NUR 2868 | Role & Scope FINAL QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | (50 OUT OF 50) 100% CORRECT | Rasmussen College

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NUR 2868 | Role & Scope FINAL QUESTIONS & ANSWERS • Question 1 Identify the primary purpose for the development of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project. • Focus nursing ... education on competencies to reduce the number of medical errors • Question 2 The Robert Wood Johnson Philanthropy Foundation has recommended the following: (Select all that apply). • The nurse should practice to the full extent their education and training • Achieve higher levels of education (ASN to BSN to MSN) • Collaborate. Nurses should be full partners in collaboration with other healthcare professionals that help redesign (Dr., PT, OT, etc.) Similar question as #2 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) produced a report making recommendations for the future of nursing. What were the recommendations (select all that apply)? • Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training • Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression • Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States • Effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and information infrastructure. • Question 3 Identify the health-care area in which the use of computers has improved the efficiency of care. • Documentation • Question 4 Identify what a new graduate nurse who is having unresolved role conflicts may experience. • High levels of anxiety • Question 5 Which element(s) is (are) a QSEN competency? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. • Quality improvement • Teamwork and collaboration • Informatics • Question 6 What are rules of conduct that protect the community and society overall? • Laws • Question 7 What may cause some people to make responses that seem inappropriate or overemotional? • The lack of an opportunity to develop coping skills • Question 8 Which is a Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) requirement for client education? • Nursing staff must provide and document client education • Question 9 What is an important role that the nursing process fulfills in professional nursing? • Forming the ethical basis for nursing practice • Question 10 Identify the most appropriate political activities for nurses at the state level. • Suggest legislation and seek sponsors • Question 11 Statistically, which factor is most likely to increase a client’s motivation to learn? • The presence of the client’s significant other during teaching session • Question 12 Identify the most important element in nursing’s attempt to gain full autonomy of practice. • Gaining and maintaining control of nursing practice by nurses • Question 13 After assessing an older adult client in long-term care who has been slowly deteriorating for weeks, the nurse manager calls the family and asks them to come in, as the client is dying. What are the nurse manager’s decision and actions based on? • Tacit knowledge and clinical judgement • Question 14 Which step of the nursing process identifies the success or failure of the plan of care developed by a nurse? • Evaluation • Question 15 What is a recommended method for nurses to prepare for future professional practice? • Understand and explore the issues involved in professionalism as nurses • Question 16 The nurse manager decides to involve those to be affected by change early in the change management process. What can positively result in? • Conflict • Question 17 The oxygen saturation for a client with acute infective bronchitis drops to 84%, and the client develops severe dyspnea. There is a standing order for a handheld nebulizer (HHN) treatment PRN for shortness of breath. The respiratory therapy department is designated to give all respiratory treatments in the facility. When the nurse calls the respiratory therapist, he states that he has several more treatments to give but he should be there in 10 or 15 minutes. Which action by the nurse is most appropriate at this time? • Do not wait for the respiratory therapist, give the HHN treatment himself or herself • Question 18 Which activity tends to increase nurses’ satisfaction during work? • Taking time to talk with clients about their needs • Question 19 What is the primary concern that some health-care providers have in the use of computers in client care? • The ability to provide quality care when the computers malfunction • Question 20 Nurses must understand which principle of the Nurse-Family Partnership? • The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is a program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses for low-income first-time mothers. NFP nurses help parents improve • 1) the outcomes of pregnancy by helping women improve their prenatal health; • 2) children’s subsequent health and development by helping parents provide competent infant and toddler care; and • 3) parents’ economic self-sufficiency by helping them complete their educations, find work, and plan future pregnancies. • Question 21 Identify the primary position advocated by the 1965 ANA Position Paper on Education for Nurses. • Baccalaureate education should be the basic level of preparation for professional nurse • Question 22 As nurses achieve increased professional autonomy, what must they also accept? • Ethical accountability • Question 23 Identify the underlying premise for evidence-based practice. • Practice based on research produces better client outcomes • Question 24 Identify the element that is the best indicator of increasing accountability in the profession of nursing. • Demonstration of competency and high quality care through peer review • Question 25 A leader with a low relationship/low task orientation presents a leadership style