Chapter 26: Internationalizing in Canadian Nursing - Nurselytic

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Capacity building involves complex learning, adaptation, and attitudinal changes at the individual, group, organizational, and societal levels.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: When nurses are recruited internationally to fill positions in host countries, they often require extended educational preparation and assessment of their clinical competency due to inconsistencies in their educational preparation and scope of practice as nurses within their source countries.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: One of the challenges with bridging educational programs for IENs includes obtaining clinical placements for participants.

Correct Answer: A,C,D,E,F

Rationale: Factors that have contributed to increasing the nurse shortage in developing countries include an aging nursing population, reduced work hours by nurses, a decrease in the allotment of full-time university nursing positions, increased co-morbid conditions, and the use of technology.

Correct Answer: A,C,D,F,G

Rationale: Even after successfully obtaining their RN licensure, IENs experience challenges such as understanding medical and professional terminology, being unaware of professional standards and the extent of a nurse's scope of practice, having weak communication and fluency in the English language, and facing cultural and nonverbal communication obstacles.