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, communities, and other
stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience and strengthen outcomes.