Deck 9: Reality Shock in the Workplace

Question 1

Which of the following are an excellent way to impress potential employers, reach a larger employment pool, and put the Internet to work in your search for a prospective employer?
1) Résumés
2) Portfolios
3) References
4) Cover letters

Answer 1

2

Question 2

If you no longer really care about the clients to whom you are assigned, you may be suffering from which of the following?
1) Stress
2) Burnout
3) Apathy
4) Compassion fatigue

Answer 2

4

Question 3

In today's job market, which of the following are often the institution's first contact with the nurse seeking employment and have a substantial effect on the whole hiring process?
1) Résumés
2) Portfolios
3) Internships
4) Preceptorships

Answer 3

1

Question 4

Although it is difficult to project the final outcome, recent attempts to repeal which legislative act will likely lead to a reduction in the number of RNs needed in the long term?
1) Affordable Care Act
2) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
3) Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
4) Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act

Question 5

Intentionally or unintentionally, the ideal role is often used as the intellectual yardstick against which what role is measured?
1) Actual role
2) Perceived role
3) Performed role
4) Expected role

Question 6

Researchers have calculated that it takes what period of time for new graduates to master the skills necessary to be successful in their position?
1) 3 months
2) 6 months
3) 9 months
4) 12+ months

Question 7

Experiencing the difference between expectation and reality-for example, knowing what task should be done and how but being prevented by circumstances from doing it-can produce which of the following in many new graduate nurses?
1) Stress
2) Burnout
3) Cognitive dissonance
4) Compassion fatigue

Question 8

To be most effective, the critical incident stress debriefing (CISD) teams need to be onsite within which time period after serious events ranging from the death of coworkers to acts of terrorism and natural disasters?
1) 12 to 24 hours
2) 24 to 48 hours
3) 48 to 72 hours
4) 72 to 96 hours

Question 9

Which text format should be used to emphasize a word or words or when starting a new section of the résumé?
1) All caps
2) Boldface type
3) Italic type
4) Underlined type

Question 10

Provision of nursing services in which setting often requires that a nurse have at least a bachelor's degree or an even higher education?
1) Home setting
2) School setting
3) Hospital setting
4) Physician office setting

Question 11

The nursing student often graduates with which of the following nursing roles?
1) Ideal role
2) Actual role
3) Perceived role
4) Performed role

Question 12

Which of the following has been identified by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing as a form of lateral, or nurse-on-nurse, violence?
1) Slander
2) Delegating
3) Micromanaging
4) Cyberbullying

Question 13

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has recommended that which programs be established to help new nurses make the transition from the sheltered environment of nursing school to the practice setting?
1) Preceptorship programs
2) Nurse residency programs
3) Academic Progression in Nursing (APIN) program
4) National Education Progression in Nursing Collaborative (NEPINC) program

Question 14

If nurses feel fulfilled in what they are doing, which of the following is much less likely to occur?
1) Stress
2) Apathy
3) Burnout
4) Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Question 15

Which experience allows a student to be assigned to one RN for supervision for most of the semester and to experience the role of the RN by working the same hours and on the same unit as the nurse to whom he or she is assigned?
1) Internship
2) Externship
3) Preceptorship
4) Apprenticeship