Nurse Coaching Certification EXAM QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Nurse Coach Core Essentials (core values) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Core Values:
1. Nurse Coach Philosophy, Theory, Ethics
2. Nurse Coaching Process
3. Nurse Coach Communication and Therapeutic Environment
4. Education, Research, and Leadership
5. Self-Reflection, Self-Assessment
Nurse coach philosophy and theories (Core Value 1) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅(1) Centers and
grounds self at the beginning of each coaching interaction
(2) Acknowledges, respects and affirms the client as the authority on his/her own health and wellbeing
(3) Acknowledges that new goals will emerge as the client transforms over time
(4) Aligns own intention with the client's goals
(5) Remains fully present, centered, and grounded at the beginning and throughout the nurse coaching
process
(6) Uses intentionality, aligned with client's goals, throughout the coaching process
(7) Accesses and trusts one's own personal knowing (e.g. intuition and hunches/gut feelings)
(8) Demonstrates authenticity (honesty, sincerity, personal integrity)
(9) Demonstrates respect for client's subjective experiences expressed as stories and perceptions
(10) Acknowledges client resistance as an opportunity for self-awareness and growth
(11) Uses holistic, sophisticated verbal and non-verbal communication skills, including but not limited to
active listening, relevant use of language and focused questioning (core value 3)
(12) Empowers the client's goal attainment (core value 3)
(13) Understands that clear, respectful, skillful, sophisticated communication is a fundamental and
essential component of the Professional Nurse Coach relationship
(14) Communicates with family, significant others, caregivers, health care providers, and others to assist
and enhance the client's achievement of coaching goals, when requested by the client
,(15) Able to distinguish between telephone and internet-technology based health coaching, and
telehealth (tele-education)
Centers and grounds self at the beginning of each coaching interaction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a)
Acquires knowledge/skills needed to center self
b) Uses centering activities/procedures prior to and throughout the coaching process
Acknowledges, respects and affirms the client as the authority on his/her own health and wellbeing -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Acquires, comprehends and applies knowledge/skills related to client as
authority
Aligns own intention with the client's goals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Acquires
knowledge/principles of intentionality
b) Develops skills related to setting intentionality
c) Sets intent to stay focused on client needs
Remains fully present, centered, and grounded at the beginning and throughout the nurse coaching
process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Maintains an interested, open, and reflective approach to the
client
b) Is comfortable with silence or pausing to assist the client with reflection and finding new
understanding of next steps
c) Draws upon the precepts of the human energy field/system to assist client in achievement of goals
Uses intentionality, aligned with client's goals, throughout the coaching process - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅a) Applies client-focused intentionality knowledge and skills in nurse-coaching
process
Accesses and trusts one's own personal knowing (e.g. intuition and hunches/gut feelings) - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅a) Develops skills needed to assess, trust multiple ways of knowing
Demonstrates authenticity (honesty, sincerity, personal integrity) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a)
Acquires knowledge and behaviors related to authenticity
,b) Use self-reflection as a way to acquire self-knowledge, self-awareness, and gain inner-wisdom
essential for enhancing self-authenticity
Demonstrates respect for client's subjective experiences expressed as stories and perceptions. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Develops and applies knowledge/skills needed to facilitate client's self-
expressed life stories
b) Uses documentation methods that provides information while protecting confidentiality
Acknowledges client resistance as an opportunity for self-awareness and growth - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅a) Acquires, comprehends, and applies knowledge/skills related to sophisticated
communication
b) Understands resistance to change is a way of defending against fear of failure and/or fear of knowing
Nurse Coach Ethics (Core Value 1) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅(1) Uses the Code of Ethics for Nurses
with Interpretive Statements to guide practice and articulate the foundation of the Professional Nurse
Coach Practice
(2) Acknowledges that principles of holistic, human caring are central to the Nurse Coach's practice
(3) Acknowledges that the nurse coaching process is based on a trusting, intimate nurse-client
relationship
(4) Acknowledges that the nurse coaching process is a dynamic, systematic, and skilled process
(5) Uses Holistic Nursing Principles to guide nurse-client interactions throughout the coaching process
(6) Understands and effectively discusses with the client the ethical guidelines and
specific parameters of the Nurse Coaching relationship (e.g., logistics, fees, scheduling)
(7) Facilitates client's expression of new ideas, behaviors, and actions that may involve risk-taking and
fear of failure
(8) Clearly communicates and clarifies distinctions among coaching, consulting, counseling, and teaching
to clients and others as indicated
(9) Partners with clients to individualize the Nurse Coach Process
(10) Supports the client's inner-wisdom, intuition, and innate ability for knowing what is best for self
throughout the Nurse Coach Process
(11) Implements the Nurse Coach Process in a manner that promotes the client's autonomy, dignity,
rights, values, beliefs, and strengths
, (12) Maintains an effective coaching relationship that is congruent with the coaching agreement and
within the boundaries of professional nursing practice
(13) Performs the nurse coaching process by integrating knowledge, skills, intuition, and judgment
(14) Values all life experiences as opportunities to find personal meaning and cultivate self-awareness,
self-reflection, and growth
(15) Maintains client confidentiality within legal and regulatory parameters
(16) Refers client to other professiona
Uses the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2015), the Position Statement on
Holistic Nursing Ethics (AHNA, 2012) to guide practice and articulate the foundation of the Professional
Nurse Coach Practice. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Clearly communicates to the client and others
the distinctions among coaching, consulting, counseling, and teaching
b) Provides coaching in a manner that recognizes and respects the client's autonomy, dignity, rights,
values, and beliefs.
