Question 1

What would not be found in a budget for staff development department?

Accepted Answer

A)  Office supplies 
B)  Quality improvement data collection 
C)  Marketing expenses 
D)  Staff development specialists' salaries and benefits 
A)  Office supplies 
B)  Quality improvement data collection 
C)  Marketing expenses 
D)  Staff development specialists' salaries and benefits B

Question 2

What did the NAM recognize as it was developing the Quality Chasm series of reports on healthcare?

Accepted Answer

A)  Healthcare quality must consider staff competency. 
B)  Nursing education is meeting the practice needs. 
C)  Interprofessional education is effective. 
D)  Continuing education meets the five core healthcare professions competencies. 
A)  Healthcare quality must consider staff competency. 
B)  Nursing education is meeting the practice needs. 
C)  Interprofessional education is effective. 
D)  Continuing education meets the five core healthcare professions competencies. A

Question 3

What is the newest trend in continuing education?

Accepted Answer

A)  Clinically based continuing education 
B)  Continuing education that is required for licensure 
C)  Development of interprofessional continuing education 
D)  Continuing education best offered in face-to-face format 
A)  Clinically based continuing education 
B)  Continuing education that is required for licensure 
C)  Development of interprofessional continuing education 
D)  Continuing education best offered in face-to-face format C

Question 4

What is the common length of the typical nurse residency program?

Accepted Answer

A)  One month 
B)  Six months 
C)  Twelve months 
D)  Eighteen months 
A)  One month 
B)  Six months 
C)  Twelve months 
D)  Eighteen months

Question 5

What is a major recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages (ACICBL)? Select all that apply.

Accepted Answer

A)  Greater use of e-learning for continuing education 
B)  Continuing professional development is a term used by physicians. 
C)  Greater government funding to support CPD is needed. 
D)  There is adequate funding of faculty training for distance education. 
E)  NAM core competencies should be included in CPD. 
A)  Greater use of e-learning for continuing education 
B)  Continuing professional development is a term used by physicians. 
C)  Greater government funding to support CPD is needed. 
D)  There is adequate funding of faculty training for distance education. 
E)  NAM core competencies should be included in CPD.

Question 6

What should be included in general orientation? Select all that apply.

Accepted Answer

A)  Human resource services and policies 
B)  Communication systems and guidelines 
C)  Working with clinical team in intensive care unit 
D)  Developing your initial works schedule 
E)  The organization vision, mission, and goals 
A)  Human resource services and policies 
B)  Communication systems and guidelines 
C)  Working with clinical team in intensive care unit 
D)  Developing your initial works schedule 
E)  The organization vision, mission, and goals

Question 7

What would a nursing education division include in its annual evaluation of the division?

Accepted Answer

A)  Number and type of staff who attend specific programs 
B)  Cost per educational program 
C)  Nursing quality improvement data 
D)  Attendee/participant feedback related to program and outcomes 
E)  List of equipment and supplies used 
A)  Number and type of staff who attend specific programs 
B)  Cost per educational program 
C)  Nursing quality improvement data 
D)  Attendee/participant feedback related to program and outcomes 
E)  List of equipment and supplies used

Question 8

Which of the following statements best describe orientation? Select all that apply.

Accepted Answer

A)  All new staff in a healthcare organization should attend orientation. 
B)  Nurse residents do not need orientation, as they are in a residency program. 
C)  Orientee feedback should be routinely surveyed. 
D)  Staff transferring to new unit or position do not need orientation. 
E)  Orientation should be organized and include general and unit specific content and learning activities. 
A)  All new staff in a healthcare organization should attend orientation. 
B)  Nurse residents do not need orientation, as they are in a residency program. 
C)  Orientee feedback should be routinely surveyed. 
D)  Staff transferring to new unit or position do not need orientation. 
E)  Orientation should be organized and include general and unit specific content and learning activities.

Question 9

A new Chief Nursing Executive has joined the hospital. He is meeting with the nurse management staff to discuss staff education. Which of the following is the best approach to take when organizing staff education within a healthcare organization?

