While proofreading your classmate's essay you note the following sentence: The nursing faculty shortage is a critical issue for nursing today because with fewer nursing faculty the nursing schools must turn away thousands of otherwise qualified
candidates and therefore continuing to contribute to the growing nursing shortage in general which is expected to escalate to dangerous levels as the population ages and requires more care. Which of the following best describes the problem with the previous sentence? a. The sentence uses pronouns inappropriately.
b. The sentence is too long.
c. The sentence does not have noun-verb agreement.
d. The sentence ends in a prepositional phrase.
Question 2
Which of the following sentences reflects pronoun usage as it is required in professional nursing papers?
a. The patient looked so blue you knew he was cyanotic.
b. As the nurse, I would have applied oxygen at 2 liters.
c. If a patient appears cyanotic, one may apply oxygen.
d. The patient was cyanotic so you know oxygen was needed.