Nursing Profession Overview
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Nursing Profession Overview

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What distinguishes nurses from other healthcare providers?

  • Their ability to prescribe medications independently
  • Their level of education and certification
  • Their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice (correct)
  • Their specialization in treating specific illnesses
  • In the U.S., what is the key difference between nurses and nurse practitioners?

  • Nurses are not permitted to prescribe medications
  • Nurses have a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing
  • Nurse practitioners have a higher level of prescription authority (correct)
  • Nurse practitioners can practice independently in all states
  • What is the primary responsibility of nurses?

  • Developing a plan of care for patients (correct)
  • Conducting medical research
  • Prescribing medications for patients
  • Performing surgical procedures
  • What has nurse education undergone since the postwar period?

    <p>A process of diversification towards advanced and specialized credentials</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who do nurses collaborate with in healthcare environments?

    <p>Physicians, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, and psychologists</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the evidence of international trends in the nursing profession?

    <p>International shortages of qualified nurses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners in the United Kingdom and the United States?

    <p>They diagnose health problems and prescribe medications depending on state regulations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the historical challenge faced by nursing historians?

    <p>Determining whether care provided in antiquity can be called nursing care</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did members of religious orders such as nuns and monks often provide before the foundation of modern nursing?

    <p>Nursing-like care</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happened to the nursing profession during the Reformation of the 16th century?

    <p>It suffered a major setback for approximately 200 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the impact of Protestant reformers shutting down the monasteries and convents during the Reformation?

    <p>The traditional caretakers, rooted in the Roman Catholic Church, were removed from their positions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the primary role of nurse Phoebe mentioned in Romans 16?

    <p>She was described as 'the first visiting nurse'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What were the influential religious roots of modern nursing?

    <p>Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist traditions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did nurses provide before foundation of modern nursing?

    <p>Nursing-like care to sick or injured people</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does human sexuality encompass?

    <p>Biological, psychological, physical, emotional, and social aspects</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is someone's sexual orientation?

    <p>Their pattern of sexual interest in the opposite and/or same sex</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What primarily affects an individual's sexual orientation?

    <p>Nonsocial causes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main impact of spirituality on sexuality?

    <p>An individual's spiritual connection with others</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When does interest in sexual activity typically increase?

    <p>During puberty</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do the physical and emotional aspects of sexuality involve?

    <p>Bonds between individuals expressed through profound feelings or physical manifestations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the evidence for innate causes of sexual orientation?

    <p>Cross-cultural correlation of homosexuality and childhood gender nonconformity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is it not fully understood why genes causing homosexuality persist in the gene pool?

    <p>Hypothesis involving kin selection and sexually antagonistic genes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does cross-cultural evidence lean more toward regarding the causes of homosexuality?

    <p>Innate causes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is supported by studies in both Western and non-Western cultures regarding the hypothesis of sexually antagonistic genes?

    <p>Homosexuality when expressed in males but increase reproduction when expressed in females</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the evidence suggest about the relationship between tolerance of homosexuality and rates of it in cultures?

    <p>Tolerant cultures do not have significantly higher rates of homosexuality</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the finding about adult Britons who attended single-sex boarding schools indicate?

    <p>They are less likely to engage in homosexual behavior than those who did not attend such schools</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is supported by studies in Samoa regarding the hypothesis involving kin selection?

    <p>Homosexuals invest heavily enough in their relatives to offset the cost of not reproducing as much directly</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is indicated by the finding that most boys raised as girls due to physical differences or deformity turned out attracted to females?

    <p>Innate causes are stronger than social causes in determining sexual orientation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is supported by moderate genetic influences found in twin studies?

    <p>Children raised by homosexual parents are more likely to be homosexual themselves</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the fraternal birth order effect indicate?

    <p>Innate causes have a stronger influence on sexual orientation than social ones</p> Signup and view all the answers

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