Which of the following statements is FALSE?
Question options:
A. To be considered a Registered Nurse, a person must pass the NCLEX-RN.
B. A Bachelor of Science prepared nurse is considered an advanced practice nurse.
C. A Registered Nurse can hold either an Associate Degree or Baccalaureate Degree.
D. In order to practice as a Nurse Midwife, a nurse must hold at least a Master's Degree. -
Answer- B. A Bachelor of Science prepared nurse is considered an advanced practice nurse.
Each state has its own _____________, which is a legal document that regulates the scope of
nursing practice in that specific state and helps to protect the public against unsafe nurses.
A. Patient Advocate Department
B. Nursing Practice Act
C. Nurse Licensure Exam
D. Nursing Code of Ethics - Answer- B. Nursing Practice Act
When a nurse initiates independent nursing interventions without medical orders, the nurse is:
A. practicing outside the scope of nursing.
B. demonstrating accountability.
C. demonstrating advanced nursing practice.
D. demonstrating autonomy. - Answer- D. demonstrating autonomy.
Which is NOT an expected role of a nurse?
A. Educator
B. Leader
C. Advocate
D. Friend - Answer- D. Friend
Which is included in the definition of nursing?
A. prolonging life at all costs
B. treatment of human response
C. curing disease
D. doing no harm - Answer- B. treatment of human response
Which of the following describes Florence Nightingale most accurately?
A. Cared for Civil War soldiers; believed most in nurses promoting the psychological well-being of
patients
B. Founder of modern nursing; believed that nurses should manipulate the environment to restore
and to promote patient health
C. Opened first nursing school in America; believed that good hygiene and sanitary conditions
promoted patient wellness and recovery
, D. Founder of the nursing metaparadigm; believed that isolating patients and limiting light
exposure promoted health best - Answer- B. Founder of modern nursing; believed that nurses
should manipulate the environment to restore and to promote patient health
What is a concept?
A. Who knows????????????
B. A building block of a theory
C. A proposition
D. Abstract leveling - Answer- B. A building block of a theory
What theory did Dorothea Orem develop?
A. Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory
B. Practice Theory
C. Culture Care Nursing Theory
D. Shared Theory - Answer- A. Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory
Which of the following ideas represent Watson's transpersonal caring theory? Select all that apply.
A. The theory focuses on the disease-cure model to heal patients.
B. The nurse must have a conscious intention to care and promote wholeness.
C. The nurse-patient relationship facilitates self-healing.
D. Carative factors help patients to attain health or die peacefully. - Answer- B. The nurse must
have a conscious intention to care and promote wholeness.
C. The nurse-patient relationship facilitates self-healing.
D. Carative factors help patients to attain health or die peacefully
Nurses have assumed all of the following roles throughout history EXCEPT?
A. Public health nurse
B. Frontier nurse
C. Medical physician nurse
D. Wartime nurse - Answer- C. Medical physician nurse
Which part of the nursing diagnosis includes information about causes or risk factors?
A. Symptoms
B. Problem
C. Cues
D. Etiology - Answer- D. Etiology
Which of the following diagnostic steps involves clustering cues together into meaningful groups?
A. Formatting the chosen diagnosis
B. Analysis
C. Generating differential diagnoses
D. Synthesis - Answer- D. Synthesis
Which type of nursing diagnosis is formatted to include only a problem and etiology statement?