CNL CLINICAL NURSE LEADER EXAM 2025 |
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES | GRADED A+ |
VERIFIED ANSWERS | JUST RELEASED
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Patient satisfaction scores C) Compare desired outcomes with national & State
in emergency department standards
have shown a downward Rationale: Client care outcomes are a measure of
trend over the past three quality practice. CNLs must know how to compare
quarters. As a clinical desired outcomes that will improve safety,
nurse leader in ED focus is effectiveness, timeliness, efficiency, quality, and the
to: degree to which they are client centered.
A) Create a script for
triage nurse in welcoming
the patient
B) Assign a volunteer to
welcome patients to the
hospital
C) Compare desired
outcomes with national &
state standards
D) Write a letter of
apology to each
dissatisfied patient
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Which of the following B) Sponsoring a meeting with the monitor technicians
actions illustrates the CNL to understand their barriers in the cardiac monitoring
professional value of process
altruism? Rationale: Altruism is a concern for the welfare & well-
A) Leading an being of others. In professional practice, altruism is
interdisciplinary team reflected by the CNL's concern for the welfare of
looking at the remote clients, other nurses, and other health care providers.
cardiac monitoring
process
B) Sponsoring a meeting
with the monitor
technicians to understand
their barriers in the
cardiac monitoring
process
C) Flow mapping the
admission process of the
remote cardiac-monitored
patient
D) Editing the policy for
the remote cardiac
monitoring process.
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You are a CNL on the tele A) The CNL discusses with the physician the rationale
unit & orienting a newly for discontinuing cardiac monitoring in the hospice
graduated nurse. Critical patient
thinking is best Rationale: Critical thinking underlies independent &
demonstrated when: interdependent decision making. Critical thinking
A) The CNL discusses with includes questioning, analysis, synthesis,
the physician the rationale interpretation, inference, inductive & deductive
for discontinuing cardiac reasoning, intuition, application, & creativity.
monitoring in the hospice
patient
B) Drawing the scheduled
cardiac enzymes q8h
Reviewing the patient care
guidelines & protocols
related to hourly rounding
D) The CNL balances both
the charge role & the
preceptor role
simultaneously
You are a CNL selected to C) Liver Dysfunction
lead a team focused on Rationale: Independent stroke predictors include age,
implementing a systolic BP, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, current
multidisciplinary clinical smoking, established cardiovascular disease (any one
pathway for acute of myocardiac infarction, angina, coronary
ischemic stroke & transient insufficiency, congestive heart failure, or intermittent
ischemic attack. The risk claudication), Afib, & left ventricular hypertrophy on
assessment tool that you ECG.
have adopted identifies all
of the following as
independent stroke risk
factors except:
A) Age
B) Systolic BP
C) Liver dysfunction
D) Current smoking
E) Diabetes mellitus
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A lack of compliance with B) Gaining an understanding of how DVT prophylaxis
DVT prophylaxis has been is initiated on each stroke patient on your unit.
identified in retrospective Rationale:
chart reviews of all White Paper: One competency is that of a systems
ischemic stroke patients in analyst. A CNL participates in a system review &
your organization. As a conducts a microsystem analysis, identifying a clinical
CNL on the neurological issue with a focus on a particular population.
unit, your primary goal will
include:
A) Challenging the
guidelines on primary
prevention of ischemic
stroke written by the
American Stroke
Association
B) Gaining an
understanding of how DVT
prophylaxis is initiated on
each stroke patient on
your unit
C) Developing an
organization-wide
educational program on
DVT prophylaxis
D) Developing a unit-
based team of nursing
personnel to investigate
the problem.
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