CMSRN PRACTICE QUESTION|LATEST UPDATED
2026/2027 |A COMPLETE SOLUTION ALL ANSWERS
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A+ FOR SUCCESS
How many practice hours must you have before you apply for certification
through either ANCC or AMSN?
a. 500 hours
b. 1,000 hours
c. 2,000 hours
d. 3,000 hours
c. 2,000 hours
All of the following are components of the Planning, Implementation and
Outcomes domain of the nursing practice according to the ANCC except:
a. nursing care planning
b. therapeutic communication
c. patient safety measures
d. patient teaching
b. therapeutic communication
Which nursing theorist describes the following five levels of nursing
experience: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient and
expert?
a. Patricia Benner
b. Kurt Lewin
,c. Madeleine Leininger
d. Dorothea Orem
a. Patricia Benner
Benner described five levels of nursing experience and developed
exemplars and paradigm cases to illustrate each level. Lewin described
the "Change Management Model" of unfreezing, changing and freezing.
Leininger's theory is also called transcultural nursing. This theory
attempts to provide culturally congruent nursing care through "cognitively
based assistive, supportive, facilitative or enabling acts or decisions that
are mostly tailor-made to fit with individual, group's or institution's
cultural values, beliefs and lifeways."
Which of the following findings is a characteristic of a patient with
unstable angina?
a. "My chest pain goes away when I rest."
b. "I sometimes experience chest pain at rest." c. "Nitroglycerin always
relieves my chest pain." d. "The chest pain only occurs when I walk too
fast."
b. "I sometimes experience chest pain at rest."
Which ECG finding would indicate the most unstable condition?
a. inverted T wave
b. ST-segment depression
c. ST-segment elevation
d. Q wave
c. ST-segment elevation
Which of the following would be a symptom of worsening heart failure
(HF)?
a. dyspnea and crackles on auscultation
b. clear lung sounds and 1+ edema of the legs
, c. resolution of chest pain
d. a brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) of 80
a. dyspnea and crackles on auscultation
You are caring for a patient with newly diagnosed systolic heart failure
(HF). He states that he has a slight limitation in physical activity. He says
that he is comfortable when he is resting, but he becomes short of breath
and fatigued with ordinary physical activity. Based on the New York Heart
Association (NYHA) Functional Classification, which stage of HF is he in?
a. Stage I
b. Stage II
c. Stage III
d. Stage IV
b. Stage II
The nurse is providing education to a patient about modifiable risk
factors for hypertension. Which of the following is a modifiable risk
factor?
a. age
b. ethnicity
c. genetics
d. obesity
d. obesity
A patient is being discharged with a prescription for amlodipine besylate.
Which of the following should be included in the discharge education
about this medication?
a. The medication may cause bradycardia.
b. The medication may cause a drop in blood pressure (BP).
c. The medication cannot cause angina.
d. The medication is contraindicated while taking sublingual
nitroglycerin.
2026/2027 |A COMPLETE SOLUTION ALL ANSWERS
GET IT 100% CORRECT |VERIFIED BEST GRADED
A+ FOR SUCCESS
How many practice hours must you have before you apply for certification
through either ANCC or AMSN?
a. 500 hours
b. 1,000 hours
c. 2,000 hours
d. 3,000 hours
c. 2,000 hours
All of the following are components of the Planning, Implementation and
Outcomes domain of the nursing practice according to the ANCC except:
a. nursing care planning
b. therapeutic communication
c. patient safety measures
d. patient teaching
b. therapeutic communication
Which nursing theorist describes the following five levels of nursing
experience: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient and
expert?
a. Patricia Benner
b. Kurt Lewin
,c. Madeleine Leininger
d. Dorothea Orem
a. Patricia Benner
Benner described five levels of nursing experience and developed
exemplars and paradigm cases to illustrate each level. Lewin described
the "Change Management Model" of unfreezing, changing and freezing.
Leininger's theory is also called transcultural nursing. This theory
attempts to provide culturally congruent nursing care through "cognitively
based assistive, supportive, facilitative or enabling acts or decisions that
are mostly tailor-made to fit with individual, group's or institution's
cultural values, beliefs and lifeways."
Which of the following findings is a characteristic of a patient with
unstable angina?
a. "My chest pain goes away when I rest."
b. "I sometimes experience chest pain at rest." c. "Nitroglycerin always
relieves my chest pain." d. "The chest pain only occurs when I walk too
fast."
b. "I sometimes experience chest pain at rest."
Which ECG finding would indicate the most unstable condition?
a. inverted T wave
b. ST-segment depression
c. ST-segment elevation
d. Q wave
c. ST-segment elevation
Which of the following would be a symptom of worsening heart failure
(HF)?
a. dyspnea and crackles on auscultation
b. clear lung sounds and 1+ edema of the legs
, c. resolution of chest pain
d. a brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) of 80
a. dyspnea and crackles on auscultation
You are caring for a patient with newly diagnosed systolic heart failure
(HF). He states that he has a slight limitation in physical activity. He says
that he is comfortable when he is resting, but he becomes short of breath
and fatigued with ordinary physical activity. Based on the New York Heart
Association (NYHA) Functional Classification, which stage of HF is he in?
a. Stage I
b. Stage II
c. Stage III
d. Stage IV
b. Stage II
The nurse is providing education to a patient about modifiable risk
factors for hypertension. Which of the following is a modifiable risk
factor?
a. age
b. ethnicity
c. genetics
d. obesity
d. obesity
A patient is being discharged with a prescription for amlodipine besylate.
Which of the following should be included in the discharge education
about this medication?
a. The medication may cause bradycardia.
b. The medication may cause a drop in blood pressure (BP).
c. The medication cannot cause angina.
d. The medication is contraindicated while taking sublingual
nitroglycerin.
