PNC EXAM 2 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Differential Essential Competencies (DEC) - CORRECT ANSWER - Outline knowledge,
clinical behaviors, and judgments needed to meet the essential competencies
Competency - CORRECT ANSWER - An expected level of performance that integrates
knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgement
Member of profession - CORRECT ANSWER - -Function within nurse's legal scope of
practice
-Assume responsibility and accountability for quality of nursing care
-Participate in activities that promote professional nursing
-Demonstrate responsibility for continued competence in nursing practice
-Develop insight through reflection, self-analysis, self-care, and lifelong learning
Doing - CORRECT ANSWER - Incorporates societal and professional codes/standards
that are part of nursing discipline
Being - CORRECT ANSWER - What it means to do the right thing even when no one is
looking
Acting Ethically - CORRECT ANSWER - Being attentive to what is considered right and
good from both a societal and a professional perspective
Flourishing - CORRECT ANSWER - Understanding the doing and being of the discipline
of nursing with a sense of positive and transformational growth
Changing Identities - CORRECT ANSWER - Each person has multiple identities (son,
daughter, student, employee, grandchild, or parent) at any one time, identity formation for
, persons preparing for the professions looks more like disequilibrium and subsequent assimilation
than a development transition
Identity Diffusion - CORRECT ANSWER - Lack of interest in commitment and
exploration
Foreclosure - CORRECT ANSWER - Person talks about changing those around him/her
and not about changing themselves
Moratorium - CORRECT ANSWER - Overwhelming anxiety that is "hard to sit through"
with someone
Identify Achieved - CORRECT ANSWER - Person is reasonably aware, has a sense of
self, and can manage overwhelming anxiety if it occurs
Integrity - CORRECT ANSWER - -Following through with pain medication
-Calling PCP when patients ask you to
-Giving medications within the 30 minute window
Compassion - CORRECT ANSWER - -Taking time to talk with a troubled family member
-Responding to a patients call light with genuine interest
-Comforting a colleague when needed
-Using eye contact to apologize for missteps with colleagues
Courage - CORRECT ANSWER - -Speaking up when needed (colleague does not wash
hands when entering room)
-Conveying details of dying patient conversations to other members of the health team
-Taking issues to the practice council to positively change practice on nursing unit
-Speaking out about bullying
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Differential Essential Competencies (DEC) - CORRECT ANSWER - Outline knowledge,
clinical behaviors, and judgments needed to meet the essential competencies
Competency - CORRECT ANSWER - An expected level of performance that integrates
knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgement
Member of profession - CORRECT ANSWER - -Function within nurse's legal scope of
practice
-Assume responsibility and accountability for quality of nursing care
-Participate in activities that promote professional nursing
-Demonstrate responsibility for continued competence in nursing practice
-Develop insight through reflection, self-analysis, self-care, and lifelong learning
Doing - CORRECT ANSWER - Incorporates societal and professional codes/standards
that are part of nursing discipline
Being - CORRECT ANSWER - What it means to do the right thing even when no one is
looking
Acting Ethically - CORRECT ANSWER - Being attentive to what is considered right and
good from both a societal and a professional perspective
Flourishing - CORRECT ANSWER - Understanding the doing and being of the discipline
of nursing with a sense of positive and transformational growth
Changing Identities - CORRECT ANSWER - Each person has multiple identities (son,
daughter, student, employee, grandchild, or parent) at any one time, identity formation for
, persons preparing for the professions looks more like disequilibrium and subsequent assimilation
than a development transition
Identity Diffusion - CORRECT ANSWER - Lack of interest in commitment and
exploration
Foreclosure - CORRECT ANSWER - Person talks about changing those around him/her
and not about changing themselves
Moratorium - CORRECT ANSWER - Overwhelming anxiety that is "hard to sit through"
with someone
Identify Achieved - CORRECT ANSWER - Person is reasonably aware, has a sense of
self, and can manage overwhelming anxiety if it occurs
Integrity - CORRECT ANSWER - -Following through with pain medication
-Calling PCP when patients ask you to
-Giving medications within the 30 minute window
Compassion - CORRECT ANSWER - -Taking time to talk with a troubled family member
-Responding to a patients call light with genuine interest
-Comforting a colleague when needed
-Using eye contact to apologize for missteps with colleagues
Courage - CORRECT ANSWER - -Speaking up when needed (colleague does not wash
hands when entering room)
-Conveying details of dying patient conversations to other members of the health team
-Taking issues to the practice council to positively change practice on nursing unit
-Speaking out about bullying
