It is significant for the profession of nursing to assist nurses in seeing their work as a collaborative process with the other professional team members rather than as a:
A. Handmaiden career that gives orders to the other health-care disciplines
B. Task-oriented group primarily interested in accomplishing orders from physicians
C. Profession that prides itself on task com-pletion versus positive patient outcomes
D. Profession interested only in self-glory that they are knowledgeable about patient conditions
ANS: B
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A Incorrect because nurses are not hand-maidens and RNs do not give orders.
B Correct because nurses should not be per-ceived as a task-oriented group under physicians.
C Incorrect because nurses need to pride themselves on positive patient outcomes.
D Incorrect because nursing is not a self-glory focused profession.
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