that is most similar to which leadership approach? • Laissez-faire • Question 26 You overhear a newly graduated nurse telling one of your colleagues that leadership and management belong to the unit manager and not to her. Your response demonstrates understanding that the perception of the new graduate? • Would benefit from further understanding of her role as a professional, whose influence may affect the decision making of patient and colleagues • Question 27 Which statement by a nurse manager during a staff meeting best demonstrates use of an assertive style of communication? • You have made some good points, but I have another suggestion • Question 28 The CEO asks the nurse manager of the telemetry unit to justify the disproportionately high number of registered nurses on the telemetry unit. The nurse manager explains that nursing research has validated which statement about a low nurse-to-client ratio? • Improves patient outcomes • Question 29 Why do many new nurses ignore the signs of burnout? • They’re worried that they spent time, money, and energy on a career they no longer want • Question 30 What role does anger play in communication? • Constructive • It can be used positively to produce change • Question 31 What statement is true regarding the relationship between nurses and legislators? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. • • Question 32 During a staff meeting, an elderly physician is very negative about recent changes on the unit. He indicates that the nurses are not working hard enough. How can the unit manager most appropriately deal with this situation? • Allow the physician to express his or her opinions and then ask for input from others at the meeting • Question 33 Why is the term healing preferred to medicine when referring to alternative and complementary methods of care? • Clients might associate alternative treatment with hospital or physician based care • Question 34 As the head of a nursing program, you always invite the ideas of your team about innovations in teaching and curriculum design, and invite participation in decisions. Many of these ideas have been implemented, and your staff members are keen to try other new ideas. You are employing what type of leadership? • Transformational • Question 35 Which personality characteristics would make a person more susceptible to burnout? • Above average intelligence, idealistic, perfectionist • Question 36 Identify the term defined as systems of valued behaviors and beliefs. • Morals • Question 37 Which is not true of the Change of Shift SBAR report? • • Question 38 What is the first step in the process of critical thinking? • Identify the problem • Question 39 Provision number 7 of the 2001 Code of Ethics for Nurses states: “The nurse participates in the advancement of the profession through contributions to practice, education, administration, and knowledge development.” On which ethical principle is this statement primarily based? • Accountability • Question 40 A family is keeping vigil at a critically ill client's bedside. Other, distant family members, not yet able to come, call the unit continuously, asking for updates and wanting to express concern. You speak with the distant family members and suggest that you are going to refer them to the hospital social worker, whose role is to work with such situations. What role are you assuming through this action? • Manager • Question 41 Which characteristic is required in a person who is able to resolve difficult crises? • Uses newly developed coping skills to resolve future crises • Question 42 After her first week working on a busy medical/surgical unit, a new charge nurse notes that the nurses, although highly competent, are unable to function productively as a team. What can she do to facilitate team-building on her unit? • Provide an opportunity for the nurses to express their feelings and emotions • Question 43 Select an important principle that guides managers who use a democratic leadership style. • Each member of the group respects all of the other members as unique and valuable. • Question 44 What is the primary reason a nurse should develop learning objectives for all client teaching? • Learning objectives help the nurse to organize the teaching materials • Question 45 What is a type of nursing education program that is conducted in junior and community colleges that is typically two years in length? • Associate degree program • Question 46 What is the most common emotion experienced by nurses who are developing burnout? • powerlessness • Question 47 What makes a problem an ethical dilemma? • (moral uncertainty) • (-conflicting moral stakes) • (-decision maker is facing a powerful immoral stake) • (-decision could have a moral impact on a stakeholder) • Question 48 Which contribution of Florence Nightingale had the greatest impact on nursing education? • Recognizing that formal, systematic education in both theory and practice was essential for the preparation of high quality nurses • Question 49 The manager of an intensive care unit wants to add nurse assistants or unlicensed persons to feed, bathe, and assist in some unit tasks. The nurses are very resistant to this idea. What is the best initial approach for the nurse manager to take to get buy-in of the nurses? • Examining the reasons for resistance and the values of the RN group in relationship to this change • Question 50 Provision number 1 of the 2001 Code of Ethics for Nurses states: “The nurse, in all professional relationships, practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and uniqueness of every individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of health-care problems.” On which ethical principle is this statement primarily based? • Distributive Justice [Show More]

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