CONTEMPORARY NURSING PRACTICE EXAMS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What group of nurses were the first to become certified and concerned about
certification? - ✔✔Nurse anesthetists became the first nursing specialty to certify
practitioners in 1946
✔✔Who writes and passes the nursing practice acts? - ✔✔Legislators of each state
✔✔Why do we use certification? - ✔✔For standardization and organization
✔✔Nightingale as a theorist - ✔✔Environmental adaptation theory
Foundation for health promotion
Noise, variety, diet, light, chattering hopes and advices, cleanliness
✔✔Mishel's uncertainty or illness theory - ✔✔Uncertainty in illness is stress-producing
and can contribute to negative physical and/or psychological outcomes
Uncertainty exists when clients is unsure about a diagnosed illness
Four-step framework assists nurses in working with clients: stimuli frame, appraisal
stage, initiation of coping mechanisms, and adaptation
✔✔Martha Rogers theory - ✔✔Science of unitary human beings: energy fields,
openness, pattern, and organization
, Nurse promotes synchronicity between human beings and their universe or environment
✔✔Survey - ✔✔Used to collect large amounts of information with little expenditure of
time and money
✔✔Meta-analysis - ✔✔An advanced process by which research on a specific topic is
reviewed and findings of multiple studies are statistically analyzed and expressed
quantitatively
✔✔What organizations provide federal funding for research? - ✔✔Robert Wood
Johnson
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Helen Fuld Trust
✔✔Phenomenology - ✔✔Method used to study intangible experiences such as grief,
hope, or risk taking. It is designed to provide an understanding of the patient's "lived
experience"
✔✔Different kinds of qualitative research - ✔✔Phenomenology
Ethnograpy
Grounded theory
✔✔Case study - ✔✔Provides an in-depth analysis of a single subject, group, institution,
or social unit
✔✔Needs assessment - ✔✔Determines what is most beneficial to an aggregate group
✔✔Secondary analysis - ✔✔Involves asking new questions on data collected
previously. The data may have been generated from previous formal research or may
have been gathered through any previous systematic collection of data
✔✔Core practice competencies - ✔✔Critical thinking
Communication
Interprofessional collaboration
Assessment (most important)
Leadership
Technical skills
Develop skills student nurses actually need and have practice based outcomes
✔✔Continuing competence - ✔✔Skills review
Required hours of continuing education at conferences and classes
Clinical practice hours
Portfolios
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What group of nurses were the first to become certified and concerned about
certification? - ✔✔Nurse anesthetists became the first nursing specialty to certify
practitioners in 1946
✔✔Who writes and passes the nursing practice acts? - ✔✔Legislators of each state
✔✔Why do we use certification? - ✔✔For standardization and organization
✔✔Nightingale as a theorist - ✔✔Environmental adaptation theory
Foundation for health promotion
Noise, variety, diet, light, chattering hopes and advices, cleanliness
✔✔Mishel's uncertainty or illness theory - ✔✔Uncertainty in illness is stress-producing
and can contribute to negative physical and/or psychological outcomes
Uncertainty exists when clients is unsure about a diagnosed illness
Four-step framework assists nurses in working with clients: stimuli frame, appraisal
stage, initiation of coping mechanisms, and adaptation
✔✔Martha Rogers theory - ✔✔Science of unitary human beings: energy fields,
openness, pattern, and organization
, Nurse promotes synchronicity between human beings and their universe or environment
✔✔Survey - ✔✔Used to collect large amounts of information with little expenditure of
time and money
✔✔Meta-analysis - ✔✔An advanced process by which research on a specific topic is
reviewed and findings of multiple studies are statistically analyzed and expressed
quantitatively
✔✔What organizations provide federal funding for research? - ✔✔Robert Wood
Johnson
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Helen Fuld Trust
✔✔Phenomenology - ✔✔Method used to study intangible experiences such as grief,
hope, or risk taking. It is designed to provide an understanding of the patient's "lived
experience"
✔✔Different kinds of qualitative research - ✔✔Phenomenology
Ethnograpy
Grounded theory
✔✔Case study - ✔✔Provides an in-depth analysis of a single subject, group, institution,
or social unit
✔✔Needs assessment - ✔✔Determines what is most beneficial to an aggregate group
✔✔Secondary analysis - ✔✔Involves asking new questions on data collected
previously. The data may have been generated from previous formal research or may
have been gathered through any previous systematic collection of data
✔✔Core practice competencies - ✔✔Critical thinking
Communication
Interprofessional collaboration
Assessment (most important)
Leadership
Technical skills
Develop skills student nurses actually need and have practice based outcomes
✔✔Continuing competence - ✔✔Skills review
Required hours of continuing education at conferences and classes
Clinical practice hours
Portfolios
