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Catalano Page 1 of 150 Nursing Now 8e TB Catalano Chapter 1: The Growth of Nursing Questions, Answers, and Rationales 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 ANS: 2 Page: 00 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 ANS: 3 Page: 00 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 ANS: 1 Page: 00 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 ANS: 1 Page: 00 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 ANS: 1 Catalano Page 2 of 150 Nursing Now 8e TB Page: 00 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 ANS: 2 Page: 00 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 ANS: 3 Page: 00 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 ANS: 4 Page: 00 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 ANS: 4 Page: 00 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 3. Coercive power 4. Legitimate power ANS: 1 Page: 00 11. By demonstrating their knowledge of the client’s condition, recent laboratory tests, and other elements that are vital to the client’s recovery, nurses demonstrate which type of power? 1. Referent power Catalano Page 3 of 150 Nursing Now 8e TB 2. Expert power 3. Coercive power 4. Legitimate power ANS: 2 Page: 00 12. If a nurse employs the underlying principles in the process of behavior modification, the nurse is utilizing which type of power? 1. Referent power 2. Expert power 3. Coercive power 4. Power of rewards ANS: 4 Page: 00 13. If a nurse uses which type of power, it can destroy therapeutic and personal relationships, and it can also be considered unethical and even illegal in certain situations? 1. Referent power 2. Expert power 3. Coercive power 4. Power of rewards ANS: 3 Page: 00 14. Nursing decisions made about client care can come only from individuals who have which source of power? 1. Referent power 2. Expert power 3. Coercive power 4. Legitimate power ANS: 4 Page: 00 15. The first, and certainly the most important, way in which nurses can gain power in all areas is through which action? 1. Professional unity 2. Political activity 3. Accountability and professionalism 4. Networking ANS: 1 Page: 00 Catalano Page 4 of 150 Nursing Now 8e TB Catalano Chapter 2: Historical Perspectives Questions, Answers, and Rationales 1. In ancient civilizations, starting from about 3500 B.C., health care was intertwined with religion. Which religion emphasized balance and driving demons out of the ailing body? 1. Taoism 2. Hinduism 3. Buddhism 4. Catholicism ANS: 1 Page: 2 2. Which war caused more death and injury than any war in the history of the United States and dramatically increased the demand for nurses? 1. Civil War 2. Korean War 3. Vietnam War 4. Revolutionary War ANS: 1 Page: 10 3. World War II produced another nursing shortage and, in response, Congress passed which legislative act that shortened hospital-based diploma programs from 36 to 30 months? 1. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act 2. Bolton Act 3. Hill-Burton Act 4. The Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) ANS: 2 Page: 13 4. For graduate nurses, which nursing symbol retains its significance as a symbol of the ideals and selfless devotion of Florence Nightingale? 1. Nursing cap 2. Nursing pin 3. Lamp 4. Coat of arms ANS: 3 Page: 15 5. Unlikely as it may seem, which nursing symbol can trace its origins to the heavy protective war shields used by soldiers as far back as the Greek and Roman Empires. 1. Nursing cap 2. Nursing pin 3. Lamp 4. Coat of arms ANS: 2 Page: 17 6. Which nursing symbol indicated that the student was now off probation and had earned the right to wear it during clinical rotations in the hospital? Catalano Page 5 of 150 Nursing Now 8e TB 1. Nursing cap 2. Nursing pin 3. Lamp 4. Coat of arms ANS: 1 Page: 22 7. At the height of her work in the war, which nursing leader supervised 125 nurses in several large hospitals and was recognized for her accomplishments by the Queen of England with an Order of Merit, the highest award given to English civilians? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Isabel Adams Hampton Robb 3. Lillian Wald 4. Lavinia Lloyd Dock ANS: 1 Page: 27 8. Which nursing leader helped develop the American Journal of Nursing, the first professional journal dedicated to the improvement of nursing, which is still the official journal of the American Nurses Association? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Isabel Adams Hampton Robb 3. Lillian Wald 4. Lavinia Lloyd Dock ANS: 2 Page: 26 9. Many child health and wellness programs in use today are based on the efforts of which nursing leader? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Isabel Adams Hampton Robb 3. Lillian Wald 4. Lavinia Lloyd Dock ANS: 3 Page: 27 10. When World War I was over, which nursing leader became a nursing educator, eventually serving as dean at the Yale School of Nursing? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Isabel Adams Hampton Robb 3. Lavinia Lloyd Dock 4. Annie Goodrich ANS: 4 Page: 28 11. Which nursing leader was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011 for being recognized as an internationally renowned nursing leader who transformed the profession of nursing and made health care more accessible to the general public? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Loretta C. Ford 3. Lavinia Lloyd Dock Catalano Page 6 of 150 Nursing Now 8e TB 4. Annie Goodrich ANS: 2 Page: 29 12. In general, travel nurse staffing companies require which standard that allows the nurses to meet any staffing requirements of individual facilities? 1. LVN 2. LPN 3. ADN 4. BSN ANS: 4 Page: 31 13. Which nursing leader noticed that many of her fellow students struggled to learn about all the medications that were becoming available and later wrote the first medication textbook for nurses? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Loretta C. Ford 3. Lavinia Lloyd Dock 4. Annie Goodrich ANS: 3 Page: 28 14. Which of the following focused on what we now call holistic-health practices, which included special diets, massage therapy, and rest to drive evil spirits from a body? 1. Hebrews 2. Buddhism 3. Roman Empire 4. Babylonian Empire ANS: 4 Page: 3 15. Which of the following developed quite an advanced system of medicine and a pharmacology that included more than 600 medications derived from herbs and plants? 1. Hebrews 2. Buddhism 3. Roman Empire 4. Babylonian Empire ANS: 3 Page: 5 Catalano Chapter 3: Theories and Models of Nursing Questions, Answers, and Rationales 1. The nursing profession tends to use which term when attempting to explain apparent relationships between observed behaviors and their effects on a client’s health? 1. Model 2. Theory 3. Hypothesis