QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice (KNP) - CORRECT ANSWER Descriptor:
Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing
knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a
foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This dinstinguishes the practice of
professional nursing in forms the basis the practice of professional nursing and forms the
basis for clinical judgment and innovation for nursing practice.
Domain 2: Person-Centered Care - CORRECT ANSWER Descriptor: Person-centered
care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or
important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful,
compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. Person-
centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless
of specialty or functional area.
Domain 3: Population Health - CORRECT ANSWER Descriptor: Population health
spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease
management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and
non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia,
healthcare, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population
health outcomes.
Domain 4: Scholarship for Nursing Discipline - CORRECT ANSWER Descriptor: The
generation, synthesis, translation, application, and disseminaton of nursing knowledge to
improve health and transform healthcare.
Domain 5: Quality and Safety - CORRECT ANSWER Descriptor: Employment of
established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safty, as
core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and
providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships - CORRECT ANSWER Descriptor:
Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families,