Test Bank for Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges, 10th Edition by Beth Black

Instant PDF Download — The Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges, 10th Edition Test Bank (Beth Black) provides chapter-based NCLEX®-style questions with rationales covering professionalism, ethics, leadership, legal issues, EBP, communication, health policy, and today’s evolving healthcare environment. Ideal for BSN/MSN courses and nursing leadership prep.

About This Professional Nursing Test Bank (10th Edition)

This comprehensive Professional Nursing 10e Test Bank PDF aligns with Beth Black’s textbook and strengthens critical thinking, clinical judgment, and professional role development. Use it to prepare for class exams, unit tests, and licensure review while mastering the concepts that define modern professional nursing practice.

Table of Contents — Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges (10e)

• 1. Nursing in Today’s Evolving Healthcare Environment
• 2. The History and Social Context of Nursing
• 3. Nursing’s Pathway to Professionalism
• 4. Nursing Education in an Evolving Healthcare Environment
• 5. Becoming a Professional Nurse: Defining Nursing and Socialization in Practice
• 6. Nursing as a Regulated Practice: Legal Issues
• 7. Ethics: Basic Concepts for Professional Nursing Practice
• 8. Conceptual and Philosophic Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
• 9. Nursing Theory: The Basis for Professional Nursing
• 10. The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
• 11. Developing Nursing Judgment Through Critical Thinking
• 12. Communication and Collaboration in Professional Nursing
• 13. Nurses, Patients, and Families: Caring at the Intersection of Health, Illness, and Culture
• 14. Health Care in the United States
• 15. Political Activism in Nursing: Communities, Organizations, and Government
• 16. Nursing’s Challenge

Sample Questions

Chapter 01: Nursing in Today’s Evolving Health Care Environment
Black: Professional Nursing: Concepts and Challenges, 10th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following could eventually change the historical status of nursing as a female-dominated profession?
a. More men graduating from baccalaureate and higher degree programs
b. The proportion of men in nursing beginning to increase
c. More male graduates of basic nursing programs entering the workplace
d. Salary compensation increasing to attract more men
ANS: C
Feedback
A “More men graduating from baccalaureate and higher degree programs” is not the best answer because associate degree programs produce the majority of new
graduates.
B The percentage of men in nursing has increased 50% since 2000.
C The more men who enter the workplace as nurses, the less nursing will be seen as a female-dominated profession.
D Salary rates do not appear to relate to the recruitment of men into nursing.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension
2. The racial and ethnic composition of the nursing profession will change to more accurately reflect the population as a whole when
a. the increased numbers of racial and ethnic minorities enrolled in educational programs graduate and begin to practice.
b. the number of Asians or Native Hawaiian-Pacific Islanders begins to increase.
c. the percentage of African American and Hispanic nurses decreases more than the percentage of White nurses.
d. the non-White portion of the general population decreases.
ANS: A
Feedback
A A larger percentage of minorities are enrolled in nursing educational programs than previously.
B Asians and Native Hawaiian-Pacific Islanders are over represented in nursing compared to their percentage of the general population.
C Not only would the percentage of African American and Hispanic nurses need to increase, the percentage of White nurses would have to decrease in order to
more accurately reflect the population as a whole.
D The non-White portion of the general population is not likely to decrease.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension
3. Which of the following is a correct statement about the registered nurse (RN) population?a. The racial/ethnic composition of RNs closely resembles that of the general
population.
b. The number of men entering nursing has decreased steadily over the last decade.
c. The rate of aging of RNs has slowed for the first time in the past 30 years.
d. The majority of employed RNs working full time must work a second position.
ANS: C
Feedback
A The racial/ethnic composition of RNs is increasing, but does not approximate their percentage of the overall population.
B The number of men entering nursing is increasing.
C The average age of RNs in both 2004 and 2008 was 46.
D The average age of BSN graduates is 25.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge

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