Exam 42: Accountability

A nurse educator is talking to a group of staff nurses about the importance of continued competence in nursing practice.One of the staff nurses asks about activities that can help professional nurses maintain competence.Which action should the nurse educator recommend?

An experienced nurse practitioner is always conscious of the need to maintain a high level of competence within professional nursing practice.Which activities support this nurse's goal? Select all that apply.

A student nurse is trying to explain nursing to family members.Which contemporary aspects of nursing might the student nurse include in the explanation? Select all that apply.

The charge nurse observes that a fellow charge nurse on the unit seems impaired and unable to perform client care.Which action by the charge nurse is most appropriate in this situation?

The nurse is administering a bed bath to a client in a long-term care facility.The nurse is careful to cover the client during the bath.Which nursing role does this action reflect?

A nurse educator is conducting a continuing education in-service for the nurses in a pediatric intensive care unit.Why is it so important for the professional nurse to attend these in-services?

A nurse is overseeing a group of students who are completing a clinical rotation on a medical-surgical unit.The students are providing direct client care with the assistance of the nurse.The nurse who is overseeing the students is functioning in which capacity?

A nurse obtains certification to provide direct client care,educate others,consult,conduct research,and manage oncology care.Which expanded nursing role best describes this nurse's career position?

Which of the following individuals is widely considered to be the founder of public health nursing?

What is the most powerful factor in encouraging adoption of the attitudes and behaviors that characterize professionalism in nursing?

A nurse faculty member is speaking to prospective students of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)program at their educational institution.Which of the following reasons should the nurse faculty member cite as a major incentive for students to select a BSN program over an Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN)program? Select all that apply.

How does accountability differ from responsibility?

One of the roles of the community health nurse is to educate individuals about health promotion and wellness.Which activity would the nurse dismiss as irrelevant to health promotion and wellness?

A nurse would like to implement an evidence-based practice change that will influence client care on the medical-surgical unit.The nurse works with the nurse manager and other members of the leadership team to write a new policy and produce educational materials for the unit's staff and clients.In carrying out these actions,the nurse is practicing which standard of professional performance?

A client who has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer states to the nurse,"I do not want any further treatment,but I am afraid my doctor will insist that I continue chemotherapy." Which role is the nurse performing when informing the healthcare provider of the client's choice to stop treatment?

Providing wound care,referring clients to post-trauma psychological counseling,and assisting clients with physical and occupational therapy are all activities associated with which area of nursing competence?

________ establishes and maintains the social,political,and economic arrangements that give professionals the means to control their professional affairs.

A nurse,who has been working in a small rural hospital for 4 years since obtaining a nursing license,participates on an interdisciplinary task force to improve client care.Which skill level is this nurse demonstrating according to Benner's stages of nursing expertise?

A registered nurse (RN)who now works as a nursing supervisor at a local hospital is asked to talk about nursing during career day at a local high school.When explaining to the students why nursing is a profession rather than a job,which criteria should the RN include? Select all that apply.

A nurse educator is teaching a group of students about professionalism.The educator informs the students that a profession is distinguished from other kinds of occupations by a number of characteristics.Which of the following are among those characteristics? Select all that apply.