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Nursing Delegation and Management of Patient Care 2Nd Edition Motacki Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Nursing Delegation and Management of Patient Care 2Nd Edition Motacki Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Nursing Delegation and Management of Patient Care 2Nd Edition Motacki Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which ANA Principles for Nurse Staffing standards are applied to patient care?
a. Staffing levels that must be sufficient for providing quality patient care
b. Mandated staffing ratios
c. Recommended a new method for determining staffing needs
d. Staffing based on patient census
ANS: A
The principles identified by the ANA addressing patient care and staffing recommend that
staffing be maintained to provide quality patient care for the individual patient as well as the
unit population as a whole and not be based on previously used nursing hours per patient day.
Mandated staffing ratios is not a recommendation. The ANA recommended that the old
method be retired or at least questioned for its efficacy. Option D is incorrect because the
recommendation was that staffing be based on patient needs.
3. Which ANA Principles for Nurse Staffing standard is applied to the organization?
a. Nursing ratios are mandated.
b. The need for documented competencies for all nurses delivering patient care is
supported.
c. That nursing budgeted positions are not filled in a timely manner is accepted.
d. The needs of the staff nurse are secondary to the patient’s needs.
ANS: B
The principles related to the organization are mostly supportive of the nurse. Nursing ratios
are not included. Option C is incorrect because it is recommended that these unfilled positions
be filled in a timely manner. Option D is incorrect because the organization should consider
the needs of the nurse as comparable to the needs of the patients.
5. There are four major types of staffing plans. The centralized method of staff planning refers to
which of the following?
a. The schedule is planned based on the core staff.
b. The schedule is planned on each individual unit.
c. The schedule is planned by the nurses themselves.
d. The schedule is planned by the nursing service.
ANS: D
A centralized method refers to the nursing service or office making plans that affect the entire
organization. Option A is incorrect because it is not a type of scheduling method. Options B
and C are incorrect because they refer to other methods.
6. There are four major types of staffing plans. The decentralized method of staff planning refers
to which of the following?
a. The schedule is planned based on the central or core staff.
b. The schedule is planned on each individual unit by the nurse manager.
c. The schedule is planned by the nurses themselves.
d. The schedule is planned by nursing service.
ANS: B
The decentralized schedule is done by the nurse manager and is very individualized to the
needs of that unit. Option A is not a plan for scheduling and is incorrect. Options C and D
refer to other scheduling methods.
7. There are four major types of staffing plans. The self-scheduling method of staff planning
refers to which of the following?
a. The schedule is planned based on the central or core staff.
b. The schedule is planned on each individual unit by the nurse manager.
c. The schedule is planned by the nurses themselves.
d. The schedule is planned by nursing service.
ANS: C
Self-scheduling allows the nursing staff to accept full responsibility for staffing the unit.
Option A is not a plan. Options B and D are examples of centralized scheduling.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application REF: page 148
8. There are four major types of staffing plans. The mixed method of staff planning refers to
which of the following?
a. The schedule uses decentralized scheduling and its staffing needs are
supplemented by the centralized office.
b. The schedule is planned on each individual unit by the nurse manager.
c. The schedule is planned by the nurses themselves.
d. The schedule is planned by nursing service.
ANS: A
The mixed method combines both centralized and decentralized for scheduling. The other
options are incorrect because they refer to other methods.
9. There are four major types of staffing plans used in the hospital setting. The primary
advantage of self-scheduling is which of the following?
a. It saves the nurse manager time.
b. It encourages negotiation among staff.
c. The most senior staff get first pick.
d. The freshman staff get the more undesirable shifts.
ANS: B
Self-scheduling forces staff to interact at a different level than before and can produce more
camaraderie and a better working environment. Option A is not the primary advantage to
using self-scheduling. Options C and D do not apply.
11. Most institutions use one or more types of future scheduling in their planning. Which of the
following provides advantages for the organization’s scheduling policies?
a. Pattern scheduling
b. Preference scheduling
c. Rules scheduling
d. Self-scheduling
ANS: C
Rules scheduling allows the organization to apply the rules they believe are necessary for
scheduling. The other options do not provide advantages to the organization for scheduling.
