Chapter 6: Defining Nursing And Socialization Into Professional Practice

Question 0

Under which of Benner’s Stages of Nursing Proficiency does a nurse have difficulty formulating priorities?

Answer 0

Advanced beginner

Question 1

Under which of Benner’s Stages of Nursing Proficiency does a nurse follow protocol very strictly?

Answer 1

Novice

Question 2

Under which of Benner’s Stages of Nursing Proficiency does a nurse coordinate several complex demands simultaneously?

Answer 2

Competent practitioner

Question 3

Under which of Benner’s Stages of Nursing Proficiency is a nurse concerned with patient outcomes, rather than institutional roles?

Answer 3

Proficient practitioner

Question 4

Under which of Benner’s Stages of Nursing Proficiency may a nurse find it difficult to express verbally why he or she selected certain actions?

Answer 4

Expert practitioner

Question 5

Who was the first person to differentiate between nursing provided by professional nurse using a unique body of knowledge and nursing care provided by a layperson, such as a mother caring for sick child?

Answer 5

Florence Nightingale

Question 6

Which text states that nursing “properly includes, as well as the execution of specific orders, the administration of food and medicine, the personal care of the patient?”

Answer 6

Shaw’s textbook of nursing

Question 7

Whose perceptions represented the emergence of contemporary nursing and were so inclusive that they remained useful for many years?

Answer 7

Virginia Henderson

Question 8

Who reinforced the idea of the patient as an active collaborator in his or her own care?

Answer 8

Hildegard Peplau

Question 9

Who believed that nurses should do only for person the things the person could not do that assistance/ emphasize the patient’s active role?

Answer 9

Dorthea Orem

Question 10

Who included the concept of the nursing process in her definition of nursing?

Answer 10

Martha Rogers

Question 11

What defined nursing comprehensively with six essential features of contemporary nursing practice?

Answer 11

The ANA’s Nursing Social Policy Statement definition

Question 12

True or false:

The goal of socialization helps new nurses understand how to “take care of people.”

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Two or false:

Learning to be a nurse is strictly formal learning.

Answer 13

False

Question 14

True or false:

Definitions clarify purposes and functions.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

True or false:

Nurses have been unable to agree on one definition for nursing.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or false:

A key reason to define nursing is that legislatures need to understand the widening expertise and autonomy of nurses.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True or false:

A current challenge and nursing is encouraging nurses to retire.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

List Benner’s V Stages of Nursing Proficiency.

Answer 18

I: Novice
II: Advanced beginner
III: Competent practitioner
IV: Proficient practitioner
V: Expert practitioner

Question 19

The statement, “Nursing encompasses the prevention of illness, the alleviation of suffering, and the protection, promotion, and restoration of health in the care of individuals, families, groups, and communities,” is found within the preface to which document? [Include association and year.]

Answer 19

The code of ethics for nurses, ANA, 2001