Complete Test Bank - Realities of Canadian Nursing: Professional, Practice, and Power Issues, 5th Ed.
By Carol McDonald, Marjorie McIntyre.
(All Chapters Covered, 100% Verified Answers)
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,Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Nursing Issues: A Call to Political Action
Chapter 2 Race and Racialization in Health, Healthcare, and Nursing Education
Chapter 3 Homelessness as a Health Equity and Social Justice Concern in Nursing
Chapter 4 Inviting Compassionate Conversations About End of Life: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in
Canada
Chapter 5 The Legacy of Colonization for the Health and Well-being of Indigenous People: Toward
Reconciliation
Chapter 6 Canadian Healthcare
Chapter 7 Canadian Nurses Association and International Council of Nurses
Chapter 8 Canadian Provincial and Territorial Nursing Organizations
Chapter 9 Canadian Federation of Nurses’ Unions: Standing for Workplace Safety
Chapter 10 Challenges and Change in Undergraduate Nursing Education
Chapter 11 Graduate Education
Chapter 12 The Political Nature of Knowledge Generation and Utilization: Nursing Research in Canada
Chapter 13 Nursing Informatics: A Growing Field of Science and Practice
Chapter 14 Influencing Policy and Leading Change: Essential Steps in Successful Transformations
Chapter 15 Issues in Contemporary Nursing Leadership
Chapter 16 The Gendered Nature of Nursing
Chapter 17 Issues in Interprofessional Practice
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Chapter 18 Issues Arising From the Nature of Nurses’ Work and Work Environments
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Chapter 19 The Nursing Shortage: Assumptions and Realities
Chapter 20 Rural Nursing in Canada: Issues of Access
Chapter 21 Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing
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Chapter 22 Issues in Healthcare for an Aging Population
Chapter 23 Orientating to Difference: Beyond Heteronormative Sexualities
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Chapter 24 Environment: An Issue for Nurses
Chapter 25 Interpersonal Violence and Abuse: Ending the Silence
Chapter 26 Onward to 2030: Nursing’s Momentum for Global Health Equity
,Chapter 1 Nursing Issues: A Call to Political Action
Answers Available at the End of Each Chapter
1. A nurse wishes to take political action to influence healthcare policy. How can the nurse best take
political action?
A) Begin an active letter-writing campaign to policy creators.
B) Encourage colleagues to promote quality client care.
C) Address unit-level issues to create short-term change.
D) Speak to the nursing union representative about the policy.
2. A nurse wants to address chronic nursing shortages in a region. In what order should the nurse
complete the steps for an inductive approach to addressing this issue?
1. Articulate the issue.
2. Analyze the issue.
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3. Identify barriers to resolution.
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4. Create strategies for resolution.
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5. Create a lobbying approach.
A) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
B) 1, 5, 3, 2, 4
C) 2, 3, 4, 1, 5
D) 2, 1, 3, 4, 5
3. How can individual nurses best assist in the clear articulation of nursing issues?
A) Speak in unison and be collectively organized.
B) Support union activities that promote nursing's image.
C) Speak out on a wide variety of healthcare issues.
D) Write letters and lobby the government.
, 4. In considering the importance of political action on the quality of healthcare delivered in Canada, the
nurse should prioritize what? Select all that apply.
A) Healthcare in Canada is publicly funded.
B) Educational standards are directed by public policy.
C) Legislation governs scope of healthcare practice.
D) Nursing comprises primarily female practitioners.
E) Canada is a diverse nation with a wide variety of client needs.
5. A nurse is concerned about the quality of education being delivered and the preparedness of new
graduate nurses. What should the nurse do first in addressing these concerns?
A) Speak to a nurse who teaches in a nursing program.
B) Investigate the issue exploring various contexts.
C)
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Write a letter to the Minister of Health outlining the concerns.
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D) Survey other nurses to determine if they share the same concerns.
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6. What should nurses do to improve the chances for the success of a lobbying campaign? Select all that
apply.
A) Research the topic thoroughly and be well informed prior to meeting with key figures.
B) Include complex statistics consisting of percentages to reduce any challenge of the data.
C) Only include members of political parties that favour the initiative being lobbied.
D) Follow up with meeting attendees with a written summary of the meeting.
E) Be aware of the meeting attendees' public position on the topic being discussed.
7. A nurse is performing a political analysis of the nursing shortage in Canada's northern regions. What
questions should the nurse ask? Select all that apply.
A) Who benefits from keeping the nursing shortage in place?
B) Who is currently advocating for change and who is resisting this change?
