NUR2349 PN1 PROFESSIONAL NURSING I EXAM
2026 COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE AND PRACTICE
QUESTIONS
◉ Registered Nurses. Answer: Healthcare professionals; largest in
numbers; members of inter-professional team; have own
schools/colleges/education, licensure requirements, scope and
standards of practice.
◉ Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Answer: Framework for
professional nursing practice; applies to all registered nurses,
generalist, and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs).
◉ Definition of Nursing. Answer: Integrates art and science of
caring; focuses on protection, promotion, and optimization of health;
prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; alleviation of
suffering through compassionate presence.
◉ Phenomenon of Concern. Answer: Human health; focus on
diagnosis and treatment of human responses, not disease or
pathological processes.
, ◉ Scope of Nursing Practice. Answer: Occurs whenever and
wherever there is a need for nursing knowledge, wisdom, caring,
leadership, practice, or education; not limited to hospital setting.
◉ Goal of Nursing. Answer: Facilitate positive patient outcomes in
keeping with nursing's social contract with an obligation to society;
dependent on formal nursing education, experience, role, and
population served.
◉ ANA Standards. Answer: Evidence of the standard of nursing care;
describe competent level of nursing care and behavior in the
professional role.
◉ Art of Nursing. Answer: Based on caring and respect for human
dignity; requires competence, professional maturity, interpersonal
sensitivity, moral foundation, and conducive environment.
◉ Science of Nursing. Answer: Built on a core body of knowledge
reflecting art and science; consistent with other scientific
disciplines; based on scientifically/empirically based knowledge.
◉ Nursing Research. Answer: Conducted to generate knowledge
needed by nurses to guide nursing practice and evaluate nursing
care given and its impact on patient health/health outcomes.
2026 COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE AND PRACTICE
QUESTIONS
◉ Registered Nurses. Answer: Healthcare professionals; largest in
numbers; members of inter-professional team; have own
schools/colleges/education, licensure requirements, scope and
standards of practice.
◉ Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Answer: Framework for
professional nursing practice; applies to all registered nurses,
generalist, and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs).
◉ Definition of Nursing. Answer: Integrates art and science of
caring; focuses on protection, promotion, and optimization of health;
prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; alleviation of
suffering through compassionate presence.
◉ Phenomenon of Concern. Answer: Human health; focus on
diagnosis and treatment of human responses, not disease or
pathological processes.
, ◉ Scope of Nursing Practice. Answer: Occurs whenever and
wherever there is a need for nursing knowledge, wisdom, caring,
leadership, practice, or education; not limited to hospital setting.
◉ Goal of Nursing. Answer: Facilitate positive patient outcomes in
keeping with nursing's social contract with an obligation to society;
dependent on formal nursing education, experience, role, and
population served.
◉ ANA Standards. Answer: Evidence of the standard of nursing care;
describe competent level of nursing care and behavior in the
professional role.
◉ Art of Nursing. Answer: Based on caring and respect for human
dignity; requires competence, professional maturity, interpersonal
sensitivity, moral foundation, and conducive environment.
◉ Science of Nursing. Answer: Built on a core body of knowledge
reflecting art and science; consistent with other scientific
disciplines; based on scientifically/empirically based knowledge.
◉ Nursing Research. Answer: Conducted to generate knowledge
needed by nurses to guide nursing practice and evaluate nursing
care given and its impact on patient health/health outcomes.