Accepted Answer

A)  Inform nurse managers that staff education will be centralized into a division within the nursing department as this is how it was done where he worked in past. 
B)  Set up plan for units that want to handle their own staff education to do so. 
C)  Inform the management group that he is their representative to the CEO to develop staff education for the staff. 
D)  Hire a director of nursing education and then work on organization. 
A)  Inform nurse managers that staff education will be centralized into a division within the nursing department as this is how it was done where he worked in past. 
B)  Set up plan for units that want to handle their own staff education to do so. 
C)  Inform the management group that he is their representative to the CEO to develop staff education for the staff. 
D)  Hire a director of nursing education and then work on organization.

Question 10

What is the first step in the staff nursing education process?

Accepted Answer

A)  Clearly stating the problem 
B)  Needs analysis 
C)  Budget development 
D)  Marketing the educational offering 
A)  Clearly stating the problem 
B)  Needs analysis 
C)  Budget development 
D)  Marketing the educational offering

Question 11

You are orienting a new nursing professional development specialist to the position. How best would you describe the ANA and National Staff Development Organization's Standards of Nursing Professional Development?

Accepted Answer

A)  The standards cover assessment, outcomes, planning, implementation, and evaluation. 
B)  The standards tell us specifically what we need to do and how to meet these requirements in our department and as nursing professional development specialist. 
C)  The standards describe quality care and needs. 
D)  The standards provide guidelines for staff development functions and professional issues of staff development specialists. 
A)  The standards cover assessment, outcomes, planning, implementation, and evaluation. 
B)  The standards tell us specifically what we need to do and how to meet these requirements in our department and as nursing professional development specialist. 
C)  The standards describe quality care and needs. 
D)  The standards provide guidelines for staff development functions and professional issues of staff development specialists.

Question 12

As Director of Nursing Education in a large hospital, you are working with nurse managers and your staff development specialists to update the policy on staff attending conferences so that is more effective policy and attendance is increased. What might you include in this policy? Select all that apply.

Accepted Answer

A)  Specify criteria for staff to receive fees and/or time off. 
B)  Require staff who attend (receiving conference fee and/or time off) to present to staff after the conference. 
C)  Specify the procedure for applying time off and/or fees to attend a conference and time line. 
D)  Recognize the continuing education is an individual professional obligation and thus conference fees will not be provided. 
E)  The same policy should then be applied to staff in academic programs. 
A)  Specify criteria for staff to receive fees and/or time off. 
B)  Require staff who attend (receiving conference fee and/or time off) to present to staff after the conference. 
C)  Specify the procedure for applying time off and/or fees to attend a conference and time line. 
D)  Recognize the continuing education is an individual professional obligation and thus conference fees will not be provided. 
E)  The same policy should then be applied to staff in academic programs.

Question 13

The ANA and National Nursing Staff Development Organization model of nursing professional development specialist practice identifies inputs, throughputs, and outputs. What is included as the throughputs?

Accepted Answer

A)  Career development and role transition 
B)  The learner 
C)  Change and learning 
D)  Nursing professional development specialist 
A)  Career development and role transition 
B)  The learner 
C)  Change and learning 
D)  Nursing professional development specialist

Question 14

What is unique about the NAM approach to healthcare professions education?

Accepted Answer

A)  Focus is on medical education 
B)  Focus is on all healthcare professions 
C)  Focus is on nursing education 
D)  Focus is on continuing education 
A)  Focus is on medical education 
B)  Focus is on all healthcare professions 
C)  Focus is on nursing education 
D)  Focus is on continuing education

Question 15

The 2008 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) edition of The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice is best described as supporting which of the following statements in its Essentials to be met by its accredited schools of nursing with BSN programs?

Accepted Answer

A)  Leadership is needed to support quality, safe care. 
B)  Nursing education requires major changes. 
C)  Knowledge and skills support leadership and quality safe care. 
D)  Provide quality safe care. 
A)  Leadership is needed to support quality, safe care. 
B)  Nursing education requires major changes. 
C)  Knowledge and skills support leadership and quality safe care. 
D)  Provide quality safe care.

