Chapter 17 Gender Issues

Chapter 17  Gender Issues

Complete Chapter Questions And Answers
 

Sample Questions

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Salaries in nursing remain relatively low compared with other professions that require high skill levels, education, and responsibility. Which of the following may be responsible for an increase in nursing salaries?
a.
Nursing shortage
d.
Collective bargaining
b.
Lack of men in nursing
e.
All of the above
c.
Fair labor legislation
f.
a, c, and d

ANS: F PTS: 1

2. Which of the following is a gender-biased term that literally means acting in a “fatherly” manner?
a.
Sexism
c.
Nursism
b.
Paternalism
d.
Parentalism

ANS: B PTS: 1

3. The statement that nurses are well-bred, well-educated specimens of womanhood is an example of which of the following?
a.
Sexism
c.
Nursism
b.
Paternalism
d.
Parentalism

ANS: A PTS: 1

4. Which of the following situations can be described as paternalism?
a.
The physician decides to withhold news of her son’s death because he believes the patient will be less able to recover from her injuries if she is grieving.
b.
The physician calls the health care team, patient, and patient’s family together to collaborate on alternative strategies to solve an ethical dilemma.
c.
A nursing assistant in the newborn nursery hides in an empty room to bottle-feed a breastfed baby because she says, “the mother doesn’t have enough milk and he is starving!”
d.
All of the above
e.
a and c

ANS: E PTS: 1

5. An experienced nurse applies for a position in labor and delivery. Even though he is better qualified than other applicants, the nurse manager hires a female nurse. She explains that she wants to protect her patients from being uncomfortable with a male nurse. This situation is an example of which of the following?
a.
Sexism
c.
Both of the above
b.
Paternalism
d.
Neither of the above

ANS: C PTS: 1