12. Most institutions use one or more types of future scheduling in their planning. Which of the
following provides advantages for creativity and staff satisfaction in scheduling?
a. Pattern scheduling
b. Preference scheduling
c. Rules scheduling
d. Self-scheduling
ANS: D
Self-scheduling allows for more creativity and staff satisfaction. The other options do not
provide advantages for the individual staff needs.
13. Automated computerized staffing allows for which advantage to the institution?
a. Reduces workload of nurse manager
b. Provides coverage on weekends
c. Uses part-time staff
d. Provides coverage for daily changes in acuity of patients
ANS: A
Computerized staffing programs relieve the nurse manager of managing scheduling. The other
options are not an advantage to the organization.
14. Automated computerized staffing allows for which advantage to the staff?
a. It reduces the workload of the nurse manager.
b. Staff has many options on a first-come, first-served basis.
c. It provides for changes in daily patient acuity.
d. Weekend options are available.
ANS: B
Everyone has availability at the same time on computers so there is an advantage to the first
user. The other advantages do not apply.
15. A new nurse is interested in working a “weekend option.” Which of the following describes
this pattern of scheduling?
a. Nurse works two 12-hour shifts on the weekend and is paid for either 36 or 40
hours a week.
b. Nurse works five shifts a week with alternating weekends.
c. Nurse works three shifts a week and alternates weekends.
d. Nurse works alternating weekends and alternates shifts.
ANS: A
Weekend option allows nurses to work every weekend and be paid for a full week’s work.
The other options do not reflect the weekend option.
18. What factors are primarily used when quantifying patient care required and staffing needs?
a. Number of patients per nurse
b. Number of discharges
c. Acuity and time required for care
d. Number of admissions
ANS: C
Patient acuity and care required are the most important elements in the patient classification
system. The other factors do not apply.
19. What is the disadvantage to the institution in using external agency nurses?
a. Cost
b. Competency
c. Availability
d. Staff relationships
ANS: A
Agency nurses are very expensive compared with employees. A large percentage of the cost
to agencies is the overhead of the agency itself. The other options are incorrect because most
agencies have diminished this as a factor affecting patient care or job performance.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application REF: page 152
20. What is the advantage to the institution in using external agency nurses?
a. Competency
b. Availability
c. Cost
d. Staff relationships
ANS: B
Availability is the greatest advantage to the institution for using agency nurses. Competency
may or may not be a factor, and until the nurse is working on the unit, one can never know for
sure. The other options are not an advantage to the institution.
21. Travel nurses have become very popular, especially among single, unattached nurses. Which
of the following is an advantage of contracting with a travel nurse to the agency?
a. Cost
b. Availability
c. Competency
d. Contractual agreement
ANS: D
Most travel nurses are contracted for 3 to 6 months and provide greater benefit to the
institution because of the longer employment time. The other factors are not an advantage to
the institution.
22. Overtime to cover shortages in staff coverage can be a daunting problem. Which of the
following can be a short-term solution to a nursing shortage?
a. Increase length of shift.
b. Work a double shift.
c. Use an agency nurse.
d. Ask each shift to work 4 extra hours.
ANS: D
Asking both shifts prevents exhaustion of one nurse, which can lead to errors. The other
factors are not the best methods to use.
23. In interviewing for a new position, a nurse may want to inquire about the institution’s views
on autonomy in the workplace for nurses. The nurse concludes that autonomy is valued when
told that the unit has
a. infrequent “floating.”
b. self-scheduling.
c. cover of another nurse’s assignment while she or he is on break.
d. hourly pay differential for the night shift.
ANS: B
In a self-governance working environment, staff are encouraged to be autonomous, which
includes self-scheduling. Infrequent “floating” does not address autonomy. Option C is
incorrect because they are decisions made by the organization and are practiced throughout
the organization. Option D is incorrect because they are decisions made by the organization
and practiced throughout the organization.
