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pragya sharda · **on:** Jul 17, 2018

A hospital director of nursing (DON) establishes a hospital-wide committee to process the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report The Future of Nursing:

Leading Change, Advancing Health and to create unit-based activities that support its recommendations. A unit manager asks about the importance of the endeavor. What response by the DON is best?
a. If nursing doesn't change with the times, the future of the discipline is threatened.
b. Nursing has to remodel itself according to the mandates of the report.
c. Operationalizing the report allows nurses to drive health care reform.
d. Patient safety will be adversely affected if nursing doesn't transform itself.

Question 2

A nursing student is explaining to his or her family that nursing differs from medicine primarily in that nursing

a. does not consider the patient's environment.
b. is concerned with the wholeness of human beings.
c. primarily involves following doctors' orders.
d. revolves completely around systems theory.

katkat_flores · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 17, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
The IOM has identified nurses as key leaders in driving the reform and work to be done to reshape health care delivery in the United States. It is important that all nurses become educated and knowledgeable about this report, understand its implications for the future of the discipline, identify ways that individual nurses can get involved in implementing the recommendations, and educate others on what needs to be done. The other options all have elements of truth to them, but the broad implication is that nursing must lead the reform of health care.

Answer to Question 2

B
Whereas medicine focuses on the identification and treatment of disease, nursing focuses on the wholeness of human beings.
All nursing theories conceptualize environment as a core concept, whether stated or implied.
Although following physician-prescribed treatments is a component of nursing, nurses can also create their own care plans using both independent and dependent nursing activities.
Systems theory is a part of many nursing theories but not all.