Transition to Professional Nursing Final
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Course Introduction
Transition to Professional Nursing is designed to support nursing students and new graduates as they move from academic preparation into professional practice. This course focuses on the development of essential skills such as critical thinking, clinical judgment, effective communication, and ethical decision-making in healthcare settings. Emphasis is placed on understanding professional roles, responsibilities, legal and ethical considerations, interprofessional collaboration, leadership, and the importance of evidence-based practice. Students will explore strategies for navigating workplace challenges, fostering resilience, and continuing career development to ensure a successful transition into the nursing profession.
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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
United States
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Q1) When nursing registration laws were enacted,a "registered nurse" was defined as someone who had (Select all that apply. )
A)attended an acceptable nursing program.
B)fit the definition of a professional nurse.
C)had not been convicted of any felonies.
D)passed a board evaluation examination.
E)studied under a standardized curriculum.
Answer: A,D
Q2) Community health nursing has been vital in shaping America's health system and nursing in general by providing (Select all that apply. )
A)advocacy regarding matters of health and welfare.
B)autonomous nursing practice in patients' homes.
C)means to check on patients' compliance with treatment.
D)novel activities in health promotion and disease prevention.
E)treatment that didn't rely on the patient's ability to pay.
Answer: A,D
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Chapter 2: Pathways of Nursing Education
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Q1) A nursing dean in a baccalaureate nursing (BSN)program wishes to create a program that meets the needs of multiple and diverse students,responds to current trends,and increases enrollment.What modification to the existing program would best meet this goal?
A)Allow RNs to validate community health nursing through volunteer work.
B)Bring faculty and classes to major hospitals employing non-BSN nurses.
C)Create seamless entry points and tracts for RN and second-degree students.
D)Find alternative times and days for classroom and clinical experiences.
Answer: C
Q2) A recent high school graduate wants to pursue registered nursing education in the local community.What type of program would this student most likely investigate?
A)Associate degree program
B)Baccalaureate degree program
C)Diploma program
D)Licensed practical nurse program
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Beyond Professional Socialization
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Q1) A nurse is giving a report to the hospital nursing counsel on the Institute of Medicine's report: "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change,Advancing Health." What broad goals does the nurse report on? (Select all that apply. )
A)Credentialing will continue to be the best way to advance practice.
B)Nurses should be allowed to practice to the extent of their capabilities.
C)Nursing should be included as an equal partner in health care reform.
D)The nursing workforce is encouraged to attain higher levels of education.
E)Workforce data collection needs infrastructure to enable meaningful use.
Answer: B,C,D,E
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) What terms and definitions about role stress does the nurse learn? (Select all that apply. )
A)Role ambiguity: expectations of a role are not clearly defined
B)Role conflict: personal values conflict with job requirements
C)Role discrepancy: conflict between conception and expectation of a role
D)Role extension: expansion of duties associated with a role
E)Role overload: demands of the role are overwhelming and endless
Q2) A nursing manager understands that nurses need to experience which of the following in order to find happiness in their chosen profession?
A)Alignment of professional role and personal identity
B)Clear separation of personal and professional roles
C)Opportunities to change work situations based on personal need
D)Respect from physicians and the broader environment where they work
Q3) A student of nursing history understands Nightingale's use of the term "art" when describing nursing as having what context?
A)Care activities that were driven by experience and intuition
B)Little scientific knowledge on which to base most nursing actions
C)Nursing roles that were fluid and defined by context and environment
D)Patient preferences dictating nursing actions when providing care
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Chapter 5: Theories and Frameworks for Professional
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Q1) A nursing manager is explaining to the staff how nursing theory is related to all components of nursing practice.What statement by the manager best outlines this concept?
A)Conceptual frameworks are the basic building blocks of theory and practice.
B)Education is the foundation for all nursing understanding,including theory.
C)Nursing knowledge can only be derived from well-tested theoretical models.
D)Theory informs practice,research,and education,which in turn inform theory.
Q2) A nurse is working with a family from a different culture with which he or she is not familiar.The family insists on continuing health practices that the nurse is trying to get them to abandon.This results in the nurse viewing the family as noncompliant,because they seem to understand the instructions.Which action by the nurse would be most helpful?
A)Ask the family to describe the importance of their beliefs.
B)Call an interpreter to make sure they really understand.
C)Determine whether instructions are available in their language.
D)Give the family both written and verbal instructions.
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Chapter 6: Health Policy and Planning and the Nursing
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Q1) A nurse is worried about an upcoming judicial appointment.A co-worker explains that the nurse can voice opinions about such matters best by
A)calling the majority party's leadership.
B)phoning the nurse's House member.
C)sending a petition to the president.
D)writing to the senator from that state.
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) The Director of Nursing (DON)at a large urban hospital is tasked with increasing the hospital's profits and improving quality.What action by the DON is best?
A)Engage in monopsony with regional hospitals.
