Nursing Theory and Practice Solved
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Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth exploration of foundational and contemporary nursing theories, examining their development, components, and relevance to modern clinical practice. Students will learn to critically analyze various theoretical frameworks, applying them to diverse patient care situations and health care settings. Emphasis is placed on integrating theory with evidence-based practice to improve patient outcomes, guide clinical decision-making, and enhance the professional role of the nurse. Through a combination of lectures, case studies, and practical applications, students will develop a comprehensive understanding of how nursing theory informs practice, research, and leadership in the healthcare environment.
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Professional Nursing Concepts Challenges 8th Edition by Beth Black
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Chapter 1: Nursing in Todays Evolving Health Care Environment
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Q1) Hospice and palliative care nursing is a rapidly developing specialty in nursing.Which facts have contributed to this growth?
A) End-of-life care is largely the responsibility of nurses.
B) End-of-life needs are expected to increase with the aging population.
C) Nursing curricula have prepared nurses to deal effectively with dying patients and their families.
D) Palliative care is a new focus of advanced practice nurses.
E) Hospice and palliative care nurses work in a variety of settings.
Answer: A,B,E
Q2) One important advantage of clinical ladder programs for hospital-based RNs is that they
A) allow career advancement for nurses who choose to remain at the bedside.
B) encourage nurses to move into management positions in which they can influence patient care on a broader scale.
C) encourage RNs to become politically active and guide the profession of nursing. D) provide training to staff nurses so they can move seamlessly across departments.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The History and Social Contexts of Nursing
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Q1) Who was the first educated African-American professional nurse?
A) Linda Richards
B) Phoebe Pember
C) Sojourner Truth
D) Mary Eliza Mahoney
Answer: D
Q2) In 2002 which major American corporation partnered with nursing to design a media campaign to promote the image of nursing?
A) Johnson & Johnson
B) Baxter
C) Microsoft
D) Wal-Mart
Answer: A
Q3) In which practice area was the first clinical nurse specialist (CNS)role developed?
A) Mother-baby
B) Psychiatric nursing
C) Intensive care nursing
D) Emergency nursing
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Nursings Pathway to Professionalism
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the difference between an occupation and a profession?
A) A profession requires a duty to serve.
B) A profession is defined by members' average income.
C) In a profession, action is based on intuition.
D) In a profession, knowledge is handed down from generation to generation.
Answer: A
Q2) One of the characteristics of a profession identified by Kelly was "there is an organization (association)that encourages and supports high standards of practice."
Which of the following illustrates a concern for nursing meeting this characteristic?
A) The ANA has existed for more than 100 years.
B) Nursing specialty organizations have greater power to influence practice than a more general nursing organization.
C) The membership of the ANA is less than 10% of all nurses.
D) The purpose of the ANA does not address the economic and general welfare of nurses.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Nursing Education in an Evolving Health Care Environment
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Q1) Which of the following is the primary distinction between licensure and certification?
A) Certification is required to practice nursing.
B) Licensure is granted automatically on completion of an accredited nursing program.
C) Certification validates a high level of proficiency.
D) Licensure is voluntary.
Q2) Which recommendation made by the 1965 American Nurses Association (ANA)position paper and other position papers of national nursing organizations is still an issue today?
A) Education for nursing should take place in hospital-based programs.
B) Minimum preparation for professional nursing practice should be the BSN degree.
C) Minimum preparation for technical nursing practice should be the licensed practical/vocation nurse (LPN/LVN) diploma.
D) Education for nursing must be evidence-based.
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Chapter 5: Becoming a Professional Nurse: Defining Nursing and
Socialization Into Practice
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of Orem's self-care theory?
A) Assuring proper fresh air and ventilation
B) Demonstrating good handwashing techniques
C) Assisting a disoriented patient with a bath
D) Performing a visual screening exam
Q2) A definition of nursing is essential because it
A) differentiates nursing from other health occupations.
B) guides educational preparation and theory development.
C) helps state nurse practice acts reflect the changing roles of nurses.
D) clarifies the purposes and functions of the nurses.
E) informs potential students of exactly what nurses do.
Q3) Which of the following is an example of formal socialization into the profession of nursing?
