The Nurse Manager Is Interviewing Graduate Nurses to Fill Existing

question 3

Multiple Choice

The nurse manager is interviewing graduate nurses to fill existing staffing vacancies. When hiring graduate nurses, the nurse manager realizes that they will probably not be considered "competent" until they complete which task?

• A) They graduate and pass NCLEX.
• B) They have worked 2 to 3 years.
• C) Their last year of nursing school.
• D) They are actually hired.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A training mechanism in which two stimuli are frequently paired together; over time, the response that was originally caused by the second stimulus is elicited by the first stimulus.

Unconditioned Response

A reflexive, instinctual reaction to an unconditioned stimulus, not learned through previous experience.

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning, an essential concept in classical conditioning theories.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any prior learning.