Nursing Concepts:
Competencies for Quality
Leadership 6th Edition by
Anita Finkelman, All Chapters
1-14, Latest Edition 2025
Accountability - Correct Answer-✔✔Willingness to take credit and blame for actions.
Autonomy - Correct Answer-✔✔the quality or state of being self-governing, the freedom to act
on what you know
Code of ethics - Correct Answer-✔✔a list of provisions that makes explicit the primary goals,
values and obligations of the nursing profession, published by the American Nurses Association
Colleagueship - Correct Answer-✔✔workplace relationships with common interests
Nursing - Correct Answer-✔✔the profession of a nurse
Professional organization - Correct Answer-✔✔an organization that represents a professional
group, such as nurses represented by the American Nurses Association
Professionalism - Correct Answer-✔✔the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a
profession or a professional person
Responsibility - Correct Answer-✔✔moral, legal, or mental accountability
, Scope of practice - Correct Answer-✔✔A statement that describes the who, what, where, when,
why, and how of nursing practice.
Social policy statement - Correct Answer-✔✔A statement that describes the profession of
nursing and its professional framework and obligations to society; published by the American
Nurses Association.
Standards - Correct Answer-✔✔a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
and that serve as guidelines to practice
Advocate - Correct Answer-✔✔a nurse who speaks for the patient but does not take away the
patient's independence
Applied or clinical research - Correct Answer-✔✔research designed to find a solution to a
practical problem
Basic research - Correct Answer-✔✔research designed to broaden the base of knowledge rather
than solve an immediate problem
Caring - Correct Answer-✔✔feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others
Change agent - Correct Answer-✔✔someone who engages deliberately in, or whose behavior
results in, social, cultural, or behavioral change
Clinical judgement - Correct Answer-✔✔The process by which nurses come to understand the
problems, issues, and concerns of patients; to attend to salient information; and to respond to
patient problems in concerned and involved ways. It includes both conscious decision making
and intuitive response.