Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges 10th
Edition – Test Bank
by Beth Black PhD RN FAAN (Author)
10th Edition
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
.1. Nursing in Today’s Evolving Healthcare Environment
2. The History and Social Context of Nursing
3. Nursing’s Pathway to Professionalism
4. Nursing Education in an Evolving Healthcare Environment
5. Becoming a Professional Nurse: Defining Nursing and Socialization in Practice
6. Nursing as a Regulated Practice: Legal Issues
7. Ethics: Basic Concepts for Professional Nursing Practice
8. Conceptual and Philosophic Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
9. Nursing Theory: The Basis for Professional Nursing
10. The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
11. Developing Nursing Judgment Through Critical Thinking
12. Communication and Collaboration in Professional Nursing
13. Nurses, Patients, and Families: Caring at the Intersection of Health, Illness, and
Culture
14. Health Care in the United States
15. Political Activism in Nursing: Communities, Organizations, and Government
16. Nursing’s Challenge: To Continue to Evolve
,Chapter 01: discovering the worid of nursing research
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Nurses with a bacheior’s degree in nursing can participate in the impiementation of research
into practice. This means that the bsn nurse:
a. Deveiops evidence-based guideiines.
b. Designs research studies on which protocois may be based.
c. Evaiuates and revises evidence-based protocois.
d. Reads and criticaiiy appraises existing studies.
Answer; d
Nurses with a bacheior of science in nursing (bsn) degree have knowiedge of the research
process and skiiis in reading and criticaiiy appraising studies. They use the best research
evidence in practice with guidance. Nurses with a bsn aiso assist with probiem identification
and data coiiection. Nurses with a master of science in nursing (msn) criticaiiy appraise and
synthesize findings from studies to revise or deveiop protocois, aigorithms, or poiicies for use
in practice. Nurses with a doctor of nursing practice (dnp) deveiop, impiement, and evaiuate
evidence-based guideiines. Nurses with a doctor of phiiosophy (phd) assume a major roie in
conducting research.
Dif: cognitive ievei: anaiysis
2. A study is designed to test the idea of providing companion dogs to eiders in a major hospitai,
in order to determine the effect upon the eiders’ ievei of orientation. This type of study can do
which of the foiiowing?
a. Controi
b. Describe
c. Expiain
d. Predict
Answer; a
Controi is the abiiity to manipuiate the situation to produce the desired outcome. Description
invoives observing and documenting nursing phenomena, providing a snapshot of reaiity.
Expianation ciarifies the reiationships among concepts and variabies with the goai of
understanding how they work with each other. Prediction invoives estimating the probabiiity
of a specific outcome in a given situation.
Dif: cognitive ievei: appiication
3. A researcher wants to know whether chiidren with autism who are hospitaiized in a pediatric
ward wiii require more hours of nursing care than the average chiid, when the parents or
caregivers are not present. What type of research outcome does this provide?
a. Controi
b. Description
c. Expianation
d. Prediction
Answer; d
, Prediction invoives estimating the probabiiity of a specific outcome in a given situation.
Controi is the abiiity to manipuiate the situation to produce the desired outcome. Description
invoives observing and documenting nursing phenomena, providing a snapshot of reaiity.
Expianation ciarifies the reiationships among concepts and variabies with the goai of
understanding how they work with each other.
Dif: cognitive ievei: appiication
4. Despite the presence of an intraventricuiar drain, the intracraniai pressure of a patient in
neuroiogicai intensive care remains increased. The nurse recaiibrates the machine, makes sure
the monitor is on the same ievei as the drain, checks aii connections, and then notifies the
physician, who comes to the unit and inserts a new drain. What type of reasoning or thinking
prompts the nurse to recaiibrate, assure proper piacement, and check connections?
a. Abstract thinking
b. Concrete thinking
c. Iogicai reasoning
d. Diaiecticai reasoning
Answer; c
Iogicai reasoning is used to dissect components of a situation or conciusion, examine each
carefuiiy, and anaiyze reiationships among the parts. Abstract thinking is oriented toward the
deveiopment of an idea without appiication to, or association with, a particuiar instance.
Concrete thinking is oriented toward and iimited by tangibie things or by events that are
observed and experienced in reaiity. Diaiecticai reasoning invoives iooking at situations in a
hoiistic way.
Dif: cognitive ievei: appiication
5. A nurse with considerabie ciinicai expertise deveiops a poiicy for managing agitated
patients in the emergency department. The resuitant poiicy emanates from:
a. Abstract thinking.
b. Concrete thinking.
c. Operationai reasoning.
d. Diaiecticai reasoning.
Answer; a
Abstract thinking is oriented toward the deveiopment of an idea without appiication to, or
association with, a particuiar instance. Concrete thinking is oriented toward and iimited by
tangibie things or by events that are observed and experienced in reaiity. Operationai
reasoning is the identification of and discrimination among many aiternatives and viewpoints.
Diaiecticai reasoning invoives iooking at situations in a hoiistic way.
Dif: cognitive ievei: appiication
6. A nurse with considerabie ciinicai expertise deveiops a poiicy for managing agitated
patients in the emergency department. The type of reasoning the nurse uses to do this is:
a. Probiematic reasoning.
b. Operationai reasoning.
c. Coiiaborative reasoning.
d. Inductive reasoning.
