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Chapter 5: The Evolution of Licensure, Certification, and Nursing Organizations
Questions
1. Which of the following is a legal action conducted by the state through the enforcement powers of its regulatory boards to protect the public’s health, safety, and welfare by establishing professional standards?
1. Registration
2. Licensure
3. Certification
4. Accreditation
2. Although universally rejected by every major nursing organization, which type of licensure has become a reality for many other types of health-care workers, such as respiratory therapists and physical therapists?
1. Permissive licensure
2. Mandatory licensure
3. Organizational licensure
4. Institutional licensure
3. Which process acknowledges the attainment of increased knowledge and skills and provides nurses with a means to validate their own self-worth and competence?
1. Registration
2. Licensure
3. Certification
4. Accreditation
4. Organizational certification is the certification of a group or health-care institution by some external agency and indicates that the institution has met standards established by either the government or by a nongovernmental agency. Organizational certification is usually referred to as which of the following?
1. Registration
2. Licensure
3. Certification
4. Accreditation
5. Which organization has always viewed advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) as a threat to their scope of practice and even their livelihood, although study after study has shown this to be untrue?
1. American Medical Association
2. American Nurses Association
3. American Hospital Association
4. American Psychological Association
6. Which organization boasts the first online nursing journal, which can be accessed by any nurse with a computer anywhere in the world?
1. American Nurses Association
2. Sigma Theta Tau
3. International Council of Nurses
4. National League for Nursing
7. Permissive licensure allows individuals to practice nursing as long as they do not use which letters after their names?
1. RN
2. LPN
3. LVN
4. APRN
8. Health-care administrators seem to support the concept of which type of licensure because it allows them to employ less-educated and lower-paid employees rather than the more highly educated and better-paid employees?
1. Permissive licensure
2. Mandatory licensure
3. Organizational licensure
4. Institutional licensure
9. Even though permissive licensure is no longer legal, which of the following appear to fall under an unofficial type of permissive licensure?
1. Registered nurses
2. Certified nursing assistants
3. Licensed practical nurses
4. Licensed vocational nurses
10. A back-door approach to allowing which type of licensure has been to allow foreign graduate nurses and nurses who are licensed in foreign countries to work in specific institutions without taking the U.S. licensure examination?
1. Permissive licensure
2. Mandatory licensure
3. Organizational licensure
4. Institutional licensure
11. The Affordable Care Act recognizes advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) as equal partners in providing health care at multiple levels, but particularly in which area?
1. Primary care
2. Obstetrics/gynecology
3. Emergency medicine
4. Internal medicine
12. The language of the consensus model includes which process, which allows the nurse to continue the same level of practice as long as he or she maintains an active license?
1. Reciprocity
2. Accreditation
3. Credentialing
4. Grandfathering
13. Although membership is open to individual nurses, the primary membership of which organization comes in the form of agency membership, usually through schools of nursing?
1. American Nurses Association
2. Sigma Theta Tau
3. International Council of Nurses
4. National League for Nursing
14. Which organization has developed and published a set of guidelines for the education of professional nursing students that is widely used as the theoretical basis for baccalaureate curricula?
1. Sigma Theta Tau
2. International Council of Nurses
3. National League for Nursing
4. American Association of Colleges of Nursing
15. Members of which organization receive the official publication Imprint, which keeps nurses current on recent developments in health care and nursing?
1. National Student Nurses’ Association
2. International Council of Nurses
3. National League for Nursing
4. American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Questions, Answers, and Rationales
1. Which of the following is a legal action conducted by the state through the enforcement powers of its regulatory boards to protect the public’s health, safety, and welfare by establishing professional standards?
1. Registration
2. Licensure
3. Certification
4. Accreditation
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2. Although universally rejected by every major nursing organization, which type of licensure has become a reality for many other types of health-care workers, such as respiratory therapists and physical therapists?
1. Permissive licensure
2. Mandatory licensure
3. Organizational licensure
4. Institutional licensure
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3. Which process acknowledges the attainment of increased knowledge and skills and provides nurses with a means to validate their own self-worth and competence?
1. Registration
2. Licensure
3. Certification
4. Accreditation
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4. Organizational certification is the certification of a group or health-care institution by some external agency and indicates that the institution has met standards established by either the government or by a nongovernmental agency. Organizational certification is usually referred to as which of the following?
1. Registration
2. Licensure
3. Certification
4. Accreditation
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5. Which organization has always viewed advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) as a threat to their scope of practice and even their livelihood, although study after study has shown this to be untrue?
1. American Medical Association
2. American Nurses Association
3. American Hospital Association
4. American Psychological Association
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6. Which organization boasts the first online nursing journal, which can be accessed by any nurse with a computer anywhere in the world?
1. American Nurses Association
2. Sigma Theta Tau
3. International Council of Nurses
4. National League for Nursing
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7. Permissive licensure allows individuals to practice nursing as long as they do not use which letters after their names?
1. RN
2. LPN
3. LVN
4. APRN
Page: 7
| Feedback |
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2. | |
3. | |
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8. Health-care administrators seem to support the concept of which type of licensure because it allows them to employ less-educated and lower-paid employees rather than the more highly educated and better-paid employees?
1. Permissive licensure
2. Mandatory licensure
3. Organizational licensure
4. Institutional licensure
Page: 8
| Feedback |
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2. | |
3. | |
4. |
9. Even though permissive licensure is no longer legal, which of the following appear to fall under an unofficial type of permissive licensure?
1. Registered nurses
2. Certified nursing assistants
3. Licensed practical nurses
4. Licensed vocational nurses
Page: 9
| Feedback |
1. | |
2. | |
3. | |
4. |
10. A back-door approach to allowing which type of licensure has been to allow foreign graduate nurses and nurses who are licensed in foreign countries to work in specific institutions without taking the U.S. licensure examination?
1. Permissive licensure
2. Mandatory licensure
3. Organizational licensure
4. Institutional licensure
Page: 9
| Feedback |
1. | |
2. | |
3. | |
4. |
11. The Affordable Care Act recognizes advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) as equal partners in providing health care at multiple levels, but particularly in which area?
1. Primary care
2. Obstetrics/gynecology
3. Emergency medicine
4. Internal medicine
Page: 15
| Feedback |
1. | |
2. | |
3. | |
4. |
12. The language of the consensus model includes which process, which allows the nurse to continue the same level of practice as long as he or she maintains an active license?
1. Reciprocity
2. Accreditation
3. Credentialing
4. Grandfathering
Page: 18
| Feedback |
1. | |
2. | |
3. | |
4. |
13. Although membership is open to individual nurses, the primary membership of which organization comes in the form of agency membership, usually through schools of nursing?
1. American Nurses Association
2. Sigma Theta Tau
3. International Council of Nurses
4. National League for Nursing
Page: 22
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2. | |
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14. Which organization has developed and published a set of guidelines for the education of professional nursing students that is widely used as the theoretical basis for baccalaureate curricula?
1. Sigma Theta Tau
2. International Council of Nurses
3. National League for Nursing
4. American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Page: 22
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3. | |
4. |
15. Members of which organization receive the official publication Imprint, which keeps nurses current on recent developments in health care and nursing?
1. National Student Nurses’ Association
2. International Council of Nurses
3. National League for Nursing
4. American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Page: 27
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