) Interpersonal relations
B) Health promotion
C) Conservation
D) Adaptation
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Chapter 6: Providing Patient-Centered Care Through the Nursing Process
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Q1) The nurse reviews assessment findings for assigned patients. Based on this information, which patient demands the nurse's immediate attention? The patient with
A) renal failure on dialysis whose WBC is 10,000 mm3 (normal).
B) abdominal aneurysm whose blood pressure is 170/90.
C) atrial fibrillation whose lab results show and INR of 2.5 (normal).
D) endocarditis who has a loud heart murmur.
Q2) A patient with pneumonia has been using the incentive spirometer four times daily while awake during his 3-day hospitalization. How would the nurse explore the effectiveness of this intervention?
A) The nurse would ask whether the patient was breathing better.
B) The nurse would add turn, cough, and deep breathing exercises.
C) The nurse would watch the patient use the incentive spirometer.
D) The nurse would auscultate the lungs for adventitious breath sounds.
Q3) An example of an intervention independently initiated by the nurse is
A) starting a teaching plan for the patient who will go home tomorrow.
B) instituting diet restrictions with subsequent progression of diet as tolerated.
C) sending an abnormal appearing urine sample to the lab for routine urinalysis.
D) writing an order for aspirin for a headache.
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Chapter 7: Critical and Diagnostic Thinking for Better Clinical Judgment
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Q1) Each element of the nursing process involves critical thinking. Which definition of assessment reflects critical thinking?
A) Correctly and completely documenting the assessment data on a form
B) A process of discovery and decision-making about the nature of the patient's needs
C) Using a systematic approach to ensure comprehensive collection of assessment data
D) Selecting the most accurate NANDA-I nursing diagnosis for the patient
Q2) The nurse has received a change-of-shift report about these four patients. Which one should the nurse plan to assess first?
A) A 23-year-old patient with cystic fibrosis who has pulmonary function testing scheduled in 30 minutes.
B) A 35-year-old patient who was admitted the previous day with bacterial pneumonia and has a temperature of 100.2°F.
C) A 46-year-old patient who is complaining of dyspnea after having a thoracentesis 1 hour previously.
D) A 77-year-old patient with TB who has four antitubercular medications due in 15 minutes.
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Chapter 8: Practicing Evidence-Based Decision Making
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Q1) The nurse manager wants to determine the cause of an increase in medication errors over the past 6 months. This is an example of which type of research?
A) Experimental
B) Trial and error
C) Quality assurance
D) Scientific
Q2) Can you explain how the nurse's use of PICO helps to formulate an effective clinical question?
A) PICO organizes the elements that guide the clinical question.
B) PICO formulates an answer to the clinical question.
C) PICO explains the hierarchy of evidence.
D) PICO identifies the strength of the evidence.
Q3) Which question should the nurse ask in order to judge the validity of a research study?
A) What reliability information has been provided?
B) Are the instrument measures applied consistently?
C) Does the instrument measure what it is supposed to measure?
D) How much random error exists?
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Chapter 9: Communicating With Patients and Co-Workers
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Q1) The nurse is caring for a 64-year-old woman 4 hours after knee replacement. Although she rates her pain at 6 out of 10, she refuses pain medication and tells the nurse, "I can deal with it." Which of the following is the nurse's best response?
A) "OK, that's your decision."
B) "You're just being stubborn."
C) "OK, I'll come back later."
D) "What is your concern?"
Q2) The student nurse is listening to a lecture on communication. Which statement indicates that the teaching has been effective?
A) "A communication blocker is silence."
B) "A communication blocker is eye contact."
C) "A communication blocker is advising."
D) "A communication blocker is clarifying."
Q3) The physician orders a dose of morphine that the nurse considers excessive. The nurse should
A) administer the medication.
B) ask another nurse to administer the medication.
C) call the supervisor.
D) contact the physician.
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Chapter 10: Teaching Patients and Their Families
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Q1) The nurse has just taught an adult patient with a new diagnosis of diabetes mellitus how to check blood glucose. The nurse should document
A) "Demonstrated understanding of checking blood glucose."
B) that the patient demonstrated the procedure properly and the time it took to complete the educational session.
C) the steps of the procedure the patient was taught.
D) that the nurse taught the patient how to check blood glucose.
Q2) Persons seeking health care have increased autonomy and insist on taking an active role in their medical treatment decisions. What aspect of a nurse's role does this fact affect?
A) Use of professional communication when doing patient teaching and admitting patients to the unit.
B) Coordination of human and material resources that are directly used in the delivery of care at the bedside.
C) Evaluation of performance and skills of nursing staff members involved in direct patient care.
D) Patient collaboration with health care team members involved with the development of focused, quality care.
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Chapter 11: The Nurses, Ideas, and Forces That Define the Profession
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Q1) What is the function of Continuous Quality Improvement?
A) To improve staff compliance with training
B) To assist staff in building on nursing skills
C) To assess patient care, from admission to discharge
D) To improve collaboration of staff
Q2) The nurse is listening to a lecture on Mildred Montag. Which statement indicates that teaching has been effective?
A) "Montag fought for women's rights."
B) "Montag promoted the associates degree as a way to enter the field of nursing."
C) "Montag was America's first trained nurse."
D) "Montag care for tenement families by establishing a visiting nurse service."
Q3) Based on what you know, what events would you select to show the contributions that Isabel Hampton Robb made to nursing? (Select all that apply.)
