Professional Nursing: Concepts &
Challenges by Beth Black phd RN FAAN (Author)
Test Bank 10th Edition
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
,Professional Nursing: Concepts &
Challenges 10th Edition
Chapter 01: Discovering the worid of Nursing
Research
MUITIPIE 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.
CORRECT 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.
DIFFERENCE; 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
CORRECT 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.
DIFFERENCE; 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
CORRECT ANSWER; D
Challenges by Beth Black phd RN FAAN (Author)
Test Bank 10th Edition
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
,Professional Nursing: Concepts &
Challenges 10th Edition
Chapter 01: Discovering the worid of Nursing
Research
MUITIPIE 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.
CORRECT 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.
DIFFERENCE; 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
CORRECT 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.
DIFFERENCE; 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
CORRECT ANSWER; D
