Test Bank For Contemporary Nursing Issues, Trends, & Management by Barbara Cherry, Susan R. Jacob Chapter 1-28

1. What term is used to identify that a student nurse's competency is determined based on actual client care rather than traditional testing methods? a. Core practice competencies b. Continuing competence c. Distance learning d. Performance-based assessment - ANS: D Performance-based assessme...

Cherry Ch 3: Contemporary Trends & Issues in Nursing Ed. Why do we need an expansion of knowledge and technology? - ☑Treatments and diagnosis are expanding What are competency outcomes? - ☑A concept that specifies expected results of time spent learning. Learn to "think like a nurse" ...

Contemporary Issues of Nursing Final. Barriers to Professionalism in Nursing - Varying levels of preparatory education Gender issues Historical influences External conflicts --> w/ medicine Internal Conflicts Values - Defined as attitudes, ideals, or beliefs that guide behavior Mo...

Nursing is portrayed in many ways in paintings, statues, novels, magazines, television, movies, and are seen as saints or sinners, powerful or powerless, admired or ignored. - Image of Nursing Nurses as being overbearing, sexual, and incompetent - Inaccurate Portrayals Nurses make up ____ of t...

What are Values - Attitudes, Ideals, Beliefs, that an individual or a group holds and uses to guide behavior. Values indicate what the individual considers important morals - established rules of conduct to be used in situations when a decision about right and wrong must be made. Morals provi...

Contemporary Issues in nursing Final Terms in this set (22) True or False: Clara Barton was the founder of the Red Cross - True Who was Florence Nightingale? - She was the leader of the first women army nurses in the Crimean War. Founder of modern nursing. Who was Mary Breckinridge? - Esta...

Internal Influences on Illness Behavior - Dependence/Independence Coping Ability Hardness Resourcefulness Resilience Spirituality Culture Influence on Illness Behavior - Shapes meanings attached to health and illness Ideas passed down generation to generation of a particular cultural group...

Ethics & Issues in Contemporary Nursing Midterm Terms in this set (116) Virtue Ethics - Theories of ethics, usually attributed to Aristotle, that represent the idea that an individual's actions are based upon innate moral virtue Character Ethics - Theories of ethics, sometimes called virtu...