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Contemporary Issues in Nursing explores the dynamic challenges and trends currently affecting the nursing profession at local, national, and global levels. The course examines a range of topics including healthcare policy, ethical and legal considerations, advances in technology, workplace diversity, and professional advocacy. Students will engage in critical analysis of how sociocultural, economic, and political factors shape nursing practice and patient care outcomes, preparing them to respond effectively to emerging issues and to assume leadership roles in their future careers.
Recommended Textbook Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management 3rd Edition by Patricia Kelly
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Chapter 1: Nursing Leadership,Management,and Motivation
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Q1) Lussier (1999)noted that there are content motivation theories and process motivation theories.Which of the following is considered a process motivation theory?
A)equity theory
B)hierarchy of needs theory
C)expectancy-relatedness-growth theory
D)hygiene maintenance and motivation factors
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following researchers did not coin the phrase "Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right"? Select all that apply.
A)Kotter (1990)
B)Stodgill (1948)
C)McCall (1998)
D)Bennis and Nanus (2003)
Answer: A,B,C
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Chapter 2: The Health Care Environment
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Q1) What is one of the two measures utilized to measure the health quality of the nation?
A)immunization rates
B)persons older than 65
C)infant mortality
D)cost of care
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following are methods for reimbursement for health care services in the United States? Select all that apply.
A)universal health care
B)private insurers
C)publicly funded payers
D)direct payment by consumers
Answer: B,C,D
Q3) The link between adverse patient outcomes and cleanliness was discovered by:
A)W. Edwards Deming
B)Florence Nightingale
C)Isabel Hampton Robb
D)Dorothea Dix
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Nursing Today
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Q1) A number of resources are available for nurses regarding evidence-based care.Which of the following resources is not a journal source for these practices?
A)Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing
B)Health Affairs
C)Hasting Report
D)Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing
Answer: A
Q2) Which nursing theorist was responsible for Human Becoming theory?
A)Nightingale
B)Parse
C)Neuman
D)Peplau
Answer: B
Q3) The first Nightingale School for Nurses was founded when?
A)1825
B)1860
C)1885
D)1910
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Technology, and Informatics
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Q1) Which of the following is not correct about the use of simulation as a means of training nurses in academic and hospital settings?
A)can contribute to patient safety
B)opportunities to intervene in clinical situations without risk to a patient
C)can experience specified scenarios in a supervised safe setting
D)uses sensors to detect whether a person has used hand sanitizer in a specific setting
Q2) The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)Act has mandated the use of electronic medical records by the year 2015.What is the penalty for non-compliance and not becoming a "meaningful user"?
A)Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement will be reduced
B)fines for nonusing electronic medical records
C)increase in potential for medical errors
D)inability to file Medicare and Medicaid claims electronically
Q3) In what group decision making technique are the members not present?
A)PERT
B)Gantt
C)Delphi
D)Nominal
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Chapter 5: Inter-Professional Teamwork and Collaboration
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Q1) Eight characteristics of groupthink have been identified by Janis (1972).Which of the following is not a characteristic of groupthink?
A)collective rationalism
B)belief in the inherent morality of the team
C)self-censorship
D)illusion of vulnerability
Q2) Great teams and teamwork occur in health care and winning teams develop when people with differing ideas,backgrounds,and beliefs come together to work synergistically and harmoniously.Six characteristics of great teams have been identified.Which of the following are some of these six characteristics? Select all that apply.
A)active participation by most of the team members
B)assessment of the team's composition
C)communication link with effective communication patterns in place
D)static action plan that can be defined toward the middle or end of the team
E)must have a clearly stated purpose
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Chapter 6: Change, Innovation, and Conflict
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Q1) Diagnosing a problem,selecting progressive change objectives,and maintaining change are steps in which change theory?
A)Roger's Diffusion of Innovations Theory
B)Havelock's Change Model
C)Lewin's Force-Field Model
D)Lippitt's Phases of Change
Q2) Which strategy for change relies on social orientation as its power base?
