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NSG 3001 CHAPTER 1: THE NURSING PROFESSION
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED
(2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Define patient-centered care: - ANS ✓Recognize the patient or designee as the
source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated
care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs.
Define teamwork and collaboration: - ANS ✓Function effectively within
nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual
respect, and shared decision making to achieve high-quality patient care.
Define evidence-based practice: - ANS ✓Integrate best current evidence with
clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of
optimal health care.
Define quality improvement: - ANS ✓Use data to monitor the outcomes of care
processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to
continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
Define safety: - ANS ✓Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through
both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Define informatics: - ANS ✓Use information and technology to communicate,
manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making.
Ming graduated with an associate's degree in nursing last year and currently
works in a long-term care facility. Although Ming enjoys his work and has been
promoted to shift supervisor on his unit, he finds that he'd like to pursue a
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nursing career that offers a regular schedule and more autonomy than he
currently experiences at the long-term care facility.
Ming considers returning to school for an advanced degree.
1) Ming is particularly drawn to the idea of becoming an APRN. Ming's career
options for becoming an APRN include which of the following? (Select all that
apply)
A. Physician assistant (PA)
B. Clinical nurse specialist (CNS)
C. Certified nurse midwife (CNM)
D. Certified RN anesthetist (CRNA) - ANS ✓B, C, D
Ming graduated with an associate's degree in nursing last year and currently
works in a long-term care facility. Although Ming enjoys his work and has been
promoted to shift supervisor on his unit, he finds that he'd like to pursue a
nursing career that offers a regular schedule and more autonomy than he
currently experiences at the long-term care facility.
Ming considers returning to school for an advanced degree.
2) If Ming decides to pursue a career as an APRN, which patient populations may
he serve?
A. Adult-gerontology
B. Prison Inmates
C. Neonatology
D. Psychiatric mental health - ANS ✓A, C, D
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NSG 3001 CHAPTER 1: THE NURSING PROFESSION
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED
(2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Define patient-centered care: - ANS ✓Recognize the patient or designee as the
source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated
care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs.
Define teamwork and collaboration: - ANS ✓Function effectively within
nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual
respect, and shared decision making to achieve high-quality patient care.
Define evidence-based practice: - ANS ✓Integrate best current evidence with
clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of
optimal health care.
Define quality improvement: - ANS ✓Use data to monitor the outcomes of care
processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to
continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
Define safety: - ANS ✓Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through
both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Define informatics: - ANS ✓Use information and technology to communicate,
manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making.
Ming graduated with an associate's degree in nursing last year and currently
works in a long-term care facility. Although Ming enjoys his work and has been
promoted to shift supervisor on his unit, he finds that he'd like to pursue a
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nursing career that offers a regular schedule and more autonomy than he
currently experiences at the long-term care facility.
Ming considers returning to school for an advanced degree.
1) Ming is particularly drawn to the idea of becoming an APRN. Ming's career
options for becoming an APRN include which of the following? (Select all that
apply)
A. Physician assistant (PA)
B. Clinical nurse specialist (CNS)
C. Certified nurse midwife (CNM)
D. Certified RN anesthetist (CRNA) - ANS ✓B, C, D
Ming graduated with an associate's degree in nursing last year and currently
works in a long-term care facility. Although Ming enjoys his work and has been
promoted to shift supervisor on his unit, he finds that he'd like to pursue a
nursing career that offers a regular schedule and more autonomy than he
currently experiences at the long-term care facility.
Ming considers returning to school for an advanced degree.
2) If Ming decides to pursue a career as an APRN, which patient populations may
he serve?
A. Adult-gerontology
B. Prison Inmates
C. Neonatology
D. Psychiatric mental health - ANS ✓A, C, D
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