B)Hire more nonprofessional ancillary staff.
C)Implement policies to prevent hospital-acquired infections.
D)Purchase capital budget items only when necessary.
Q2) A nurse is evaluating an economic analysis paper.In critiquing the analysis,the nurse should note whether it (Select all that apply. )
A)considers from whose viewpoint the analysis is being considered.
B)demonstrates that the interventions discussed are clinically effective.
C)determines whether the analysis was based on a clearly defined question.
D)includes a description of the type of analysis performed.
E)evaluates interventions that can be performed in all practice settings.
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 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.
Q2) A seasoned nurse and a student are completing an admission history with a patient.On leaving the room and discussing their findings,the novice nurse is stunned that what the seasoned nurse learned about the patient seems so different from what he or she took from the interview.What explanation by the seasoned nurse best illustrates the dynamics of this interaction?
A)Experience facilitates selective attention and helps create reality for seasoned nurses.
B)Nurses working on one floor see similar patients and learn how to focus the questions.
C)The novice nurse simply does not know the most important questions to ask patients.
D)The novice nurse was focusing on asking all the questions on the admission database.
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Chapter 9: Think Like a Nurse: Essential Thinking Skills for Professional Nurses
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Q1) A nurse has committed a serious medication error.The manager is a firm believer in developing critical thinking skills.From this standpoint,what action by the manager would best nurture this ability in the nurse who made the error?
A)Have the nurse present an in-service related to the cause of the error.
B)Instruct the nurse to write a paper on how to avoid this type of error.
C)Let the nurse work with more experienced nurses when giving medications.
D)Send the nurse to refresher courses on medication administration.
Q2) A nurse studying critical thinking theories can generalize the process as A)a reflective process of gathering and evaluating data to choose a course of action. B)one conceptual mechanism for critiquing ideas and establishing goal-oriented care.
C)researching best-practice literature to create care pathways for certain populations. D)using the nursing process to design individualized and specific nursing care plans.
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Chapter 10: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
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Q1) A nurse is teaching a patient who is a recent immigrant from an Asian culture.The patient listens politely to discharge instructions and agrees to follow them.Two days later,the patient is readmitted,and the nurse is surprised to find none of the discharge instructions have been followed.The nurse would most likely conclude the patient
A)did not have the resources to adhere to the directions.
B)is noncompliant or he or she would have asked questions.
C)lacked enough knowledge to follow through the instructions.
D)was too embarrassed to indicate a lack of understanding.
Q2) A student nurse is teaching a patient from an unfamiliar culture about diabetic self-care.The patient is willing and able to take blood glucose readings and give insulin injections but will not use the sliding scale insulin protocol the physician has ordered.Which action by the student would be most beneficial?
A)Ask why the patient is unwilling to follow the scale.
B)Assess the patient's health-related value system.
C)Call the physician and ask for a simplified regimen.
D)Have someone else try to teach the sliding scale.
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Chapter 11: Legal Aspects of Nursing Practice
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Q1) A lay health care advocate claims that nursing practice exists in a situation of inherent conflict of interest and that there needs to be legally mandated changes to some practices.Which statement by the advocate would best support this claim? "Nurses
A)are always looking for ways to increase their scope of practice without need."
B)control access,standards,and discipline,which gives them too much power."
C)create their own standards for entry into the profession without any oversight."
D)should practice under the auspices of physicians but fight to be independent."
Q2) A nursing faculty member has signed a 2-year contract.This faculty member knows this type of contract is known as
A)enforceable.
B)express.
C)implied.
D)promissory.
Q3) A nurse knows that patient rights would be protected by __________ law.
A)administrative
B)constitutional
C)contract
D)tort
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Chapter 12: Ethical Dimensions of Nursing and Health Care
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Q1) A nursing instructor tells the class the most important ethical principle involved in informed consent is A)autonomy.
B)beneficence.
C)confidentiality.
D)veracity.
Q2) A patient with a head injury is confused and combative and wants to leave the hospital,repeatedly getting out of bed.The nurses obtain an order for soft wrist restraints and a vest restraint.This action best demonstrates A)beneficence.
B)justice.
C)nonmaleficence.
D)paternalism.
Q3) The practicing nurse best understands the concept of ethics to mean A)acting on what is right in a situation. B)always doing what patients want.
C)being of good moral character.
D)following strict guidelines for action.
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Chapter 13: Information Management
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Q1) The student is investigating the use of a citation management program.What advantages do these programs offer? (Select all that apply. )
A)Automatic formatting of citations
B)Creation of a personal database
C)Editing papers written by the student
D)Sharing citations with others
E)Storing and organizing citations
Q2) A student studying informatics in nursing understands which of the following terms? (Select all that apply. )
A)An information-literate person can find,retrieve,analyze,and use information.
B)Health informatics is the study of systems and information technology.
C)Information literacy incorporates informatics and information management processes.