c) Maintains an effective coaching relationship that is congruent with the coaching agreement and
within the boundaries of professional nursing practice.
d) Values all life experiences as opportunities to find personal meaning and cultivate self-awareness.
Acknowledges that principles of holistic, human caring are central to the Nurse Coach's practice -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Acquires and uses knowledge/skills essential to facilitate the holistic
human caring process
Acknowledges that the nurse coaching process is based on a trusting, intimate nurse-client relationship -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Understands and applies factors related to development of a trusting,
intimate relationship
b) Understands and applies factors related to maintenance of ongoing relationship
Uses Holistic Nursing Principles to guide nurse-client interactions throughout the coaching process -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Continuously exhibits authenticity, honesty, sincerity, personal integrity.
b) Maintains client confidentiality with legal and regulatory parameters.
c) Reinforces client as authority of own health and well-being.
d) Uses client's worldview as framework for setting goals and outcomes.
e) Supports the client in directing the agenda/focus of the coaching process.
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Nurse Coach Core Essentials (core values) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Core Values:
1. Nurse Coach Philosophy, Theory, Ethics
2. Nurse Coaching Process
3. Nurse Coach Communication and Therapeutic Environment
4. Education, Research, and Leadership
5. Self-Reflection, Self-Assessment
Nurse coach philosophy and theories (Core Value 1) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅(1) Centers and
grounds self at the beginning of each coaching interaction
(2) Acknowledges, respects and affirms the client as the authority on his/her own health and wellbeing
(3) Acknowledges that new goals will emerge as the client transforms over time
(4) Aligns own intention with the client's goals
(5) Remains fully present, centered, and grounded at the beginning and throughout the nurse coaching
process
(6) Uses intentionality, aligned with client's goals, throughout the coaching process
(7) Accesses and trusts one's own personal knowing (e.g. intuition and hunches/gut feelings)
(8) Demonstrates authenticity (honesty, sincerity, personal integrity)
(9) Demonstrates respect for client's subjective experiences expressed as stories and perceptions
(10) Acknowledges client resistance as an opportunity for self-awareness and growth
(11) Uses holistic, sophisticated verbal and non-verbal communication skills, including but not limited to
active listening, relevant use of language and focused questioning (core value 3)
(12) Empowers the client's goal attainment (core value 3)
(13) Understands that clear, respectful, skillful, sophisticated communication is a fundamental and
essential component of the Professional Nurse Coach relationship
(14) Communicates with family, significant others, caregivers, health care providers, and others to assist
and enhance the client's achievement of coaching goals, when requested by the client
,(15) Able to distinguish between telephone and internet-technology based health coaching, and
telehealth (tele-education)
Centers and grounds self at the beginning of each coaching interaction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a)
Acquires knowledge/skills needed to center self
b) Uses centering activities/procedures prior to and throughout the coaching process
Acknowledges, respects and affirms the client as the authority on his/her own health and wellbeing -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Acquires, comprehends and applies knowledge/skills related to client as
authority
Aligns own intention with the client's goals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Acquires
knowledge/principles of intentionality
b) Develops skills related to setting intentionality
c) Sets intent to stay focused on client needs
Remains fully present, centered, and grounded at the beginning and throughout the nurse coaching
process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Maintains an interested, open, and reflective approach to the
client
b) Is comfortable with silence or pausing to assist the client with reflection and finding new
understanding of next steps
c) Draws upon the precepts of the human energy field/system to assist client in achievement of goals
Uses intentionality, aligned with client's goals, throughout the coaching process - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅a) Applies client-focused intentionality knowledge and skills in nurse-coaching
process
