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✔✔American Nurses Association's (ANA) - ✔✔defines standards that allow nurses to
carry out professional roles, serves as protection for nurses, the patient, and the
institution where healthcare is given.
✔✔National League for Nursing (NLN) - ✔✔is accreditation agency for nursing schools.
✔✔National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) - ✔✔provides the licensing
examination.
✔✔Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) - ✔✔The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation has funded this project with the overall goal to address the challenge for
preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to improve
the quality and safety of healthcare.
✔✔Texas Board of Nursing (TBON) - ✔✔defines legal scope of nursing practice in
Texas via Nursing Practice Acts (NPA)
✔✔The Joint Commission (TJC) - ✔✔defines the National Patient Safety Goals.
✔✔ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses - ✔✔defines the ethical scope of nursing practice.
✔✔A nurse who uses critical thinking skills to develop a nursing care plan for an
expectant mother of triplets is said to be using which of the following skills?
A. Cognitive
B. Technical
C. Interpersonal
D. Ethical - ✔✔Cognitive
Rationale: Cognitive skills involve thinking about the nature of things sufficiently to make
decisions regarding care. Technical skills enable nurses to manipulate equipment to
produce a desired outcome. Interpersonal skills involve caring relationships.
Ethical/legal skills enable nurses to conduct themselves morally and professionally.
✔✔True or False:
Once a graduate successfully passes the National Council Licensure Examination
(NCLEX) they are licensed as a nurse? - ✔✔False - they still must apply within the state
they want to work to become a nurse. It is a states board of nursing that is responsible
for licensure.
NCLEX is responsible for testing - the state is responsible for licensure.