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Chapter 2: Theory As the Basis for Practice
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Q1) Propositions in a theory are the descriptions and relationship among the constructs that:
A) Develop a theory that includes factor-isolating
B) Propose how the concepts are linked and relate to each other
C) Describe the significance, consistency, and scope of the theory
D) All of the above
Answer: B
Q2) Theory,practice,and research are interrelated and interdependent.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Kerlinger and Lee (2000)defined the aims or purpose of theory as describing or explaining some phenomena of interest.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) In research,variables relate to some concept in the theory under study.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Evolution and Use of Formal Nursing Knowledge
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Q1) When nurses select a conceptual model or nursing theory for their professional practice,it is important for them to compare their own beliefs and values to the philosophical claims underlying the conceptual model they select.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The author who wrote about the first ideas of what formal nursing knowledge consisted of was:
A) Parse
B) Neuman
C) Henderson
D) Nightingale
Answer: D
Q3) Protection,medical diagnosis,and stimulation are the functional requirements necessary for each subsystem.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Health, illness, and Holism
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Q1) The three major concepts that explain and predict health-related behaviors are modifying and enabling factors,readiness to undertake recommended compliance behavior,and:
A) Adherence to and compliant with proscribed health behaviors
B) Change of communities; moving to a new locale
C) Setting up a team of physicians to support one
D) None of the above
Q2) Who was the author who defined high-level wellness for an individual as "an integrated method of functioning which is oriented toward maximizing the potential of which the individual is capable [and] requires that the individual maintain a continuum of balance and purposeful direction within the environment where he is functioning"?
A) Pender
B) Gordon
C) Becker
D) Dunn
Q3) Nurses have a primary responsibility in the areas of health promotion,health maintenance,and prevention activities.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Evidence-Based Practice
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the four basic patient human rights?
A) Full disclosure
B) Self-determination
C) Distribution of results
D) Privacy and confidentiality
Q2) A professional nurse is responsible for:
A) Actively consuming nursing research
B) Selecting ethical research designs
C) Critiquing all nursing research studies
D) All of the above
Q3) The first person to conduct professional research was:
A) Corbin
B) Becker
C) Nightingale
D) Giger and Davidhar
Q4) The fourth step of the scientific method is:
A) Collection of data
B) Statement of hypothesis
C) Analysis of data interpretation
D) Description of the theoretical framework
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Chapter 6: Effective Communication
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Q1) Barriers to communication may lower a patient's self-esteem.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements finishes the sentence? Communication can:
A) Be discreet or indirect
B) Sent and received through any of the five senses
C) Contain any of the five requirements for effective communication
D) Be unaffected by cultural differences.
Q3) Which of these statements is true about good communication between a patient and nurse? Select all that apply.
A) Is essential for effective nursing care
B) Allows room for ambiguity when in the patient's best interest
C) Is an intuitive skill
D) Is a learned skill
Q4) Potter and Perry include denotative as:
A) One of the five important factors in nonverbal communication
B) A factor in one of the six aspects of verbal communication
C) Meaning the intonation of a person's voice
D) Meaning the clarity and brevity of verbal communication
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Chapter 7: Critical Thinking
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Q1) According to Dewey,reflective thinking includes:
A) Deduction, induction, and evaluation
B) A response to what is, and not to what may yet be
C) Active, persistent, and careful consideration of belief and/or knowledge put forth as true
D) All of the above
Q2) Scientific reasoning includes:
A) Problem identification
B) Hypothesis testing
C) Data collection
D) All of the above
Q3) What does the idea of a focused,rational analysis of existing knowledge with very specific steps describe?
A) Critical thinking
B) Reactive thinking
C) Reflective thinking
D) Reductive thinking
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Chapter 8: Working With Groups
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Q1) A group in which members are unclear about their individual roles and tasks likely will not function well.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The minimum number of individuals in a group is:
A) 4
B) 3
C) 2
D) 5
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a type of group?
A) Professional
B) Therapeutic
C) Educational
D) Individual
Q4) Groups can be classified according to their focus,group roles,and composition.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Group process is described as the orderly interplay with other groups.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Teaching-Learning Process
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Q1) Determining the specific content of a learning session occurs:
A) After the learner assessment has been conducted
B) Before cognitive objectives are developed
C) When the evaluation is determined
D) All of the above
Q2) Which of the following is a learning theory?
A) Andragogy
B) Behaviorism
C) Multiple intelligences
D) All of the above
Q3) The learning theory that focuses on meaning and thought,holding that learning occurs through perception is:
A) Gestalt
B) Humanism
C) Transformative
D) Social cognitive
Q4) Behavioral objectives relate to the teacher's goals.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Managing and Leading in the Organization
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Q1) Maslow,McGregor,Herzberg,and Ouchi relate to:
A) Organizational structure
B) Classic motivational theories of management
C) Effectiveness of organized medical facilities
D) All of the above
Q2) Flat and tall organizational structures are described according to:
A) Differentiation of objectives
B) Decision-making
C) Coordination
D) All of the above
Q3) Organizations can be viewed in terms of their:
A) People
B) Structure
C) Function
D) All of the above
Q4) Effective conflict resolution requires negotiation or coming to a win-lose solution.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Change and Innovation
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT part of Rogers's five-stage diffusion of innovations model's view of change?
A) Persuasion
B) Knowledge
C) Maintenance
D) Implementation
Q2) The classic change model was developed by:
A) Lewin
B) Rogers
C) Bridges
D) Havelock
Q3) Lippitt did NOT identify which of the following in his theory of change?
