Nurses are accountable for all decisions they make regarding patient care. Identify the best defense for initiating or changing any specific nursing intervention.
a. Nursing administration has informed all units that they must update all current in-terventions.
b. A new intervention has been identified as less costly to patient and hospital.
c. The success of a new intervention is sup-ported by strong empirical evidence.
d. The charge nurse has read a particularly good idea for a new intervention in a re-putable nursing journal.
Why is the term healing preferred to medicine when referring to alternative and complementary modalities?
a. Medicine implies that only physicians can carry out the treatment.
b. The treatments are based on holistic phi-losophies that go beyond treatment or cure of the physiologic dimensions of care.
c. Clients might associate alternative treat-ments with hospital care.
d. Nurses have had a strong influence in naming this modality.
Which statement best describes nursing education in the United States during the 1800s and early 1900s?
a. It was high quality with a balance between classroom education and clinical practice.
b. Strict criteria were established for nursing education by the National League of Nursing (NLN) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) to guarantee high-quality education.
c. There were no formal nursing education programs during this time period; nurses were trained in apprenticeships only.
d. There was little or no classroom education, and students learned through hands-on experience during their 12- to 14-hour shifts on the hospital units.
A manager who always achieves the tasks given to him or her, uses verbal putdowns and poor performance evaluations to motivate employees, and expects all orders to be carried out without question is using which style of leadership?
a. High relationship/low task
b. Low relationship/low task
c. Low relationship/high task
d. High relationship/high task
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