NURS 2300 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Licensure -
Certification - - ✔✔state regulation of the practice of nursing
- required of individual at the entry point to practice and must be renewed periodically
- legal designation ensures public safety
goes beyond licensure by validating high level of knowledge and proficiency in particular
area
- has professional but not legal status
- comprehensive exam to become certified, documentation of experience and letter of
recommendation
- have greater earning potential and validation of skills
✔✔Barriers of Nursing Professionalization
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. - ✔✔1. variability of educational backgrounds for entry
2. gender
3. historical influences
4. external conflicts
5. internal conflicts
✔✔Describe steps in research process
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. - ✔✔Research process - used by nurses is the same process used in any other
scientific endeavor
1. identification of researchable problem
2. Review of literature
3. Formulation of the research question or hypothesis
4. Design of study - affects how data is collected
5. Implementation of the study (data collection)
6. Drawing conclusions based on findings
7. Discussion and or clinical implications (replication)
8. Dissemination of findings
, ✔✔Describe relationships of nursing research to nursing theory and practice -
✔✔RElationships among nursing research, practice and theory are circular
- research ideas are genrated from clinical practice, articles and theory
- published articles about nrusing research often generate interest in further studies
- nursing theorists also generate nursing ideas, and explain what has been discovered
- nursing research findings not only improve patient care but also affect healthcare
system
✔✔Nurse scientist - ✔✔nurse researchers who study various aspects of health, illness,
and health care
- design and implement scientific studies
- identify research questions, nature of illnesses and treatments
✔✔Define evidence based practice - - ✔✔approach to the delivery of health care that
integrates the best evidence from research studies and patient care data with clinical
expertise and patient preferences and values
✔✔Identify strategies to promote EBP and barriers - ✔✔- take continuing education
classes
- attend professional conferences
- read journals
- obtain membership in professional organization
- keeping aware new evidence of best practice
- clinician expertise and patient preferences are equally important in determining best
practice (HIV med)
- researchers across nations in all professions and academic disciplines compete for
limited pool of research dollars each year
- only those nurses with strong academic and experimental background succeed and
get federal funding
✔✔Identify working definition of critical thinking - ✔✔Defining critical thinking is complex
a purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretations, analysis,
evaluation and inference
Mode of thinking about any subject, content, or problem, in which the thinker improves
the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in
thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them
✔✔Identify characteristics of a critical thinker - ✔✔- Raises questions and problems and
formulates them clearly and precisely
- gathers and assesses relevant info, using abstract ideas for interpretation
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Licensure -
Certification - - ✔✔state regulation of the practice of nursing
- required of individual at the entry point to practice and must be renewed periodically
- legal designation ensures public safety
goes beyond licensure by validating high level of knowledge and proficiency in particular
area
- has professional but not legal status
- comprehensive exam to become certified, documentation of experience and letter of
recommendation
- have greater earning potential and validation of skills
✔✔Barriers of Nursing Professionalization
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. - ✔✔1. variability of educational backgrounds for entry
2. gender
3. historical influences
4. external conflicts
5. internal conflicts
✔✔Describe steps in research process
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. - ✔✔Research process - used by nurses is the same process used in any other
scientific endeavor
1. identification of researchable problem
2. Review of literature
3. Formulation of the research question or hypothesis
4. Design of study - affects how data is collected
5. Implementation of the study (data collection)
6. Drawing conclusions based on findings
7. Discussion and or clinical implications (replication)
8. Dissemination of findings
, ✔✔Describe relationships of nursing research to nursing theory and practice -
✔✔RElationships among nursing research, practice and theory are circular
- research ideas are genrated from clinical practice, articles and theory
- published articles about nrusing research often generate interest in further studies
- nursing theorists also generate nursing ideas, and explain what has been discovered
- nursing research findings not only improve patient care but also affect healthcare
system
✔✔Nurse scientist - ✔✔nurse researchers who study various aspects of health, illness,
and health care
- design and implement scientific studies
- identify research questions, nature of illnesses and treatments
✔✔Define evidence based practice - - ✔✔approach to the delivery of health care that
integrates the best evidence from research studies and patient care data with clinical
expertise and patient preferences and values
✔✔Identify strategies to promote EBP and barriers - ✔✔- take continuing education
classes
- attend professional conferences
- read journals
- obtain membership in professional organization
- keeping aware new evidence of best practice
- clinician expertise and patient preferences are equally important in determining best
practice (HIV med)
- researchers across nations in all professions and academic disciplines compete for
limited pool of research dollars each year
- only those nurses with strong academic and experimental background succeed and
get federal funding
✔✔Identify working definition of critical thinking - ✔✔Defining critical thinking is complex
a purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretations, analysis,
evaluation and inference
Mode of thinking about any subject, content, or problem, in which the thinker improves
the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in
thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them
✔✔Identify characteristics of a critical thinker - ✔✔- Raises questions and problems and
formulates them clearly and precisely
- gathers and assesses relevant info, using abstract ideas for interpretation