A)rational-empirical
B)power-coercive
C)normative-reeducative
D)systems thinking
Q3) Three strategies to promote change in organizations were defined by Bennis,Benne,and Chin (1969).Which of the following is not one of these strategies?
A)rational-empirical approach
B)driving-restraining forces approach
C)power-coercive approach
D)normative-reeducative approach
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Chapter 7: Power and Politics
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Q1) A source of power that is derived from the knowledge and skills that nurses possess is referred to as:
A)legitimate power
B)expert power
C)referent power
D)reward/coercion power
Q2) One way to wield influence as an expert nurse is to:
A)demonstrate nursing skills
B)proclaim oneself an expert
C)achieve position status
D)network with expert nurses
Q3) According to consumer opinion polls,_____ consistently show up as rated "Number One" trusted professionals.
A)firemen
B)policemen
C)physicians
D)nurses
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Chapter 8: Delegation of Patient Care
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Q1) Patient X is a 64-year-old male cardiac patient in the telemetry unit post-CABG.He is very demanding and expects his needs to be met immediately if not sooner.He refuses to have any female staff members care for him.It is the end of shift and he appears to be stable in normal sinus rhythm.He has removed his telemetry electrodes,is sitting up on the side of the bed,has thrown an empty tissue box across the room,and seems to be trying to get out of bed and walk.He is now coughing loudly and is demanding his pain medication in a loud booming voice that carries across the unit.The type of care that he requires now is:
A)direct patient care
B)indirect patient care
C)team work
D)transcultural care
Q2) The obligation to correctly perform one's assigned duties is called:
A)accountability
B)delegation
C)assignment
D)responsibility
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Chapter 9: Effective Staffing
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Q1) Which of the following are considered to be care delivery management tools that may be used by organizations when trying to reduce LOS? Select all that apply.
A)clinical pathways
B)case management
C)disease management
D)nurse management
Q2) On your inpatient ob-gyn unit,the model of patient care delivery consists of a group of patients who are cared for by an RN,an LPN,and a nursing assistive personnel (NAP).This patient care model is called:
A)functional nursing
B)team nursing
C)total patient care
D)primary nursing
Q3) Holiday time is considered to be:
A)productive time
B)nonproductive time
C)direct care
D)indirect care
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Chapter 10: Budget Concepts for Patient Care
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Q1) Certificates of Need (CON)were found to be unsuccessful because:
A)there was no consistent oversight
B)they focused only on hospitals
C)hospitals spent more than their limits
D)the cost of technology was too expensive
Q2) A(n)_____ is a plan that provides formal quantitative expressions for the acquisition and disbursement of monies over a specified period of time.
A)accounting
B)budget
C)mission
D)vision
Q3) Obtaining information concerning average income would be considered:
A)competitive analysis
B)demographic information
C)strategic initiatives
D)regulatory influences
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Chapter 11: Strategic Planning and Organizing of Patient
Care for Quality and Safety
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Q1) Division of labor can be performed by which of the following criteria? Select all that apply.
A)geographic area
B)product
C)union
D)service
Q2) A specific target that a unit desires to attain within the time span of one year is called a:
A)goal
B)initiative
C)objective
D)project
Q3) A small group of individuals,who have a common characteristic and who meet together as a group and respond to questions on a particular topic about which they are expected to have an interest or expertise,is called:
A)stakeholder
B)stakeholder assessments
C)focus group
D)managerial epidemiology
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Chapter 12: Time Management and Setting Patient Care
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Q1) A number of traps that nurses can fall into related to prioritization have been described by Vacarro (2007).Which of the following is not a potential trap described by Vacarro?