24. The student nurse learns about the advantages and disadvantages of various patient care
delivery models. The student understands that besides an historical perspective of nursing
practice, a patient delivery care model may need to be instituted to adapt to
a. alterations in available staff due to weather emergencies.
b. the financial environment of the patient population.
c. a wide range of ages among the staff.
d. a limited number of unlicensed staff on the unit.
ANS: A
Patient delivery models are instituted based on various elements including clinical decision
making and work allocation; thus, changes may need to be made in an emergency based on
availability of staff. The other options are not fundamental elements used in the
decision-making process for delivery mode.
25. An agency nurse is assigned to work on a unit that uses the team nursing model of health care
delivery. Which of the following would the nurse expect to experience in this environment?
a. UAP taking vital signs and giving baths
b. RN taking vital signs and giving baths
c. RN delegating patient care delivery to a group of patients
d. Charge nurse delegating care delivery
ANS: C
In a team nursing environment, an RN delegates patient care to a group of patients. Option A
is incorrect because it is practiced in a functional model environment. Option B is incorrect
because it is seen in primary nursing. Option D is incorrect because it may be seen in all types
of health care delivery models.
26. In which health care delivery model would the nurse expect to see “point-of-care” decision
making occur?
a. Primary care nursing
b. Team nursing
c. Functional nursing
d. Modular nursing
ANS: A
Primary nursing allows the nurse to practice autonomously and make most bedside decisions.
The other options may not allow for the autonomy required for “point-of-care” decisions.
28. Leadership structures in health care can be centralized or decentralized. The nurse understands
that she is working in a centralized structured environment when which of the following
occurs?
a. All organizational decisions must be approved by the CEO.
b. Changes can be made rapidly based on immediate needs.
c. Nurses must work under a dual-authority structure.
d. Decisions can be made at the “point of care.”
ANS: A
In a centralized leadership structured environment, all decisions are made from the top down,
usually without input from staff. The other options are examples of a decentralized
environment in which decisions can be made more quickly as needed.
29. The fundamental element of any patient care delivery combines work allocation with
a. patient acuity.
b. leadership.
c. clinical decision making.
d. delegation.
ANS: C
Work allocation is necessary in any patient care delivery system. The other factors are not
necessarily useful in determining the appropriate patient care delivery systems needed.
30. A nurse who is interested in developing clinical decision-making skills would look for a unit
that practices which model for health care delivery?
a. Primary nursing
b. Team nursing
c. Functional nursing
d. Case management
ANS: A
Clinical nursing skills are enhanced in a primary nursing environment because of the
autonomy nurses receive. The other models do not necessarily promote the development of
decision-making skills.
31. A nurse would expect to see which action on a unit that uses the team nursing model of health
care delivery?
a. The nurse makes patient care decisions at the bedside.
b. The nurse delegates patient care to other team members.
c. The nurse works on discharge plans on admission.
d. The UAP takes vital signs on the patients on one hallway.
ANS: B
The nurse delegates and works collaboratively with the members of the team in team nursing.
Option A is an example of primary nursing. Option C is an example of case management
nursing. Option D is an example of functional nursing.
32. A nurse working on a unit using the primary care delivery model would expect to observe
which practice specific to primary care delivery?
a. The UAP measures blood sugar levels on all patients.
b. The RN administers medications to a team of patients.
c. The RN verifies a new order for patient started on an antihypertensive with a blood
pressure of 100/60 mm Hg.
d. The RN holds the morning dose of insulin for a patient scheduled for surgery later
that day.
ANS: D
In a primary nursing environment, nurses function autonomously and make clinical decisions
at the bedside. Option A is an example of functional nursing. Option B is seen in team
nursing. Option C is seen in all patient care delivery models.
33. Which action by the nurse indicates a primary care delivery model environment?
a. Development of the plan of care by primary RN to be used on all shifts
b. Calling the physician for clarification after an illegible order is written
c. The unit secretary takes off all orders initially.
d. The charge nurse makes all patient care assignments.
ANS: A
The nurse develops the plan of care on admission for the remainder of the admission. The
other actions are seen in many delivery care models.
