PROFESSIONAL NURSING CONCEPTS AND
CHALLENGES 2026 PRACTICE TEST SHEET
FULL SOLUTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS
GUARANTEED PASS
◉ What are the four key messages from the IOM + Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation on "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change,
Developing Health?"
Answer: 1. Nurses must practice to the fullest extent of their
education.
2. Nurses should attain higher education levels through a system of
improved education with seamless progression across degress.
3. As health care in the US is transformed, nurses should be partners
with other healthcare professionals in this effort.
4. Improved data collection and information infrastructure can
result in more effective workforce planning and policy development.
◉ What did Linda Aiken and her colleagues call for in 2009?
Answer: Increased federal support for the preparation of nurses at
the BSN level and higher, suggesting policy changes to address the
growing need for nursing faculty and in preparation for APRNs
serving in primary care.
,◉ In 2010, the Tri-Council for Nursing, an alliance between the ANA,
American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the American
Organization of Nurse Executives, and National League of Nursing,
released a policy detailed what in regards to nursing education?
Answer: Increased competencies and education in:
1. Integration of evidence-based clinical knowledge and research.
2. Effective communication and leadership skills.
◉ The ANA continues to urge Congress to increase funding to what
Title in what act?
Answer: Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs in the
Public Health Service Act administered by the Health Resources and
Services Administration.
◉ What are two major programs emerging from Title VIII and the
Health Services Act?
Answer: 1. Advanced Education Nursing grants to schools of nursing
training APRNs and nurse educators and other advanced nursing
degrees
2. Workforce Diversity Grants increasing opportunities for persons
from disadvantaged backgrounds and who remain
underrepresented in nursing workforce.
◉ What did Florence Nightingale believe about nursing education?
, Answer: 1. Be financially and administratively separate from
hospitals.
2. Be trained in an educational institution supported by public funds
and associated with a medical school.
3. Curriculum includes both theory and practical experience.
4. Professional nurses should be in charge and paid for their
instruction
5. Students should be carefully selected and housed together to form
discipline and character.
6.Student records should be maintained.
◉ When were the first US training schools established?
Answer: 1873
◉ Who was Linda Richards?
Answer: In October 1973, she became the first trained nurse in the
US.
◉ By 1900, how many nursing programs were in existence?
Answer: 432 hospital-owned and hospital-operated nursing
programs.
◉ What distinguished diploma programs in early nursing education?
CHALLENGES 2026 PRACTICE TEST SHEET
FULL SOLUTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS
GUARANTEED PASS
◉ What are the four key messages from the IOM + Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation on "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change,
Developing Health?"
Answer: 1. Nurses must practice to the fullest extent of their
education.
2. Nurses should attain higher education levels through a system of
improved education with seamless progression across degress.
3. As health care in the US is transformed, nurses should be partners
with other healthcare professionals in this effort.
4. Improved data collection and information infrastructure can
result in more effective workforce planning and policy development.
◉ What did Linda Aiken and her colleagues call for in 2009?
Answer: Increased federal support for the preparation of nurses at
the BSN level and higher, suggesting policy changes to address the
growing need for nursing faculty and in preparation for APRNs
serving in primary care.
,◉ In 2010, the Tri-Council for Nursing, an alliance between the ANA,
American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the American
Organization of Nurse Executives, and National League of Nursing,
released a policy detailed what in regards to nursing education?
Answer: Increased competencies and education in:
1. Integration of evidence-based clinical knowledge and research.
2. Effective communication and leadership skills.
◉ The ANA continues to urge Congress to increase funding to what
Title in what act?
Answer: Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs in the
Public Health Service Act administered by the Health Resources and
Services Administration.
◉ What are two major programs emerging from Title VIII and the
Health Services Act?
Answer: 1. Advanced Education Nursing grants to schools of nursing
training APRNs and nurse educators and other advanced nursing
degrees
2. Workforce Diversity Grants increasing opportunities for persons
from disadvantaged backgrounds and who remain
underrepresented in nursing workforce.
◉ What did Florence Nightingale believe about nursing education?
, Answer: 1. Be financially and administratively separate from
hospitals.
2. Be trained in an educational institution supported by public funds
and associated with a medical school.
3. Curriculum includes both theory and practical experience.
4. Professional nurses should be in charge and paid for their
instruction
5. Students should be carefully selected and housed together to form
discipline and character.
6.Student records should be maintained.
◉ When were the first US training schools established?
Answer: 1873
◉ Who was Linda Richards?
Answer: In October 1973, she became the first trained nurse in the
US.
◉ By 1900, how many nursing programs were in existence?
Answer: 432 hospital-owned and hospital-operated nursing
programs.
◉ What distinguished diploma programs in early nursing education?
