Exam 9: Reality Shock in the Workplace

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?

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?

If you no longer really care about the clients to whom you are assigned, you may be suffering from which of the following?

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?

Provision of nursing services in which setting often requires that a nurse have at least a bachelor's degree or an even higher education?

If nurses feel fulfilled in what they are doing, which of the following is much less likely to occur?

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?

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?

Intentionally or unintentionally, the ideal role is often used as the intellectual yardstick against which what role is measured?

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?

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?

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?

Researchers have calculated that it takes what period of time for new graduates to master the skills necessary to be successful in their position?

Which text format should be used to emphasize a word or words or when starting a new section of the résumé?

The nursing student often graduates with which of the following nursing roles?