By Carol McDonald, Marjorie McIntyre.
(All Chapters Covered, 100% Verified Answers)
C
LE
ST
BE
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Nursing Issues: A Call to Political Action
Chapter 2 Race and Racialization in Health, Healthcare, and Nursing Education
Chapter 3 Homelessness as a Health Equity and Social Justice Concern in Nursing
Chapter 4 Inviting Compassionate Conversations About End of Life: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in
Canada
Chapter 5 The Legacy of Colonization for the Health and Well-being of Indigenous People: Toward
Reconciliation
Chapter 6 Canadian Healthcare
Chapter 7 Canadian Nurses Association and International Council of Nurses
Chapter 8 Canadian Provincial and Territorial Nursing Organizations
Chapter 9 Canadian Federation of Nurses’ Unions: Standing for Workplace Safety
Chapter 10 Challenges and Change in Undergraduate Nursing Education
Chapter 11 Graduate Education
Chapter 12 The Political Nature of Knowledge Generation and Utilization: Nursing Research in Canada
Chapter 13 Nursing Informatics: A Growing Field of Science and Practice
Chapter 14 Influencing Policy and Leading Change: Essential Steps in Successful Transformations
Chapter 15 Issues in Contemporary Nursing Leadership
Chapter 16 The Gendered Nature of Nursing
Chapter 17 Issues in Interprofessional Practice
C
Chapter 18 Issues Arising From the Nature of Nurses’ Work and Work Environments
LE
Chapter 19 The Nursing Shortage: Assumptions and Realities
Chapter 20 Rural Nursing in Canada: Issues of Access
Chapter 21 Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing
ST
Chapter 22 Issues in Healthcare for an Aging Population
Chapter 23 Orientating to Difference: Beyond Heteronormative Sexualities
BE
Chapter 24 Environment: An Issue for Nurses
Chapter 25 Interpersonal Violence and Abuse: Ending the Silence
Chapter 26 Onward to 2030: Nursing’s Momentum for Global Health Equity
,Chapter 1 Nursing Issues: A Call to Political Action
Answers Available at the End of Each Chapter
1. A nurse wishes to take political action to influence healthcare policy. How can the nurse best take
political action?
A) Begin an active letter-writing campaign to policy creators.
B) Encourage colleagues to promote quality client care.
C) Address unit-level issues to create short-term change.
D) Speak to the nursing union representative about the policy.
2. A nurse wants to address chronic nursing shortages in a region. In what order should the nurse
complete the steps for an inductive approach to addressing this issue?
1. Articulate the issue.
2. Analyze the issue.
C
LE
3. Identify barriers to resolution.
ST
4. Create strategies for resolution.
BE
5. Create a lobbying approach.
A) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
B) 1, 5, 3, 2, 4
C) 2, 3, 4, 1, 5
D) 2, 1, 3, 4, 5
3. How can individual nurses best assist in the clear articulation of nursing issues?
A) Speak in unison and be collectively organized.
B) Support union activities that promote nursing's image.
C) Speak out on a wide variety of healthcare issues.
D) Write letters and lobby the government.
, 4. In considering the importance of political action on the quality of healthcare delivered in Canada, the
nurse should prioritize what? Select all that apply.
A) Healthcare in Canada is publicly funded.
B) Educational standards are directed by public policy.
C) Legislation governs scope of healthcare practice.
D) Nursing comprises primarily female practitioners.
E) Canada is a diverse nation with a wide variety of client needs.
5. A nurse is concerned about the quality of education being delivered and the preparedness of new
graduate nurses. What should the nurse do first in addressing these concerns?
A) Speak to a nurse who teaches in a nursing program.
B) Investigate the issue exploring various contexts.
C)
C
Write a letter to the Minister of Health outlining the concerns.
LE
D) Survey other nurses to determine if they share the same concerns.
ST
BE
6. What should nurses do to improve the chances for the success of a lobbying campaign? Select all that
apply.
A) Research the topic thoroughly and be well informed prior to meeting with key figures.
B) Include complex statistics consisting of percentages to reduce any challenge of the data.
C) Only include members of political parties that favour the initiative being lobbied.
D) Follow up with meeting attendees with a written summary of the meeting.
E) Be aware of the meeting attendees' public position on the topic being discussed.
7. A nurse is performing a political analysis of the nursing shortage in Canada's northern regions. What
questions should the nurse ask? Select all that apply.
A) Who benefits from keeping the nursing shortage in place?
B) Who is currently advocating for change and who is resisting this change?
