CORRECT ANSWERS 2026/2027
List the 2022 MSN essentials - Correct Answers
- Knowledge for nursing practice
- Person centered care
- Population
- Scholarship for nursing discipline
- Quality and safety
- Interprofessional partnerships
- Systems based practice
- Informatics in healthcare technologies
- professionalism
- Personal, professional, and leadership development
Describe the knowledge for nursing practice MSN essential - Correct
Answer
- Integration, translation, and application of nursing knowledge and ways of
knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines.
- Distinguishes the practice of professional nursing
- forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing
Describe the person centered care MSN essential - Correct Answer
- Focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contacts including
family or important others
, - Holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated,
evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate
- Builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice
Describe the population health MSN essential - Correct Answer - Spans
from public health prevention to disease management of populations
- Describes collaborative activities with both traditional and nontraditional
partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia,
healthcare, local government entities, and others for the improvement of
equitable population health outcomes
Describe the scholarship for nursing discipline MSN essential - Correct
Answer - The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and
dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform
healthcare
Describe the quality and safety MSN essential - Correct Answer -
Employment of established emerging principles of safety and improvement
of science
- Enhances quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers
through both system effectiveness an individual performance
Describe the interprofessional partnerships MSN essential - Correct
Answer collaboration across professions and with care team members,
patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care,
enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes