Exam 8: Professional Issues

What term best describes knowledge necessary to provide a service that is either essential or desired by society?

Which of the following terms is synonymous with "self-governing"?

Which of the following traits did Flexner include in his list of criteria to identify professions?

What is the foremost law that governs the regulation of nursing?

Which of the following is universally accepted as one criterion of a profession that is profoundly important to nursing?

Which of the following is a mechanism of accountability that has been developed by the profession of nursing?

According to Degazon, what must be taken into account in the changing face of nursing?

According to the Canadian Nurses Association, which of the following is one of the four principles that must be included in any practice statement?

Which of the following terms relates to the characteristic of having a high level of specialized skill and knowledge?

What is one of the benefits of nurses contributing to the growing body of unique nursing knowledge and research?

Which documents, developed within the profession as a guide for providing nursing care, can also be used as a consistent baseline to measure the practice of individual nurses?

Which of the following refers to being answerable to another person or persons for something one has done?

Which of the following qualities relates to the ability of nurses to organize for the purpose of fulfilling the profession's promises and maintaining the relationship that nurses have with one another?

Which of the following consist of guides for nursing care that are developed by non-nurses, the government, or institutions?