A) Environmental causation
B) Human motivation
C) Multiple causation
D) Habits
Q4) To view organizational change,look at internal and external forces within a singular-system approach.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Professional Ethics
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Q1) The Human Genome Project has been a significant scientific achievement that provided new information on gene:
A) Function
B) Structure
C) Dysfunction
D) All of the above
Q2) Before a healthcare facility releases information to an insurance company,they need informed consent from the patient because of the patient's right to:
A) Justice
B) Fidelity
C) Privacy
D) Full disclosure
Q3) A patient can dictate his or her end of life decisions in:
A) An advanced directive
B) An euthanasia directive
C) A durable power of attorney
D) All of the above
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Chapter 13: Quality and Safety in Health Care
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Q1) The rapid changes in healthcare and the added focus on patient safety have required:
A) Redesign of its delivery
B) Devolving demands from insurance companies
C) Competition within the healthcare industry
D) All of the above
Q2) Which of the following is a quality model?
A) Juran trilogy
B) Deming's principles for transformation
C) The Joint Commission's requirements for accreditation
D) All of the above
Q3) The traditional quality assurance model:
A) Is no longer sufficient
B) Occurs in the culture of safety
C) Meets the needs of evolving healthcare
D) All of the above
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Chapter 14: Population Health
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Q1) Three of the leading health indicators cited in Healthy People 2010 were tobacco,teenage pregnancy,and substance abuse.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Low rates of tuberculosis are found in Hispanic,Asian,and Pacific Islander populations.
A)True B)False
Q3) Studies show increased diabetes-related deaths for Hispanic Americans and a higher incidence of diabetes for Native Americans and Alaskan Natives.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Predictions for the aging population include that the proportion of minorities will decrease.
A)True B)False
Q5) Short-term illnesses and frailty are major causes of morbidity in aging adults. A)True B)False
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Chapter 15: Informatics and Documenting Outcomes
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Q1) The American Nurses Association (ANA)currently recognizes how many terminologies or taxonomies that support nursing practice?
A) 1
B) 3
C) 6
D) 12
Q2) The primary interest of nursing informatics (NI)is to:
A) Become a specialty in nursing practice
B) Become accredited at numerous institutions
C) Be represented in the American Medical Association
D) Expand how data, information, and knowledge are used within nursing practice
Q3) Which of the following is an electronic version of the patient record?
A) MDS
B) ANA
C) EHR
D) NMDS
Q4) In practice,nurses are guided by nursing informatics regulations to access patient data.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Economics and Healthcare Policy
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Q1) Which of the following is true about healthcare economics? Select all that apply.
A) It focuses on supply and demand rather that patient satisfaction.
B) It focuses on how components of healthcare differ from those of private agencies.
C) It is a branch of economics that examines local governmental control of healthcare.
D) It analyzes how different parts of the healthcare system works together to meet patient needs.
Q2) Which of the following statements accurately describe the ICD-10 codes? Select all that apply.
A) Focus on the causes of death
B) Focus on causes of morbidity
C) Contain nearly 5,000 classification codes
D) Affect diagnosis and inpatient coding for everyone covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
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Chapter 17: The Politically Active Nurse: an Imperative
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Q1) Lobbying is defined as:
A) Working with a legislator to pass statutory laws of nurse practice acts
B) Grassroots efforts by federal senators who introduce them to the executive branch
C) Attempting to persuade a legislator or legislative aide of the merits of your viewpoint and to influence legislation
D) All of the above
Q2) For nurse practice acts,each state develops:
A) Administrative laws or regulations
B) Laws and regulations that go to committee
C) Administrative regulations for statutory laws
D) All of the above
Q3) Internal political efficacy is:
A) The ability to understand and take part in political affairs
B) Law created by judicial decisions that form a precedent upon which future decisions are based
C) A strong and authentic voice talking about what you do as a nurse and being more visible and vocal as individuals and as members of organizations
D) None of the above
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Chapter 18: Healthcare Reform and Global Issues
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Q1) Reasons for the current nursing shortage are:
A) Increased pressure from the business community
B) Increased recruitment throughout the United States
C) Unimproved retention and recruitment efforts
D) All of the above
Q2) Which of the following factors has NOT influenced the rise of surgi- and urgi-centers?
A) Growth of shopping malls and other commercial venues
B) Changes in the reimbursement system
C) Pressure to limit hospital admissions
D) None of the above
Q3) Uninsured or undersinsured Americans have:
A) Limited access to healthcare
B) Opportunities for medical coverage
C) Unlimited access to patient care
D) None of the above
Q4) Competence in health policy is within the reach of each nurse and student of nursing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Expanding the Vision
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Q1) Collaboration includes all but which of the following?
A) Working together to meet a common goal
B) Assisting colleagues with their identified goal
C) Determining the prescribed outcome together
D) None of the above
Q2) Which of the following is not one of Institute of Medicine's (IOM)(2011)Future of Nursing eight recommendations? Select all that apply.
A) Remove scope of practice barriers
B) Implement nurse residency programs
C) Ensure that nurses engage in short-term education
D) Increase the percentage of nurses with a doctorate to 80% by 2020
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a focus identified by the Health Professions Education Summit?
A) Utilize informatics
B) Apply quality improvement
C) Work in interdisciplinary teams
D) Provide physician-centered care
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