FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
AACN MSN Essentials Exam Questions and Answers
Essential I: Background for Practice from Sciences and Humanities - Ans:✔✔-Recognizes that the
master's-prepared nurse integrates scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics,
public health, quality improvement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of
nursing care across diverse settings
Essential II: Organizational and Systems Leadership - Ans:✔✔-Recognizes that organizational and systems
leadership are critical to the promotion of high quality and safe patient care. Leadership skills are needed
that emphasize ethical and critical decision making, effective working relationships, and a systems-
perspective.
Essential III: Quality Improvement and Safety - Ans:✔✔-Recognizes that a master's-prepared nurse must
be a11iculate in the methods, tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality, as well as
prepared to apply quality principles within an organization
Essential IV: Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practice - Ans:✔✔-Recognizes that the master's-
prepared nurse applies research outcomes within the practice setting, resolves practice problems, works
as a change agent, and disseminates results.
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