34. In a team nursing health care delivery model environment, the nurse would observe for which
action by the staff?
a. The UAPs answer all call lights.
b. The charge nurse is notified when there are patient complaints about care.
c. The UAPs answer their patients’ call lights.
d. The RN is notified when there are patient care complaints.
ANS: D
Nurses are completely responsible for the needs of their patients in a primary care delivery
model. Option A is seen in functional nursing. Option B can be seen in models other than
primary nursing. Option C is seen in team nursing.
MULTIPLE RESPONSE
1. Part-time staffing by nurses includes which advantages? (Select all that apply.)
a. Provides a backup
b. Maintains skills
c. Increases income
d. Provides life outside of family
e. Maintains education
ANS: B, C, D
Options B, C, and D are an advantage to the individual. The advantage to the institution is to
cover and support the full-time staff. The other options are not advantages to part-time staff.
2. The patient care delivery system used by an institution should be based on which fundamental
elements? (Select all that apply.)
a. Work allocation
b. Accountability
c. Allocation of resources
d. Mission statement
e. Leadership style
f. Cultural diversity of patients
ANS: A, B, D
According to the text work allocation, accountability, and mission statement are fundamental
elements of any patient care delivery system. The other options are not fundamental elements
of a patient care delivery system.
79. Religion
It has already been said that knowledge of religion, a non-material
thing, can be preserved from the remote past only by the most
roundabout means. It is conceivable that the people of the Upper
Palæolithic spent at least as much time in ceremonial observances
as in working flint. Analogy with modern uncivilized tribes would
make us think that this is quite likely. But the stone tools have
remained lying in the earth, while the religious customs went out of
use thousands of years ago and the beliefs were forgotten. Yet this
is known: As far back as the Mousterian, thirty thousand years ago,
certain practices were being observed by the Neandertal race of
western Europe which modern savages observe in obedience to the
dictates of their religion. When these people of the Mousterian laid
away their dead, they put some of their belongings with them. When
existing nations do this, it is invariably in connection with a belief in
the continued existence of the soul after death. We may reasonably
conclude therefore that even in this long distant period human
beings had arrived at a crude recognition of the difference between
flesh and spirit; in short, religion had come into being. Even to say
that Neandertal man did not know whether his dead were dead,
implies his recognition of something different from life in the body, for
he recognized of course that the body had become different.
Whether the Neandertal race already held to the existence of spirits
distinct from man or superior to him, it is impossible to say.
The Upper Palæolithic Cro-Magnon peoples laid out the bodies of
their dead and sometimes folded them. They also sometimes
painted the bodies, and buried flint implements and food in the
graves. That is, funerary practices were becoming established. We
may assume that hand in hand with this development of
observances there went a growth of ritual and belief.
Fig. 21. Horse carved in mammoth ivory. From Lourdes, France. The spirited
portrayal of the neck, ears, eyes, and mouth parts is characteristic of
Magdalenian sculpture.
There are also some devices which look like the beginnings of
attempts at composition. The effect of a row of reindeer is produced
by drawing out the first few in some detail, and then suggesting the
others by sketching in their horns (Fig. 23). Artists were no longer
content, in the Magdalenian, always to do each animal as a solitary,
static unit. They were trying, with some measure of success, to
represent the animals as they moved in life and perhaps to combine
several of them into one coherent picture or to suggest a setting.
By this time they had also acquired considerable ability in handling
colors. The Aurignacian and Solutrean artists restricted themselves
to monochrome effects. They engraved or painted outlines and
sometimes accentuated these by filling them in with pigment. But the
best of the later painters in the Magdalenian—those, for instance,
who left their frescoes on the walls of the famous cave of Altamira in
Spain—used three or four colors at once and blended these into
transition tones.
