PRIMARY CARE ART AND SCIENCE OF
ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE
●● Nursing Requires
Answer: -Current knowledge and practice standards
-Insightful and compassionate approach
-Critical thinking
●● Benner's stages of nursing proficiency
Answer: 1. Novice=beginning nursing student or entry level
2. Advanced Beginner=some experience
3. Competent=deep understanding of situations
4. Proficient=more than 2-3 years experience
5. Expert=5 years or greater of diverse experience
●● American Nurses Association (ANA) definition of nursing
Answer: illustrates the consistent commitment of nurses to provide care
that promotes the well-being of their patients and communities
,●● International Council of Nurses (ICN)
Answer: promoting national associations of nurses, improving standards
of nursing practice, seeking a higher status for nurses, and providing an
international power base for nurses. Nursing includes the promotion of
health; prevention of illness; and care of ill, disabled, and dying people.
●● Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice
Answer: 1960: Documentation began
Standards of Practice
Standards of Professional Performance
Code of ethics- statement of philosophical ideals of right and wrong that
define the principles you will use to provide care to your patients.
●● Nursing professional responsibilities and roles
Answer: *Autonomy & Accountability = essential element of
professional nursing that involves the initiation of independent nursing
interventions with medical orders.
*Caregiver= help patients maintain and regain health
*Advocate= protect patient's rights
*Educator= explain concepts and facts about health, describe reason for
a routine, demonstrate procedures such as self care activities, evaluate
patient's progress in learning
*Communicator= know your patients, including their preferences,
strengths, weakness and needs. You communicate with the pt's family
and other depts in hospital
, *Manager= coordinate activities of members of nursing staff in
delivering nursing care and personnel policy, and budgetary
responsibility.
●● Career Development
Answer: *Provider of Care
*Advanced Practice RN (APRN)= most independent functioning nurse,
requires masters degree or doctor of nursing practice
*Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)= an APRN who is an expert clinician
in a specialized are of practice
*Nurse Practitioner (NP)= an APRN who provides comprehensive
health care to a group of pts
*Certified Nurse Midwife= An APRN who is educated in midwifery
*Certified RN anesthesist= provides surgical anesthesia
*Nurse Educator= works primarily in schools of nursing, staff
development.
*Nurse Administrator= manages pt care & the delivery of specific
nursing services with a health agency
*Nurse Researcher= conducts evidence-based practice & researcher to
improve nurse care
●● Nursing Shortage
Answer: Correlation between direct care provided by an RN and:
-positive pt outcomes
ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE
●● Nursing Requires
Answer: -Current knowledge and practice standards
-Insightful and compassionate approach
-Critical thinking
●● Benner's stages of nursing proficiency
Answer: 1. Novice=beginning nursing student or entry level
2. Advanced Beginner=some experience
3. Competent=deep understanding of situations
4. Proficient=more than 2-3 years experience
5. Expert=5 years or greater of diverse experience
●● American Nurses Association (ANA) definition of nursing
Answer: illustrates the consistent commitment of nurses to provide care
that promotes the well-being of their patients and communities
,●● International Council of Nurses (ICN)
Answer: promoting national associations of nurses, improving standards
of nursing practice, seeking a higher status for nurses, and providing an
international power base for nurses. Nursing includes the promotion of
health; prevention of illness; and care of ill, disabled, and dying people.
●● Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice
Answer: 1960: Documentation began
Standards of Practice
Standards of Professional Performance
Code of ethics- statement of philosophical ideals of right and wrong that
define the principles you will use to provide care to your patients.
●● Nursing professional responsibilities and roles
Answer: *Autonomy & Accountability = essential element of
professional nursing that involves the initiation of independent nursing
interventions with medical orders.
*Caregiver= help patients maintain and regain health
*Advocate= protect patient's rights
*Educator= explain concepts and facts about health, describe reason for
a routine, demonstrate procedures such as self care activities, evaluate
patient's progress in learning
*Communicator= know your patients, including their preferences,
strengths, weakness and needs. You communicate with the pt's family
and other depts in hospital
, *Manager= coordinate activities of members of nursing staff in
delivering nursing care and personnel policy, and budgetary
responsibility.
●● Career Development
Answer: *Provider of Care
*Advanced Practice RN (APRN)= most independent functioning nurse,
requires masters degree or doctor of nursing practice
*Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)= an APRN who is an expert clinician
in a specialized are of practice
*Nurse Practitioner (NP)= an APRN who provides comprehensive
health care to a group of pts
*Certified Nurse Midwife= An APRN who is educated in midwifery
*Certified RN anesthesist= provides surgical anesthesia
*Nurse Educator= works primarily in schools of nursing, staff
development.
*Nurse Administrator= manages pt care & the delivery of specific
nursing services with a health agency
*Nurse Researcher= conducts evidence-based practice & researcher to
improve nurse care
●● Nursing Shortage
Answer: Correlation between direct care provided by an RN and:
-positive pt outcomes
