QUESTION The nurse using Westerhoff’s stages of faith should place a 13-year-old patient in which stage? 1. Experienced faith 2. New faith 3. Owned faith 4. Affiliative faith ANSWER: Correct Answer: 1 Westerhoff’s stage of experienced faith, occurring in infancy and early adolescence, is described as a time when the individual experiences faith through […]
QUESTION What should be the motivation behind the evolution of advanced practice nursing becoming more autonomous? 1. The American Nurses Credentialing Center 2. The nursing profession’s vision 3. Nurse leaders 4. Supply and demand ANSWER: Correct Answer: 2 To continue with the focus of preserving the best of what nursing has been, the evolution […]
QUESTION The World Future Society made 10 future forecasts. Which forecast will affect nursing? (Select all that apply.) 1. We will revive recently extinct species. 2. By 2020 populations will shrink, and wealth will shrink with them. 3. Doctors will see brain diseases many years before they arise. 4. Buying and owning things will go […]
QUESTION What has caused nurses’ responsibilities in the hospital to broaden over the years? 1. Higher graduation rates from colleges of nursing 2. NCLEX standards 3. An edict from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing 4. Technological advances ANSWER: Correct Answer: 4 The electronic health record is rapidly becoming the norm. Instead […]
QUESTION For nurses to be successful in future health care, what should be the focus? 1. Community focus and information technology 2. Acceptance and efficiency of managed care 3. Lifting of cost-containment measures 4. A surplus of nurses ANSWER: Correct Answer: 1 The drivers of change in the future of health care are likely […]
QUESTION Which is true about who perpetrates most intimate partner abuse against whom? 1. By men against other men 2. By men against women 3. By caregivers against elders 4. By adults against children ANSWER: Correct Answer: 2 Most intimate partner abuse is perpetrated by men against women; however, abuse is also perpetrated by […]
QUESTION What is faith? 1. The core of a person’s being, involving one’s relationship with God or a higher power 2. The belief in something that cannot be directly observed 3. An organized belief system shared by a group of people and the practices related to that system 4. Unique to Christianity ANSWER: Correct […]
QUESTION What is the focus of a nurse practicing as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS)? 1. Improvement of client care and nursing practice 2. Providing orientation for the novice nurse 3. Acting as a liaison between staff nurses and administration 4. Assisting physicians with in-patient care delivery ANSWER: Correct Answer: 1 The clinical nurse […]
QUESTION What was the motivation for focusing on wellness in the healthcare system? 1. Demands by the public 2. Nurse practice acts 3. Higher education 4. Cost-containment measures ANSWER: Correct Answer: 4 Cost-containment measures have driven the current healthcare system of wellness. Third-party payers want to keep members well so they do not need […]
QUESTION A nurse discovers that a person is being abused. What should the nurse do to prevent the abuse from continuing? (Select all that apply.) 1. Appropriate assessment 2. Verbalize to the victim that he or she is a good person and the abuser is the bad person 3. Documentation 4. Intervention 5. Know the […]
