EXAM 1 TRANSITION TO
PROFESSIONAL NURSING
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS RATED
100% CORRECT
What are internal causes of nursing shortages? - Correct Answer ✔✔ salary issues
long hours
increased responsibility for unlicensed workers
significant responsibility with little authority
What are external causes of nursing shortages? - Correct Answer ✔✔ changes in
demand for nursing services
the increasing age of the American populations
greater acuity (degree of illness) of hospitalized individuals
public perceptions of nursing as a profession
ever-widening career options for women
Characteristics of a Profession Nursing - Correct Answer ✔✔ autonomy
accountability
altruism
association
The Process of Professionalism - Correct Answer ✔✔ -Practitioners performed full-time
work in the discipline.
-They determined work standards, identified a body of knowledge, and established
educational programs in institutions of higher learning.
-They promoted organization into effective occupational associations, and then worked
to establish legal protection that limited practice of their unique skills by outsiders.
-Finally, they established codes of ethics.
Kelly's Criteria - Correct Answer ✔✔ the services provided are vital to humanity and the
welfare of society
body of knowledge
accountability
educated in higher institutions
autonomy
altruism (ideal of service to others)
code of ethics
association
, Nursing's Social Policy Statement: The Essence of the Profession - Correct Answer ✔✔
nursing professions social contract with society
- includes nursing definition, regulation, ideals
- framework to understand nursing relationships with society and obligations for those in
care
Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice - Correct Answer ✔✔ who, what, when,
where, how
outlines expectations of professional role, standard of care, associated competencies
- to improve health/well being of nursing pts and establishes accountability
What statement best supports nursing as a profession? - Correct Answer ✔✔ The Code
of Ethics for Nurses
-common indicator of all professions is ethics
Consider the importance of collegiality in professional nursing - Correct Answer ✔✔
promote supportive/healthy work environment, cooperation, and recognize
interdependence in nursing
s
Understand Barriers to Professionalism, including historical factors, external conflicts,
internal conflicts - Correct Answer ✔✔ historical factors: submissive to physicians
external conflicts: tension between nursing and medicine; lobbying for nursing practice
protection; don't compete, collaborate
internal conflicts: diploma vs ADN vs BSN; lack of strength because spread out among
many organizations
Know the details of the 2009 Benner study and what it recommended in nursing
education. - Correct Answer ✔✔ get rid of ADN
All RNs required to get MSN within 10 years of licensure
BSN as entry level nursing
Know the details of the 2010 IOM report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change,
Advancing Health - Correct Answer ✔✔ improved data collection
should attain higher education
Be able to describe what Linda Aiken and her colleagues advocated. - Correct Answer
✔✔ federal support for nurse prep at BSN or higher level
policy changes addressing growing need for nursing faculty and prep for APRN serving
primary care
Describe the 2010 Tri-Council policy statement. - Correct Answer ✔✔ evidence-based
clinical knowledge
Who does the Tri Council include? - Correct Answer ✔✔ ANA
AACN
PROFESSIONAL NURSING
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS RATED
100% CORRECT
What are internal causes of nursing shortages? - Correct Answer ✔✔ salary issues
long hours
increased responsibility for unlicensed workers
significant responsibility with little authority
What are external causes of nursing shortages? - Correct Answer ✔✔ changes in
demand for nursing services
the increasing age of the American populations
greater acuity (degree of illness) of hospitalized individuals
public perceptions of nursing as a profession
ever-widening career options for women
Characteristics of a Profession Nursing - Correct Answer ✔✔ autonomy
accountability
altruism
association
The Process of Professionalism - Correct Answer ✔✔ -Practitioners performed full-time
work in the discipline.
-They determined work standards, identified a body of knowledge, and established
educational programs in institutions of higher learning.
-They promoted organization into effective occupational associations, and then worked
to establish legal protection that limited practice of their unique skills by outsiders.
-Finally, they established codes of ethics.
Kelly's Criteria - Correct Answer ✔✔ the services provided are vital to humanity and the
welfare of society
body of knowledge
accountability
educated in higher institutions
autonomy
altruism (ideal of service to others)
code of ethics
association
, Nursing's Social Policy Statement: The Essence of the Profession - Correct Answer ✔✔
nursing professions social contract with society
- includes nursing definition, regulation, ideals
- framework to understand nursing relationships with society and obligations for those in
care
Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice - Correct Answer ✔✔ who, what, when,
where, how
outlines expectations of professional role, standard of care, associated competencies
- to improve health/well being of nursing pts and establishes accountability
What statement best supports nursing as a profession? - Correct Answer ✔✔ The Code
of Ethics for Nurses
-common indicator of all professions is ethics
Consider the importance of collegiality in professional nursing - Correct Answer ✔✔
promote supportive/healthy work environment, cooperation, and recognize
interdependence in nursing
s
Understand Barriers to Professionalism, including historical factors, external conflicts,
internal conflicts - Correct Answer ✔✔ historical factors: submissive to physicians
external conflicts: tension between nursing and medicine; lobbying for nursing practice
protection; don't compete, collaborate
internal conflicts: diploma vs ADN vs BSN; lack of strength because spread out among
many organizations
Know the details of the 2009 Benner study and what it recommended in nursing
education. - Correct Answer ✔✔ get rid of ADN
All RNs required to get MSN within 10 years of licensure
BSN as entry level nursing
Know the details of the 2010 IOM report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change,
Advancing Health - Correct Answer ✔✔ improved data collection
should attain higher education
Be able to describe what Linda Aiken and her colleagues advocated. - Correct Answer
✔✔ federal support for nurse prep at BSN or higher level
policy changes addressing growing need for nursing faculty and prep for APRN serving
primary care
Describe the 2010 Tri-Council policy statement. - Correct Answer ✔✔ evidence-based
clinical knowledge
Who does the Tri Council include? - Correct Answer ✔✔ ANA
AACN