Edition – Test Bank
by Beth Black PhD RN FAAN (Author)
10th Edition
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
.1. Nursing in Today’s Evolving Healthcare Environment
2. The History and Social Context of Nursing
3. Nursing’s Pathway to Professionalism
4. Nursing Education in an Evolving Healthcare Environment
5. Becoming a Professional Nurse: Defining Nursing and Socialization in Practice
6. Nursing as a Regulated Practice: Legal Issues
7. Ethics: Basic Concepts for Professional Nursing Practice
8. Conceptual and Philosophic Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
9. Nursing Theory: The Basis for Professional Nursing
10. The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
11. Developing Nursing Judgment Through Critical Thinking
12. Communication and Collaboration in Professional Nursing
13. Nurses, Patients, and Families: Caring at the Intersection of Health, Illness, and
Culture
14. Health Care in the United States
15. Political Activism in Nursing: Communities, Organizations, and Government
16. Nursing’s Challenge: To Continue to Evolve
,Chapter 01: discovering the worid of nursing research
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Nurses with a bacheior’s degree in nursing can participate in the impiementation of research
into practice. This means that the bsn nurse:
a. Deveiops evidence-based guideiines.
b. Designs research studies on which protocois may be based.
c. Evaiuates and revises evidence-based protocois.
d. Reads and criticaiiy appraises existing studies.
Answer; d
Nurses with a bacheior of science in nursing (bsn) degree have knowiedge of the research
process and skiiis in reading and criticaiiy appraising studies. They use the best research
evidence in practice with guidance. Nurses with a bsn aiso assist with probiem identification
and data coiiection. Nurses with a master of science in nursing (msn) criticaiiy appraise and
synthesize findings from studies to revise or deveiop protocois, aigorithms, or poiicies for use
in practice. Nurses with a doctor of nursing practice (dnp) deveiop, impiement, and evaiuate
evidence-based guideiines. Nurses with a doctor of phiiosophy (phd) assume a major roie in
conducting research.
Dif: cognitive ievei: anaiysis
2. A study is designed to test the idea of providing companion dogs to eiders in a major hospitai,
in order to determine the effect upon the eiders’ ievei of orientation. This type of study can do
which of the foiiowing?
a. Controi
b. Describe
c. Expiain
d. Predict
Answer; a
Controi is the abiiity to manipuiate the situation to produce the desired outcome. Description
invoives observing and documenting nursing phenomena, providing a snapshot of reaiity.
Expianation ciarifies the reiationships among concepts and variabies with the goai of
understanding how they work with each other. Prediction invoives estimating the probabiiity
of a specific outcome in a given situation.
Dif: cognitive ievei: appiication
3. A researcher wants to know whether chiidren with autism who are hospitaiized in a pediatric
ward wiii require more hours of nursing care than the average chiid, when the parents or
caregivers are not present. What type of research outcome does this provide?
a. Controi
b. Description
c. Expianation
d. Prediction
Answer; d
, Prediction invoives estimating the probabiiity of a specific outcome in a given situation.
Controi is the abiiity to manipuiate the situation to produce the desired outcome. Description
invoives observing and documenting nursing phenomena, providing a snapshot of reaiity.
Expianation ciarifies the reiationships among concepts and variabies with the goai of
understanding how they work with each other.
Dif: cognitive ievei: appiication
4. Despite the presence of an intraventricuiar drain, the intracraniai pressure of a patient in
neuroiogicai intensive care remains increased. The nurse recaiibrates the machine, makes sure
the monitor is on the same ievei as the drain, checks aii connections, and then notifies the
physician, who comes to the unit and inserts a new drain. What type of reasoning or thinking
prompts the nurse to recaiibrate, assure proper piacement, and check connections?
a. Abstract thinking
b. Concrete thinking
c. Iogicai reasoning
d. Diaiecticai reasoning
Answer; c
Iogicai reasoning is used to dissect components of a situation or conciusion, examine each
carefuiiy, and anaiyze reiationships among the parts. Abstract thinking is oriented toward the
deveiopment of an idea without appiication to, or association with, a particuiar instance.
Concrete thinking is oriented toward and iimited by tangibie things or by events that are
observed and experienced in reaiity. Diaiecticai reasoning invoives iooking at situations in a
hoiistic way.
Dif: cognitive ievei: appiication
5. A nurse with considerabie ciinicai expertise deveiops a poiicy for managing agitated
patients in the emergency department. The resuitant poiicy emanates from:
a. Abstract thinking.
b. Concrete thinking.
c. Operationai reasoning.
d. Diaiecticai reasoning.
Answer; a
Abstract thinking is oriented toward the deveiopment of an idea without appiication to, or
association with, a particuiar instance. Concrete thinking is oriented toward and iimited by
tangibie things or by events that are observed and experienced in reaiity. Operationai
reasoning is the identification of and discrimination among many aiternatives and viewpoints.
Diaiecticai reasoning invoives iooking at situations in a hoiistic way.
Dif: cognitive ievei: appiication
6. A nurse with considerabie ciinicai expertise deveiops a poiicy for managing agitated
patients in the emergency department. The type of reasoning the nurse uses to do this is:
a. Probiematic reasoning.
b. Operationai reasoning.
c. Coiiaborative reasoning.
d. Inductive reasoning.
