Deck 20: Credentialing in Nursing

Question 1

In most Canadian provinces, evidence of current nursing knowledge and skills is demonstrated in which following way?

A)The nurse demonstrates a minimum number of in-services per year.
B)The nurse demonstrates participation in mandatory continuing education programs.
C)The nurse demonstrates a record of satisfactory nursing practice.
D)The nurse demonstrates a certain number of practice days per year, at his or her own discretion.

Answer 1

The nurse demonstrates a record of satisfactory nursing practice.

Question 2

Which one of the following statements represents a defining characteristic of a specialized knowledge base?

A)Knowledge and skills are concrete.
B)Knowledge and skills are simple, enabling the many to acquire them.
C)Specialized knowledge will produce positive results when applied to everyday situations.
D)Those in the nursing profession are never involved in the development and application of the knowledge base.

Answer 2

Specialized knowledge will produce positive results when applied to everyday situations.

Question 3

Which of the following is one of the two main credentialing mechanisms in nursing?

A)Personal
B)Legal
C)Professional
D)Empirical

Answer 3

Professional

Question 4

What does the study of credentialing in nursing draw attention to?

A)The layers of the health care system
B)Ways for nurses wanted to specialize
C)The growth of nursing as a profession
D)The credentialing that has already occurred in medical education

Question 5

What was the main reason for nursing leaders to secure legislation for registration?

A)To protect nurses
B)To protect the public
C)To secure professional nursing positions
D)To ensure that nursing professors were adequately prepared

Question 6

Which of the following is one of the two powerful social forces in the early 1900s that influenced the drive for legislating the registration of nurses?

A)Wartime needs
B)Women acquiring the right to vote
C)The socioeconomic movement
D)The declining birth rate and the increasing mortality rate

Question 7

Which following option represents the earliest form of credentialing?

A)The employment of lay nurses
B)Nurses working together with midwives
C)Evidence of graduation from a school of nursing
D)Certification in a nursing specialty, for example, intensive care nursing

Question 8

In which year did The Canadian Nurse begin publication?

A)1900
B)1905
C)1910
D)1915

Question 9

"Licensure" refers to which one of the following?

A)The right to practise a profession
B)The listing of members of a profession
C)Evidence that practice standards have been individualized
D)The provision of valuable demographic and personal information

Question 10

During which decade did the nurse practitioner movement begin in Canada?

A)1950s
B)1960s
C)1970s
D)1980s

Question 11

Which one of the following features of nursing is a focus within specialized practice?

A)Age
B)Gender
C)Family structure
D)Nursing diagnosis

Question 12

Licensure laws were designed to protect which following group?

A)Nurses, from physicians
B)Nurses, from competition
C)Universities, from hospital schools of nursing
D)The public, from unethical and incompetent practitioners

Question 13

Is it possible to be licensed as a nurse, but not be registered?

A)No
B)Yes
C)Yes temporarily; for less than one year
D)Not unless the nurse has a baccalaureate nursing degree

Question 14

Which university created the first outpost nursing program in Canada?

A)McGill University
B)Dalhousie University
C)University of Toronto
D)University of British Columbia

Question 15

Which following reason is cited for the trend toward specialization in the nursing profession?

A)Adoption of the entry-to-practice position
B)The continuing nursing surplus and elimination of nursing positions
C)Nurses needing increased knowledge and skill in order to make sound judgements
D)Competition with nurse practitioners and general practitioners