82. Heredity
The first of the several factors through which it is logically possible
to explain the life and conduct and customs of any people is race or
heredity: in other words, the inborn tendencies, bodily and mental, of
the people that carry these customs. At first sight it may seem that
this element of race might be quite influential. Since peoples differ in
inherited characteristics of body—complexion, features, hair, eye
color, head form, and the like—these bodily inherited peculiarities
ought to be accompanied by mentally inherited traits, such as
greater or less inclination to courage, energy, power of abstract
thought, mechanical ingenuity, musical or æsthetic proclivities, swift
reactions, ability to concentrate, gift of expression. Such racial
mental traits, again, might conceivably be expressed in the conduct
and culture of each people. Races born to a greater activity of the
mechanical faculties would achieve more or higher inventions, those
innately gifted in the direction of music would develop more subtly
melodious songs, and so on.
Yet in every particular case it is difficult or impossible to establish
by incontrovertible evidence that heredity is the specific cause of this
accomplishment, of this point of view, or of this mode of life; that it is
the determining factor to such and such degree of such and such
customs. This is not a denial of the probability that inborn racial
differences exist. It is an affirmation of the difficulty, discussed in
Chapters I, IV, and V, of knowing what is inborn; and more
specifically, of the difficulty of tracing particular customary activities
back to particular racial qualities. The problem of connecting specific
race traits with specific phenomena of culture or group conduct, such
as settled life, architecture in stone, religious symbolism, and the
like,—of determining how much of this type of architecture or
symbolism is instinctive in the race and how much of it is the result of
traditional or social influences,—remains unsolved.
For example, should one try to apply to the explanation of the
mode of life or culture of the Indians of the Southwestern United
States biological facts, such as their head form, one would be
confronted by the difficulty that long heads are characteristic of some
of the town-building tribes, or Pueblos, and also of some of the tribes
living in brush huts. Broad heads are also found among both the
settled and nomadic tribes. The Pueblo Taos and non-Pueblo Pima
are narrow-headed, the Pueblo Zuñi and non-Pueblo Apache broad-
headed. So with the pulse rate, which has been already mentioned
(§ 70) as unusually slow among the Southwestern Indians. It is the
same for the nomadic Apache who lived by fighting, and for the Hopi
and Zuñi who are famous for their timidity and gentleness. Similar
cases might be cited almost endlessly. It is evident that they are of a
kind with the lack of correspondence between race and speech, or
race and nationality, among the European peoples.
84. Diet
The greater part of the Southwest is arid. Fish are scarce. The
result is that most of the tribes get little opportunity to fish. Most of
these Southwestern Indians will not eat fish; in fact, think them
poisonous. This circumstance might lead to the following inference:
nature does not furnish fish in abundance; therefore the Indians got
out of the habit of eating them, and finally came to believe them
poisonous. At first blush this may seem a sufficient explanation. But
it is well to note that the explanation has two parts and that only one
of them has to do with nature: the habit of not eating fish because
they are too scarce to make it worth while. As soon as one proceeds
to the second step, that the disuse led to aversion and then to a false
belief of poisonousness, one has gone on to a different matter.
Disuse, aversion, and belief lie wholly within the field of human
conduct. To derive a psychological phenomenon, such as a belief,
from another psychological phenomenon such as a particular disuse,
because this disuse is founded on a geographical factor, would of
course be a logical fallacy. It can also be shown not to hold, since we
prize caviar and oysters and venison in proportion to their rarity.
Scarcity in this case thus leads to the contrary psychological attitude,
and either fails to establish beliefs or establishes favorable ones.
Again, either through a change in climate or through the
improvement of trade, a food that was scarce may become plentiful.
Or a people may remove to a new habitat, different from that in
which their customs of eating were formed. If environment alone
were the dominating cause of their customs, these customs should
then immediately alter. As a fact, a group sometimes adheres to its
old customs. The immediate cause of such conservatism is habit or
inertia or inclination toward superstition or fear of taboo, all of which
are mental reactions expressed in folkways or social customs. Thus
environment remains at most a partial and indirectly operating
cause.
