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Nursing Now: Today's Issues, Tomorrow's Trends: Today's
Issues, Tomorrows Trends
Author: Joseph T. Catalano
9th Edition
,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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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
Nursing Now: Today's Issues, Tomorrow's Trends: Today's
Issues, Tomorrows Trends
Author: Joseph T. Catalano
9th Edition
,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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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 Answer:
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
