Chapter 19

Question 1

power

Answer 1

• The authority and ability to get things accomplished.
• The capacity or potential to get others to do something one wants them to do that they would not ordinarily do.
• The potential of an individual or group to influence the behavior of others.

Question 2

Power may be

Answer 2

feared, worshipped, or mistrusted. It is frequently misunderstood (Marquis & Huston, 2006).

Question 3

Heineken and Wozniak said that the absence of a power base

Answer 3

“has been the singularly most limited force in preventing the [nursing] profession from achieving its overall potential”

Question 4

So why is it that nurses, the largest group of health professionals with the greatest firsthand knowledge of the health- care problems facing consumers today, are not an integral part of politics and policy setting in health care?

Answer 4

Factor 1: The Oppression of Nurses as a Group

Factor 2: Nursing’s Failure to Fully Align with the Feminist Movement

Question 5

Factor 1: The Oppression of Nurses as a Group

Answer 5

Nursing historically has been controlled by outside forces with greater prestige,
power, and status.

Generally, these forces were patriarchal and male dominated, such as medicine and hospital administration.

Question 6

Factor 2: Nursing’s Failure to Fully Align with the Feminist Movement

Answer 6

As an occupation of primarily women, nursing has suffered the same effects of gender stereotyping as have all women (Reverby as cited in Ballou, 2000).

While both nurses and women 
	have improved their status in the 
	past four decades, nursing has 
	not kept pace with the progress 
	women made in other areas.