ICN correct answersINTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF NURSES
KEY COMPONENTS OF APRN ROLE correct answersResearch, Education, practice,
management, autonomy, managing direct patient case load; advanced health assessment decision
making and diagnostic reasoning skills
Restrictions for APRN exist on: correct answersright to diagnose, prescribe, consult and admit to
hospital
Nursing-informed Model that is Core to Nursing Practices correct answersRelationship based
care, intentional presence, mutuality, health patterning, humanization, healing in living & dying
(Newmand et al, 2008)
Scope of Practice for APRN correct answersNOT SETTING SPECIFIC, VARIES
ACCORDING TO NEEDS OF PT POPULAITON
6 POPULATION FOCI correct answersAdult-gerontology, Family, Women's, Pediatric,
Neonatal & Psychiatric
CNMs correct answersResearch supports increased pt satisfaction with care, lower cesarean,
forceps use, medication use, length of hospitalization and overall fewer complications with
delivery
CRNA correct answersOverseen by Nat'l Comm. on Nurse Anesthesia Education (NCNAE)
1980 due to crit. shortage
NPs Focus on correct answersHave more f/u visits than phys. due to focus on teaching, health
promotion and self-care which collectively contrib to decrease in overall costs
NP Practice Area (compared to physicians) correct answersNPs practice in urban primary care
settings (elderly, poor and ethnically diverse pop with limited access
NP Practice Specialty correct answers42% acute NP in nontrad. setting (90% in care primary
care) also less than 10% of Primary care are working in acute.
CNS education correct answers59,242 CNS with adv. degree (92.8% Mstr)(7.2% Dr.). Number
of CNSs has gone down by 18.4% since 2010
More than other APRN cns report not funch in role correct answers15.5% are also NPs; 17.8%
Mgmt; 21.1% instruction; 16% staff nurse. MOST DONT HAVE RX AUTHORITY
nurse-sensitive indicators (ANA 1996) ALL APRNS A FOCUS for research correct answersPain
mgmt, pt. satisfied., cardio disease prevent, pressure sore preven/tx, iD and print of fall risk,
nosocomial infection rate and nurse satisfaction.