Deck 5: The Evolution of Licensure, Certification, and Nursing Organizations

Question 1

Health-care administrators seem to support the concept of which type of licensure because it allows them to employ less-educated and lower-paid employees rather than the more highly educated and better-paid employees?
1) Permissive licensure
2) Mandatory licensure
3) Organizational licensure
4) Institutional licensure

Answer 1

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Question 2

Although universally rejected by every major nursing organization, which type of licensure has become a reality for many other types of health-care workers, such as respiratory therapists and physical therapists?
1) Permissive licensure
2) Mandatory licensure
3) Organizational licensure
4) Institutional licensure

Answer 2

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Question 3

Permissive licensure allows individuals to practice nursing as long as they do not use which letters after their names?
1) RN
2) LPN
3) LVN
4) APRN

Answer 3

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Question 4

Which organization has developed and published a set of guidelines for the education of professional nursing students that is widely used as the theoretical basis for baccalaureate curricula?
1) Sigma Theta Tau
2) International Council of Nurses
3) National League for Nursing
4) American Association of Colleges of Nursing

Question 5

Which organization has always viewed advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) as a threat to their scope of practice and even their livelihood, although study after study has shown this to be untrue?
1) American Medical Association
2) American Nurses Association
3) American Hospital Association
4) American Psychological Association

Question 6

A back-door approach to allowing which type of licensure has been to allow foreign graduate nurses and nurses who are licensed in foreign countries to work in specific institutions without taking the U.S. licensure examination?
1) Permissive licensure
2) Mandatory licensure
3) Organizational licensure
4) Institutional licensure

Question 7

Even though permissive licensure is no longer legal, which of the following appear to fall under an unofficial type of permissive licensure?
1) Registered nurses
2) Certified nursing assistants
3) Licensed practical nurses
4) Licensed vocational nurses

Question 8

Which organization boasts the first online nursing journal, which can be accessed by any nurse with a computer anywhere in the world?
1) American Nurses Association
2) Sigma Theta Tau
3) International Council of Nurses
4) National League for Nursing

Question 9

Which of the following is a legal action conducted by the state through the enforcement powers of its regulatory boards to protect the public's health, safety, and welfare by establishing professional standards?
1) Registration
2) Licensure
3) Certification
4) Accreditation

Question 10

Although membership is open to individual nurses, the primary membership of which organization comes in the form of agency membership, usually through schools of nursing?
1) American Nurses Association
2) Sigma Theta Tau
3) International Council of Nurses
4) National League for Nursing

Question 11

Which process acknowledges the attainment of increased knowledge and skills and provides nurses with a means to validate their own self-worth and competence?
1) Registration
2) Licensure
3) Certification
4) Accreditation

Question 12

Organizational certification is the certification of a group or health-care institution by some external agency and indicates that the institution has met standards established by either the government or by a nongovernmental agency. Organizational certification is usually referred to as which of the following?
1) Registration
2) Licensure
3) Certification
4) Accreditation

Question 13

The language of the consensus model includes which process, which allows the nurse to continue the same level of practice as long as he or she maintains an active license?
1) Reciprocity
2) Accreditation
3) Credentialing
4) Grandfathering

Question 14

The Affordable Care Act recognizes advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) as equal partners in providing health care at multiple levels, but particularly in which area?
1) Primary care
2) Obstetrics/gynecology
3) Emergency medicine
4) Internal medicine

Question 15

Members of which organization receive the official publication Imprint, which keeps nurses current on recent developments in health care and nursing?
1) National Student Nurses' Association
2) International Council of Nurses
3) National League for Nursing
4) American Association of Colleges of Nursing