Chapter 21: Licensure, Credentialing in Nursing, and Entry to Practice - Nurselytic

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The main reason for nursing leaders to secure legislation for registration was to ensure that the educated would be differentiated from the uneducated for the protection of the public.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: The two main credentialing mechanisms in nursing are professional and educational mechanisms.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The journal Canadian Nurse was first published in 1905.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: The two powerful social forces in the early 1900s that influenced the drive for legislating the registration of nurses were the women's movement and the wartime needs for nursing care, both on the battlefront and behind the lines.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Licensure refers to the granting by a government body to a member in good standing of the exclusive right to practise a profession, as well as use of the protected title.