CONTEMPORARY NURSING ACTUAL EXAM
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What were the 2010 recommendations for all health profession education? -
✔✔patient-centered, interdisciplinary, evidence-based, use of information sciences,
quality and safety
✔✔What were the key messages of IOM report? - ✔✔Nurses practice to the full extent
of their education, achieve higher levels of education through an improved education
system, full partners w physicians and other HC professionals, & effective workforce
planning and policy making require better data collection
✔✔What were some key recommendations of IOM report? - ✔✔remove scope of
practice barriers, implement nurse residency programs, increase # of nurses w BSN to
80%, double number of nurses with Ph.D, ensure nurses engage in life-long learning
✔✔Who published a list of criteria that are characteristic of all true professions and that
has stood the test of time? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the code of ethics? - ✔✔public document reminding nurses and the public of
nurses' obligations and responsibilities to patients and others
, ✔✔What are some barriers to professionalism in Nursing? - ✔✔varying levels of
preparatory education, gender issues, historical influences
✔✔Which one of nursing leader Dr. Lucie Kelly's characteristics of a profession is
described as an organization that encourages and supports high standards of practice?
- ✔✔association
✔✔What are the three consistent criteria? - ✔✔service/altruism, specialized knowledge,
autonomy/ethics
✔✔What is a profession? - ✔✔a calling, vocation providing needed service to society
involving expertise, autonomy, long academic preparation, commitment, and
responsibility
✔✔Which document provide a framework for nurses to understand the nursing
profession's relationship to the wider society? - ✔✔Nursing's Social Policy Statement:
The essence of the Profession (ANA, 2010)
✔✔What are Kelly's 8 Criteria? - ✔✔Caring, evidence-based, accountability, cognitive,
autonomy, altruism, code of ethics, association
✔✔In the early days of diploma and hospital-based nursing programs, what was one of
their primary contribution for women in society? - ✔✔To provide an avenue for formal
education and jobs
✔✔What is the most common type of basic nursing education program in the US and
graduates the most RN candidates of all basic programs? - ✔✔Associates Degree of
Nursing
✔✔The inability of nursing programs to produce enough nurses to meet society's need
is a result of what? - ✔✔The lack of capacity in nursing schools and faculty shortages
✔✔What are the three options for a nursing education? - ✔✔Diploma program, BSN,
ADN
✔✔Why are diploma programs not accepted at colleges and universities? - ✔✔can
achieve college credit for
✔✔How long is a diploma program? - ✔✔2-3 years
✔✔What do diploma program students do? - ✔✔Graduates prepared as staff nurses in
acute, long term, and ambulatory care
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What were the 2010 recommendations for all health profession education? -
✔✔patient-centered, interdisciplinary, evidence-based, use of information sciences,
quality and safety
✔✔What were the key messages of IOM report? - ✔✔Nurses practice to the full extent
of their education, achieve higher levels of education through an improved education
system, full partners w physicians and other HC professionals, & effective workforce
planning and policy making require better data collection
✔✔What were some key recommendations of IOM report? - ✔✔remove scope of
practice barriers, implement nurse residency programs, increase # of nurses w BSN to
80%, double number of nurses with Ph.D, ensure nurses engage in life-long learning
✔✔Who published a list of criteria that are characteristic of all true professions and that
has stood the test of time? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the code of ethics? - ✔✔public document reminding nurses and the public of
nurses' obligations and responsibilities to patients and others
, ✔✔What are some barriers to professionalism in Nursing? - ✔✔varying levels of
preparatory education, gender issues, historical influences
✔✔Which one of nursing leader Dr. Lucie Kelly's characteristics of a profession is
described as an organization that encourages and supports high standards of practice?
- ✔✔association
✔✔What are the three consistent criteria? - ✔✔service/altruism, specialized knowledge,
autonomy/ethics
✔✔What is a profession? - ✔✔a calling, vocation providing needed service to society
involving expertise, autonomy, long academic preparation, commitment, and
responsibility
✔✔Which document provide a framework for nurses to understand the nursing
profession's relationship to the wider society? - ✔✔Nursing's Social Policy Statement:
The essence of the Profession (ANA, 2010)
✔✔What are Kelly's 8 Criteria? - ✔✔Caring, evidence-based, accountability, cognitive,
autonomy, altruism, code of ethics, association
✔✔In the early days of diploma and hospital-based nursing programs, what was one of
their primary contribution for women in society? - ✔✔To provide an avenue for formal
education and jobs
✔✔What is the most common type of basic nursing education program in the US and
graduates the most RN candidates of all basic programs? - ✔✔Associates Degree of
Nursing
✔✔The inability of nursing programs to produce enough nurses to meet society's need
is a result of what? - ✔✔The lack of capacity in nursing schools and faculty shortages
✔✔What are the three options for a nursing education? - ✔✔Diploma program, BSN,
ADN
✔✔Why are diploma programs not accepted at colleges and universities? - ✔✔can
achieve college credit for
✔✔How long is a diploma program? - ✔✔2-3 years
✔✔What do diploma program students do? - ✔✔Graduates prepared as staff nurses in
acute, long term, and ambulatory care
