Your colleague Mary, a recent graduate, announces one day that she intends to leave nursing in 3 to 4 months to pursue a position in marketing
While at your agency, she plans to give patients excellent care and to learn as much as she can, because "Who knows? Nursing is a great job with a great pay and I may return someday." Mary's statements most accurately exemplify which orientation to the concept of nursing? Nursing as a(n):
a. Profession.
b. Occupation.
c. Flexible discipline.
d. Career with off and on ramps.
ANS: B
Concern with nursing as potentially one in a series of possibly well-paid jobs reflects a view of nursing as an occupation.
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____ kg Record the answer rounding to the nearest tenth.
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1. 21 gauge, 45 degrees 2. 23 gauge, 15 degrees 3. 25 gauge, 15 degrees 4. 27 gauge, 45 degrees
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