Deck 22: Role Relationship Communication Within Nursing

Question 1

Based on the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, at what stage do nurses understand the basic elements of practice, can organize and prioritize clinical tasks, but are only able to partially grasp the unique complexity of each patient's situation?

A) Novice
B) Advanced beginner
C) Proficiency
D) Competence

Answer 1

Advanced beginner

Question 2

Based on the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, at what stage do nurses see the clinical situation as a whole, have well-developed psychosocial skills, and know from experience what needs to be modified in response to a given situation?

A) Expert
B) Competence
C) Advanced beginner
D) Proficiency

Answer 2

Proficiency

Question 3

The nurse is caring for a patient who has just refused to undergo an invasive procedure that could possibly extend his life by a few months. The nurse supports the patient's decision based on which essential value?

A) Equality
B) Truth
C) Human dignity
D) Autonomy

Answer 3

Autonomy

Question 4

The scope of practice for professional nurses has continued to expand in all of the areas below, with the exception of what generally traditional area?

A) Reimbursable health screening and promotion
B) Clinical practice blending knowledge, skills, and attitudes with patient care
C) Provision of care as part of interdisciplinary health care teams in hospitals and the community
D) Advocacy for health care transformation

Question 5

What development in the nursing industry permits swift transactions, universal access, and levels of portability unanticipated 20 years ago?

A) New differentiated practice roles
B) Technology
C) Experiential learning
D) Interdisciplinary courses

Question 6

What general heading best identifies the group of relatively new roles that include: advanced practice nurses, clinical nurse leader, Doctor of Nursing practice, and PhD-prepared nurse researcher?

A) "Professional Role Socialization"
B) "New differentiated Practice Roles"
C) "Multidimensional Psychosocial Roles"
D) "Contemporary Role Competencies"

Question 7

Where are the following professional role competencies for nurses found?
- Practice to the full extent of their education and training
- Achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education that promotes seamless academic progression
- Remain full partners, with physicians and other health professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States
- Effective workforce planning and policymaking require better data collection and an improved information infrastructure in the

A) Flexner's Criteria.
B) The American Nurses Association's Bill of Rights for Registered Nurses.
C) Institute of Medicine Report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.
D) Benner's Stages of Clinical Competence.

Question 8

What is defined as the capacity to accurately recognize emotional reactions as they happen and to understand your responses to different people and situations?

A) Transformational leadership
B) Self-awareness
C) Nurses rights
D) Structural empowerment

Question 9

Which aspect of role standards is influenced by institutional norms and may vary depending on the work environment?

A) Role pressures
B) Role performance
C) Role relationship
D) Role socialization

Question 10

A nurse, who has been practicing for 4 years, demonstrates competence, speed, and flexibility when performing clinical skills. According to Benner, the nurse is practicing at which developmental stage?

A) Advanced beginner
B) Competency
C) Proficiency
D) Expert

Question 11

According to the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, which of the following includes the correct names and order of the developmental stages demonstrating increasing proficiency in implementing the professional nursing role??

A) advanced beginner, novice, proficiency, competence, expert
B) advanced beginner, competence, novice, expert
C) novice, advanced beginner, competence, proficiency, expert
D) novice, proficiency, competence, expert

Question 12

A novice nurse decides to attend a diabetes workshop after a patient was admitted to the unit with an insulin pump that the nurse was not familiar with. This is an example of

A) role performance.
B) patient advocacy.
C) collaboration.
D) professional self-awareness.

Question 13

The new graduate nurse is unsure how to operate a new intravenous pump. After reading the directions, the nurse seeks the assistance of a more experienced nurse and asks for a demonstration on how to operate the pump. The behavior exhibited by the new graduate nurse is

A) role pressure.
B) role clarity.
C) role conflict.
D) role overload.

Question 14

The nurse offers a patient's family a list of community resources and support groups and encourages them to become involved in the local Lupus chapter. This is an example of which professional nursing role responsibility?

A) Patient advocate role
B) Teaching role
C) Caregiver role
D) Consultant role