Chapter 3: Understanding the Changing Roles in Nursing

Chapter 3: Understanding the Changing Roles in Nursing

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

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Chapter 3: Understanding the Changing Roles in Nursing

Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. The nurse is teaching a group about paradigm thinking and defines it as what?

1.	One’s mathematical knowledge and ability to solve math problems
2.	The ability to see 20 feet away without wearing glasses
3.	An individual’s perception or frame of reference about the world
4.	A nurse’s ability to solve patient-care problems

____ 2. Most nursing paradigms are based on what?

1.	The nurse’s ability to perform procedures with skill
2.	Dr. Jean Watson’s transpersonal caring theory
3.	Maslow’s theory of hierarchy of needs
4.	Learning by studying nursing theories and clinical experiences

____ 3. The increasing use of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) in management positions, especially in long-term care facilities, is an example of what?

1.	Assertive management
2.	A shifting paradigm
3.	Critical thinking
4.	Smarter LPN graduates

____ 4. Why is critical thinking necessary for the nurse to identify and understand paradigms that exist in nursing practice?

1.	Critical thinking allows the nurse to make superficial decisions.
2.	Critical thinking allows the nurse to thoroughly examine situations and issues.
3.	Critical thinking provides the nurse with quick answers.
4.	Critical thinking allows the nurse to accept information without needing to check its validity.

____ 5. The nurse values respect for the individual, more than anything else, as defining high-quality patient care. What does this describe about the nurse?

1.	Critical thinking
2.	Caritas
3.	Paradigm
4.	Hierarchy of needs

____ 6. The nurse reads a peer-reviewed nursing journal article that recommends changing the procedure for caring for a patient with an indwelling urinary catheter. The nurse displays critical thinking with what action?

1.	Changing how the nurse provides care for a patient with an indwelling catheter according to the article
2.	Taking the journal article to the nurse manager and suggesting the procedure be rewritten
3.	Searching for other peer-reviewed articles that support this author’s recommendation
4.	Ignoring the article and following the procedure as written at the facility where the nurse works

____ 7. The nurse applies Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to what aspect of care?

1.	Judging the patient’s behavior
2.	Improving the skillfulness of care
3.	Understanding the patient’s behavior
4.	Improving communication skills

____ 8. The nurse is caring for a patient who has just received a cancer diagnosis. The patient is crying. The nurse recognizes this patient is operating on what level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

1.	Self-esteem
2.	Love and belonging
3.	Safety
4.	Self-actualization

Chapter 3: Understanding the Changing Roles in Nursing

Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

ANS: 3

Paradigm refers to a model, theory, assumption, or a frame of reference. Generally, it means the way a person “sees” the world; this does not refer to a person’s visual sight, but a person’s mental perception.

PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 3 OBJ: Objective: 1

KEY: Content Area: Nursing Role | Integrated Processes: Caring | Client Need: Safe, Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Understanding

ANS: 4

Most nursing paradigms, or ways of seeing nursing practice, are based on learning through theories or clinical experiences. Culture is another paradigm that impacts nursing.

PTS: 1 REF: Chapter: 3 OBJ: Objective: 1