Advanced practice nursing exam questions and sure answers|2025/2026|verified

Advanced practice nursing exam questions and
sure answers|2025/2026|verified
Conceptual definition of APN - ANSWER- B B B B B


•Promotes consistency in practice that aids in understanding the requirements of this level of nursing
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•Promotes achievement of value- B B B


added patient outcomes and improvement of the health care delivery process
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•APRN roles do not stand apart from nursing—
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rather it is the nursing core that contributes to its distinctiveness in comparison to non-
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ANA definition of nursing practice - ANSWER-
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•Nursing practice has the following seven essential features:
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•Provision of caring relationship that facilitates health and healing
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•Attention to the range of human experiences and responses to health and illness within the physical
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and social environments,
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•Integration of assessment data B B B




•Application of scientific knowledge to the processes of diagnosis and treatment through the use of ju
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dgement and critical thinking
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•Advancement of professional nursing knowledge through scholarly inquiry
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•Influence on social and public policy to promote social justice
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•Assurance of safe, quality and evidence based practice
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Distinguishing between specialization and APN: specialization - ANSWER-
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•Involves the development of expanded knowledge and skills in a selected area within the discipline o
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f nursing
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•All nurses with extensive experience in a particular area of practice (e.g., pediatric nursing or trauma
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nursing) are specialized in this sense
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Distinguishing between specialization and advanced practice nursing; APRN - ANSWER-
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•Acquisition of new practice knowledge and skills, particularly theoretical and evidence-
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based knowledge some of which overlaps with medicine
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•Significant role autonomy B B




•Responsibility for health promotion, diagnosis and management, including pharmacological and non
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•Greater complexity of clinical decision making and leadership in organizations and environments
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•Specialization at the level of a particular APRN role and population focus
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, According to the consensus model - ANSWER- B B B B B B


•APRNs may specialize, but they cannot be licensed solely within a specialty area. Specialties can prov
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ide depth in one's practice with the established population foci...Competence at the specialty level wil
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l not be assessed or regulated by boards of nursing but rather by the professional organizations.
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DNP clarification - ANSWER-DNP is a degree, it is not a role
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DNP graduates can assume varied roles, depending upon specialty focus of their program
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Some DNP graduates prepare for non-APRN roles, such as administration
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Defining APN - CINAHL - ANSWER-•broadly as anything beyond the staff nurse role:
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•"The performance of additional acts by registered nurses who have gained added knowledge and skil
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ls through post-basic education and clinical experience."
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Defining APN - OVID Medline - ANSWER-
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•"Evidence based nursing, midwifery, and healthcare grounded in research and scholarship. Practition
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ers include nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists and nurse midwives."
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core definition of APN - ANSWER-
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•Advanced practice nursing is a function of educational and practice preparation and a constellation o
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f primary criteria and core competencies.
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•Direct clinical practice is the central competency of any APRN role and informs all other competencie
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•All APRNs share the same core criteria and competencies, although the actual clinical skill varies dep
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ending on the needs of the APRN specialty patient population.
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Conceptual definition - ANSWER-•"patient- B B B


focused application of expanded range of competencies to improve health outcomes for patients and
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populations in a specialized clinical area of the larger discipline of nursing"
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primary criteria - ANSWER-Graduate education
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Certification B




Practice focused on patient/family B B B




six characteristics of advanced direct care practice - ANSWER-•Use of a holistic perspective
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