UTA NURS 2300 Exam 1 Questions With Complete
Solutions
(2c) Describe how nursing has reacted to nursing shortages and
how those affect patient outcomes. Correct Answer External
shortages: can include changes in demand for nursing services,
and increasing age of American population, greater acuity
(degree of illness) of the hospitalized individual, public
perceptions of nursing as a profession and ever-widening career
options for women.
Internal shortages: salary issues, long hours, increased
responsibility for unlicensed workers and significant
responsibility with little authority.
Two solutions attempted:
1) increase the supply of nurses
2) create less-trained worker supplement the number of nurses.
(2c) Describe how the public sees nurses. Correct Answer
Some view nurses as highly sexualized or as not being diverse in
gender and race, they tend to view them as young white women.
Also most people do not appreciate the complexity and range of
today's professional nursing role.
(2c) Discuss how the nursing profession has evolved. Correct
Answer From the work of Florence in the Crimea in the mid-
1800s to the present, the profession of nursing has been
influenced by the social, political and economic climate of the
times as well as by the technological advances and the
theoretical shifts in medicine and science.
, (2c) Identify social and demographic factors that influence the
development of nursing in the United States. Correct Answer
Aging population and increasing diversity. Since people are
living longer the population of older people is increasing (baby
boomers) this population or group is more likely to have chronic
conditions /illnesses.
(2c) Identify ways in which students and nurses can promote the
profession of nursing. Correct Answer profession by one-
patient-at- a-time
speak out against negative portrayals
ANA (American Nurses Association) can enhance image by
offering services as consultants to media and setting professional
standards
become sensitive to portrayals of nurses and nursing in the
media
confront/contact those responsible for negative portrayals of
nursing in the media
(3b) Discuss how a nurse uses critical thinking and clinical
judgment in practice. Correct Answer The nursing process
represents a universal intellectual standard by which problems
are addressed and solved. Solving patient problems in a
professional practice.
(3b) Distinguish between novice thinking and expert thinking.
Correct Answer Novice thinking:
Solutions
(2c) Describe how nursing has reacted to nursing shortages and
how those affect patient outcomes. Correct Answer External
shortages: can include changes in demand for nursing services,
and increasing age of American population, greater acuity
(degree of illness) of the hospitalized individual, public
perceptions of nursing as a profession and ever-widening career
options for women.
Internal shortages: salary issues, long hours, increased
responsibility for unlicensed workers and significant
responsibility with little authority.
Two solutions attempted:
1) increase the supply of nurses
2) create less-trained worker supplement the number of nurses.
(2c) Describe how the public sees nurses. Correct Answer
Some view nurses as highly sexualized or as not being diverse in
gender and race, they tend to view them as young white women.
Also most people do not appreciate the complexity and range of
today's professional nursing role.
(2c) Discuss how the nursing profession has evolved. Correct
Answer From the work of Florence in the Crimea in the mid-
1800s to the present, the profession of nursing has been
influenced by the social, political and economic climate of the
times as well as by the technological advances and the
theoretical shifts in medicine and science.
, (2c) Identify social and demographic factors that influence the
development of nursing in the United States. Correct Answer
Aging population and increasing diversity. Since people are
living longer the population of older people is increasing (baby
boomers) this population or group is more likely to have chronic
conditions /illnesses.
(2c) Identify ways in which students and nurses can promote the
profession of nursing. Correct Answer profession by one-
patient-at- a-time
speak out against negative portrayals
ANA (American Nurses Association) can enhance image by
offering services as consultants to media and setting professional
standards
become sensitive to portrayals of nurses and nursing in the
media
confront/contact those responsible for negative portrayals of
nursing in the media
(3b) Discuss how a nurse uses critical thinking and clinical
judgment in practice. Correct Answer The nursing process
represents a universal intellectual standard by which problems
are addressed and solved. Solving patient problems in a
professional practice.
(3b) Distinguish between novice thinking and expert thinking.
Correct Answer Novice thinking:
