NUR 2868 Role and Scope Final Exam Questions & Answers

NUR 2868 Role and Scope Final Exam Questions & Answers • Question 1 Identify the primary purpose for the development of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project. • Focus nursing education on competencies to reduce the number of medical errors • Question 2 The Robert Wood Johnson Philanthropy Foundation has recommended the following: (Select all that apply). • The nurse should practice to the full extent their education and training • Achieve higher levels of education (ASN to BSN to MSN) • Collaborate. Nurses should be full partners in collaboration with other healthcare professionals that help redesign (Dr., PT, OT, etc.) Similar question as #2 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) produced a report making recommendations for the future of nursing. What were the recommendations (select all that apply)? • Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training • Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression • Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States • Effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and information infrastructure. • Question 3 Identify the health-care area in which the use of computers has improved the efficiency of care. • Documentation • Question 4 Identify what a new graduate nurse who is having unresolved role conflicts may experience. • High levels of anxiety • Question 5 Which element(s) is (are) a QSEN competency? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. • Quality improvement • Teamwork and collaboration • Informatics • Question 6 What are rules of conduct that protect the community and society overall? • Laws • Question 7 What may cause some people to make responses that seem inappropriate or overemotional? • The lack of an opportunity to develop coping skills • Question 8 Which is a Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) requirement for client education? • Nursing staff must provide and document client education • Question 9 What is an important role that the nursing process fulfills in professional nursing? • Forming the ethical basis for nursing practice • Question 10 Identify the most appropriate political activities for nurses at the state level. • Suggest legislation and seek sponsors • Question 11 Statistically, which factor is most likely to increase a client’s motivation to learn? • The presence of the client’s significant other during teaching session • Question 12 Identify the most important element in nursing’s attempt to gain full autonomy of practice. • Gaining and maintaining control of nursing practice by nurses • Question 13 After assessing an older adult client in long-term care who has been slowly deteriorating for weeks, the nurse manager calls the family and asks them to come in, as the client is dying. What are the nurse manager’s decision and actions based on? • Tacit knowledge and clinical judgement • Question 14 Which step of the nursing process identifies the success or failure of the plan of care developed by a nurse? • Evaluation • Question 15 What is a recommended method for nurses to prepare for future professional practice? • Understand and explore the issues involved in professionalism as nurses • Question 16 The nurse manager decides to involve those to be affected by change early in the change management process. What can positively result in? • Conflict • Question 17 The oxygen saturation for a client with acute infective bronchitis drops to 84%, and the client develops severe dyspnea. There is a standing order for a handheld nebulizer (HHN) treatment PRN for shortness of breath. The respiratory therapy department is designated to give all respiratory treatments in the facility. When the nurse calls the respiratory therapist, he states that he has several more treatments to give but he should be there in 10 or 15 minutes. Which action by the nurse is most appropriate at this time? • Do not wait for the respiratory therapist, give the HHN treatment himself or herself • Question 18 Which activity tends to increase nurses’ satisfaction during work? • Taking time to talk with clients about their needs • Question 19