Nurse Coaching Board Study Guide
Exam 2026 Questions and Answers
Hildegard Paplau - Correct answer-Theory of Interpersonal Relations. Recognizing
persons innate capacitor for self healing and growth. Wrote of listening, clarifying,
accepting and interpreting. Nursing, person, health, and environment and to
understand nurse- patient interactive phenomena. Free of agenda. RN to have self
knowing.
Dorothea Orem - Correct answer-Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. 1953. Health
as a state of wholeness. Role of client/nurse being instrumental in supporting a
process of change. Self Reliant; Nursing is required when individual is unable to
provide continuous and effective care.
Jean Watson - Correct answer-Theory of Human Science & Human Care. CCEP
(Caring Science Caritas Coaching Education Program). Focuses on intelligent
heart centered approach. Relationship between 2 beings. Moving towards a higher
sense of self and harmony. 1. moral commitment to human dignity. 2. nurse's intent
and will to affirm subjective significance. 3. nurse's ability to detect feelings. 4.
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,nurse's ability to feel a union with another. 5. nurse's own history. Primal energetic
forces.
McNally & Cunningham - Correct answer-Developed coaching model.
Bark - Correct answer-Developed integral model of coaching based on structures
of consciousness and integral theory.
Five Core Values for Nurse Coach - Correct answer-1. Nurse coach philosophy,
theories, ethics. 2. Nurse coaching process. 3. Nurse Coach Communication,
Coaching Environment 4. Nurse Coach education, research, leadership 5. Nurse
coach self developing (self reflection, self assessment, self evaluation, self care)
Martha Rogers - Correct answer-Theory of Science of Unitary Beings. Client-
centered; unconditional positive regard; transactional analysis; whole beings; ever
evolving energy fields; look forward and what life might be; Art +
Science=Nursing;
Sister Callista Roy - Correct answer-Adaptation Model; individuals as a set of
interrelated, biological, psychological, and social systems; balance and cope; 1.
Physiological-physical system, 2. self concept group identity system, 3. role
mastery/function system, 4. interdependency system.
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, Roy Part 2 - Correct answer-Dignity of dying. Person is open system who uses
coping skills to deal with life's problems and challenges. Health is process of being
and becoming an integrated and whole person. Nursing is promotion of adaptation
in each of four modes.
Betty Neumann's - Correct answer-Neumann's Systems Model (NSM); replaced
word patient with client; holistic being; clients relationship with STRESS; Energy
resources. Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Lines of defense.Nurses
role is to promote system stability by using the 3 levels of prevention.
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse - Correct answer-Theory of Human Becoming; Person can
only be viewed as a unity. Nursing as a scientific discipline and practice as an art to
serve as guides. Health is a process of becoming. Presence as critically important
intervention. Environment is the universe. 3 themes. Quality of life. Based on own
perspective.
Elisabeth Barrett - Correct answer-Knowing Participation in Change Theory.
Power as knowing. Being aware of what one is choosing to do. A person's or
groups Power Profile (not static). Power is inherently value free. Dimensions of
power are awareness, choices, freedom to act intentionally, and involvement in
creating change.
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Exam 2026 Questions and Answers
Hildegard Paplau - Correct answer-Theory of Interpersonal Relations. Recognizing
persons innate capacitor for self healing and growth. Wrote of listening, clarifying,
accepting and interpreting. Nursing, person, health, and environment and to
understand nurse- patient interactive phenomena. Free of agenda. RN to have self
knowing.
Dorothea Orem - Correct answer-Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. 1953. Health
as a state of wholeness. Role of client/nurse being instrumental in supporting a
process of change. Self Reliant; Nursing is required when individual is unable to
provide continuous and effective care.
Jean Watson - Correct answer-Theory of Human Science & Human Care. CCEP
(Caring Science Caritas Coaching Education Program). Focuses on intelligent
heart centered approach. Relationship between 2 beings. Moving towards a higher
sense of self and harmony. 1. moral commitment to human dignity. 2. nurse's intent
and will to affirm subjective significance. 3. nurse's ability to detect feelings. 4.
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,nurse's ability to feel a union with another. 5. nurse's own history. Primal energetic
forces.
McNally & Cunningham - Correct answer-Developed coaching model.
Bark - Correct answer-Developed integral model of coaching based on structures
of consciousness and integral theory.
Five Core Values for Nurse Coach - Correct answer-1. Nurse coach philosophy,
theories, ethics. 2. Nurse coaching process. 3. Nurse Coach Communication,
Coaching Environment 4. Nurse Coach education, research, leadership 5. Nurse
coach self developing (self reflection, self assessment, self evaluation, self care)
Martha Rogers - Correct answer-Theory of Science of Unitary Beings. Client-
centered; unconditional positive regard; transactional analysis; whole beings; ever
evolving energy fields; look forward and what life might be; Art +
Science=Nursing;
Sister Callista Roy - Correct answer-Adaptation Model; individuals as a set of
interrelated, biological, psychological, and social systems; balance and cope; 1.
Physiological-physical system, 2. self concept group identity system, 3. role
mastery/function system, 4. interdependency system.
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, Roy Part 2 - Correct answer-Dignity of dying. Person is open system who uses
coping skills to deal with life's problems and challenges. Health is process of being
and becoming an integrated and whole person. Nursing is promotion of adaptation
in each of four modes.
Betty Neumann's - Correct answer-Neumann's Systems Model (NSM); replaced
word patient with client; holistic being; clients relationship with STRESS; Energy
resources. Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Lines of defense.Nurses
role is to promote system stability by using the 3 levels of prevention.
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse - Correct answer-Theory of Human Becoming; Person can
only be viewed as a unity. Nursing as a scientific discipline and practice as an art to
serve as guides. Health is a process of becoming. Presence as critically important
intervention. Environment is the universe. 3 themes. Quality of life. Based on own
perspective.
Elisabeth Barrett - Correct answer-Knowing Participation in Change Theory.
Power as knowing. Being aware of what one is choosing to do. A person's or
groups Power Profile (not static). Power is inherently value free. Dimensions of
power are awareness, choices, freedom to act intentionally, and involvement in
creating change.
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