A case in point is that of the Jews. It is often said that the Jew’s
prohibition against eating pork and oysters and lobsters originated in
hygienic considerations; that these were climatically unsafe foods for
him in Palestine. This explanation is more simple than true. Ancient
Palestine was an arid country in which hogs could not be raised with
economic profit, and so they were not raised; and the Philistine and
Phœnician kept the Jew from the coast along which he might have
obtained shellfish. Eating neither food, he happened to acquire a
distrust of them; having the distrust, he rationalized it by saying that
it was foreign and wicked and irreligious to act counter to his habits
—just like the Pueblo Indian; and in the end had the Lord issue the
prohibition for him. Yet this outcome is a long way from the starting
point of natural environment. The environment may indeed be said to
have furnished the first occasion, but the determining causes of the
taboos in the Mosaic law are of an entirely different kind—distrust,
custom, rationalization, psychological or cultural factors. If doubt
remains, it is dispelled by the orthodox Jew of to-day, whose
environment thrusts some of his forbidden foods at him as
economically and hygienically satisfactory, whereas he still shudders
at the thought of tasting them.
If this sort of cultural crystallizing of custom and subsequent
rationalizing or ritual sanctioning takes place among civilized and
intelligent people, the like must occur among uncivilized tribes.
85. Agriculture
Attempts have been made to derive the invention of agriculture
from climatic factors. The first theory was that farming took its rise in
the tropics, where agriculture came naturally, almost without effort,
under a bounteous sky. Only after people had acquired the habit of
farming and had moved into other less favorably endowed countries,
did they take their agriculture seriously in order to survive. But a
second, equally plausible, and quite contradictory theory has been
advanced, which looks toward the duress rather than the easy favors
of nature. On the basis of conditions among the modern Papago
Indians and the ancient inhabitants of the Southwest, it has been
argued that it must have been the peoples of arid countries who
invented agriculture, necessity driving them to it through shortage of
wild supplies.
Between such flat opposites, the choice is merely one of
unscientific guessing. In this particular case of the Southwest it is
certain that both guesses are wrong. Agriculture did not come to the
natives of this area because nature was favorable or because it was
unfavorable. It came because through increase of knowledge and
change of attitude, some people in the region of Southern Mexico or
Guatemala or beyond first turned agriculturists, and from them the
art was gradually carried, through nation after nation, to the
Southwestern tribes, and finally even to the Indians of the North
Atlantic coast.
The reasons for acceptance of this explanation are several. First is
the distribution of native agriculture, whose practice was about
equally spread in the two American continents with its middle in or
near Central America. If a geographical diffusion of the art from a
center took place, its radiation or extension would probably be about
equal to the north and south. Then, the middle portions of the new
world held the greatest concentration of native population, such as
would have tended to produce a pressure in the direction of the
establishment of agriculture and would also normally be a
consequence of the continued custom of farming, as opposed to
unsettled life. Again, the Southwestern tribes planted only maize,
beans, and squashes; the Mexicans grew in addition tomatoes, chili
peppers, cacao, and sweet potatoes. It looks as if they had carried
their agriculture farther through having been at it longer. Then,
pottery has evidently spread out from the same center, and the two
arts seem to go hand in hand. Other evidence might be adduced,
such as archæological excavations and the botanical fact that the
home of the nearest wild relatives of the plants cultivated in the
Southwest is the central or middle American area (§ 183).
In short, the Southwestern Indians did not farm because nature
induced them to make the invention. They did not make the invention
at all. A far away people made it, and from them it was transmitted to
the Southwest through a series of successive tribal contacts. These
contacts, which then are the specific cause of Southwestern
agriculture, constitute a human social factor; a cultural or
civilizational factor. Climatic or physical environment did not enter
into the matter at all, except to render agriculture somewhat difficult
in the arid Southwest, though not difficult enough to prevent it. Had
the Southwest been thoroughly desert, agriculture could not have got
a foot-hold there. But this would be only a limiting condition; the
active or positive causes that brought about the Southwestern
agriculture are its invention farther South, the spread of the invention
to the North, and its acceptance there.
Of course this conclusion sheds no light on the causes of the first
invention in the middle American region. The ultimate origin of the
phenomenon has not been penetrated. But the prevalence of
agriculture in the aboriginal Southwest for several thousand years
past has been pretty certainly accounted for, and by an explanation
in terms of culture or civilization, or the activity of societies of human
beings.