A) Unplanned observation of a nurse comforting a child after a painful procedure
B) Hearing two nurses discussing how to organize patient care more effectively
C) Starting an intravenous (IV) line in the simulation laboratory under faculty guidance
D) Participating in a student nurses' association meeting
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Chapter 6: Legal Aspects of Professional Nursing Practice
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Q1) Which patient rights are guaranteed by HIPAA?
A) Patients are asked to sign a release of responsibility if their health care records inadvertently become a matter of public record.
B) Patients sign a release protecting the health care provider and insurance company against computer file theft.
C) Patients are protected against medical records being indiscriminately shared.
D) Patients may receive a complete copy of their medical records at no cost.
Q2) Which of the following puts the nurse at increased risk for legal action?
A) Delegating a Foley catheter insertion to a LPN/LVN
B) Documenting the exact words a patient uses when complaining
C) Not assessing a patient who is complaining of pain
D) Caring for a postoperative patient who has a pulmonary embolus while being transferred to the chair
Q3) The most common reason that nurses are disciplined by the state board of nursing is
A) making medication errors.
B) following unsafe nursing practice.
C) practicing while impaired.
D) abandoning patients.
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Chapter 7: Ethics: Basic Concepts for Professional Nursing Practice
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Q1) According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development,individuals who act "because it is the rule of society" are operating in which level of moral development?
A) Preconventional
B) Conventional
C) Postconventional
D) Developmental
Q2) A school nurse teaching school-aged children about water safety is an example of which ethical principle?
A) Beneficence
B) Justice
C) Veracity
D) Autonomy
Q3) According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development,adolescents who shoplift are operating in which level of moral development?
A) Preconventional
B) Conventional
C) Postconventional
D) Developmental
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Chapter 8: Conceptual and Philosophical Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
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Q1) Which of the following is the World Health Organization's definition of "health"?
A) People in harmony with environment
B) A state of optimum functioning for an individual in the performance of roles and tasks
C) Physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease or infirmity
D) Functioning at maximum potential with the environment
Q2) An adult wears a helmet when riding a bicycle because he believes that his cycling skills might not prevent an accident,which could result in a head injury with serious consequences.Which component of the health beliefs model is this person demonstrating?
A) Knowledge that cycling is good exercise and improves health
B) Perception of vulnerability to head injury from a bicycle accident
C) Concern about his cycling skills
D) Belief that individuals should prevent injuries
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Chapter 9: Nursing Theory: The Basis for Professional
Nursing
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Q1) A nurse practitioner caring for a diabetic patient thinks the patient could gain better control of the diabetes if the patient lost weight.After assessing the patient's perception of weight loss,role,stresses,and support systems,the nurse and patient establish the goal of losing 5 pounds in a month.The nurse could be basing care on the conceptual model of
A) Johnson.
B) King.
C) Orem.
D) Roy.
Q2) A nurse has been introduced to theory as a guide to research and practice.This nurse is prepared at which level of nursing education?
A) Associate degree
B) Bachelor's degree
C) Master's degree
D) Doctoral degree
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Chapter 10: The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
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Q1) Translational research/science will do which of the following?
A) Result in biomedical research becoming less flexible in response to the needs of society
B) Limit interdisciplinary research because this does not enhance patient care
C) Take laboratory findings for development for use with patients at the bedside
D) Use clinical research findings to ask new questions for research in the laboratory
E) Discover practical applications for scientific theories and laws.
Q2) An intensive care unit (ICU)nurse notices that patients seem to have more normal vital signs when they are being visited by their family members,especially when the visitors seem to be more "caring." However,the hospital has strict visiting hours of 10 minutes every other hour.What would be the most appropriate research question to ask at this time?
A) What is patient and family satisfaction with visitation time?
B) What is the relationship between length of visitation and vital signs?
C) What are the vital signs of ICU patients when visited by caring visitors in comparison with when they are alone?
D) Do ICU patients have vital signs in the normal range more frequently when they are being visited by family members?
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Chapter 11: Developing Nursing Judgment Through Critical Thinking
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Q1) The identification of nursing diagnosis and goal setting should ideally be a collaborative process between the nurse and which other party?
A) Physician
B) Nurse manager
C) Patient's family
D) Patient
Q2) Which of the following is an independent nursing intervention?
A) Teaching a patient with congestive heart failure to weigh herself daily
B) Recommending an extra dose of diuretic to the patient whose weight has increased 2 pounds overnight
C) Changing the first surgical dressing on a patient after surgery
D) Transferring a patient out of the intensive care unit 2 days after vascular surgery
Q3) What does the process of analysis of patient data directly result in?
