Author Question: Today's nurse understands that legal recognition for nurses was imperative to a. allow nurses to ... (Read 117 times)

appyboo · **on:** Jul 17, 2018

Today's nurse understands that legal recognition for nurses was imperative to

a. allow nurses to expand beyond the hospital setting.
b. lobby for better wages and working conditions.
c. protect the public from untrained nurses.
d. provide hospitals with accreditation requirements.

Question 2

The nurse manager is preparing to hold a counseling session with a certified nursing assistant who has been consistently coming to work late. What strategies should the nurse manager use? (Select all that apply.)

1.
Conduct counseling in private
2.
Keep session brief
3.
Avoid wording that will seem confrontational
4.
Emphasize the negative behavior repeatedly
5.
Sympathize with the employee

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

Answer to Question 1

C
The goal of the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (renamed the American Nurses Association in 1912) was to protect the public from untrained nurses by securing legal recognition for trained nurses.
Graduate nurses predominantly worked as private duty nurses up through the early 20th century.
Wages remained low, and working conditions remained long and arduous in hospitals (and seasonal for private duty nurses) until hospitals began hiring more graduate nurses in the 1930s.
Hospital accreditation is a recent phenomenon, unattached to legal recognition for nurses.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 1, 2, 3
The general rule of thumb is to reward in public and reprimand in private, so this counseling session should be held privately. Counseling should be brief and to the point. Counseling sessions should be nonconfrontational and should state the facts as objectively as possible.