NURSE COACHING BOARD 2026 CLINICAL
LEADERSHIP AND PATIENT GUIDANCE TEST
SCRIPT COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
◉ Elisabeth Barrett.
Answer: Knowing Participation in Change Theory. Power as
knowing. Being aware of what one is choosing to do. A person's or
groups Power Profile (not static). Power is inherently value free.
◉ Helen Erickson.
Answer: Theory of Modeling and Role Modeling. 5 aims: 1. Build
trust. 2. Promote positive orientation. 3. Promote perceived control.
4. Promote strength. 5. Set mutual goals that are healthy oriented.
Demands interpersonal and interactive relationship. Interacting
subsystems with inherent generic best and spiritual drive. Whole is
greater than the sum of it's parts.
◉ Margaret Newman.
Answer: Health as Expanding Consciousness Theory. Pattern of
person's environment. Consciousness is everywhere. A person is
consciousness. No basis for rejecting any experience as irrelevant.
Varying degrees of organization and disorganization. Both will grow
and become healthier in the sense of higher levels of consciousness.
,◉ Barbara Dossey.
Answer: Theory of Integral Nursing. 4 perspectives. 1. individual
interior. 2. individual exterior. 3. collective interior. 4. collective
exterior. Healing is core concept. "the innate natural phenomenon
that comes from within a person and describes the indivisible
wholeness and the interconnectedness of all people and all things.";
◉ Transtheoretical Model of Change.
Answer: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action,
maintenance. Prochaska.
◉ Sense of Coherence Theory.
Answer: Salutogenesis. Antonovsky. What makes a person move
towards health. Sense that internal and external environments are
predictable and can be explained. 3 components: comprehensibility,
manageability, and meaningfulness. This influences the motivation
to engage in self management.
◉ Complexity Science.
Answer: Knowledge and understanding that transcend linear
systems to include a multifaceted world view. Complex adaptive
systems. All is connected. Neither end nor begins. Moves as a dance.
Adaptive. A way to understand organizations and communities.
, ◉ Reflective Practice.
Answer: New insights through self awareness. Critical reflection.
Open to different viewpoint. Being without judgement. Transcends
the rational and integrates all knowing.
◉ Fawcett.
Answer: Metaparadigm in nurse theory-nurse, person, health,
environment.
◉ Carper.
Answer: 4 ways of knowing-personal, empirics, ethics, aesthetics.
◉ Richard Cowling.
Answer: Unitary Knowing in Nursing Practice. Offers a model of
practice.
◉ Madeleine Leininger.
Answer: Theory of Transcultural Nursing. Strong cultural
anthropologic framework. Conduct a holistic culturalological
assessment. Care is dominant force of nursing.
◉ Florince Nightingale.
Answer: 1820-1920. Founder of modern nursing. Environmental
Theory.
LEADERSHIP AND PATIENT GUIDANCE TEST
SCRIPT COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
◉ Elisabeth Barrett.
Answer: Knowing Participation in Change Theory. Power as
knowing. Being aware of what one is choosing to do. A person's or
groups Power Profile (not static). Power is inherently value free.
◉ Helen Erickson.
Answer: Theory of Modeling and Role Modeling. 5 aims: 1. Build
trust. 2. Promote positive orientation. 3. Promote perceived control.
4. Promote strength. 5. Set mutual goals that are healthy oriented.
Demands interpersonal and interactive relationship. Interacting
subsystems with inherent generic best and spiritual drive. Whole is
greater than the sum of it's parts.
◉ Margaret Newman.
Answer: Health as Expanding Consciousness Theory. Pattern of
person's environment. Consciousness is everywhere. A person is
consciousness. No basis for rejecting any experience as irrelevant.
Varying degrees of organization and disorganization. Both will grow
and become healthier in the sense of higher levels of consciousness.
,◉ Barbara Dossey.
Answer: Theory of Integral Nursing. 4 perspectives. 1. individual
interior. 2. individual exterior. 3. collective interior. 4. collective
exterior. Healing is core concept. "the innate natural phenomenon
that comes from within a person and describes the indivisible
wholeness and the interconnectedness of all people and all things.";
◉ Transtheoretical Model of Change.
Answer: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action,
maintenance. Prochaska.
◉ Sense of Coherence Theory.
Answer: Salutogenesis. Antonovsky. What makes a person move
towards health. Sense that internal and external environments are
predictable and can be explained. 3 components: comprehensibility,
manageability, and meaningfulness. This influences the motivation
to engage in self management.
◉ Complexity Science.
Answer: Knowledge and understanding that transcend linear
systems to include a multifaceted world view. Complex adaptive
systems. All is connected. Neither end nor begins. Moves as a dance.
Adaptive. A way to understand organizations and communities.
, ◉ Reflective Practice.
Answer: New insights through self awareness. Critical reflection.
Open to different viewpoint. Being without judgement. Transcends
the rational and integrates all knowing.
◉ Fawcett.
Answer: Metaparadigm in nurse theory-nurse, person, health,
environment.
◉ Carper.
Answer: 4 ways of knowing-personal, empirics, ethics, aesthetics.
◉ Richard Cowling.
Answer: Unitary Knowing in Nursing Practice. Offers a model of
practice.
◉ Madeleine Leininger.
Answer: Theory of Transcultural Nursing. Strong cultural
anthropologic framework. Conduct a holistic culturalological
assessment. Care is dominant force of nursing.
◉ Florince Nightingale.
Answer: 1820-1920. Founder of modern nursing. Environmental
Theory.
