CLINICAL NURSING SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES
10 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026
◉ How many attempts do you have in performing skills?
Answer: 3
◉ What are the characteristics of profession?
Answer: extensive education, theoretical body of knowledge, specific
service, autonomy in decision making, code of ethics; emphasis is on
service rather than mere economic gain, acceptance of
accountability, pride about the profession, pursuit of quality,
willingness to pursue professional development
◉ What is nursing?
Answer: the protection, promotion, and optimization of health
abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering the
diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the
care of individuals, families, communities, and populations
◉ What are some professional nursing organizations?
Answer: American Nurses Association (ANA)
International Council of Nursing (ICN)
National Student Nurses Association (NSNA)
,National League for Nursing (NLN)
Specialty Organizations
◉ What does the American Nurse Association (ANA) do?
Answer: looks over nurses' safety and happiness over the workforce
◉ What does the International Council of Nursing (ICN) do?
Answer: all of the counteries organizations, strives to promote
global success among nurses
◉ What are some Specialty Organizations branches?
Answer: Pediatric Nurses, Critical Care Nurses Association
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 9?
Answer: The profession of nursing, collectively through its
professional organizations, must articulate nursing values, maintain
the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles of social
justice into nursing and health policy
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 2?
Answer: the nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether
an individual, family, group,or population; maintains boundaries
that establish appropriate limits to relationship
,◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 4?
Answer: the nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility
for nursing practice; makes decisions; and take action consistent
with the obligation to promote health and to provide optimal care
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 1?
Answer: practice with compassion and respect for the inherent
dignity, worth, and unique attribute of EVERY person, maintains
compassionate and caring relationships
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 3?
Answer: promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health,
safety, and rights of the patient, participate in review and
development of policies, reporting errors near misses per facility
police (whether you made the error or not), disclosing errors to
patients, use the chain of command
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 5?
Answer: integrity is an aspect of wholeness of character and is
primarily self-concern of the individual nurse, nurses have a
responsibility to remain consistent with both their personal and
professional values
◉ What does the State Nurse Practice Acts do?
, Answer: define the Scope of Practice within each state, protects the
public, nursing licensure, to practice nursing in the US, RN
candidates must pass the NCLEX-RN exam, same exam in every state,
tests minimum knowledge base
◉ What is the Nurse Practice Act of Aalbama?
Answer: the law that regulates the practice of nursing within each
state, establishes the Alabama Board of Nursing (ABON) and gives
the board authority over nursing practe, the ABON is authorized to
give a license to a person to practice nursing AND has the right to
take it away
◉ What do we call doctors now a days?
Answer: Health Care Providers (HCP)
◉ What types of conflicts do nurses have?
Answer: intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup conflict,
organizational conflict
◉ What 10 aspects does a perfect nurse have?
Answer: empathy, detail oriented, communication, intuition, physical
endurance, emotional stability, critical thinking, coordinator of
services, patience, dedication
10 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026
◉ How many attempts do you have in performing skills?
Answer: 3
◉ What are the characteristics of profession?
Answer: extensive education, theoretical body of knowledge, specific
service, autonomy in decision making, code of ethics; emphasis is on
service rather than mere economic gain, acceptance of
accountability, pride about the profession, pursuit of quality,
willingness to pursue professional development
◉ What is nursing?
Answer: the protection, promotion, and optimization of health
abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering the
diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the
care of individuals, families, communities, and populations
◉ What are some professional nursing organizations?
Answer: American Nurses Association (ANA)
International Council of Nursing (ICN)
National Student Nurses Association (NSNA)
,National League for Nursing (NLN)
Specialty Organizations
◉ What does the American Nurse Association (ANA) do?
Answer: looks over nurses' safety and happiness over the workforce
◉ What does the International Council of Nursing (ICN) do?
Answer: all of the counteries organizations, strives to promote
global success among nurses
◉ What are some Specialty Organizations branches?
Answer: Pediatric Nurses, Critical Care Nurses Association
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 9?
Answer: The profession of nursing, collectively through its
professional organizations, must articulate nursing values, maintain
the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles of social
justice into nursing and health policy
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 2?
Answer: the nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether
an individual, family, group,or population; maintains boundaries
that establish appropriate limits to relationship
,◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 4?
Answer: the nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility
for nursing practice; makes decisions; and take action consistent
with the obligation to promote health and to provide optimal care
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 1?
Answer: practice with compassion and respect for the inherent
dignity, worth, and unique attribute of EVERY person, maintains
compassionate and caring relationships
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 3?
Answer: promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health,
safety, and rights of the patient, participate in review and
development of policies, reporting errors near misses per facility
police (whether you made the error or not), disclosing errors to
patients, use the chain of command
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 5?
Answer: integrity is an aspect of wholeness of character and is
primarily self-concern of the individual nurse, nurses have a
responsibility to remain consistent with both their personal and
professional values
◉ What does the State Nurse Practice Acts do?
, Answer: define the Scope of Practice within each state, protects the
public, nursing licensure, to practice nursing in the US, RN
candidates must pass the NCLEX-RN exam, same exam in every state,
tests minimum knowledge base
◉ What is the Nurse Practice Act of Aalbama?
Answer: the law that regulates the practice of nursing within each
state, establishes the Alabama Board of Nursing (ABON) and gives
the board authority over nursing practe, the ABON is authorized to
give a license to a person to practice nursing AND has the right to
take it away
◉ What do we call doctors now a days?
Answer: Health Care Providers (HCP)
◉ What types of conflicts do nurses have?
Answer: intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup conflict,
organizational conflict
◉ What 10 aspects does a perfect nurse have?
Answer: empathy, detail oriented, communication, intuition, physical
endurance, emotional stability, critical thinking, coordinator of
services, patience, dedication
