NC-BC (Nurse Coach Certification Board) Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest
Update 2025/2026
Conceptual Models / Grand Theories in the Integrative - Interactive Paradigm - Answers 1. Sister
Callis ta Roy - Roy Adaptive Model (RAM)
2. Betty Neuman - Neuman System Model (NSM)
3. Dorerhea Orem - Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory (SCDNT)
4. Helen Erickson
Sister Callista Roy's Adaptation Model (RAM) - Answers * It is each individual adaptability that
determines how one deals with new experiences and challenges.
*
* 4 adaptation systems (Physiological-physical, Self-Concept group Identity, The role
mastery/Function, and Interdependency,)
Betty Neuman's Systems Model - Answers * Uses client instead of patient
* View client as holistic being - physiological, psychosocial, sociological, and developmental.
* Nurse role is primary Prevention.
* 3 energy sources (primary, secondary, tertiary)
Dorothea Orem = Self-Care Deficit - Answers * Individuals as self-reliant and responsible for
their own care.
* Practice of activities such as initiate and perform to maintain life, health, and well being.
Helen Erickson, Evelyn Tomlin, and Mary Ann Swain = Modeling and Role modeling (MRM) -
Answers 1. Build trust
2. Promote positive Orientation
3. Promote Perceived control
4. Promote Strengths
5. Set mutual goals that are health directed.
Barbara Dossey = Theory of Integral Nursing (TIN) - Answers * Healing as the natural
phenomenon that comes from within a person. Interconnectedness of things
* Individual exterior and Interior
, * Collective exterior and interior
Conceptual Models and Grand Theories in Unitary Transformation - Answers * Martha Rogers -
Theory of Science of Unitary Human Beings
* Rosemarie Parse - Theory of Human Becoming
* Margaret Newman - Health as Expanding Consciousness Theory
Martha Rogers (1970) = Theory of Science of Unitary Human Beings - Answers * Humans are
whole beings
* Encouraged nurses not to stick in the present but to look forward and envision how life might
be in a universe where it's continuous change.
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse - Theory of Human Becoming - Answers * The person can only be
viewed as unity.
* Nursing as an art to serve and as guides to assist others in making choices affecting health.
* Human - Universe as one
Margaret Newman = Health as expanding Consciousness Theory - Answers * Health and illness
is a single process moving through varying degrees degrees of organization and disorganization
but are all one unitary process.
* To become attuned to one's pattern of interaction and to recognize that it 8s one expanding
Consciousness.
* Nurses practices into partnership with client of mutual goal to grow and become healthier in
the higher levels of consciousness
Grand Theories about Cars or Caring Paradigm - Answers 1. Madeleine Leininger - Theory of
Transcultural Nursing
2. Jean Watson - Theory of Transpersonal Caring / Unitary Caring Science
Madeleine Leininger - Theory of Transcultural Nursing (1970) - Answers * Culturalogical
assessment about cultural beliefs, values, and practices; religious, philosophical, or spiritual,
economic factors, and educational beliefs.
Jean Watson's - Theory of Transpersonal caring / Unitary Caring Science - Answers *
Transpersonal Caring relationship:
1. Moral commitment to human dignity
2. Nurse's intent and will to affirm the subjective significance to others
Update 2025/2026
Conceptual Models / Grand Theories in the Integrative - Interactive Paradigm - Answers 1. Sister
Callis ta Roy - Roy Adaptive Model (RAM)
2. Betty Neuman - Neuman System Model (NSM)
3. Dorerhea Orem - Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory (SCDNT)
4. Helen Erickson
Sister Callista Roy's Adaptation Model (RAM) - Answers * It is each individual adaptability that
determines how one deals with new experiences and challenges.
*
* 4 adaptation systems (Physiological-physical, Self-Concept group Identity, The role
mastery/Function, and Interdependency,)
Betty Neuman's Systems Model - Answers * Uses client instead of patient
* View client as holistic being - physiological, psychosocial, sociological, and developmental.
* Nurse role is primary Prevention.
* 3 energy sources (primary, secondary, tertiary)
Dorothea Orem = Self-Care Deficit - Answers * Individuals as self-reliant and responsible for
their own care.
* Practice of activities such as initiate and perform to maintain life, health, and well being.
Helen Erickson, Evelyn Tomlin, and Mary Ann Swain = Modeling and Role modeling (MRM) -
Answers 1. Build trust
2. Promote positive Orientation
3. Promote Perceived control
4. Promote Strengths
5. Set mutual goals that are health directed.
Barbara Dossey = Theory of Integral Nursing (TIN) - Answers * Healing as the natural
phenomenon that comes from within a person. Interconnectedness of things
* Individual exterior and Interior
, * Collective exterior and interior
Conceptual Models and Grand Theories in Unitary Transformation - Answers * Martha Rogers -
Theory of Science of Unitary Human Beings
* Rosemarie Parse - Theory of Human Becoming
* Margaret Newman - Health as Expanding Consciousness Theory
Martha Rogers (1970) = Theory of Science of Unitary Human Beings - Answers * Humans are
whole beings
* Encouraged nurses not to stick in the present but to look forward and envision how life might
be in a universe where it's continuous change.
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse - Theory of Human Becoming - Answers * The person can only be
viewed as unity.
* Nursing as an art to serve and as guides to assist others in making choices affecting health.
* Human - Universe as one
Margaret Newman = Health as expanding Consciousness Theory - Answers * Health and illness
is a single process moving through varying degrees degrees of organization and disorganization
but are all one unitary process.
* To become attuned to one's pattern of interaction and to recognize that it 8s one expanding
Consciousness.
* Nurses practices into partnership with client of mutual goal to grow and become healthier in
the higher levels of consciousness
Grand Theories about Cars or Caring Paradigm - Answers 1. Madeleine Leininger - Theory of
Transcultural Nursing
2. Jean Watson - Theory of Transpersonal Caring / Unitary Caring Science
Madeleine Leininger - Theory of Transcultural Nursing (1970) - Answers * Culturalogical
assessment about cultural beliefs, values, and practices; religious, philosophical, or spiritual,
economic factors, and educational beliefs.
Jean Watson's - Theory of Transpersonal caring / Unitary Caring Science - Answers *
Transpersonal Caring relationship:
1. Moral commitment to human dignity
2. Nurse's intent and will to affirm the subjective significance to others
