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Chapter 13: Workforce Advocacy for a Professional Nursing Practice
Environment Cherry and Jacob: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and
Management, 8th Edition
Workforce Advocacy for a Professional Nursing Practice Environment Cherry and
Jacob: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 8th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. What should the RN do when asked to accept a patient assignment that he or she
may feel unqualified to manage?
a. Accept the assignment as appropriate if assigned by a legitimate power.
b. Be primarily concerned with the number of patients being assigned.
c. Ask how other nurses have handled the assignment in the past.
d. Determine whether he or she is familiar with the types of patients being assigned.
ANS: D Nurses should always think critically about assignments so they can
communicate what makes them uncomfortable about a particular assignment. If nurses
do not have the knowledge or experience required for patient assignments, then
modification of the assignments is in order to ensure patient safety. DIF: Application
2. What workplace factor has been found to contribute to the nursing shortage?
a. Movement of nurses into acute care settings
b. The use of unlicensed assistive personnel to replace RNs
c. A severe lack of males who have chosen nursing as a career
d. An aging nursing workforce
ANS: D Research validates that an aging population and an aging nursing workforce
are significant contributors to the nursing shortage issue.
DIF: Comprehension
3. In the last years what have studies conducted to determine enrollment trends in
nursing schools found related to the predicted nursing shortage?
a. A greater number of individuals chose nursing as a career but could not meet
entrance requirements.
b. More young people chose to enter the profession of nursing.
c. Fewer career opportunities exist in the profession of nursing and fewer opportunities
are projected to exist for women.
d. Men have dominated the profession, and women feel that they have experienced
discrimination.
, ANS: B An unexpected number of young people entered the nursing workforce from
2002 to
2009, causing faster growth in the supply than anticipated.
DIF: Comprehension
TEST BANK FOR CONTEMPORARY NURSING 8TH EDITION BY CHERRY
4. What factor has attributed to a situation where qualified nursing school applicants
have continued to be turned away, limiting enrollment due to a shortage of faculty?
a. Nursing faculties are subject to high levels of burnout and job dissatisfaction.
b. Only the number of faculty in Associate Degree programs remains stable.
c. The mean age of nursing faculty continues to decrease and older faculty mentors
have left the profession.
d. Increasing job competition from higher paying clinical sites, even as the economy
recovers
ANS: D Academic institutions, especially those faced with budget cuts, generally cannot
compete with nonacademic employers. Faculty salaries continue to be a major
contributor to the nursing shortage.
DIF: Comprehension
5. What is the key to organizational success for health care facilities?
a. Recruiting younger, more energetic nurses
b. Offering incentives such as sign-on bonuses c. Hiring highly qualified advanced
practice nurses
d. Making effect to retaining practicing professional nurses
ANS: D Past nursing shortages have proved that retention of professional nurses is the
key to any organization’s success. Nurses want to work in an environment that supports
decision making and effective nurse-physician relationships. The ability of an
organization to retain nurses primarily depends on the creation of an environment that is
conducive to professional autonomy.
DIF: Comprehension
6. A new graduate nurse is applying for the exciting first position and states, “I am only
applying to Magnet hospitals because those work environments:
a. attract physicians who are the best health care providers to improve quality of care.”
Chapter 13: Workforce Advocacy for a Professional Nursing Practice
Environment Cherry and Jacob: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and
Management, 8th Edition
Workforce Advocacy for a Professional Nursing Practice Environment Cherry and
Jacob: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 8th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. What should the RN do when asked to accept a patient assignment that he or she
may feel unqualified to manage?
a. Accept the assignment as appropriate if assigned by a legitimate power.
b. Be primarily concerned with the number of patients being assigned.
c. Ask how other nurses have handled the assignment in the past.
d. Determine whether he or she is familiar with the types of patients being assigned.
ANS: D Nurses should always think critically about assignments so they can
communicate what makes them uncomfortable about a particular assignment. If nurses
do not have the knowledge or experience required for patient assignments, then
modification of the assignments is in order to ensure patient safety. DIF: Application
2. What workplace factor has been found to contribute to the nursing shortage?
a. Movement of nurses into acute care settings
b. The use of unlicensed assistive personnel to replace RNs
c. A severe lack of males who have chosen nursing as a career
d. An aging nursing workforce
ANS: D Research validates that an aging population and an aging nursing workforce
are significant contributors to the nursing shortage issue.
DIF: Comprehension
3. In the last years what have studies conducted to determine enrollment trends in
nursing schools found related to the predicted nursing shortage?
a. A greater number of individuals chose nursing as a career but could not meet
entrance requirements.
b. More young people chose to enter the profession of nursing.
c. Fewer career opportunities exist in the profession of nursing and fewer opportunities
are projected to exist for women.
d. Men have dominated the profession, and women feel that they have experienced
discrimination.
, ANS: B An unexpected number of young people entered the nursing workforce from
2002 to
2009, causing faster growth in the supply than anticipated.
DIF: Comprehension
TEST BANK FOR CONTEMPORARY NURSING 8TH EDITION BY CHERRY
4. What factor has attributed to a situation where qualified nursing school applicants
have continued to be turned away, limiting enrollment due to a shortage of faculty?
a. Nursing faculties are subject to high levels of burnout and job dissatisfaction.
b. Only the number of faculty in Associate Degree programs remains stable.
c. The mean age of nursing faculty continues to decrease and older faculty mentors
have left the profession.
d. Increasing job competition from higher paying clinical sites, even as the economy
recovers
ANS: D Academic institutions, especially those faced with budget cuts, generally cannot
compete with nonacademic employers. Faculty salaries continue to be a major
contributor to the nursing shortage.
DIF: Comprehension
5. What is the key to organizational success for health care facilities?
a. Recruiting younger, more energetic nurses
b. Offering incentives such as sign-on bonuses c. Hiring highly qualified advanced
practice nurses
d. Making effect to retaining practicing professional nurses
ANS: D Past nursing shortages have proved that retention of professional nurses is the
key to any organization’s success. Nurses want to work in an environment that supports
decision making and effective nurse-physician relationships. The ability of an
organization to retain nurses primarily depends on the creation of an environment that is
conducive to professional autonomy.
DIF: Comprehension
6. A new graduate nurse is applying for the exciting first position and states, “I am only
applying to Magnet hospitals because those work environments:
a. attract physicians who are the best health care providers to improve quality of care.”
