Chapter 03: Beyond Professional Socialization

Chapter 03: Beyond Professional Socialization

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. An experienced nurse has accepted a new role in administration. Supervisors can best support this transition by assisting the nurse to

ANS:  D

A nurse changing roles would be expected to experience resocialization, in which the nurse needs to redefine his or her professional identity to fit the new role. Administrative support in adapting to the new role via socialization is crucial to a successful transition.

Learning the unspoken rules of the new role might be important depending on the organizational culture in which the nurse has taken an administrative role, but it would not be the best choice.

Managing time and other people effectively is not the best choice because there is no information here suggesting that part of the new role includes directly managing others.

Obtaining information about the new job would be important, but it would not be the best choice.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Apply                   TOP:   Integrated Process: Caring

MSC:  NCLEX Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care

2. A nursing faculty member would judge that activities designed to foster socialization in students have been successful when the students

ANS:  B

Students must incorporate the values, skills, behaviors, and norms appropriate to nursing into their self-identities in a process called socialization, which begins in nursing school and occurs again as nurses change roles or jobs.

Professional and effective communication is a vital part of working in a multidisciplinary team, but it does not demonstrate socialization.

Understanding legal and ethical standards is important to today’s nurses, but this is not the best choice for two reasons: First, simply learning the standards is not enough; one must act on them. Second, this is not all that is involved in the socialization process.

Being able to understand the complexities of the nursing role today is something that the student will not truly understand until immersed in the first job. This is not directly related to socialization into a profession such as nursing.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Evaluate                TOP:   Nursing Process: Evaluation

MSC:  NCLEX Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care

3. A nursing dean oversees an RN-BSN program and is evaluating whether or not program objectives have been met. The success of this program can be demonstrated when

ANS:  C

Socialization occurs at three important points in a nurse’s career: when a new graduate leaves the educational setting and begins work as a professional nurse; when an experienced nurse changes work settings; and when the nurse takes on new roles, such as returning to school. The hope is that graduates will leave school with changes in behaviors and attitudes that reflect their new status as baccalaureate-prepared nurses.

It would be important for graduates to have a strong understanding of the subjects they encounter when they are back in school, but this choice is too narrow to support meeting broad goals.

Nurses articulating that the BSN should be required is too narrow in focus to demonstrate that the program’s goals have been met.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Evaluate                TOP:   Nursing Process: Evaluation

MSC:  NCLEX Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care

4. A nursing manager recognizes that a registered nurse has a strong sense of professional identity when which behavior is seen?

ANS:  C

As new technologies and roles develop, nurses must continually reappraise their professional identities and ensure congruent socialization with emerging trends. History does give background and context for socialization but is not as important as adapting to the current state of affairs. Joining organizations, attending conferences, and being active on committees are all part of socialization and one’s professional identity, but the larger scope of this concept revolves around maintaining a sound professional identity in the face of ongoing changes.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Evaluate                TOP:   Nursing Process: Evaluation

MSC:  NCLEX Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care