Deck 11: Thinking Realities of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Question 1

Why is change necessary for healthcare?

A) the number of elderly patients is increasing
B) there is the ability to keep people alive without a quality of life
C) genetic research is expanding
D) all of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Many students have this false perception about nursing?

A) nursing only requires independent thinking
B) nurses deal with one patient at a time
C) CT in the classroom prepares you for CT in practice
D) changes to meet IOM criteria are simultaneously occurring in education and practice

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Plsek focused on changes in healthcare as this type of issue?

A) complicated
B) simple
C) complex
D) detailed

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Our educational system is complex and must learn to undergo changes. Fullan advocates this as a solution for making the changes in healthcare delivery and education possible?

A) expert teaching
B) better thinking
C) CT learning at all levels
D) complex processes

Question 5

The book addresses all 17 CT dimensions, but believes that this many are important for dealing with the dynamic and complex change that is needed and inevitable in healthcare?

A) 6
B) 7
C) 8
D) 12

Question 6

Much of our thinking about organizations has come from the industrial age that favors machines and assembly lines. Why does that mentality not apply to healthcare?

A) healthcare is an adaptive, changing system
B) healthcare is a complex system
C) healthcare deals with people, not machines
D) healthcare is a newer system

Question 7

According to the authors, moving from passivity to engagement and from answers to questions make you this type of learner?

A) reactive
B) deeper
C) proactive
D) passive

Question 8

Carole Estabrooks (2003) presented a view of nurses within communities of practice and found these two things to be the most important sources of knowledge for nurses?

A) research and systems
B) experience and research
C) education and patient encounters
D) social interactions and experience

Question 9

CT's 17 dimensions work best in harmony. We used to teach a reductionist manner by breaking things down into pieces. Gardner says you need this type of mind to put those pieces back together?

A) complex mind
B) scholarly mind
C) synthesizing mind

Question 10

If you want to be innovative, you must do this?

A) use all 17 CT dimensions
B) risk failure
C) develop a complex system or plan
D) think outside the box