AACN DOMAINS FOR NURSING with
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Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice - CORRECT ANSWERS-integration,
translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge
and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a
foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice
of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in
nursing practice.
Contextual Statement: Knowledge of Nursing Practice provides the context for
understanding nursing as a scientific discipline. The lens of nursing, informed by nursing
history, knowledge, and science, reflects nursing's desire to incorporate multiple
perspectives into nursing practice, leading to nursing's unique way of knowing and
caring.
Domain 2: Person-Centered Care - CORRECT ANSWERS-Person-centered care
focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or
important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful,
compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate.
Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing
practice regardless of specialty or functional area.
Contextual Statement: Person-centered care is the core purpose of nursing as a
discipline. This purpose intertwines with any functional area of nursing practice, from the
point of care where the hands of those that give and receive care meet, to the point of
systems-level nursing leadership.
Domain 3: Population Health - CORRECT ANSWERS-Population health spans the
healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of
populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-
traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia,
health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable
population health outcomes
Contextual Statement:
-Nurses play a critical role in advocating for, developing, and implementing policies that
impact population health globally and locally. In addition, nurses respond to crises and
correct answers
Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice - CORRECT ANSWERS-integration,
translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge
and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a
foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice
of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in
nursing practice.
Contextual Statement: Knowledge of Nursing Practice provides the context for
understanding nursing as a scientific discipline. The lens of nursing, informed by nursing
history, knowledge, and science, reflects nursing's desire to incorporate multiple
perspectives into nursing practice, leading to nursing's unique way of knowing and
caring.
Domain 2: Person-Centered Care - CORRECT ANSWERS-Person-centered care
focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or
important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful,
compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate.
Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing
practice regardless of specialty or functional area.
Contextual Statement: Person-centered care is the core purpose of nursing as a
discipline. This purpose intertwines with any functional area of nursing practice, from the
point of care where the hands of those that give and receive care meet, to the point of
systems-level nursing leadership.
Domain 3: Population Health - CORRECT ANSWERS-Population health spans the
healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of
populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-
traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia,
health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable
population health outcomes
Contextual Statement:
-Nurses play a critical role in advocating for, developing, and implementing policies that
impact population health globally and locally. In addition, nurses respond to crises and
