Advancing Your Career: Concepts of Professional Nursing
Rose Kearney-Nunnery
8th Edition
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,Table of Contents
SECTION I: Professional Bases for Practice
1. Your Professional Identity
2. Theory as the Basis for Practice
3. Evolution and Use of Formal Knowledge of Nursology
4. Health, Illness, and Holism
5. Evidence-Based Practice
SECTION II: Critical Abilities in Professional Nursing Practice
6. Effective Communication
7. Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment
8. Working with Groups
9. The Teaching-Learning Process
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10. Managing and Leading in the Organization
11. Change and Innovation
12. Professional Ethics
SECTION III: Quality Care for Individuals, Families & Groups
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13. Quality and Safety in Healthcare
14. Population Health
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15. Informatics, Telehealth, and Evolving Technologies
16. Economics and Healthcare Policy
17. The Politically Active Nurse: An Imperative
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SECTION IV: Envisioning the Future
18. Global Health, Nursing, Policy, and Social Justice
19. Expanding the Vision
,Chapter 1. Your Professional Identity
(RATIONALIZED ANSWERS AT THE END OF EVERY CHAPTER)
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a profession?
A. Authority
B. Leadership
C. Systematic theory
D. Professional culture
2. The definition by Kerlinger and Lee (2000) as a “a set of interrelated constructs (concepts), definitions, and
propositions that present a systematic view of phenomena by specifying relations among variables, with the
purpose of explaining and predicting the phenomena” is a:
A. Systems theory
B. Profession
C. Key concept
D. Theory
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3. The correct definition of a paradigm used by professionals in a scientific community consists of the belief
system shared by members of that particular community and includes:
A. Conducting research, phenomena, and practicing the profession
B. The code of ethics, the practice of the profession, and conducting research
C. Practice of the profession, conducting research, and the standards of practice
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D. Evidence-based practice, practice of the profession, and conducting research
4. Which of the following is not one of the five competencies for a health-care professional?
A. Evidence-based practice
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B. Continuing education
C. Patient-centered care
D. Informatics
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5. The spiritual, emotional setting(s) or climate in which the person lives, plays, and interacts as well as the
social, physical setting describes:
A. A patient
B. A profession
C. An ethical code.
D. An environment
6. Which of the following is not a main concept of a metaparadigm?
A. Human beings
B. Theory
C. Health
D. Nursing
7. Which of the following does the code of ethics for nurses not address?
A. Behavior with medical professionals
B. Behavior with clients
C. Behavior with colleagues
D. Behavior with patient advocates
8. Which of the following is not part of the Standards of Professional Performance?
, A. Systemic theory
B. Education
C. Communication
D. Leadership
9. The judgment and self-governing within one’s scope of practice is part of:
A. Evidence-based practice
B. Knowledge base
C. Code of ethics
D. Leadership
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. A philosophy of nursing is the medical profession’s belief system.
2. The professional nurse is concerned with safe and effective care beyond the treatment facility with such
things as the environment, health, and human beings.
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3. Community sanction occurs through rules and regulations, expectations for practitioners, and professional
code of ethics.
4. Informal groups exist within each formal group, providing further professional collegial inclusiveness.
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5. Continuing education is not part of the code of ethics.
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