NURSE COACHING BOARD TEST STUDY
GUIDE 2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<LATEST VERSION>
1. Nurse Coach Core Essentials (core values) - ANSWER ✔ Core Values:
Nurse Coach Philosophy, Theory, Ethics
Nurse Coaching Process
Nurse Coach Communication and Therapeutic Environment
Education, Research, and Leadership
Self-Reflection, Self-Assessment
2. Nurse coach philosophy and theories (Core Value 1) - 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)
3. Centers and grounds self at the beginning of each coaching interaction -
ANSWER ✔ a) Acquires knowledge/skills needed to center self
b) Uses centering activities/procedures prior to and throughout the coaching
process
4. Acknowledges, respects and affirms the client as the authority on his/her
own health and wellbeing - ANSWER ✔ a) Acquires, comprehends and
applies knowledge/skills related to client as authority
5. Aligns own intention with the client's goals - ANSWER ✔ a) Acquires
knowledge/principles of intentionality
b) Develops skills related to setting intentionality
c) Sets intent to stay focused on client needs
6. Nurse Coaching Process - ANSWER ✔ (Core Value 3)
-Assessment
-Diagnosis
-Outcomes Identification
, -Planning
-Implementation
-Evaluation
7. Assessment - ANSWER ✔ Establishing relationship & identifying readiness
for change
-Begin by becoming fully present
-establish a relationship
-identifying the person's strengths, what one wants to change, & assisting the
person to determine their available resources & readiness for change
-assessment is dynamic and ongoing
8. Diagnosis - ANSWER ✔ Identifying opportunities, issues, & concerns
-Done in partnership
-identifies opportunities & issues related to growth, overall health,
wholeness, & well-being
-Acknowledge strengths
-Open to multiple interpretations of an unfolding interaction
9. Outcomes Identification - ANSWER ✔ Establishing person-centered goals
-Approach facilitates achievement of person's goals
-Client sets agenda
10.Planning - ANSWER ✔ Creating the structure of the coaching interaction
-Coaching agreement identifies specific parameters of the coaching
relationship, including responsibilities & action plans for both the nurse
coach & the individual
11.Implementation - ANSWER ✔ Empowering & motivating the individual to
reach goals
, -effective communication skills such as deep listening, powerful
questioning, & direct feedback as key components of the coaching
interaction
-co-creating awareness, designing actions, setting goals, planning &
addressing progress & accountability
-skillfully chooses interventions
-interacts with intention & curiosity in a manner that assists the individual
toward achievement of desired goals
-the nurse coach effectively uses nursing knowledge, in addition of a variety
of skills acquired through coach training
12.Evaluation - ANSWER ✔ Assisting the individual to determine the extent to
which goals were achieved
-Evaluation done primarily by the client
-Based on their perception of success & goal achievement
-Nurse coach partners with client to evaluate progress
13.Communication - ANSWER ✔ (Core Value 4)
A free-flowing interchange of verbal & nonverbal information
-convey empathy
-respectful inquiry
-strengthen self-efficacy
-focus on self-esteem
-open-ended questions
-sympathy, no pity
-development of trust & respect
-understanding of & appreciation for the individual's values, perspectives,
perceptions, & culture
-change talk -- ambivalence, discrepancy, intrinsic motivation, resistance
14.Healing Environment - ANSWER ✔ -context of caring
-physical, mental, social, cultural & spiritual dimensions
-includes animate & inanimate objects & the climate, including seen &
unseen vibrations, frequencies, and energy patterns
GUIDE 2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<LATEST VERSION>
1. Nurse Coach Core Essentials (core values) - ANSWER ✔ Core Values:
Nurse Coach Philosophy, Theory, Ethics
Nurse Coaching Process
Nurse Coach Communication and Therapeutic Environment
Education, Research, and Leadership
Self-Reflection, Self-Assessment
2. Nurse coach philosophy and theories (Core Value 1) - 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)
3. Centers and grounds self at the beginning of each coaching interaction -
ANSWER ✔ a) Acquires knowledge/skills needed to center self
b) Uses centering activities/procedures prior to and throughout the coaching
process
4. Acknowledges, respects and affirms the client as the authority on his/her
own health and wellbeing - ANSWER ✔ a) Acquires, comprehends and
applies knowledge/skills related to client as authority
5. Aligns own intention with the client's goals - ANSWER ✔ a) Acquires
knowledge/principles of intentionality
b) Develops skills related to setting intentionality
c) Sets intent to stay focused on client needs
6. Nurse Coaching Process - ANSWER ✔ (Core Value 3)
-Assessment
-Diagnosis
-Outcomes Identification
, -Planning
-Implementation
-Evaluation
7. Assessment - ANSWER ✔ Establishing relationship & identifying readiness
for change
-Begin by becoming fully present
-establish a relationship
-identifying the person's strengths, what one wants to change, & assisting the
person to determine their available resources & readiness for change
-assessment is dynamic and ongoing
8. Diagnosis - ANSWER ✔ Identifying opportunities, issues, & concerns
-Done in partnership
-identifies opportunities & issues related to growth, overall health,
wholeness, & well-being
-Acknowledge strengths
-Open to multiple interpretations of an unfolding interaction
9. Outcomes Identification - ANSWER ✔ Establishing person-centered goals
-Approach facilitates achievement of person's goals
-Client sets agenda
10.Planning - ANSWER ✔ Creating the structure of the coaching interaction
-Coaching agreement identifies specific parameters of the coaching
relationship, including responsibilities & action plans for both the nurse
coach & the individual
11.Implementation - ANSWER ✔ Empowering & motivating the individual to
reach goals
, -effective communication skills such as deep listening, powerful
questioning, & direct feedback as key components of the coaching
interaction
-co-creating awareness, designing actions, setting goals, planning &
addressing progress & accountability
-skillfully chooses interventions
-interacts with intention & curiosity in a manner that assists the individual
toward achievement of desired goals
-the nurse coach effectively uses nursing knowledge, in addition of a variety
of skills acquired through coach training
12.Evaluation - ANSWER ✔ Assisting the individual to determine the extent to
which goals were achieved
-Evaluation done primarily by the client
-Based on their perception of success & goal achievement
-Nurse coach partners with client to evaluate progress
13.Communication - ANSWER ✔ (Core Value 4)
A free-flowing interchange of verbal & nonverbal information
-convey empathy
-respectful inquiry
-strengthen self-efficacy
-focus on self-esteem
-open-ended questions
-sympathy, no pity
-development of trust & respect
-understanding of & appreciation for the individual's values, perspectives,
perceptions, & culture
-change talk -- ambivalence, discrepancy, intrinsic motivation, resistance
14.Healing Environment - ANSWER ✔ -context of caring
-physical, mental, social, cultural & spiritual dimensions
-includes animate & inanimate objects & the climate, including seen &
unseen vibrations, frequencies, and energy patterns
