N112 EXAM 1 2026/2027 – STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS, EXAM REVIEW
& TEST PREP
What nursing role is when a nurse meets physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultural, and spiritual
needs? - ANS ✔✔Caregiver
What is the primary tole of a nurse? - ANS ✔✔Caregiver
What nursing role is the use of effective interpersonal and therapeutic communication skills to maintain
a relationship with patients? - ANS ✔✔Communicator
What nursing role is involved in all other roles? - ANS ✔✔Communicator
What nursing role is when a nurse uses communication skills to assess, implement, and evaluate
individualized teaching plans to meet learning needs? - ANS ✔✔Teacher/Education
What nursing role is when therapeutic interpersonal communication skills are used to make appropriate
referrals and facilitate problem-solving and decision-making skills? - ANS ✔✔Counselor
What nursing role is when a nurse is assertive when providing care and leading change of care? - ANS
✔✔Leader
What nursing role is when a nurse participates in or conducts research to increase knowledge in nursing?
- ANS ✔✔Researcher
What nursing role is when a nurse provides education so the patient can make an informed decision? -
ANS ✔✔Advocate
What nursing role is when an organization, communication, and advocacy to facilitate the functions of all
members of the health care team? - ANS ✔✔Collaborator
Promoting health, prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping with disability or death are what?
- ANS ✔✔The Nursing Aims
Cognitive competencies, technical competencies, interpersonal competencies, and ethical/legal
competencies are what? - ANS ✔✔The Nursing Blended Competencies
Understanding the scientific rationale for care plans, selecting nursing interventions, and using clinical
reasoning is an example of which blended competency? - ANS ✔✔Cognitive Competency
The use of technical equipment and creatively adapting equipment and technical procedures to the
needs of particular patients is an example of which blended competency? - ANS ✔✔Technical
Competency
, The use of looks, speech, and touch, skilled use of presence and conversation to demonstrate empathy,
responsible, competent attentiveness to the holistic needs of patients are examples of which blended
competency? - ANS ✔✔Interpersonal Competency
Advancing the interests of the patient, accountable for practice to self, serve as effective patient
advocates, and using legal safeguards to reduce the risk of litigation are examples of which blended
competency? - ANS ✔✔Ethical/Legal Competencies
What does QSEN stand for? - ANS ✔✔Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
How many QSEN competencies are there? - ANS ✔✔6
Which QSEN competency is recognizing the patient as the source of control and full partner in providing
compassionate and coordinated care? - ANS ✔✔Patient-Centered Care
Patient-centered care, teamwork, and collaboration, quality improvement, safety, evidence-based
practice, and informatics are all examples of what? - ANS ✔✔QSEN competencies
Which QSEN competency is functioning effectively within teams, fostering open communication, and
mutual respect? - ANS ✔✔Teamwork and Collaboration
Which QSEN competency is integrating the best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient
preferences and values for delivery of optimal healthcare? - ANS ✔✔Evidence-Based Practice
Which QSEN competency is using data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement
methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care
systems? - ANS ✔✔Quality Improvement
What external standard service requires a quality improvement department? - ANS ✔✔The Joint
Commission
Which QSEN competency is the minimization of risk of harm to patients through both system
effectiveness and individual performance? - ANS ✔✔Safety
Which QSEN competency is using IT to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support
decision making? - ANS ✔✔Informatics
What qualities describe nursing as a professional discipline? - ANS ✔✔Well-defined knowledge, service
oriented, recognized authority, code of ethics, professional standards, ongoing research, and autonomy
What is the name of the important international nursing organization? - ANS ✔✔International Council of
Nursing
What contribution has the international council of nursing made to nursing? - ANS ✔✔Code of ethics
What is the purpose of the American Nurses Association? - ANS ✔✔Provide changes in the profession
and advancements in nursing
& TEST PREP
What nursing role is when a nurse meets physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultural, and spiritual
needs? - ANS ✔✔Caregiver
What is the primary tole of a nurse? - ANS ✔✔Caregiver
What nursing role is the use of effective interpersonal and therapeutic communication skills to maintain
a relationship with patients? - ANS ✔✔Communicator
What nursing role is involved in all other roles? - ANS ✔✔Communicator
What nursing role is when a nurse uses communication skills to assess, implement, and evaluate
individualized teaching plans to meet learning needs? - ANS ✔✔Teacher/Education
What nursing role is when therapeutic interpersonal communication skills are used to make appropriate
referrals and facilitate problem-solving and decision-making skills? - ANS ✔✔Counselor
What nursing role is when a nurse is assertive when providing care and leading change of care? - ANS
✔✔Leader
What nursing role is when a nurse participates in or conducts research to increase knowledge in nursing?
- ANS ✔✔Researcher
What nursing role is when a nurse provides education so the patient can make an informed decision? -
ANS ✔✔Advocate
What nursing role is when an organization, communication, and advocacy to facilitate the functions of all
members of the health care team? - ANS ✔✔Collaborator
Promoting health, prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping with disability or death are what?
- ANS ✔✔The Nursing Aims
Cognitive competencies, technical competencies, interpersonal competencies, and ethical/legal
competencies are what? - ANS ✔✔The Nursing Blended Competencies
Understanding the scientific rationale for care plans, selecting nursing interventions, and using clinical
reasoning is an example of which blended competency? - ANS ✔✔Cognitive Competency
The use of technical equipment and creatively adapting equipment and technical procedures to the
needs of particular patients is an example of which blended competency? - ANS ✔✔Technical
Competency
, The use of looks, speech, and touch, skilled use of presence and conversation to demonstrate empathy,
responsible, competent attentiveness to the holistic needs of patients are examples of which blended
competency? - ANS ✔✔Interpersonal Competency
Advancing the interests of the patient, accountable for practice to self, serve as effective patient
advocates, and using legal safeguards to reduce the risk of litigation are examples of which blended
competency? - ANS ✔✔Ethical/Legal Competencies
What does QSEN stand for? - ANS ✔✔Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
How many QSEN competencies are there? - ANS ✔✔6
Which QSEN competency is recognizing the patient as the source of control and full partner in providing
compassionate and coordinated care? - ANS ✔✔Patient-Centered Care
Patient-centered care, teamwork, and collaboration, quality improvement, safety, evidence-based
practice, and informatics are all examples of what? - ANS ✔✔QSEN competencies
Which QSEN competency is functioning effectively within teams, fostering open communication, and
mutual respect? - ANS ✔✔Teamwork and Collaboration
Which QSEN competency is integrating the best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient
preferences and values for delivery of optimal healthcare? - ANS ✔✔Evidence-Based Practice
Which QSEN competency is using data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement
methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care
systems? - ANS ✔✔Quality Improvement
What external standard service requires a quality improvement department? - ANS ✔✔The Joint
Commission
Which QSEN competency is the minimization of risk of harm to patients through both system
effectiveness and individual performance? - ANS ✔✔Safety
Which QSEN competency is using IT to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support
decision making? - ANS ✔✔Informatics
What qualities describe nursing as a professional discipline? - ANS ✔✔Well-defined knowledge, service
oriented, recognized authority, code of ethics, professional standards, ongoing research, and autonomy
What is the name of the important international nursing organization? - ANS ✔✔International Council of
Nursing
What contribution has the international council of nursing made to nursing? - ANS ✔✔Code of ethics
What is the purpose of the American Nurses Association? - ANS ✔✔Provide changes in the profession
and advancements in nursing
