NUR1023C FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION 2026 EXAM
Q&A STUDY SHEET
◉Nursing requires:. Answer: -Current knowledge and practice
standards
-Insightful and compassionate approach
-Critical thinking
◉Patricia Benner's Stages of Nursing Proficiency. Answer: -Novice
(beginning nursing student or new situation)
-Advanced beginner
-Competent (2-3 years as a nurse)
-Proficient
-Expert
◉ANA Nursing Definition. Answer: Nursing is the 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.
,◉Six standards of practice. Answer: 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcomes Identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
◉Code of Ethics. Answer: A code of ethics is the philosophical ideals
of right and wrong that define principles used to provide care.
◉Professional Roles. Answer: Autonomy and Accountability
Caregiver
Advocate
Educator
Communicator
Manager
◉Examples of a Professional Identity. Answer: Integrity
Compassion
Courage
Humility
,Advocacy
Human Flourishing
◉Essential Skills. Answer: Time management
Therapeutic communication
Patient education
Compassionate implementation of bedside skills
◉Florence Nightingale. Answer: First practicing epidemiologist
Organized first school of nursing
Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
◉Caring. Answer: universal phenomenon influencing the ways in
which people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another
◉Leininger's Theory. Answer: provide care consistent with
nursing's emerging science and knowledge with caring as central
focus
◉Watson's Transpersonal Caring. Answer: Promotes healing and
wholeness
Rejects the disease orientation to health care
, Places care before cure
Emphasizes the nurse-patient relationship
◉Swanson's Theory of Caring. Answer: -defines caring as a
nurturing way of relating to an individual
-states that caring is a central nursing phenomenon but is not
necessarily unique to nursing practice
◉Providing Presence. Answer: being with, eye contact, body
language, tone of voice, listening, positive and encouraging attitude
◉Touch. Answer: Provides comfort and creates a connection
◉Contact Touch. Answer: Task-oriented touch
Caring touch
Protective touch
◉Listening. Answer: creates trust, opens lines of communication,
creates a mutual relationship
◉Knowing the Patient. Answer: develops over time
core process of clinical decision making
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION 2026 EXAM
Q&A STUDY SHEET
◉Nursing requires:. Answer: -Current knowledge and practice
standards
-Insightful and compassionate approach
-Critical thinking
◉Patricia Benner's Stages of Nursing Proficiency. Answer: -Novice
(beginning nursing student or new situation)
-Advanced beginner
-Competent (2-3 years as a nurse)
-Proficient
-Expert
◉ANA Nursing Definition. Answer: Nursing is the 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.
,◉Six standards of practice. Answer: 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcomes Identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
◉Code of Ethics. Answer: A code of ethics is the philosophical ideals
of right and wrong that define principles used to provide care.
◉Professional Roles. Answer: Autonomy and Accountability
Caregiver
Advocate
Educator
Communicator
Manager
◉Examples of a Professional Identity. Answer: Integrity
Compassion
Courage
Humility
,Advocacy
Human Flourishing
◉Essential Skills. Answer: Time management
Therapeutic communication
Patient education
Compassionate implementation of bedside skills
◉Florence Nightingale. Answer: First practicing epidemiologist
Organized first school of nursing
Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
◉Caring. Answer: universal phenomenon influencing the ways in
which people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another
◉Leininger's Theory. Answer: provide care consistent with
nursing's emerging science and knowledge with caring as central
focus
◉Watson's Transpersonal Caring. Answer: Promotes healing and
wholeness
Rejects the disease orientation to health care
, Places care before cure
Emphasizes the nurse-patient relationship
◉Swanson's Theory of Caring. Answer: -defines caring as a
nurturing way of relating to an individual
-states that caring is a central nursing phenomenon but is not
necessarily unique to nursing practice
◉Providing Presence. Answer: being with, eye contact, body
language, tone of voice, listening, positive and encouraging attitude
◉Touch. Answer: Provides comfort and creates a connection
◉Contact Touch. Answer: Task-oriented touch
Caring touch
Protective touch
◉Listening. Answer: creates trust, opens lines of communication,
creates a mutual relationship
◉Knowing the Patient. Answer: develops over time
core process of clinical decision making
