CHAPTER 2: PMHNP ROLE, SCOPE OF
PRACTICE, AND REGULATORY
PROCESS EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
The 9 Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies - ANS Scientific Foundations
Leadership
Quality
Practice Inquiry
Technology and Information Literacy
Policy
Health Delivary System
Ethics
Independent Practice
Facilitating factors for growth of the NP role: - ANS Consumer demand
Acceptance of APN role
Emergence of PMHNP role
Decreasing stigma
Emphasis on integrated healthcare services
Constraining factors for growth of NP role: - ANS Growing competition in job market
Reimbursement issues: Medicaid/private insurance
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, Overlapping scopes of practice with other NPS
Concerns regarding reimbursement fraud and abuse in coding and billing
Scope of practice and need for collaborative dr.
What are the state legislative statues regarding NP practice - ANS State legislative statues
grant legal authority for NP practice, provide title protection (who can be called NP), define
advanced practice, our state laws define scope of practice, place restrictions on practicesand set
NP credentialing requirements.
Grounds for disciplinary action by our state legislature statues: - ANS Practicing without valid
license, falsifying records, Medicare fraud, inappropriate nursing judgement, inaccurate
documentation, failure to follow accepted nursing standards.
Collaborative agreement - ANS AKA protocol that describes what types of drugs may be
prescribed and defines oversight for NP practice.
Statutory laws for NPs - ANS Regulation differ by state, they further define scope of practice
and may provide restrictions in practice unique to that specific state.
Licensure - ANS Process by which a government agency authorizes individuals to work in a
given occupation
Credentialing - ANS Process used to protect the public by ensuring a minimum level of
professional competence.
Certification for NPs - ANS Provides title protection, determines scope of practice,
determines the NP has met specified standars, assures public the NP has mastery of a specific
body of knowledge and skills to function in that specialty.
ANCC American Nurses Credentialing Center - ANS is a subsidiary of the ANA and is the only
certifying body for psychiatric APN.
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PRACTICE, AND REGULATORY
PROCESS EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
The 9 Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies - ANS Scientific Foundations
Leadership
Quality
Practice Inquiry
Technology and Information Literacy
Policy
Health Delivary System
Ethics
Independent Practice
Facilitating factors for growth of the NP role: - ANS Consumer demand
Acceptance of APN role
Emergence of PMHNP role
Decreasing stigma
Emphasis on integrated healthcare services
Constraining factors for growth of NP role: - ANS Growing competition in job market
Reimbursement issues: Medicaid/private insurance
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, Overlapping scopes of practice with other NPS
Concerns regarding reimbursement fraud and abuse in coding and billing
Scope of practice and need for collaborative dr.
What are the state legislative statues regarding NP practice - ANS State legislative statues
grant legal authority for NP practice, provide title protection (who can be called NP), define
advanced practice, our state laws define scope of practice, place restrictions on practicesand set
NP credentialing requirements.
Grounds for disciplinary action by our state legislature statues: - ANS Practicing without valid
license, falsifying records, Medicare fraud, inappropriate nursing judgement, inaccurate
documentation, failure to follow accepted nursing standards.
Collaborative agreement - ANS AKA protocol that describes what types of drugs may be
prescribed and defines oversight for NP practice.
Statutory laws for NPs - ANS Regulation differ by state, they further define scope of practice
and may provide restrictions in practice unique to that specific state.
Licensure - ANS Process by which a government agency authorizes individuals to work in a
given occupation
Credentialing - ANS Process used to protect the public by ensuring a minimum level of
professional competence.
Certification for NPs - ANS Provides title protection, determines scope of practice,
determines the NP has met specified standars, assures public the NP has mastery of a specific
body of knowledge and skills to function in that specialty.
ANCC American Nurses Credentialing Center - ANS is a subsidiary of the ANA and is the only
certifying body for psychiatric APN.
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