NUR 448 EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) - ANS A group of nurses, prepared at the
graduate level, with defined roles. These roles are CRNAs, nurse-midwies, clinical nurse
specialists, and certified nurse
Clinical Processes - ANS A defined sequence of steps needed to ensure that basic functions
are fulfilled in a standardized manner, ensuring safety and quality, such as medication
procurement and administration
Complexity Theory - ANS Requires leaders to expand and respond to engaging dynamic
change and focus on relationships rather than on prescribing and approaching change as a lock-
step, pre-prescribed method. Traditional organizational hierarchy plays a less significant role as
the "keeper of high level knowledge" and replaces it with the idea that knowledge applied to
complex problems is better distributed among the human assets within an organization,
without regard to hierarchy. Leaders try less to control the future and spend more time
influencing, innovating, and responding to the many factors that influence health care.
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,Emotional Intelligence - ANS Monitoring emotions in a situation to guide actions and inform
thought processes
Evidence-based organizational practice - ANS Scientifically derived approaches to delivering
care that optimizes professional roles, practices, and coordination of activities.
Followership - ANS Those with whom a leader interacts; involves assertive use of personal
behaviors in contributing toward organizational outcomes while still acquiescing certain tasks
to the leader or other team members
Leadership - ANS The us of personal traits to constructively and ethically influence patients,
families, and staff through a process in which clinical and organizational outcomes are achieved
through collective efforts
Magnet Recognition Program - ANS The only national designation built on and evolving
through nursing research that is designed to recognize nursing excellence of healthcare
organizations through a self-nominating, appraisal process
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, Management - ANS The activities needed to plan, organize, motivate, and control the human
and material resources needed to achieve outcomes consistent with the organization's mission
and purpose
Management theory - ANS The theory related to that activities described in management
Motivation - ANS The instigation of action based on various factors, both intrinsic and
extrinsic
Patient protection and affordable care act (PPACA) - ANS Legislation aimed at increasing
access to uninsured Americans to quality, affordable care while reducing costs of unnecessary
services. The PPACA was upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court in 2012.
Process of Care - ANS The desired sequence of steps that have been designed to achieve
clinical standardization.
Social networking - ANS The use of technology and other mechanisms to create a web of
relationships with common involvement in an area of focus or concern.
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ANSWERS
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) - ANS A group of nurses, prepared at the
graduate level, with defined roles. These roles are CRNAs, nurse-midwies, clinical nurse
specialists, and certified nurse
Clinical Processes - ANS A defined sequence of steps needed to ensure that basic functions
are fulfilled in a standardized manner, ensuring safety and quality, such as medication
procurement and administration
Complexity Theory - ANS Requires leaders to expand and respond to engaging dynamic
change and focus on relationships rather than on prescribing and approaching change as a lock-
step, pre-prescribed method. Traditional organizational hierarchy plays a less significant role as
the "keeper of high level knowledge" and replaces it with the idea that knowledge applied to
complex problems is better distributed among the human assets within an organization,
without regard to hierarchy. Leaders try less to control the future and spend more time
influencing, innovating, and responding to the many factors that influence health care.
1 @COPYRIGHT THESTAR 2025/2026
,Emotional Intelligence - ANS Monitoring emotions in a situation to guide actions and inform
thought processes
Evidence-based organizational practice - ANS Scientifically derived approaches to delivering
care that optimizes professional roles, practices, and coordination of activities.
Followership - ANS Those with whom a leader interacts; involves assertive use of personal
behaviors in contributing toward organizational outcomes while still acquiescing certain tasks
to the leader or other team members
Leadership - ANS The us of personal traits to constructively and ethically influence patients,
families, and staff through a process in which clinical and organizational outcomes are achieved
through collective efforts
Magnet Recognition Program - ANS The only national designation built on and evolving
through nursing research that is designed to recognize nursing excellence of healthcare
organizations through a self-nominating, appraisal process
2 @COPYRIGHT THESTAR 2025/2026
, Management - ANS The activities needed to plan, organize, motivate, and control the human
and material resources needed to achieve outcomes consistent with the organization's mission
and purpose
Management theory - ANS The theory related to that activities described in management
Motivation - ANS The instigation of action based on various factors, both intrinsic and
extrinsic
Patient protection and affordable care act (PPACA) - ANS Legislation aimed at increasing
access to uninsured Americans to quality, affordable care while reducing costs of unnecessary
services. The PPACA was upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court in 2012.
Process of Care - ANS The desired sequence of steps that have been designed to achieve
clinical standardization.
Social networking - ANS The use of technology and other mechanisms to create a web of
relationships with common involvement in an area of focus or concern.
3 @COPYRIGHT THESTAR 2025/2026
