Chapter 01: Professional Nursing
Potter: Essentials for Nursing Practice, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which action by the nurse demonstrates
... [Show More] implementation of Florence Nightingale’s original
theories about nursing care?
a. The patient is gently bathed and given fresh linens after giving birth.
b. The nurse forms a close therapeutic relationship with the patient.
c. The nurse helps the patient conserve energy for healing processes.
d. The nurse views the patient as a unique, ever-changing energy field.
ANS: A
Florence Nightingale worked to improve sanitation and healing environments for patients.
Gently bathing and providing fresh linens to patients is an example of Nightingale’s theory in
practice. Formation of a close therapeutic relationship with the patient, energy conservation,
and viewing patients as energy fields were not concepts included in Nightingale’s theory of
nursing practice.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application)
OBJ: Discuss the influence of social, political, and economic changes on nursing practices.
TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation MSC: NCLEX: Basic Care and Comfort
2. The nurse is mandated by the state to complete 25 contact hours of nursing education before
the nursing license may be renewed. Which term best describes this requirement?
a. In-service education
b. Advanced education
c. Continuing education
d. Certification education
ANS: C
Continuing education is required for professionals in many states. Continuing education
involves formal, organized educational programs offered by universities, hospitals, state
nurses’ associations, professional nursing organizations, and educational and health care
institutions. In-service education programs are instruction or training provided by a health
care agency or institution designed to increase the knowledge, skills, and competencies of
nurses and other health care professionals employed by the institution. Some roles for RNs in
nursing require advanced graduate degrees, such as a clinical nurse specialist or nurse
practitioner.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application)
OBJ: Discuss the importance of education in professional nursing practice.
TOP: Nursing Process: Communication and Documentation
MSC: NCLEX: Management of Care [Show Less]