(BARRON'S AP PREP)
CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ Benefits of belonging to professional nursing organizations.
Answer: Networking, having a voice in legislation affecting nursing, and
keeping current with trends and issues.
◍ Which is the best example of a nurse demonstrating the role of
caregiver?starting an intravenous line in the client's armreferring the client
to a mental health clinicassigning a room for a new hospital clientreporting
lab values to a client's health care provider.
Answer: starting an intravenous line in the clients arm
◍ Nurse-midwife.
Answer: A nursing role that provides care to women during pregnancy,
childbirth, and postpartum.
◍ When administering immunizations, the nurse is engaged in:health
promotion.illness prevention.health restoration.coping facilitation..
Answer: illness prevention
◍ Nurse Practice Acts and Licensure.
Answer: Protect the public by defining the legal scope of nursing practice,
excluding untrained or unlicensed people from practicing nursing, and
creating a state board of nursing or regulatory body with the authority to
make and enforce rules and regulations concerning the nursing profession.
◍ Communicator.
Answer: A nursing role that involves establishing and maintaining helping
, relationships with clients.
◍ NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model.
Answer: The next generation NCLEX (NGN) model that includes
recognizing cues, analyzing cues, prioritizing hypotheses, generating
solutions, taking actions, and evaluating outcomes.
◍ Informatics.
Answer: Using information and technology to communicate, manage
knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making.
◍ The nurse is caring for a client after a stroke rendered the client's right side
weaker than the left. The nurse coordinates the plan of care with the
physical therapist. The nurse's interventions reflect which one of nursing's
four broad goals?To restore healthTo prevent illnessTo promote healthTo
facilitate coping.
Answer: to restore health
◍ Researcher.
Answer: A nursing role that involves participation in or conducting research
to increase knowledge in nursing.
◍ Essential Values/Professional Values.
Answer: AACN identified 5 values that epitomize the caring, professional
nurse: Altruism, Autonomy, Human dignity, Integrity, and Social justice.
◍ During the course of any given day of work in the acute care setting, the
nurse may need to perform which roles? Select all that
apply.CommunicatorCounselorTeacherFinancierStatistician.
Answer: communicatorcounselorteacher
◍ Why do nurses need to care for their own health needs? Select all that
apply.To allow them to give effective nursing care to othersTo enable them
to practice more efficientlyTo help them serve as role models for clientsTo
make them look more appealing to the publicTo deemphasize the
importance of care provided by health care providers.
Answer: To allow them to give effective nursing care to othersTo enable
, them to practice more efficientlyTo help them serve as role models for
clients
◍ Self-care.
Answer: Must be alert to early signs of fatigue, as well as compassion
fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.
◍ Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL).
Answer: A nursing role that oversees the integration of care for a specific set
of patients.
◍ A client asks an RN to prescribe a medication for pain. What is the best
answer by the nurse?"No nurse can prescribe a medication.""Only advanced
practice registered nurses have prescriptive authority.""Take two ibuprofen
every 4 to 6 hours.""Take one acetaminophen every 4 hours.".
Answer: "Only advanced practice registered nurses have prescriptive
authority."
◍ The nurse is planning an educational visit with a client. Which must the
nurse assess to identify the client's readiness to learn? Select all that
apply.Level of motivationLevel of knowledgeWillingness to follow the
health regimenPhysical and psychological abilities to carry out the planThe
composition of the client's family.
Answer: level of motivation level of knowledgewillingness to follow the
health regimenphysical and psychological abilities to carry out the plan
◍ Caregiver.
Answer: A nursing role responsible for meeting the physical, emotional,
intellectual, sociocultural, and spiritual needs of patients.
◍ The nurse is caring for a client with a new diagnosis of cancer, and allows
the client to verbalize fears relating to how to tell the children. The nurse's
intervention reflects which aspect of nursing?art of nursingscience of
nursingevidence-based practiceapplication of research.
Answer: art of nursing
◍ Autonomy.