A) Validating actual problems or diagnoses
B) Determining the nursing interventions of importance
C) Identifying actual or potential problems amenable to nursing intervention
D) Confirming the medical diagnosis
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Chapter 12: Communication and Collaboration in Professional Nursing Practice
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Q1) A patient is being discharged from the hospital.Which statement by the nurse is appropriate for the termination phase of the nurse-patient relationship?
A) "You must be happy to be going home. Here are the written diet and medication instructions."
B) "It has been wonderful getting to know you. The best of luck when you get home."
C) "During the past 3 days, you have learned how to inject insulin and how to make appropriate food choices. Remember that you have the unit telephone number if you have any questions."
D) "You have done well learning a lot of new material and should be able to do well at home."
Q2) When a co-worker tells the nurse,"I am not sure I will be able to give the right answers in the job interview," the nurse replies,"I know what you mean.Interviews have always been a problem for me,too." This response can be evaluated as lacking
A) appropriateness.
B) efficiency.
C) feedback.
D) flexibility.
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Chapter 13: Nurses,patients Families: Caring at the
Intersection of Health,Illness Culture
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Q1) A contemporary view of the sick role includes
A) patient as partner with the health care provider.
B) patient as submissive to the health care provider.
C) patient noncompliant with the health care provider.
D) moving away from cultural values when making health care decisions.
Q2) A patient states,"There is no hope.They're going to keep me here until I die.Can't you give me my medication more often? I'm going to die anyway." In which stage of illness is this patient?
A) Disbelief and denial
B) Irritability and anger
C) Attempting to gain control
D) Depression and grief
Q3) The best definition of ethnocentrism is
A) a tendency to compare the behavior of others with your own cultural values.
B) an astute awareness of your own personal biases regarding other cultures.
C) a tendency to view your own culture as superior to others.
D) the ability to incorporate patients' cultural beliefs and values into health teaching.
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Chapter 14: Health Care in the United States
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Q1) How can staff nurses play an important role in controlling health care costs?
A) Becoming aware of cost of supplies
B) Questioning the need for unnecessary or repetitive tests
C) Suggesting the use of brand-name medications to support the economy
D) Handwashing to prevent infections
E) Assuring that the payment method is identified on admission
Q2) Hospices that provide care to terminally ill patients and their families in hospitals,in the home,or in special hospice facilities provide which level of health care?
A) Subacute care
B) Primary care
C) Secondary care
D) Tertiary care
Q3) Which of the following is an example of rehabilitation and disease management?
A) Prompt treatment for hypertension
B) Attending weight loss classes
C) Teaching patients with newly diagnosed diabetes the signs of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia
D) Taking an antibiotic for a sinus infection
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Chapter 15: Political Activism in Nursing: Communities, Organizations,
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Q1) A nurse who lobbies state legislators to support a change in the scope of practice in nursing is engaging in
A) power sharing.
B) setting policy.
C) politics.
D) legislative power.
Q2) A variety of benefits result from membership in professional organizations,including
A) availability of practice guidelines to influence policy development.
B) discount on licensure fees.
C) continuing education opportunities.
D) opportunities to develop personal leadership skills.
E) increased pay and prestige in the work setting.
Q3) The most critical aspect of nurses becoming personally "political" is A) financially supporting political action committees (PACs).
B) being informed of social and political issues.
C) communicating with legislators.
D) running for office.
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Q1) A patient asks a nurse to explain pharmacogenetics.Which response by the nurse is best?
A) "It is the effect of pharmaceutical agents on a person's genes."
B) "It uses genetic information to determine if particular drugs will work in a person."
C) "It is the science of using a person's genes to help create new medications."
D) "It was the project that mapped and sequenced human genes."
Q2) Which of the following is true regarding the requirement that entry to nursing practice should require a bachelor's of science in nursing (BSN)?
A) With increased complexity in health care, this is being debated again.
B) Many ADN nurses are returning to school to complete this degree
C) The BSN will be required for practice in all 50 states by 2025.
D) The master's of science in nursing (MSN) will replace the BSN for bedside nurses.
E) The need for BSN-prepared nurses will decrease with increased unlicensed staff.
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