Question 1 of 5

With the crisis in health care and the nursing shortage, why is the image of nursing still important?

A. Nursing care is often delivered during a time of uncertainty, and the image of nurses during this time can reinforce trust in the nurse-patient relationship. B. Physicians have a distinctive body of knowledge that identifies them as professionals, whereas nursing has yet to develop a unique body of knowledge on which to base practice. C. Nurses must present a unified image if they hope to ever establish nursing as a profession. D. The dynamic state of today's health care requires nurses to move from a caring image to one of technologic competence.

Question 2 of 5

A graduate of a nursing school in the United States plans to practice nursing in Paris, France. To request licensure to practice in Paris, the nurse:

A. must contact the Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools to complete a special examination. B. realizes that education in the United States is so generalized that he or she is eligible to practice in other countries without additional licensure. C. is required to take a language proficiency examination for the primary language of that particular country, as well as a cultural assessment test, prior to licensure. D. should contact the International Council of Nurses or the nursing regulatory board of that country.

Question 3 of 5

An organization's emergency preparedness task force meets to discuss how it should react in case of a terrorist attack and develops a disaster evacuation plan that details how each department will assist individuals in reaching safety. This type of diagram is referred to as a:

A. Pareto chart. B. control chart. C. top-down flowchart. D. deployment chart.

Question 4 of 5

A consumer is learning about electronic health records at a local health fair and states, "I am worried that someone can read my health information and I really don't understand the difference between privacy and confidentiality." The nurse explains that an example of confidentiality would be:

A. a pledge that states, "I will hold matters pertaining to my patients in strict intimacy." B. a patient who does not tell the physician that he has been treated for a sexually transmitted disease. C. a teenager who sustains a broken arm and in the emergency department and withholds information about her use of recreational drugs. D. locking medical records in cabinets to prevent unauthorized users from accessing patient information.

Question 5 of 5

Which situation would be considered a workforce advocacy issue that is reportable to the state nurses association or the Center for American Nurses if it is not resolved at the local level?

A. Nurses prefer to wear navy blue scrubs, but the institution requires burgundy scrubs, which interferes with autonomy. B. The cafeteria often serves fried vegetables rather than healthier baked vegetables, causing the potential for hyperlipidemia. C. The hospital pharmacy does not fill employee prescriptions upon receiving them; instead, they fill employee prescriptions after all inpatient prescriptions have been filled. D. The key needed to change the sharps container is locked in the supervisor's office after 3 PM on weekdays and all day on weekends, which prevents changing of the container when needed and places nurses at risk for needlesticks.

Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing PDF

Skildor

ATI RN

ATI RN