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Advanced Practice Nursing, Study Notes – Key Concepts and Clinical Practice Overview

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This document covers essential concepts in advanced practice nursing, including roles, competencies, leadership, and clinical decision-making. It explores topics such as scope of practice, evidence-based care, patient management, and healthcare systems. The content is structured to support understanding of advanced nursing roles and responsibilities, making it useful for exam preparation and professional development. It also emphasizes the integration of theory into clinical practice.

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Hamric and Hanson's Advanced Practice Nursing 6th Edition
by Mary Fran Tracy, Eileen T. O'Grady




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,Tracy: Hamric & Hanson's Advanced Practice Nursing, 6th Edition
Chapter 1: Highlights from the History of Advanced Practice Nursing in the United
States
Multiple Choice


1. In which year did the American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) introduced the
Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP)?

a. 2006
b. 2004
c. 2000
d. 2002

ANS: B
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The AACN introduced the DNP degree in 2004 to prepare advanced practice nurses (APRNs) to
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meet challenges and standardize practice beyond master’s degree programs.
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2. Which of the following is the best explanation for the creation of the Doctorate of Nursing
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Practice (DNP) degree?
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a. To compete against master’s degree programs
b. To ensure standardized curriculum ensuring independent practice
c. To validate APRN’s for financial reimbursement
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d. To address increasing curriculum requirements of master’s degree programs

ANS: D
Although all answers are influenced by the DNP core competencies, the DNP program creation in
2004 by the AACN was designed to address curriculum requirements of master’s degree
programs.


3. Which of the following was the first recognized area of advanced practice nursing?

a. Clinical Nurse Specialist
b. Family nurse practitioner
c. Pediatric nurse practitioner
d. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

ANS: D
In 1931, the National Association of Nurse Anesthetists (NANA), renamed in 1939 to the
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) was the first recognized group promoting
advanced nursing practice. Agatha Hodgins founded the AANM at Lakeside Hospital in
Cleveland, Ohio.


4. Which factor is broadly perceived to solidify and standardize the role of the APNs over the last
25 years?

, a. Lack of access to health care providers
b. Standardized curriculum development
c. Payment for services
d. Societal forces

ANS: B
As the evolution of Advanced Practice Nursing advances specific specialties and needs are
identified. Through the evolution of organization and standardization these roles have solidified
the APN’s role in today’s health care environment.


5. During the formation of early APN roles in anesthesia, which of the following increased
demand for access to health care?
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a. Poverty
b. War
c. Rural access to care
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d. Availability of training g
ANS: B
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Earliest demand for nursing-provided anesthesia spiked during periods of war when numbers of
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physicians were inadequate. The earliest records date back to the American Civil War with the
administration of chloroform. During World War I in 1917 more than 1000 nurses, some trained
anesthetists, traveled into battle. Other factors such as need for rural health care came later in the
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validation and need for APNs.


6. In 1889, Dr. William Worrall Mayo built and opened St. Mary’s hospital in Rochester, NY. He
is known for some of the earliest recruitment and specialized training of nurses in which of
the following roles?

a. Pediatrics
b. Anesthesia
c. Obstetrics
d. Research and statistics
e. Family nursing


ANS: B
In 1889, Dr. William Worrall Mayo began formally training and recognizing nurse anesthetists.
This has been regarded as the earliest training in nurse-provided anesthesia.


7. In 1893, Lillian Wald established the Henry Street Settlement (HSS) House for which purpose?

a. Access to health care of rural areas
b. Create inner-city nursing awareness
c. Provide the disadvantaged access to care

, d. Establish guidelines for advanced nursing roles

ANS: C
The HHS was established to provide nursing services to immigrants and low-income patients and
their families in Manhattan. As resistance to nurse-provided care grew, standing orders were
drafted from a group of Lower East Side physicians thereby circumventing then-existing legal
ramifications.


8. The Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) founded in Kentucky in 1925 by Mary Breckenridge
initially provided Appalachia with nursing resources and which type of advanced nursing
care?

a. Pediatric care
b. Anesthesia
c. Midwifery
d. Surgical services g y
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ANS: C
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The original FNS provided nursing services and obstetric services to Appalachian residents. Later
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working from standard orders developed from their medical advisory committee nurses treated
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patients, made diagnoses, and dispensed medications.
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9. Which organization founded in 1941 under Mary Breckenridge’s leadership merged with the
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American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) in 1969?

a. American Association of Nurse-Midwives (AANM)
b. American Nurses Association (ANA)
c. Association for National Nurse-Midwifery (ANNM)
d. Council of Nursing Midwifery (ANM)
ANS: A
The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) formed under the leadership of Mary
Breckenridge in 1941 to provide nurse-midwife development and collaboration for midwife

development. In 1955, the American College of Nurse-Midwives was formed and the two
organizations merged in 1969 after the death of Mary Breckenridge.


10. In a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court as a result of Chalmers-Frances v. Nelson, 1936,
what legal precedent was established?

a. Nurse anesthesia was allowed under the nurse practice act
b. Nurse anesthesia scope of practice included anesthesia
c. Nurse anesthesia was legal, if under guidance of a supervising physician d.
Only trained nursing professionals could administer anesthesia independently

ANS: C
The landmark decision from the Chalmers-Frances v. Nelson case set national precedent for the

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