CHAPTER 4 - COMPETENCIES FOR
PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
The process by which one sits down quietly on a daily or regular basis to think and
record one's thoughts and ideas in writing. Recording clinical experiences that were
meaningful or troubling to you is a recommended way to help enhance and develop
reasoning skills. - Answer-Journaling
QSEN stands for: - Answer-Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Who funded the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)? - Answer-Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation (2005)
Six competences that were identified during the QSEN project: - Answer-1. Patient-
centered care
2. Teamwork and collaboration
3. Evidence-based practice
4. Quality improvement
5. Informatics
6. Safety
3 following criteria to be considered a profession (Starr, 1982): - Answer-1. the
knowledge of the group must be based on technical and scientific knowledge.
2. the knowledge and competence of members of the group must be evaluated by a
community of peers.
3. the group must have a service orientation and a code of ethics.
Defined profession as "a vocation requiring advanced training and usually involving
training and usually involving mental rather than manual work, as teaching, engineering,
especially medicine, law" - Answer-Webster 1989
10 essential competences included in the Nurse of the Future: Nursing Core
Competencies: - Answer-1. patient-centered care
2. professionalism
3. informatics and technology
4. evidence-based practice
5. leadership
6. systems-based practice
7. safety
8. communication
, 9. teamwork and collaboration
10. quality improvement
Purpose of the Nurse of the Future: Nursing Core Competences: - Answer-intended to
guide nursing curricula and practice emanate from the central core of the model that
represents nursing knowledge.
Essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) reflect: - Answer-cognitive,
psychomotor, and affective learning domains that are specified for each competency.
The Nurse of the Future: Nursing Core Competencies graphic illustrates: - Answer-the
use of broken lines the reciprocal and continuous relationship between each of the
competencies and nursing knowledge, that the competencies can overlap and are not
mutually exclusive, and that all competencies are of equal importance. In addition,
nursing knowledge is placed as the core in the graphic to illustration that nursing
knowledge reflects the overarching art and science of professional nursing practice.
Metaparadigm concept in the Nurse of the Future: Nursing Core Competencies: -
Answer--Human being/patients: "The recipient of nursing care or services...."
-Environment: "The atmosphere, melieu, or conditions in which an individual lives,
works or plays"
-Health: "An experience that is often expressed in terms of wellness and illness..."
-Nursing: "the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention
of illness and injury..."
"The Nurse of the Future will provide holistic care that recognizes an individual's
preferences, values, and needs and respects the patient or designee as a full partners
in providing compassionate, coordinated, age and culturally appropriate, safe and
effective care" - Answer-Patient-centered care
"The Nurse of the Future will demonstrate accountability for the delivery of standard-
based nursing care that is consistent with moral, altruistic, legal, ethical, regulatory, and
humanistic principles." - Answer-Professionalism
"The Nurse of the Future will influence the behavior of individuals or groups of
individuals within their environment in a way that will facilitate the establishment and
acquisition/achievement of shared goals" - Answer-Leadership
"The Nurse of the Future will demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the
larger context of the health care system and will demonstrate the ability to effectively
call on work unit resources to provide care that is of optimal quality and value" - Answer-
Systems-based practice
PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
The process by which one sits down quietly on a daily or regular basis to think and
record one's thoughts and ideas in writing. Recording clinical experiences that were
meaningful or troubling to you is a recommended way to help enhance and develop
reasoning skills. - Answer-Journaling
QSEN stands for: - Answer-Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Who funded the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)? - Answer-Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation (2005)
Six competences that were identified during the QSEN project: - Answer-1. Patient-
centered care
2. Teamwork and collaboration
3. Evidence-based practice
4. Quality improvement
5. Informatics
6. Safety
3 following criteria to be considered a profession (Starr, 1982): - Answer-1. the
knowledge of the group must be based on technical and scientific knowledge.
2. the knowledge and competence of members of the group must be evaluated by a
community of peers.
3. the group must have a service orientation and a code of ethics.
Defined profession as "a vocation requiring advanced training and usually involving
training and usually involving mental rather than manual work, as teaching, engineering,
especially medicine, law" - Answer-Webster 1989
10 essential competences included in the Nurse of the Future: Nursing Core
Competencies: - Answer-1. patient-centered care
2. professionalism
3. informatics and technology
4. evidence-based practice
5. leadership
6. systems-based practice
7. safety
8. communication
, 9. teamwork and collaboration
10. quality improvement
Purpose of the Nurse of the Future: Nursing Core Competences: - Answer-intended to
guide nursing curricula and practice emanate from the central core of the model that
represents nursing knowledge.
Essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) reflect: - Answer-cognitive,
psychomotor, and affective learning domains that are specified for each competency.
The Nurse of the Future: Nursing Core Competencies graphic illustrates: - Answer-the
use of broken lines the reciprocal and continuous relationship between each of the
competencies and nursing knowledge, that the competencies can overlap and are not
mutually exclusive, and that all competencies are of equal importance. In addition,
nursing knowledge is placed as the core in the graphic to illustration that nursing
knowledge reflects the overarching art and science of professional nursing practice.
Metaparadigm concept in the Nurse of the Future: Nursing Core Competencies: -
Answer--Human being/patients: "The recipient of nursing care or services...."
-Environment: "The atmosphere, melieu, or conditions in which an individual lives,
works or plays"
-Health: "An experience that is often expressed in terms of wellness and illness..."
-Nursing: "the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention
of illness and injury..."
"The Nurse of the Future will provide holistic care that recognizes an individual's
preferences, values, and needs and respects the patient or designee as a full partners
in providing compassionate, coordinated, age and culturally appropriate, safe and
effective care" - Answer-Patient-centered care
"The Nurse of the Future will demonstrate accountability for the delivery of standard-
based nursing care that is consistent with moral, altruistic, legal, ethical, regulatory, and
humanistic principles." - Answer-Professionalism
"The Nurse of the Future will influence the behavior of individuals or groups of
individuals within their environment in a way that will facilitate the establishment and
acquisition/achievement of shared goals" - Answer-Leadership
"The Nurse of the Future will demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the
larger context of the health care system and will demonstrate the ability to effectively
call on work unit resources to provide care that is of optimal quality and value" - Answer-
Systems-based practice