Accesses and trusts one's own personal knowing (e.g. intuition and hunches/gut feelings) - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅a) Develops skills needed to assess, trust multiple ways of knowing
Demonstrates authenticity (honesty, sincerity, personal integrity) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a)
Acquires knowledge and behaviors related to authenticity
,b) Use self-reflection as a way to acquire self-knowledge, self-awareness, and gain inner-wisdom
essential for enhancing self-authenticity
Demonstrates respect for client's subjective experiences expressed as stories and perceptions. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Develops and applies knowledge/skills needed to facilitate client's self-
expressed life stories
b) Uses documentation methods that provides information while protecting confidentiality
Acknowledges client resistance as an opportunity for self-awareness and growth - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅a) Acquires, comprehends, and applies knowledge/skills related to sophisticated
communication
b) Understands resistance to change is a way of defending against fear of failure and/or fear of knowing
Nurse Coach Ethics (Core Value 1) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅(1) Uses the Code of Ethics for Nurses
with Interpretive Statements to guide practice and articulate the foundation of the Professional Nurse
Coach Practice
(2) Acknowledges that principles of holistic, human caring are central to the Nurse Coach's practice
(3) Acknowledges that the nurse coaching process is based on a trusting, intimate nurse-client
relationship
(4) Acknowledges that the nurse coaching process is a dynamic, systematic, and skilled process
(5) Uses Holistic Nursing Principles to guide nurse-client interactions throughout the coaching process
(6) Understands and effectively discusses with the client the ethical guidelines and
specific parameters of the Nurse Coaching relationship (e.g., logistics, fees, scheduling)
(7) Facilitates client's expression of new ideas, behaviors, and actions that may involve risk-taking and
fear of failure
(8) Clearly communicates and clarifies distinctions among coaching, consulting, counseling, and teaching
to clients and others as indicated
(9) Partners with clients to individualize the Nurse Coach Process
(10) Supports the client's inner-wisdom, intuition, and innate ability for knowing what is best for self
throughout the Nurse Coach Process
(11) Implements the Nurse Coach Process in a manner that promotes the client's autonomy, dignity,
rights, values, beliefs, and strengths
, (12) Maintains an effective coaching relationship that is congruent with the coaching agreement and
within the boundaries of professional nursing practice
(13) Performs the nurse coaching process by integrating knowledge, skills, intuition, and judgment
(14) Values all life experiences as opportunities to find personal meaning and cultivate self-awareness,
self-reflection, and growth
(15) Maintains client confidentiality within legal and regulatory parameters
(16) Refers client to other professiona
Uses the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2015), the Position Statement on
Holistic Nursing Ethics (AHNA, 2012) to guide practice and articulate the foundation of the Professional
Nurse Coach Practice. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Clearly communicates to the client and others
the distinctions among coaching, consulting, counseling, and teaching
b) Provides coaching in a manner that recognizes and respects the client's autonomy, dignity, rights,
values, and beliefs.
c) Maintains an effective coaching relationship that is congruent with the coaching agreement and
within the boundaries of professional nursing practice.
d) Values all life experiences as opportunities to find personal meaning and cultivate self-awareness.
Acknowledges that principles of holistic, human caring are central to the Nurse Coach's practice -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Acquires and uses knowledge/skills essential to facilitate the holistic
human caring process
Acknowledges that the nurse coaching process is based on a trusting, intimate nurse-client relationship -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Understands and applies factors related to development of a trusting,
intimate relationship
b) Understands and applies factors related to maintenance of ongoing relationship
Uses Holistic Nursing Principles to guide nurse-client interactions throughout the coaching process -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a) Continuously exhibits authenticity, honesty, sincerity, personal integrity.
b) Maintains client confidentiality with legal and regulatory parameters.
c) Reinforces client as authority of own health and well-being.
d) Uses client's worldview as framework for setting goals and outcomes.
e) Supports the client in directing the agenda/focus of the coaching process.