A)doing what hits first
B)the path of least resistance
C)relying on misguided judgment
D)completing tasks by default
Q2) The nurse should schedule time for proper rest,exercise,and nutrition to allow for:
A)quantity time
B)quality time
C)creativity
D)priorities
Q3) Procrastination,inability to say no,management by crisis,haste,indecisiveness,interrupting telephone calls,socialization,and complaining are all examples of:
A)mistakes
B)errors
C)time wasters
D)new nurses
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Chapter 13: Quality Improvement and Evidence Based Patient Care
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Q1) To increase the ability to predict the effect that one or more changes would have if they were implemented is a goal of:
A)FOCUS
B)QA
C)PDSA
D)Risk management
Q2) Two groups which can advise and plan QI strategies are:
A)teams and clinical practice councils
B)teams and educational councils
C)teams and quality councils
D)teams and advisory councils
Q3) Quality improvement efforts use data to determine relationships and outcomes.Which of the following types of charts are used in quality improvement efforts? Select all that apply.
A)time series charts
B)Pareto charts
C)histamine charts
D)fishbone charts
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Chapter 14: Legal Aspects of Health Care
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Q1) Which are terms that relate to the tort law on intentionally false communication or publication? Select all that apply.
A)libel
B)slander
C)defamation
D)DNAR
Q2) A nursing checklist of actions to decrease liability notes a number of different ways to help prevent liability.Which of the following are suggestions from this list? Select all that apply.
A)communicate with your patients and keep them informed
B)maintain ongoing monitoring of the process and outcome of patient care through incident reports, sentinel events, etc.
C)develop physical, mental, and verbal "no abuse" policies
D)frequently use verbal orders and the telephone to promote rapid transmission of information to help ensure good patient outcomes.
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Chapter 15: Ethical Aspects of Health Care
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Q1) An example of teleology is:
A)do unto others as you would have them do unto you
B)murder is always wrong
C)the achievement of a good outcome justifies using less than desirable means to attain it
D)a person's character must be developed so that he will be predisposed to behave virtuously
Q2) When a nurse provides all patients with caring attention,including those who are terminally ill,that nurse is displaying the ethical principle of:
A)nonmaleficence
B)teleology
C)beneficence
D)fidelity
Q3) When a nurse chooses in the process of values clarification,the nurse will:
A)make that choice part of their behavior
B)analyze alternative beliefs
C)share the choice with others
D)be satisfied with the choice
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Chapter 16: Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality
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Q1) Identification of a person according to genetic traits and physical characteristics is called:
A)culture
B)acculturation
C)race
D)cultural ethnicity
Q2) Within each broad category of race are numerous cultural groups.Why is this important for nurses to recognize?
A)for demographic data collection
B)different cultural groups have different views of health-related illness practices for care
C)to prevent racism from occurring on the unit among the patients
D)to provide the best care possible according to their heritage and traditions
Q3) When moving to a different country,it is important to consider the possibility and potential implications of:
A)ambivalence
B)improved lifestyle
C)tradition in ethnic groups
D)culture shock
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Chapter 17: NCLEX-RN Preparation and Your First Job
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Q1) One reason for the exit examination is to demonstrate
A)strengths and weaknesses
B)a great GPA
C)proficiency for getting a job
D)reduce anxiety for NCLEX
Q2) Just as there are certain components that should be included in cover letters,there are also those that should not be used.Which of the following is not correct regarding what should not be included in cover letters?
A)name signed in nonblack ink or blue ink
B)repeating information
C)nonindented paragraphs
D)more than one page in length
Q3) When answering NCLEX test questions
A)assume you can give perfect care
B)rely on your clinical experience
C)rely on answers from a previous test
D)assume you have unlimited time
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Chapter 18: Career Planning and Achieving Balance
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Q1) A number of occupational health hazards exist that nurses are susceptible to.There are four primary categories of these occupational health hazards.These categories include which of the following? Select all that apply.
A)infectious agents
B)physical agents
C)workplace violence agents
D)chemical agents
Q2) One aspect of intellectual health concerns financial planning.Some viable elements of financial planning that nurses might consider related to increasing their financial net worth for the future are listed below.Which is not necessarily a viable means of wealth enhancement?
A)Social Security
B)retirement funds
C)real estate
D)moderate gambling
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