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The nursing director attends a workshop and is presenting information on the ANA's six
essential features of Nursing from the 2003 publication. Which of the following is one of
the six essential features of nursing included in the publication?
- Use professional judgment and critical thinking to treat human responses and
experiences.
- Use public policy to shape the future of the nursing profession.
- Use scientific inquiry to advance the practice of nursing.
- Use assessment and attend to the full range of human responses "within the physical
environment." - Correct Answer Use professional judgment and critical thinking to treat
human responses and experiences.
The Professional Nurse Contributions Model attempts to synthesize the affective
cognitive, behavioral, and psychomotor domains of the professional practice of nursing.
Caring, compassion, and commitment are part of which domain?
- Cognitive
- Behavioral
- Affective
- Psychomotor - Correct Answer Affective
A staff nurse is promoted to nurse manager on his unit. Which of the following roles will
he undertake as the nurse manager?
- Caregiver
- Teacher
- Coordinator
- Counselor - Correct Answer Coordinator
A nurse who has worked for 15 years in the hospital has an opportunity to attend an
RN-to-BSN program in her local community, and the hospital will pay for the cost of
tuition if she agrees to work there for two years following graduation. The nurse has
accepted and is in her first term at the local college. Which of the following skills will she
develop through critical and reflective thinking?
- Reading
- Speaking
- Listening
- Writing - Correct Answer Writing
A nurse in the long-term care facility decides to return to school to earn a higher degree.
Which of the following phases in Shane's Returning-to-School Syndrome best describes
the positive energy the nurse feels about learning new things?
- Conflict Phase
- Reintegration Phase
- Integration Phase
- Honeymoon Phase - Correct Answer Honeymoon Phase
, The second phase of Bridge's Managing Transitions Theory is highlighted when the old
identity has vanished but the new one is not fully developed. In this phase, people
experience a very unsettled feeling because they may not know how to act or what
questions to ask. What is the name of this second phase?
- New beginning
- Neutral zone
- Transition one
- Letting go - Correct Answer Neutral Zone
A nurse returns to school to complete an advanced degree and is finding it difficult to
meet all expectations of being a new mother, a student, a wife, and a full-time
employee. The nurse is experiencing what type of issue?
- Value conflict
- Behavioral conflict
- Role conflict
- Attitude conflict - Correct Answer Role Conflict
Attending a workshop on the development of a professional self-concept, a nurse is
exposed to Benner's Novice-to-Expert Model. Which of the following is one of the three
general aspects of skilled performance in Benner's model?
- Ability to move back and forth between principles of model
- Change in perception of demand from whole parts being relevant to portions being
equally relevant
- Movement of past experiences to abstract principles as paradigms
- Passage of a detached performer to an involved performer engaged in the situation -
Correct Answer Passage of a detached performer to an involved performer engaged in
the situation
The characteristics of a profession are many, and nursing is delineated as an emerging
profession because of the absence of what characteristics?
- Use of a specialized database
- Standardized educational entry
- Specialized competencies
- Autonomy and control overwork - Correct Answer Standardized educational entry
A nurse works in the medical-surgical unit of a suburban hospital and is taking care of a
client who is complex. The nurse exhibits habits of flexibility, inquisitiveness, and open-
mindedness in caring for the client. What type of thinking is this nurse exhibiting?
- Critical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Reflective thinking
- Independent thinking - Correct Answer Critical Thinking
There are three staff nurses working on the general medical-surgical floor. Nurse A has
just graduated from nursing school and passed the boards, Nurse B has been working