Chapter 2: Socialization to Professional Nursing Roles

Chapter 2: Socialization to Professional Nursing Roles

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

Question 1

Which organization published a 1965 position paper that identified associate degree nurses as “technical nurses”?

1. The American Medical Association
2. The American Nurses Association
3. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing
4. The National League for Nursing

Correct Answer: 2

Rationale: In 1965, the American Nurses Association published a position paper on education of nurses that differentiated nurses with baccalaureate degrees and nurses with associate degrees as professional and technical nurses. The other organizations listed did not publish such papers.

Cognitive Level: Remembering

Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

Client Need Sub: Management of Care

QSEN Competencies: II.C.1.1. Acknowledge own potential to contribute to effective team functioning.

AACN Essential Competencies: VI.1. Compare/contrast the roles and perspectives of the nursing profession with other care professionals on the healthcare team (i.e., scope of discipline, education, and licensure requirements).

NLN Competencies: Personal and Professional Development; Knowledge; Blurring of role boundaries and the resultant uncertainty about role expectations.

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Assessment; Nursing Process

Learning Outcome: 1. Discuss professionalism and nursing.

Page Number: p. 9

 

Question 2

The student nurse is using Pavalko’s work to support the argument that nursing is a profession. Which criteria should this student investigate as related to nursing? (Select all that apply.)

1. Relevance to social values
2. A code of ethics
3. Theory
4. Individual identity
5. Abstract knowledge

Correct Answer: 1, 2, 3, 5

Rationale: Pavalko listed eight categories as criteria to determine whether an occupation is a profession. Those eight categories are: 1. work is based on a systematic body of theory and abstract knowledge; 2. work has social value; 3. work is a service to the public; 4. education is required for specialization; 5. Autonomy; 6. commitment to the profession; 7. group identity and subculture; and 8. a code of ethics.

Cognitive Level: Applying

Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

 

Client Need Sub: Management of Care

QSEN Competencies: II.C.1.1. Acknowledge own potential to contribute to effective team functioning.

AACN Essential Competencies: VI.1. Compare/contrast the roles and perspectives of the nursing profession with other care professionals on the healthcare team (i.e., scope of discipline, education, and licensure requirements).

NLN Competencies: Personal and Professional Development; Knowledge; Blurring of role boundaries and the resultant uncertainty about role expectations.

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Planning; Nursing Process

Learning Outcome: 3. Describe Pavalko’s eight categories in the occupation-profession model applied to nursing.

Page Number: p. 20

 

Question 3

Which option best describes discipline as it applies to nursing?

1. The discipline of nursing refers to autonomy of nursing practice.
2. The discipline of nursing is nursing’s distinct body of knowledge.
3. The discipline of nursing is nursing’s standards of practice.
4. The discipline of nursing refers to nursing’s code of ethics.

Correct Answer: 2

Rationale: A discipline is a branch of knowledge, and human knowledge is divided into disciplines. Therefore, the discipline of nursing refers to that body of knowledge distinct to nursing. Although nursing is often autonomous, is governed by standards of practice, and has a rigorous code of ethics, those concepts are not the discipline of nursing.

Cognitive Level: Understanding

Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

Client Need Sub: Management of Care

QSEN Competencies: II.C.1.1. Acknowledge own potential to contribute to effective team functioning.

AACN Essential Competencies: VI.1. Compare/contrast the roles and perspectives of the nursing profession with other care professionals on the healthcare team (i.e., scope of discipline, education, and licensure requirements).

NLN Competencies: Personal and Professional Development; Knowledge; Blurring of role boundaries and the resultant uncertainty about role expectations.

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Assessment; Nursing Process

Learning Outcome: 2. Identify characteristics of a profession and describe how nursing meets or fails to meet those characteristics.

Page Number: p. 17

 

Question 4

What is the only major discipline that does not require its members to hold at least a baccalaureate degree in order to be licensed?

1. Nursing
2. Medicine
3. Physical therapy
4. Dentistry

Correct Answer: 1

Rationale: Nursing is the only major discipline listed in which a person can be licensed without a baccalaureate degree in the discipline. Most health-related disciplines require a degree advanced even beyond the baccalaureate level.

Cognitive Level: Remembering

Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

Client Need Sub: Management of Care

QSEN Competencies: II.C.1.1. Acknowledge own potential to contribute to effective team functioning.

AACN Essential Competencies: VI.1. Compare/contrast the roles and perspectives of the nursing profession with other care professionals on the healthcare team (i.e., scope of discipline, education, and licensure requirements).

NLN Competencies: Personal and Professional Development; Knowledge; Blurring of role boundaries and the resultant uncertainty about role expectations.

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Assessment; Nursing Process

Learning Outcome: 2. Identify characteristics of a profession and describe how nursing meets or fails to meet those characteristics.

Page Number: p. 18