With the advent of advanced practice nursing roles, nurses have been given the authority to diagnose (nursing) and treat, as well as prescribe. What has this caused professional nursing organizations to do?
A) Define the practice of nursing more clearly
B) Lobby for more independence in nursing
C) Lobby for smaller nurse-to-patient ratios
D) Define the different nursing specialties more clearly
Ans: A
Feedback: With advanced practice roles has come a continuing effort by professional nursing organizations to more clearly define the practice of nursing. The other answers are correct in that nursing organizations have done all these. However, they have not done them because of the advent of advanced practice nursing roles.
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