LPN TO RN TRANSITIONS

Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Application

OBJ: Identify motivations and personal outcome priorities for returning to school. TOP: Motivations for Change

4.      An RN is caring for a diabetic patient. The patient appears interested in changing her lifestyle and has been asking questions about eating better. The nurse can interpret this behavior as which stage of Lewin’s Change Theory?

a.       Moving

b.      Unfreezing

c.       Action

d.      Refreezing

ANS: B

The patient is in the first phase of Lewin’s Change Theory, known as unfreezing. This phase involves determining that a change needs to occur and deciding to take action. Moving is the second phase and involves actively planning changes and taking action on them. Refreezing is the last stage, and it occurs when the change has become a part of the person’s life.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Analysis

OBJ: Understand Change Theory and how it applies to becoming an RN. TOP: Change Theory

5.      An LPN is talking with her clinical instructor about her decision to return to school to become an RN. The clinical instructor iNnterprets the LPNs outcome priority based on which statement?

a.       “My family wanted me to go back to school.”

b.      “I want to better my financial situation.”

c.       “I really enjoy school.”

d.      “I would like to advance to a teaching role someday.”

ANS: B