ANA Documents – Questions With Solutions
What is the definition of nursing? ✔️Ans - protection, promotion and
optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury,
alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human
response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities
and populations.
what s the ANA responsible for? ✔️Ans - developing scope and standards
of practice that apple to the practice of all professional nurses, and serve as
a template for specialty practice
What is true of the development for the Scope and Standards of nursing
practice? ✔️Ans - They require broad input into their development
beyond the ANA
What is a scope of practice statement? ✔️Ans - It describes the who,
what, where, when why and how of nursing practice, to accomodate
evolving boundaries and memberships
What is true of the breadth of the nursing practice? ✔️Ans - it
encompasses the full range of nursing practice, and the engagement of the
scope of practice is dependent of education, experience, role and the served
population
What is a nursing standard? ✔️Ans - authoratative statement of the
duties that all registered nurses (regardless or role, pop., or specialty) are
expected to perform by
When are standards subject to change? ✔️Ans - depends on context:
patterns of professional practice change and application of standards at a
given time (i.e. natural disaster)
Are the standards ever reviewed? ✔️Ans - Yes they are subject to
periodic review and revision
What is the nursing proces? ✔️Ans - assessment --> diagnosis -->
identification of outcomes --> planning --> implementation --> evaluation
What is the definition of nursing? ✔️Ans - protection, promotion and
optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury,
alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human
response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities
and populations.
what s the ANA responsible for? ✔️Ans - developing scope and standards
of practice that apple to the practice of all professional nurses, and serve as
a template for specialty practice
What is true of the development for the Scope and Standards of nursing
practice? ✔️Ans - They require broad input into their development
beyond the ANA
What is a scope of practice statement? ✔️Ans - It describes the who,
what, where, when why and how of nursing practice, to accomodate
evolving boundaries and memberships
What is true of the breadth of the nursing practice? ✔️Ans - it
encompasses the full range of nursing practice, and the engagement of the
scope of practice is dependent of education, experience, role and the served
population
What is a nursing standard? ✔️Ans - authoratative statement of the
duties that all registered nurses (regardless or role, pop., or specialty) are
expected to perform by
When are standards subject to change? ✔️Ans - depends on context:
patterns of professional practice change and application of standards at a
given time (i.e. natural disaster)
Are the standards ever reviewed? ✔️Ans - Yes they are subject to
periodic review and revision
What is the nursing proces? ✔️Ans - assessment --> diagnosis -->
identification of outcomes --> planning --> implementation --> evaluation
