ANA Documents UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is the definition of nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER - protection, promotion and
optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering
through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, communities and populations.
what s the ANA responsible for? - CORRECT ANSWER - developing scope and
standards of practice that apple to the practice of all professional nurses, and serve as a template
for specialty practice
What is true of the development for the Scope and Standards of nursing practice? - CORRECT
ANSWER - They require broad input into their development beyond the ANA
What is a scope of practice statement? - CORRECT ANSWER - It describes the who,
what, where, when why and how of nursing practice, to accomodate evolving boundaries and
memberships
What is true of the breadth of the nursing practice? - CORRECT ANSWER - it
encompasses the full range of nursing practice, and the engagement of the scope of practice is
dependent of education, experience, role and the served population
What is a nursing standard? - CORRECT ANSWER - authoratative statement of the
duties that all registered nurses (regardless or role, pop., or specialty) are expected to perform by
When are standards subject to change? - CORRECT ANSWER - depends on context:
patterns of professional practice change and application of standards at a given time (i.e. natural
disaster)
Are the standards ever reviewed? - CORRECT ANSWER - Yes they are subject to
periodic review and revision
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is the definition of nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER - protection, promotion and
optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering
through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, communities and populations.
what s the ANA responsible for? - CORRECT ANSWER - developing scope and
standards of practice that apple to the practice of all professional nurses, and serve as a template
for specialty practice
What is true of the development for the Scope and Standards of nursing practice? - CORRECT
ANSWER - They require broad input into their development beyond the ANA
What is a scope of practice statement? - CORRECT ANSWER - It describes the who,
what, where, when why and how of nursing practice, to accomodate evolving boundaries and
memberships
What is true of the breadth of the nursing practice? - CORRECT ANSWER - it
encompasses the full range of nursing practice, and the engagement of the scope of practice is
dependent of education, experience, role and the served population
What is a nursing standard? - CORRECT ANSWER - authoratative statement of the
duties that all registered nurses (regardless or role, pop., or specialty) are expected to perform by
When are standards subject to change? - CORRECT ANSWER - depends on context:
patterns of professional practice change and application of standards at a given time (i.e. natural
disaster)
Are the standards ever reviewed? - CORRECT ANSWER - Yes they are subject to
periodic review and revision
