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Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession (5th Edition), DeNisco, Comprehensive Test Bank with Rationales

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This document provides a complete test bank for Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession (5th Edition) by Susan M. DeNisco, covering Chapters 1–30 in full. It includes exam-style multiple-choice questions with accurate answers and detailed rationales addressing advanced practice roles, DNP education, nurse practitioner development, leadership, healthcare systems, interprofessional collaboration, and clinical decision-making.

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TEST BANK for Advanced Practice
Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the
Profession 5th Edition by Susan M.
DeNisco
COMPLETE CHAPTERS 1-30 WITH RATIONALES| A+ GRADED




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Chapter1 Introduction to the Role of Advanced Practices Nursing

Multiple Choice

1. In which year did the American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) introduced the Doctorate
of Nursing Practice (DNP)?

a. 2006

b. 2004

c. 2000

d. 2002

ACCURATE ANSWER: B

AACN introduced the DNP degree in 2004 to prepare advanced practice nurses (APRNs) to meet
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challenges and standardize practice beyond master’s degree programs.
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2. Which of the following is the best explanation for the creation of the Doctorate of Nursing Practice
(DNP) degree?
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a. To compete against master’s degree programs
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b. To ensure standardized curriculum ensuring independent practice

c. To validate APRN’s for financial reimbursement
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Although all answers are influenced by the DNP core competencies, the DNP program creation in 2004
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3. Which of the following was the first recognized area of advanced practice nursing?
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d. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists

ACCURATE ANSWER: D
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In 1931, the National Association of Nurse Anesthetists (NANA), renamed in 1939 to the American
Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) was the first recognized group promoting advanced nursing
practice. Agatha Hodgins founded the AANM at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.



4. Which factor is broadly perceived to solidify and standardize the role of the APNs over the last 25
years?

a. Lack of access to health care providers

b. Standardized curriculum development

c. Payment for services

d. Societal forces

ACCURATE ANSWER: B
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As the evolution of Advanced Practice Nursing advances specific specialties and needs are identified.
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5. During the formation of early APN roles in anesthesia, which of the following increased demand for
access to health care?
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b. War
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c. Rural access to care
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d. Availability of training

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physicians were inadequate. The earliest records date back to the American Civil War with the
administration of chloroform. During World War I in 1917 more than 1000 nurses, some trained
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anesthetists, traveled into battle. Other factors such as need for rural health care came later in the
validation and need for APNs.
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6. In 1889, Dr. William Worrall Mayo built and opened St. Mary’s hospital in Rochester, NY. He is
known for some of the earliest recruitment and specialized training of nurses in which of the following
roles?

a. Pediatrics

b. Anesthesia

c. Obstetrics

d. Research and statistics

e. Family nursing



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In 1889, Dr. William Worrall Mayo began formally training and recognizing nurse anesthetists. This has
been regarded as the earliest training in nurse-provided anesthesia.
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7. In 1893, Lillian Wald established the Henry Street Settlement (HSS) House for which purpose?

a. Access to health care of rural areas
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c. Provide the disadvantaged access to care
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d. Establish guidelines for advanced nursing roles
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The HHS was established to provide nursing services to immigrants and low-income patients and their
families in Manhattan. As resistance to nurse-provided care grew, standing orders were drafted from a
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group of Lower East Side physicians thereby circumventing then-existing legal ramifications.
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8. The Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) founded in Kentucky in 1925 by Mary Breckenridge initially
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provided Appalachia with nursing resources and which type of advanced nursing care?
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c. Midwifery

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