18 Oct When examining a policy initiative from an emancipatory perspective, which question would the nurse least likely ask?

Question 1When examining a policy initiative from an emancipatory perspective, which question would the nurse least likely ask?

 

Question options:

 

a)            Is this initiative good for the state of nursing as a profession?

 

b)            Who benefits from this initiative?

 

c)            Which social values does this initiative reflect?

 

d)            From which motives does this initiative arise?

 

Question 2          Helen has just finished reading a new research report. In reflecting on the report, Helen first considers whether the researchers’ methods were sound. Next, she asks herself what ideology the researchers appeared to be working from, as well as who will truly benefit if the researchers’ findings are used as a basis for nursing practice. Here, Helen’s activities illustrate how the emancipatory approach can strengthen which essential of advanced nursing practice?

 

Question options:

 

a)            Organizational and systems leadership for quality improvement

 

b)            Policy for advocacy in health care

 

c)            Scientific underpinnings for practice

 

d)            Interprofessional collaboration for improving health outcomes

 

Question 3In critical emancipatory nursing practice, reflexivity involves asking which question?

 

Question options:

 

a)            “Do I know what I do, and do I do what I know?”

 

b)            “What do I know, and how do I know it?”

 

c)            “Are the subjects central to the research, or are the researchers central instead?”

 

d)            “What is wrong with the situation, and why does this injustice exist?”

 

Question 4          Why is diversity critical for a complex adaptive system?

 

Question options:

 

a)            Diversity means that no one aspect of the system will be too greatly affected by a particular initial event or condition.

 

b)            Diversity prevents the system from developing deterministic patterns.

 

c)            Diversity prevents the elements of the system from engaging in self-organization.

 

d)            Diversity provides for novelty and is a source of the capability for adaptation.

 

Question 5          Which statement is false?

 

Question options:

 

a)            Multiple scholars from the physical and biological sciences predict that complexity science will become the preeminent approach of the twenty-first century.

 

b)            Complexity science promotes a deeper understanding of living things as dynamic, adaptive beings.

 

 

 

c)            Over the course of the last hundred years, science has primarily employed an analytic/reductionist paradigm—and it has done so with little success.

 

d)            Complexity science is not a single theory, but rather an emerging model of interdisciplinary study.

 

Question 6          With __________, researchers change organizational patterns by actively engaging stakeholders in the change process.

 

Question options:

 

a)            appreciative inquiry

 

b)            action research

 

c)            reductionist inquiry

 

d)            positive deviance

 

Question 7In a system that conforms to chaos theory:

 

Question options:

 

a)            behaviors may appear to exhibit patterns when analyzed in a linear fashion, but when analyzed using nonlinear approaches, they are determined to be completely random.

 

b)            behaviors may appear to be random when analyzed in a nonlinear fashion, but when analyzed using linear approaches, they exhibit dynamic patterned variation.

 

c)            behaviors may appear to exhibit patterns when analyzed in a linear fashion, but when analyzed using nonlinear approaches, even more intricate patterns are discovered.

 

d)            behaviors may appear to be random when analyzed in a linear fashion, but when analyzed using nonlinear approaches, they exhibit dynamic patterned variation.

 

Question 8          Which is not a fundamental pattern of knowing in nursing?

 

Question options:

 

a)            Ethics

 

b)            Epistemologics

 

c)            Aesthetics

 

d)            Empirics

 

Question 9          Which statement accurately reflects a fundamental assumption of emancipatory knowing?

 

Question options:

 

a)            Language carries power meanings.

 

b)            All knowledge is value-neutral.

 

c)            Social oppression is natural and unavoidable.

 

d)            Research is an apolitical activity.

 

Question 10        “In health care, the personhood of the participants is an important part of all relationships, as are affect and emotions. In addition, genuine relationships between patients and clinicians, between multiple clinicians, between clinicians and the community, and within clinicians themselves are essential to humanistic care.” This statement most closely reflects the approach known as:

 

Question options:

 

a)            relationship complexity care.

 

b)            responsive relationship care.

 

c)            complex-responsive care.

 

d)            relationship-centered care.