D)Information management consists of collecting,processing,and communicating data.
E)The focus of health information is on the management of the systems used.
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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) The nurse practicing in a diverse society can consider culture to be
A)a society or group that existed in a specific period of time.
B)a learned systems of beliefs,customs,language,and rituals.
C)practices or behaviors associated with specific racial groups.
D)transgenerational world views shared by diverse groups.
Q3) The nurse working in a diverse community works to address discrepancies in health care,which include (Select all that apply. )
A)employer-provided insurance.
B)institutionalized racism.
C)resentment of lack of access.
D)social realities of different groups.
E)the drive to be "color blind."
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Chapter 15: Health and Health Promotion
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Q1) The nursing faculty member explains that dissatisfaction with the power imbalance in health care in part led to
A)new ethical and professional standards.
B)requirements for patient education.
C)strict regulations on patient consent.
D)the consumer wellness movement.
Q2) A patient needs to lose weight.The nurse has assessed the patient to be in the contemplation stage of Prochaska's transtheoretical model of change.Which intervention by the nurse would be most appropriate?
A)Give the patient a referral to a dietician for teaching.
B)Help the patient devise a log to record all food eaten.
C)Provide information on the benefits of losing weight.
D)Teach the patient small,simple steps for weight loss.
Q3) When working with patients on changing health-related behaviors,the nurse understands that the first priority is to
A)assess the patient's knowledge about the behavior.
B)determine how motivated the patient is to change.
C)establish a collaborative relationship with the patient.
D)plan interventions and set goals for behavior change.
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Chapter 16: Genetics and Genomics in Professional Nursing
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Q1) The nurse studying genomics explains to another nurse that the era between the 1950s and 1980s was notable for A)creation of medications tailored to genetics.
B)developing tests for some genetic conditions.
C)passage of a genetic nondiscrimination act.
D)the complete mapping of the human genome.
Q2) 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.
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 17: Global Rural Nursing Practice
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Q1) A rural nurse is explaining to a friend who works in an urban area that the most important ethical issue for rural patients is probably
A)beneficence.
B)confidentiality.
C)justice.
D)veracity.
Q2) The nurse studying rural health trends knows that which of the following is true regarding motor vehicle crashes (MVCs)in rural communities?
A)A large number of deaths from MVCs occur in rural areas.
B)Rural children have a much lower death rate from MVCs.
C)Speeds are lower in rural locations,so death rates are also lower.
D)Rural roads are much less traveled,so they tend to be safer.
Q3) A nurse working in a rural hospital explains to a friend in another location that one aspect of rural nursing that differs markedly from urban practice is that the rural nurse
A)has to use critical thinking on a daily basis in order to practice.
B)may know some of his or her patients personally,leading to stress.
C)might have to handle situations on her or his own until help arrives.
D)will see a variety of patients with a variety of medical problems.
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Chapter 18: Violence Against Women: An Epidemic and a Health Issue
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Q1) A woman has screened positive for intimate partner violence (IPV).The nurse should also assess for (Select all that apply. )
A)depression and anxiety.
B)mania and binge behavior.
C)persistent sleep disturbances.
D)posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
E)psychosis and schizophrenia.
Q2) 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.
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Chapter 19: Telehealth
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Q1) A new nurse is being oriented to the intensive care unit and is startled when,during intradisciplinary patient rounds,a person "joins" the conversation on a computer screen in the patient's room.How does the nurse's mentor best explain the benefits of this procedure?
A)"It's another set of eyes and ears for good patient care."
B)"The remote person can help assess,treat,or educate patients."
C)"This ensures we are compliant with all our policies."
D)"We are short physicians here,so this fills the gaps."
Q2) An experienced intensive care unit (ICU)nurse is resisting the implementation of telehealth in the ICU because "we each only have one or two patients and are always available." What action by the manager is best?
A)Explain how telehealth can reduce specific adverse events in ICU patients.
B)Provide education on the advantages of telehealth in the ICU.
C)Remind the staff that telehealth is part of their health care environment.
D)Visit with the nurse and ask why the nurse is so against telehealth.
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Chapter 20: Patient Safety
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Q1) A nurse applying for a job in a hospital notes that administration promotes accurate and timely reporting of errors and near misses.The facility has a multidisciplinary team to analyze this information as it becomes available and design solutions to identified problems.This nurse could infer that
A)nurses in this facility have a high degree of ownership in patient safety.
B)nursing staff has been penalized in the past for reporting safety protocol violations.
C)the hospital has had some significant issues with patient safety in the past.
D)this facility's culture would be considered "immature" related to safety.
Q2) The nursing manager understands that the phrase "active failure" in regard to patient safety means a(n)
A)system process is actively injuring patients and needs modification.
B)workplace practice is actively contributing to poor patient outcomes.
C)error has actively caused a patient to have a negative consequence.
D)unsafe act was committed by someone in direct contact with patients.
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