A) Established a visiting nurse service
B) Reduced student working hours
C) Wrote a book on the history of nursing
D) Promoted licensure exams
E) Fought for women's rights and the right to vote
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Chapter 12: Upholding Legal and Ethical Principles
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Q1) The RN is listening to a lecture on malpractice. Which statement indicates that the teaching has been effective?
A) "The elements that must be present to prove malpractice are: duty, breach of duty, actual injury and insurance."
B) "The elements that must be present to prove malpractice are: duty, breach of duty, actual injury and battery."
C) "The elements that must be present to prove malpractice are: duty, breach of duty, actual injury and intent."
D) "The elements that must be present to prove malpractice are: duty, breach of duty, actual injury and causation."
Q2) An RN administers an ordered dose of medication over the patient's refusal. On review, the manager interprets this action to be
A) assault.
B) battery.
C) negligence.
D) malpractice.
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Chapter 13: Care and Safety Standards, Competence, and Nurse Accountability
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Q1) A nurse has just received training on the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Project. What should the nurse do to show that she understands the importance of the project?
A) After assessing the patient, determine a list of priorities for care and begin implementing them.
B) Collaborate with medical personnel involved in the patient's care to develop a treatment plan for the patient.
C) Develop a treatment plan with the patient and medical personnel that best fits the patient's needs and lifestyle.
D) Develop a treatment plan based on what the patient's wife says he needs.
Q2) There are a number of characteristics that will help a novice nurse find success in a mentoring relationship. Which action represents one of these positive characteristics?
A) The novice nurse asks clear, thoughtful questions and seeks clarifications.
B) The novice nurse is patient and waits for the mentor to approach with learning opportunities.
C) The novice nurse is directive rather than open to dialogue.
D) The novice nurse stays busy, and the mentor seeks the opportunities.
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Chapter 14: Leading, Delegating, and Collaborating
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Q1) A nurse is assigned to care for a patient who has been admitted with an opiate overdose and tells the nursing supervisor, "This is a waste of my time. The patient will be back on the needle right after being discharged." The most appropriate response by the nursing supervisor is
A) "Your lack of professionalism will make it difficult for you to provide adequate care."
B) "You know we are obligated to provide appropriate care no matter how we feel."
C) "It is important to recognize these feelings and then figure out how to deal with them."
D) "Since you feel so strongly, perhaps you should be assigned to care for a different patient."
Q2) Which statement best reflects that the nurse manager has taken the first action in the decision-making process?
A) "We could hire four additional nursing assistants."
B) "We need to decrease patient falls."
C) "Patient falls have decreased by 20%."
D) "Here is the revised staffing schedule."
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Chapter 15: Promoting Healthful Living in the Primary Care Setting
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Q1) Negative dietary influences on the health of Asian immigrants to the United States are most likely considered to be which type of environmental factor affecting health promotion?
A) Spiritual
B) Cultural
C) Developmental
D) Economic
Q2) After the nurse implements diet instruction with a patient with heart disease, the patient can explain the information but fails to make the recommended dietary changes. The nurse's evaluation is that
A) learning did not occur because the patient's behavior did not change.
B) the nursing responsibility for helping the patient make dietary changes has been fulfilled.
C) choosing not to follow the diet is the behavior that resulted from the learning.
D) the teaching methods were ineffective in helping the patient learn the dietary information.
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Chapter 16: Managing Care in Secondary and Tertiary
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Q1) Some cultures see personal touching as an insult unless you are intimately related. In the acute care setting, the need for touching to administer care may produce what within the patient?
A) Cultural strain
B) Impaired functioning
C) Cultural insult
D) Increased self-care deficit
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a responsible resource manager in an acute care facility?
A) Listens to staff input about implementing a new procedure
B) Consumes foods and drinks kept on the unit for patients
C) Considers the unit's patient census when determining staffing
D) Uses supplies that are not accounted for
Q3) By allowing the ICU patient's family to visit as often as the patient's condition will allow, the nurse is considering which type of need within the patient and his family?
A) Trust
B) Social support
C) Environmental
D) Dependence
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Chapter 17: Reflecting on Your Transition
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Q1) A graduate RN on the telemetry unit is on the way to the nurse's station to chart and suddenly hears from a patient's room, "Help! Nurse!" This is not the nurse's assigned patient. Others also hear this cry for help and quickly run in with the crash cart while the graduate RN looks on. In planning care for this patient, the beginning RN must realize the importance of identifying and (Select all that apply)
A) arranging experiences.
B) correcting weaknesses.
C) investigating insights.
D) leveraging strengths.
E) applying poise.
F) accepting doubts.
Q2) The nurse is to take a meal tray to a patient the nurse knows nothing about. Before leaving the tray with the patient, which is the most critical safety factor the nurse should determine?
A) The room is neat and orderly without offending odors.
B) The tray has condiments placed within easy reach.
C) The patient is seated securely and in a comfortable position.
D) The patient's ability to swallow is intact.
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Chapter 18: Prepare Now to Pass NCLEX-RN
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Q1) The student is attending an information session on the NCLEX RN. Which statement indicates that teaching has been effective?
A) "If I am prompted to answer 265, I have failed the test."
B) "The number of questions does not indicate whether or not I have passed the test."
C) "The more questions I answer, the more likely I am to pass the test."
D) "If I answer only 75 questions, I have passed the test."
Q2) Before beginning the exam, a student stops and reflects on the Five C's: content, confidence, control, common sense, and comparison. Which statement made by the student indicates her understanding of confidence?
A) "I know I can do this."
B) "I just need to remember what I studied."
C) "I just need to narrow down the right answer."
D) "What do I think is the right answer?"
E) "Relax, stay calm and focused."
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