Why has the medical model been deeply unsatisfying for most nurses?
A) While the medical model addresses the needs of individual patients, the needs of a
community and society are overlooked.
B) The medical model requires the nurse to assume a subordinate status to the physician.
C) The medical model tends to focus on disease or infirmity.
D) Nurses had minimal input into the medical model and therefore the needs of nurses were
overlooked.
Question 2What traits did the hospital industry and medical profession most value in nurses at the beginning
of the 20th century?
A) Self motivation, autonomy, and productivity
B) Cost consciousness, clinical skill, and unwavering obedience
C) Broad education, compassion, and concern for the patient
D) Technical skill, industry, and obedience
Question 3Which group of nurses was largely responsible for recognizing the need for nurses to have
knowledge of social and behavioral sciences?
A) Nurse educators B) Nurse midwives
C) Nurse researchers D) Public health nurses
Question 4Why was there a severe shortage of nurses at the end of WW I?
A) Notoriously poor salaries paid nurses
B) Poor working conditions
C) Alternate employment opportunities available for women
D) Well known exploitation of nursing students
Question 5What need most strongly influenced early schools of nursing?
A) Service needs of the hospitals B) The desire for knowledge
C) Increasing death rates within hospitals D) A shortage of adequately trained nurses
Question 6Why have nurses failed to emerge as a viable political force in society?
A) Nurses are more interested in patient care.
B) Nurses consider political involvement to be unprofessional.
C) Political action takes nurses away from research, service, and education.
D) Women dominate the profession.
Question 7How does the ANA differ from many other nursing organizations?
A) Commitment to moral development B) Offers to accredited schools of nursing
C) High percentage of nursing involvement D) Political activitivism
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