NURSING COUNCIL COMPETENCE
TEST GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Domain One: Professional responsibility - Answer-This domain contains competencies
relating to professional, legal and ethic responsibilities and cultural safety. These
include being able to demonstrate knowledge and judgement and being accountable for
own actions and decisions, while promoting an environment that maximises health
consumers safety, independence, quality of life and health.
Domain 2: Management of nursing care - Answer-This domain contains competencies
related to assessment and managing health consumer care, which is responsive to the
consumer's needs, and which is supported by nursing knowledge and evidence based
research.
Domain 3: interpersonal relationships - Answer-This domain contains competencies
related to interpersonal and therapeutic communication with health consumers, other
nursing staff and inter professional communication and documentation.
Domain 4: inter professional health care & quality improvement - Answer-This domain
contains competencies to demonstrate that, as a member of the health care team, the
nurse evaluates the effectiveness of care and promotes a nursing perspective within the
interprofessional activities of the team.
Competency 1.4 - Answer-Promotes and environment that enables health consumer
safety, independence, quality of life, and health.
Competency 1.5 - Answer-Practices nursing in a manner that the health consumer
determines as being culturally safe.
Competency 2.1 - Answer-Provides planned nursing care to achieve identified
outcomes.
Competency 2.2 - Answer-Undertakes comprehensive and accurate nursing
assessment of health consumers in a variety of settings.
Competency 2.3 - Answer-Ensures documentation is accurate and maintains
confidentially of information.
Competency 2.4 - Answer-Ensures health consumer has adequate explanation of
effects, consequences and alternative of proposed treatment options.
TEST GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Domain One: Professional responsibility - Answer-This domain contains competencies
relating to professional, legal and ethic responsibilities and cultural safety. These
include being able to demonstrate knowledge and judgement and being accountable for
own actions and decisions, while promoting an environment that maximises health
consumers safety, independence, quality of life and health.
Domain 2: Management of nursing care - Answer-This domain contains competencies
related to assessment and managing health consumer care, which is responsive to the
consumer's needs, and which is supported by nursing knowledge and evidence based
research.
Domain 3: interpersonal relationships - Answer-This domain contains competencies
related to interpersonal and therapeutic communication with health consumers, other
nursing staff and inter professional communication and documentation.
Domain 4: inter professional health care & quality improvement - Answer-This domain
contains competencies to demonstrate that, as a member of the health care team, the
nurse evaluates the effectiveness of care and promotes a nursing perspective within the
interprofessional activities of the team.
Competency 1.4 - Answer-Promotes and environment that enables health consumer
safety, independence, quality of life, and health.
Competency 1.5 - Answer-Practices nursing in a manner that the health consumer
determines as being culturally safe.
Competency 2.1 - Answer-Provides planned nursing care to achieve identified
outcomes.
Competency 2.2 - Answer-Undertakes comprehensive and accurate nursing
assessment of health consumers in a variety of settings.
Competency 2.3 - Answer-Ensures documentation is accurate and maintains
confidentially of information.
Competency 2.4 - Answer-Ensures health consumer has adequate explanation of
effects, consequences and alternative of proposed treatment options.
