Questions and All Correct Answers
2026 Updated.
Caring - Answer Inherent feature of nursing practice whereby nurses help clients recover
from illnesses, give meaning to their illness and maintain connection with others
Person-Centered Caring (Being) - Answer being with, accepting, encourage, support
Person-Centered Caring (Touch) - Answer eye contact, touch, Listening- attention, learning
the narrative
Person-centered Caring (Knowing) - Answer understanding and avoiding assumptions,
Spiritual Caring- assist in social or spiritual resources
Person-centered Caring (Family Care) - Answer include family, inform and update
Swanson's Theory of Caring - Answer o Knowing: understand an event
o Being with: emotionally present
o Doing for: assisting the client
o Enabling: facilitating person's passage through an event
o Maintaining Belief: sustaining faith in the person's capacity to face an event
Personhood and Caring - Answer the humanistic aspect of nursing with a focus on the nurse
and client as a person, and the professional therapeutic relationship between nurse/client
Context, Health, and Healing - Answer the internal/external influences on health and nurse's
ability to provide safe, competent care
Learning and Knowing - Answer critical inquiry, discovery and appropriate use of technology
within nursing to facilitate lifelong learning and reflective practice
Definition of Nursing: (CNO) - Answer the goal of nursing is to restore, maintain and advance
, Nursing Roles (RN) - Answer 4 years, greater knowledge in clinical practice, decision making,
critical thinking, leadership, research utilization and resource management
o As complexity increases and stability decreases in a patient, there is a greater need for the
skill
Nursing Roles (RP) - Answer legislated authority to diagnose, order and interpret diagnostic
tests, prescribe pharmaceuticals and perform procedures.
A Profession - Answer an occupation whose work is based on the mastery of a complex body
of knowledge and skills. Members are governed by a code of ethics, commitment to
competency, integrity and morality, altruism and promotion of public good (Cruess & Johnson)
o Considered autonomous in practice and have self-regulation
A Professional - Answer primary duty is to the client to ensure safe, competent, ethical
nursing care
o Demonstrates accountability, responsibility, ensures safety of clinet, models professional
behavior, advocates for client, demonstrates critical inquiry, collaborates with others,
demonstrates leadership, analyses and evaluates practice (CNO)
Attributes of Professionalism - Answer o Knowledge
o Spirit of Inquiry
o Accountability
o Autonomy
o Advocacy
o Innovation and Visionary
o Collegiality and Collaboration
o Ethics and Values
College of Nurses (CNO) - Answer o Regulatory body for nursing which protects public
interest
o Self-regulated profession
o Must have certificate of registration and college membership in order to practice in Ontario
o Must practice in accordance of the standards of practice