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This Updated/Latest 2025–2026 test bank for Journey Across the Life Span: Human Development and Health Promotion, 6th Edition by Deborah B. Polan and Kathleen T. Taylor is a comprehensive educational resource designed to help nursing and allied health students understand human growth, development, and health promotion across the lifespan. Covering all chapters, this resource includes chapter-by-chapter practice questions, detailed answer rationales, critical-thinking exercises, application-based case studies, and exam-style assessments that reinforce developmental theories and evidence-based nursing care. Topics include genetics, conception, prenatal development, infancy, toddlerhood, preschool and school-age development, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, older adulthood, aging, family dynamics, psychosocial development, cognitive development, nutrition, safety, health promotion, disease prevention, cultural influences, and age-specific nursing interventions. This study resource supports classroom learning, examination preparation, self-assessment, and clinical decision-making while strengthening the knowledge and skills required to provide holistic, lifespan-focused care. It is an ideal companion for nursing and allied health students preparing for academic success and professional practice throughout 2025–2026.

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Hamric and Hanson's Advanced Practice Nursing 6th Edition by
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1. In which year did the American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) introduced the
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Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP)?
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a. 2006
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The AACN introduced the DNP degree in 2004 to prepare advanced practice nurses (APRNs) to
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meet 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
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Practice (DNP) degree?
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d. To address increasing curriculum requirements of master’s degree programs
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Although all answers are influenced by the DNP core competencies, the DNP program creation in
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2004 by the AACN was designed to address curriculum requirements of master’s degree
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programs.
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3. Which of the following was the first recognized area of advanced practice nursing?
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In 1931, the National Association of Nurse Anesthetists (NANA), renamed in 1939 to the
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American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) was the first recognized group
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promoting advanced nursing practice. Agatha Hodgins founded the AANM at Lakeside
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Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
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4. Which factor is broadly perceived to solidify and standardize the role of the APNs over the last
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As the evolution of Advanced Practice Nursing advances specific specialties and needs are
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identified. Through the evolution of organization and standardization these roles have
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solidified the APN’s role in today’s health care environment.
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5. During the formation of early APN roles in anesthesia, which of the following increased
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demand for access to health care?
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Earliest demand for nursing-provided anesthesia spiked during periods of war when numbers
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of physicians were inadequate. The earliest records date back to the American Civil War with
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the administration of chloroform. During World War I in 1917 more than 1000 nurses, some
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trained anesthetists, traveled into battle. Other factors such as need for rural health care came
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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.
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He is known for some of the earliest recruitment and specialized training of nurses in
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which of the following roles?
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a. Pediatrics
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In 1889, Dr. William Worrall Mayo began formally training and recognizing nurse anesthetists.
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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?
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The HHS was established to provide nursing services to immigrants and low-income patients
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and their families in Manhattan. As resistance to nurse-provided care grew, standing orders
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were drafted from a group of Lower East Side physicians thereby circumventing then-existing
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legal ramifications.
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8. The Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) founded in Kentucky in 1925 by Mary
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Breckenridge initially provided Appalachia with nursing resources and which type of
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The original FNS provided nursing services and obstetric services to Appalachian residents.
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treated patients, made diagnoses, and dispensed medications.
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Breckenridge in 1941 to provide nurse-midwife development and collaboration for midwife
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10. In a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court as a result of Chalmers-Frances v. Nelson, 1936,
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what legal precedent was established?
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