NURSE EXECUTIVE PRACTICE EXAMS WITH
CORRECT SOLUTIONS 2026/2027 /UPDATED
EXAMS
1. A patient has requested not to be intubated based on his increasingly poor
health and his previous experience on a ventilator. After he becomes
comatose, his daughter arrives from out of state and demands that her
father be intubated. The physician agrees to intubate in order to resolve the
conflict but decides to have an anesthesia intern do the intubation "for
practice." The nurse's first ethical obligation is to the: - ANSWER ✔️-Patient
2. A professional practice model is differentiated from a model of care delivery
by the following: - ANSWER ✔️-Clinical decision-making and
interdisciplinary communication are basic elements of a care delivery model.
3. An area of technology that is increasing access to health care by allowing
providers to treat patients remotely is: - ANSWER ✔️-Telehealth
4. As a nurse executive, you have been asked to seek approval to open five
additional NICU beds. Occupancy approval is a part of the licensing process
and rests with the: - ANSWER ✔️-State government
5. As the leader of the crisis management team responding to a serious issue
regarding contaminated implants placed in patients during surgery, the
nurse executive applies this essential approach to the main public trust. -
ANSWER ✔️-Truthful disclosure
6. Evidence of exemplary professional practice in a Magnet hospital would
include: - ANSWER ✔️-Self-scheduling
, 7. Federal regulations government the quality of care provided by healthcare
facilities are enforced by: - ANSWER ✔️-The Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services
8. If a nurse leaves a unit without adequate coverage or before relief arrives
and something untoward happens to a patient: - ANSWER ✔️-An
abandonment argument can be made.
9. In healthcare, when the term "customers" is used, it usually refers to clients
or patients and their families. However, a broader definition would be: -
ANSWER ✔️-Those whom we exist to serve
10. In the Code of Ethics for Nurses, one of the core ethical principals is: -
ANSWER ✔️-Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, and Justice.
11. In their classic work on managers and leaders, Bennis and Nanus
(1985,1987) asserted that managers and leaders differ in how they think and
act. Leaders focus on purposes, use strategy as common methodology, and
are challenged to "do the right things," while managers: - ANSWER ✔️-
Focus on structure and procedures, use schedules as common methodology,
and are challenged to "do things right."
12. Incident reports are a mechanism for formal reporting of critical events so
that organizations can focus on and improve patient safety. However,
nurses and physicians should not reference incident reports in notes or
orders in the patient record because: - ANSWER ✔️-It may alter protection
from discovery and alert the plaintiff's attorney to its existence
CORRECT SOLUTIONS 2026/2027 /UPDATED
EXAMS
1. A patient has requested not to be intubated based on his increasingly poor
health and his previous experience on a ventilator. After he becomes
comatose, his daughter arrives from out of state and demands that her
father be intubated. The physician agrees to intubate in order to resolve the
conflict but decides to have an anesthesia intern do the intubation "for
practice." The nurse's first ethical obligation is to the: - ANSWER ✔️-Patient
2. A professional practice model is differentiated from a model of care delivery
by the following: - ANSWER ✔️-Clinical decision-making and
interdisciplinary communication are basic elements of a care delivery model.
3. An area of technology that is increasing access to health care by allowing
providers to treat patients remotely is: - ANSWER ✔️-Telehealth
4. As a nurse executive, you have been asked to seek approval to open five
additional NICU beds. Occupancy approval is a part of the licensing process
and rests with the: - ANSWER ✔️-State government
5. As the leader of the crisis management team responding to a serious issue
regarding contaminated implants placed in patients during surgery, the
nurse executive applies this essential approach to the main public trust. -
ANSWER ✔️-Truthful disclosure
6. Evidence of exemplary professional practice in a Magnet hospital would
include: - ANSWER ✔️-Self-scheduling
, 7. Federal regulations government the quality of care provided by healthcare
facilities are enforced by: - ANSWER ✔️-The Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services
8. If a nurse leaves a unit without adequate coverage or before relief arrives
and something untoward happens to a patient: - ANSWER ✔️-An
abandonment argument can be made.
9. In healthcare, when the term "customers" is used, it usually refers to clients
or patients and their families. However, a broader definition would be: -
ANSWER ✔️-Those whom we exist to serve
10. In the Code of Ethics for Nurses, one of the core ethical principals is: -
ANSWER ✔️-Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, and Justice.
11. In their classic work on managers and leaders, Bennis and Nanus
(1985,1987) asserted that managers and leaders differ in how they think and
act. Leaders focus on purposes, use strategy as common methodology, and
are challenged to "do the right things," while managers: - ANSWER ✔️-
Focus on structure and procedures, use schedules as common methodology,
and are challenged to "do things right."
12. Incident reports are a mechanism for formal reporting of critical events so
that organizations can focus on and improve patient safety. However,
nurses and physicians should not reference incident reports in notes or
orders in the patient record because: - ANSWER ✔️-It may alter protection
from discovery and alert the plaintiff's attorney to its existence
