WHNP BOARDS (PROFESSIONAL
ISSUES) EXAM |GUARANTEED
ACCURATE ANSWERS
How often do you renew WHNP certification and through who? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - every 3 yrs
Through National Certification Corporation (NCC)
How can you renew WHNP certification? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Must be renewed through ONE of the following ways:
- Professional development certification maintenance program: take
NCC specialty assessment evaluation, which covers topics that reflect
major content areas tested on certification exam; results determine topics
and mount of continuing education required (15 - 50 hrs, including 5 hrs
for taking assessment)
- Complete 50 continuing education hours covering all core certification
knowledge competency areas
- Retake the certification examination
,What is Integrated primary care? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
comprehensive, coordinated care, focused on particular needs of patient,
clinician continuity, patient record continuity, effective communication
of information
What is Accessible primary care? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
eliminiation of geographic, cultural, language, reimbursement barriers to
care
What is Accountable primary care? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
clinician and system accountability for services provided
What is majority of personal healthcare needs for primary care? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - competency to manage most healthcare
needs, use consultation and referral as needed, sustained relationship
between clinician and patient over time
what is context of family and community for primary care? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - understanding of circumstances of the pt
that affect health and healthcare outcomes, awareness of community
health trends, use of specific health promotion/disease prevention
strategies within this context
What is the purpose of healthy people 2020? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - provide science-based, 10 yr national objectives for
improving the health of all Americans
,- establish benchmarks and monitor progress
4 overarching goals of Healthy People 2020 - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ 1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable
disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of
all groups.
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for
all.
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors
across all life stages.
What is the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - Launched by WHO and UNICEF in 1991
- Purpose: encourage and recognize birthing hospitals and centers that
offer an optimal level of care for infant feeding and mother-baby
bonding
Qualifications to receive Baby-Friendly designation? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - implementation of the Ten Steps to Successful
Breastfeeding
, - Compliance with the International Code on Marketing Breastmilk
Substitutes
Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
Have written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all
heatlhcare staff
- Train all staff in skills necessary to implement this policy
- inform all pregnant women about benefits and management of
breastfeeding
- help moms initiate breastfeeding within one hour of birth
- show mothers how to breastfeed and how to maintain lactation, even if
they are separated from infant
- give infants no food or drink other than breastmilk, unless medically
indicated
- practice rooming in: allow mothers and infants to remain together
24hrs/day
- encourage breastfeeding on demand
ISSUES) EXAM |GUARANTEED
ACCURATE ANSWERS
How often do you renew WHNP certification and through who? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - every 3 yrs
Through National Certification Corporation (NCC)
How can you renew WHNP certification? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Must be renewed through ONE of the following ways:
- Professional development certification maintenance program: take
NCC specialty assessment evaluation, which covers topics that reflect
major content areas tested on certification exam; results determine topics
and mount of continuing education required (15 - 50 hrs, including 5 hrs
for taking assessment)
- Complete 50 continuing education hours covering all core certification
knowledge competency areas
- Retake the certification examination
,What is Integrated primary care? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
comprehensive, coordinated care, focused on particular needs of patient,
clinician continuity, patient record continuity, effective communication
of information
What is Accessible primary care? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
eliminiation of geographic, cultural, language, reimbursement barriers to
care
What is Accountable primary care? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
clinician and system accountability for services provided
What is majority of personal healthcare needs for primary care? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - competency to manage most healthcare
needs, use consultation and referral as needed, sustained relationship
between clinician and patient over time
what is context of family and community for primary care? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - understanding of circumstances of the pt
that affect health and healthcare outcomes, awareness of community
health trends, use of specific health promotion/disease prevention
strategies within this context
What is the purpose of healthy people 2020? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - provide science-based, 10 yr national objectives for
improving the health of all Americans
,- establish benchmarks and monitor progress
4 overarching goals of Healthy People 2020 - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ 1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable
disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of
all groups.
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for
all.
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors
across all life stages.
What is the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - Launched by WHO and UNICEF in 1991
- Purpose: encourage and recognize birthing hospitals and centers that
offer an optimal level of care for infant feeding and mother-baby
bonding
Qualifications to receive Baby-Friendly designation? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - implementation of the Ten Steps to Successful
Breastfeeding
, - Compliance with the International Code on Marketing Breastmilk
Substitutes
Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
Have written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all
heatlhcare staff
- Train all staff in skills necessary to implement this policy
- inform all pregnant women about benefits and management of
breastfeeding
- help moms initiate breastfeeding within one hour of birth
- show mothers how to breastfeed and how to maintain lactation, even if
they are separated from infant
- give infants no food or drink other than breastmilk, unless medically
indicated
- practice rooming in: allow mothers and infants to remain together
24hrs/day
- encourage breastfeeding on demand
