To meet Medicare's coverage requirements, the Nurse Practitioner's services must be: - Answer:
Provided subject to state restrictions and supervision requirements
Which organization allows the use of the "BC" credential? - Answer: American Nurses
Credentialing Center (ANCC)
The Consensus Model for Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Regulations addresses which four
areas? - Answer: SRPP Specialty areas
Roles and titles to be used
Population foci
Preparation for emerging APRN roles
Utilizing Johnson's Behavioral systems model (JBSM), the APN discovers that a patient is not
sure who he can depend on because his wife is emotionally distant. This data would be
characteristic of which subsystem of the JBSM. - Answer: Dependency subsystem
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, "A purposeful, complex, dynamic, collaborative, and holistic interpersonal process aimed at
supporting and facilitating patients and families through health-related experiences and
transitions to achieve health-related goals (mutually determined when possible)" defines which
APN role? - Answer: Coach
(intervention, rather than a noun)
A 60 year old female with a history of emphysema presents to the primary care office with
complaints of cough and shortness of breath at rest. During the physical exam, the nurse
practitioner recognizes clubbing, barrel chest, and prolonged expiration. The nurse practitioner
understands that the patient is exhibiting symptoms resulting from which type of pulmonary
disease process? - Answer: Obstructive
Which of the following statements accurately defines Hamric's conceptual definition of
advanced practice nursing? - Answer: The patient-focused application of an expanded range of
competencies to improve health outcomes for patients and populations within a specialized
clinical area of the larger discipline of nursing.
Which of the following three complications are associated with chronic hepatitis B? - Answer:
Continued infectivity
Uncompensated cirrhosis
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
The central competency, direct clinical practice, is characterized by which three of the
following? - Answer: Expert clinical performance
Formation of a therapeutic partnership with patients
Holistic approach
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