NURSING NOW: Today’s Issues, Tomorrows Trends
8TH EDITION By Joseph T. Catalano
TEST BANK
,Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing Questions
1. Nurses are often the primary, and frequently the only, defendants named when errors are made
that result in injury to the client. This is due to which concept associated with the nursing
profession?
1. Autonomy
2. Accountability
3. Precision
4. Specificity :
2. If a nurse uses information from research as the basis for making decisions about providing
care, this nurse is engaging in which type of practice?
1. Client-based practice
2. Physician-based practice
3. Evidence-based practice
4. Provider-based practice :
3. Today’s nurses are often found in remote and often hostile areas, providing care for the sick
and dying, working 12-hour shifts, being on call, and working rotating shifts. This is why
nursing is universally known as which type of profession?
1. Altruistic
2. Synergistic
3. Optimistic
4. Pragmatic :
4. With Florence Nightingale’s radically new idea about a separate educational setting for nurses,
the nursing profession took its first steps toward which of the following?
1. Autonomy
2. Accountability
,3. Precision
4. Specificity :
5. If an advanced practice nurse is prepared to provide direct client care in primary care
settings,
focusing on health promotion, illness prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of common
health problems, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager :
6. If an advanced practice nurse focuses on the care of pregnant women before, during, and after
the birth process, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager :
7. If an advanced practice nurse is comfortable working in high-tech environments with seriously
ill individuals and their families, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager :
8. If an advanced practice nurse functions to coordinate services for clients with high-risk or
long-term health problems who require access to the full continuum of health-care services, this
nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager :
9. If a nurse taking action to perform the activities that promote patient care, this nurse is acting
with which of the following?
, 1. Power
2. Control
3. Authority
4. Empowerment
Answer:
10. Although the client likely would prefer to avoid taking medications, tolerating uncomfortable
treatments, and participating in demanding activities, he or she cooperates because the nurse has
a good relationship with the client; this is an example of which type of power?
1. Referent power
2. Expert power
3. Coercive power
4. Legitimate power :
11. By demonstrating their knowledge of the client’s condition, recent laboratory tests, and other
elements that are vital to the client’s recovery, nurses demonstrate which type of power?
1. Referent power
2. Expert power
3. Coercive power
4. Legitimate power :
12. If a nurse employs the underlying principles in the process of behavior modification, the
nurse is utilizing which type of power?
1. Referent power
2. Expert power
3. Coercive power
4. Power of rewards :
13. If a nurse uses which type of power, it can destroy therapeutic and personal relationships, and
it can also be considered unethical and even illegal in certain situations?
1. Referent power
2. Expert power
3. Coercive power
8TH EDITION By Joseph T. Catalano
TEST BANK
,Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing Questions
1. Nurses are often the primary, and frequently the only, defendants named when errors are made
that result in injury to the client. This is due to which concept associated with the nursing
profession?
1. Autonomy
2. Accountability
3. Precision
4. Specificity :
2. If a nurse uses information from research as the basis for making decisions about providing
care, this nurse is engaging in which type of practice?
1. Client-based practice
2. Physician-based practice
3. Evidence-based practice
4. Provider-based practice :
3. Today’s nurses are often found in remote and often hostile areas, providing care for the sick
and dying, working 12-hour shifts, being on call, and working rotating shifts. This is why
nursing is universally known as which type of profession?
1. Altruistic
2. Synergistic
3. Optimistic
4. Pragmatic :
4. With Florence Nightingale’s radically new idea about a separate educational setting for nurses,
the nursing profession took its first steps toward which of the following?
1. Autonomy
2. Accountability
,3. Precision
4. Specificity :
5. If an advanced practice nurse is prepared to provide direct client care in primary care
settings,
focusing on health promotion, illness prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of common
health problems, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager :
6. If an advanced practice nurse focuses on the care of pregnant women before, during, and after
the birth process, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager :
7. If an advanced practice nurse is comfortable working in high-tech environments with seriously
ill individuals and their families, this nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager :
8. If an advanced practice nurse functions to coordinate services for clients with high-risk or
long-term health problems who require access to the full continuum of health-care services, this
nurse is acting in which advanced practice role?
1. Nurse practitioner
2. Certified nurse midwife
3. Clinical nurse specialist
4. Case manager :
9. If a nurse taking action to perform the activities that promote patient care, this nurse is acting
with which of the following?
, 1. Power
2. Control
3. Authority
4. Empowerment
Answer:
10. Although the client likely would prefer to avoid taking medications, tolerating uncomfortable
treatments, and participating in demanding activities, he or she cooperates because the nurse has
a good relationship with the client; this is an example of which type of power?
1. Referent power
2. Expert power
3. Coercive power
4. Legitimate power :
11. By demonstrating their knowledge of the client’s condition, recent laboratory tests, and other
elements that are vital to the client’s recovery, nurses demonstrate which type of power?
1. Referent power
2. Expert power
3. Coercive power
4. Legitimate power :
12. If a nurse employs the underlying principles in the process of behavior modification, the
nurse is utilizing which type of power?
1. Referent power
2. Expert power
3. Coercive power
4. Power of rewards :
13. If a nurse uses which type of power, it can destroy therapeutic and personal relationships, and
it can also be considered unethical and even illegal in certain situations?
1. Referent power
2. Expert power
3. Coercive power
