NSG 1400 BECOMING A NURSE 2026/2027 | STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
Florence Nightengale - ANS ✔✔Mother of modern nursing, Improved conditions during the Crimean
War. Believed the role of the nurse was to put the client's body in the best state to remain free of disease
or to recover from disease. She wanted to facilitate the body's reparative processes by manipulating the
client's environment.
Mary Agnes Snively - ANS ✔✔Director of the nursing school at Toronto General Hospital and one of the
founders of the Canadian Nurses Association
Carper's Way of Knowing - ANS ✔✔Empirical, Personal, Ethical & Aesthetic
Empirical - ANS ✔✔factual, from basic and human science
Personal - ANS ✔✔through reflection and reflective practice; empathy
Ethical - ANS ✔✔what is right and ought to be done; moral compass
Aesthetic - ANS ✔✔caring, relational, bein with the other; enables a profound understanding
CNA - ANS ✔✔Canadian Nurses Association
Professional issues, health policy and advocacy. Lead regulation of the public interest, Not for Profit
CASN - ANS ✔✔Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing
Offers legal advice and support, risk management, professional liability protection
CARNA - ANS ✔✔College & Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta
Serve to protect the public by regulating the profession
HPA - ANS ✔✔Health Practitioner's Association
Health Profession's Act - ANS ✔✔- lays out scope of practice for all health care professionals
- how your profession is governed
- registration
- continuing competence
Professional College - ANS ✔✔govern and regulate the practice of their members in order to protect and
serve public interest
Standard's of Practice - ANS ✔✔direct how services should be provided (professionalism)
Scope of Practice - ANS ✔✔focus on direct care of clients, knowledge, and application, interventions that
nurses are authorized, educated, supported by employer policy and competent to perform.
4 Domains of Scope of Practice (CARE) - ANS ✔✔Clinical, Administration, Education, Research
, Continuing Competence - ANS ✔✔practice reflection, professional development and competence
assessment
Jurisprudence - ANS ✔✔the law as it relates to the practice of nursing.
Regulatory Body - ANS ✔✔Oversight and establishment of roles, education, entry into profession, scope
of practice, standards of practice, complaints, discipline.
CARNA logo - ANS ✔✔logo embodies collaborative, dual mandate and organization
9 Entry Level Competencies (ELC) - ANS ✔✔Clinician, Professional, Communicator, Collaborator,
Coordinator, Leader, Advocator, Educator, Scholar
Nursing Practice Standards - ANS ✔✔1. Responsibility & Accountability
2. Knowledge
3. Ethical Practice
4. Provision of Service to public
5. Self Regulation
Fitness to Practice - ANS ✔✔the ability of the nurse to engage/physical and mental ability
Hospital Schools - ANS ✔✔- students PROVIDED NURSING CARE in exchange for education and costs of
living
- Financial benefit to the hospital
- Poor living conditions for students
- Education of questionable quality
St. Catherine's Training School - ANS ✔✔1st Nursing Diploma School
Mary Agnes Snively - ANS ✔✔Formed CNA of trained nurses, formally CNA in 1924
Also founded ICN
1st Uni Nursing Program in Canada - ANS ✔✔UBC
Metaparadigm of Nursing - ANS ✔✔person, environment, health, nursing
Requirements of Individual Self-Regulation - ANS ✔✔understand your capacities, weaknesses, learning
needs, and fitness to practice needs
Nursing Process: ADPIE - ANS ✔✔Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Concept - ANS ✔✔An idea that represents some aspects of our experiences and our world. Ex: hunger,
shortness of breath, pain, love, grief
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
Florence Nightengale - ANS ✔✔Mother of modern nursing, Improved conditions during the Crimean
War. Believed the role of the nurse was to put the client's body in the best state to remain free of disease
or to recover from disease. She wanted to facilitate the body's reparative processes by manipulating the
client's environment.
Mary Agnes Snively - ANS ✔✔Director of the nursing school at Toronto General Hospital and one of the
founders of the Canadian Nurses Association
Carper's Way of Knowing - ANS ✔✔Empirical, Personal, Ethical & Aesthetic
Empirical - ANS ✔✔factual, from basic and human science
Personal - ANS ✔✔through reflection and reflective practice; empathy
Ethical - ANS ✔✔what is right and ought to be done; moral compass
Aesthetic - ANS ✔✔caring, relational, bein with the other; enables a profound understanding
CNA - ANS ✔✔Canadian Nurses Association
Professional issues, health policy and advocacy. Lead regulation of the public interest, Not for Profit
CASN - ANS ✔✔Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing
Offers legal advice and support, risk management, professional liability protection
CARNA - ANS ✔✔College & Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta
Serve to protect the public by regulating the profession
HPA - ANS ✔✔Health Practitioner's Association
Health Profession's Act - ANS ✔✔- lays out scope of practice for all health care professionals
- how your profession is governed
- registration
- continuing competence
Professional College - ANS ✔✔govern and regulate the practice of their members in order to protect and
serve public interest
Standard's of Practice - ANS ✔✔direct how services should be provided (professionalism)
Scope of Practice - ANS ✔✔focus on direct care of clients, knowledge, and application, interventions that
nurses are authorized, educated, supported by employer policy and competent to perform.
4 Domains of Scope of Practice (CARE) - ANS ✔✔Clinical, Administration, Education, Research
, Continuing Competence - ANS ✔✔practice reflection, professional development and competence
assessment
Jurisprudence - ANS ✔✔the law as it relates to the practice of nursing.
Regulatory Body - ANS ✔✔Oversight and establishment of roles, education, entry into profession, scope
of practice, standards of practice, complaints, discipline.
CARNA logo - ANS ✔✔logo embodies collaborative, dual mandate and organization
9 Entry Level Competencies (ELC) - ANS ✔✔Clinician, Professional, Communicator, Collaborator,
Coordinator, Leader, Advocator, Educator, Scholar
Nursing Practice Standards - ANS ✔✔1. Responsibility & Accountability
2. Knowledge
3. Ethical Practice
4. Provision of Service to public
5. Self Regulation
Fitness to Practice - ANS ✔✔the ability of the nurse to engage/physical and mental ability
Hospital Schools - ANS ✔✔- students PROVIDED NURSING CARE in exchange for education and costs of
living
- Financial benefit to the hospital
- Poor living conditions for students
- Education of questionable quality
St. Catherine's Training School - ANS ✔✔1st Nursing Diploma School
Mary Agnes Snively - ANS ✔✔Formed CNA of trained nurses, formally CNA in 1924
Also founded ICN
1st Uni Nursing Program in Canada - ANS ✔✔UBC
Metaparadigm of Nursing - ANS ✔✔person, environment, health, nursing
Requirements of Individual Self-Regulation - ANS ✔✔understand your capacities, weaknesses, learning
needs, and fitness to practice needs
Nursing Process: ADPIE - ANS ✔✔Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Concept - ANS ✔✔An idea that represents some aspects of our experiences and our world. Ex: hunger,
shortness of breath, pain, love, grief
