NUR 139- MODULE A INTRO TO NURSING CONCEPTS EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY
LATEST UPDATE 2026
What are the aims of Nursing? - Answers To promote health
To prevent illness
To restore health
To facilitate coping with disability or death
How do nurses meet these aims of nursing? - Answers Nurses use knowledge, skills, and critical
thinking.
Nurses give care in a variety of traditional and expanding nursing roles.
Nurses use cognitive, technical, interpersonal, and ethical/legal skills.
What skills do nurses need to use to meet these aims? - Answers Cognitive skills involve thinking
about the nature of things sufficiently to make decisions regarding care.
Technical skills enable nurses to manipulate equipment to produce a desired outcome.
Interpersonal skills involve caring relationships.
Ethical/legal skills enable nurses to conduct themselves morally and professionally.
What are the roles of nurses? - Answers Caregiver
Communicator, Teacher/Educator
Counselor
Leader
Researcher
Advocate
What are the specialized career roles of nurses? - Answers Clinical nurse specialist
Nurse practitioner
Nurse anesthetist
Nurse-midwife
What are the educational and expanded roles of nurses? - Answers Nurse educator
Nurse administrator
Nurse researcher
Nurse entrepreneur
What is the educational preparation of a LPN/LVN? - Answers Practical and Vocational Nurse
LPN/LVN
Education - 1 year
What is the educational preparation of a RN? - Answers Registered Nursing education RN
Education - Associate Degree 2years
Bachelor Degree 4 years
What is the educational preparation of a Nurse with an advanced degree? - Answers Graduate
education in nursing Specialty Area
Education - Master Degree, PhD, DNP
What are the three ways in which professional competence is ensured and maintained? - Answers
Accreditation
Licensure
Certification
What is accreditation? - Answers an educational program is evaluated and recognized as having met
certain standards
What is licensure? - Answers a state determines that a candidate meets certain minimum
requirements to practice in the profession and grants a license to do so
What is certification? - Answers a person who has met certain criteria established by a
nongovernmental association is granted recognition in a specified practice area
What is the purpose of the SCNA (South Carolina Nursing Association)? - Answers is to promote the
professional status of nurses and to improve health care in South Carolina. SCNA is also a source of
information for the nurse, the health care community and the public.
What is the purpose of the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice? - Answers Defines activities that
are specific and unique to nursing
Allow nurses to carry our professional roles
Serve as protection for the nurse, client and healthcare institution
6 Standards of Practice
LATEST UPDATE 2026
What are the aims of Nursing? - Answers To promote health
To prevent illness
To restore health
To facilitate coping with disability or death
How do nurses meet these aims of nursing? - Answers Nurses use knowledge, skills, and critical
thinking.
Nurses give care in a variety of traditional and expanding nursing roles.
Nurses use cognitive, technical, interpersonal, and ethical/legal skills.
What skills do nurses need to use to meet these aims? - Answers Cognitive skills involve thinking
about the nature of things sufficiently to make decisions regarding care.
Technical skills enable nurses to manipulate equipment to produce a desired outcome.
Interpersonal skills involve caring relationships.
Ethical/legal skills enable nurses to conduct themselves morally and professionally.
What are the roles of nurses? - Answers Caregiver
Communicator, Teacher/Educator
Counselor
Leader
Researcher
Advocate
What are the specialized career roles of nurses? - Answers Clinical nurse specialist
Nurse practitioner
Nurse anesthetist
Nurse-midwife
What are the educational and expanded roles of nurses? - Answers Nurse educator
Nurse administrator
Nurse researcher
Nurse entrepreneur
What is the educational preparation of a LPN/LVN? - Answers Practical and Vocational Nurse
LPN/LVN
Education - 1 year
What is the educational preparation of a RN? - Answers Registered Nursing education RN
Education - Associate Degree 2years
Bachelor Degree 4 years
What is the educational preparation of a Nurse with an advanced degree? - Answers Graduate
education in nursing Specialty Area
Education - Master Degree, PhD, DNP
What are the three ways in which professional competence is ensured and maintained? - Answers
Accreditation
Licensure
Certification
What is accreditation? - Answers an educational program is evaluated and recognized as having met
certain standards
What is licensure? - Answers a state determines that a candidate meets certain minimum
requirements to practice in the profession and grants a license to do so
What is certification? - Answers a person who has met certain criteria established by a
nongovernmental association is granted recognition in a specified practice area
What is the purpose of the SCNA (South Carolina Nursing Association)? - Answers is to promote the
professional status of nurses and to improve health care in South Carolina. SCNA is also a source of
information for the nurse, the health care community and the public.
What is the purpose of the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice? - Answers Defines activities that
are specific and unique to nursing
Allow nurses to carry our professional roles
Serve as protection for the nurse, client and healthcare institution
6 Standards of Practice