Question 16

What was not considered to be a major problem when the National Council of State Boards of Nursing developed the Transition-to-Practice Model?

Accepted Answer

A)  New nurses care for sicker patients in complex settings. 
B)  New nurses feel increased stress levels. 
C)  Nationally, recruitment has remained the same due to changes in the nursing shortage. 
D)  One-quarter of new nurses leave their positions in the first year post-graduation. 
A)  New nurses care for sicker patients in complex settings. 
B)  New nurses feel increased stress levels. 
C)  Nationally, recruitment has remained the same due to changes in the nursing shortage. 
D)  One-quarter of new nurses leave their positions in the first year post-graduation.

Question 17

The Health Professions Education report indicates change is needed in healthcare professions education. What are the core competencies the report identifies?

Accepted Answer

A)  Utilize informatics. 
B)  Provide patient-centered care. 
C)  Demonstrate leadership. 
D)  Work in interprofessional teams. 
E)  Communicate clearly. 
A)  Utilize informatics. 
B)  Provide patient-centered care. 
C)  Demonstrate leadership. 
D)  Work in interprofessional teams. 
E)  Communicate clearly.

Question 18

What is the core concern of the ANA staff development standards?

Accepted Answer

A)  Set academic standards for nursing education. 
B)  Provision of quality care in healthcare organizations. 
C)  Provide staff development requirements. 
D)  Provide protection of the public and provision of quality care. 
A)  Set academic standards for nursing education. 
B)  Provision of quality care in healthcare organizations. 
C)  Provide staff development requirements. 
D)  Provide protection of the public and provision of quality care.

Question 19

As Director of Nursing Education, you are often asked to respond to change. For example, a new policy is not working well and you are told to do something to fix this. What is the best response you could give to this request?

Accepted Answer

A)  I will move forward based on the information you have just given me that the policy is not being followed. A plan for staff education on the policy will be implemented this month. 
B)  I will look into the problem. After I have some data, analyze the issues, talk to nurse managers, staff, and other stakeholders, I will then develop and response. If staff education is needed, I will plan this. 
C)  I will ask the nurse managers in the four units that use this policy the most to identify specific staff who have not used the policy, and to meet with them to correct this. 
D)  I will ask the Policy and Procedure Committee to take are of the problem. 
A)  I will move forward based on the information you have just given me that the policy is not being followed. A plan for staff education on the policy will be implemented this month. 
B)  I will look into the problem. After I have some data, analyze the issues, talk to nurse managers, staff, and other stakeholders, I will then develop and response. If staff education is needed, I will plan this. 
C)  I will ask the nurse managers in the four units that use this policy the most to identify specific staff who have not used the policy, and to meet with them to correct this. 
D)  I will ask the Policy and Procedure Committee to take are of the problem.

Question 20

How is continuing education credit for healthcare professions currently provided?

Accepted Answer

A)  One source for all healthcare professions 
B)  Multiple methods focused on multiple healthcare professions 
C)  Credit provided by academic institutions 
D)  Government provides continuing education credit. 
A)  One source for all healthcare professions 
B)  Multiple methods focused on multiple healthcare professions 
C)  Credit provided by academic institutions 
D)  Government provides continuing education credit.

What would not be found in a budget for staff development department?

What did the NAM recognize as it was developing the Quality Chasm series of reports on healthcare?

What is the newest trend in continuing education?

What is the common length of the typical nurse residency program?

What is a major recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages (ACICBL)? Select all that apply.

What should be included in general orientation? Select all that apply.

What would a nursing education division include in its annual evaluation of the division?

Which of the following statements best describe orientation? Select all that apply.

A new Chief Nursing Executive has joined the hospital. He is meeting with the nurse management staff to discuss staff education. Which of the following is the best approach to take when organizing staff education within a healthcare organization?

What is the first step in the staff nursing education process?

You are orienting a new nursing professional development specialist to the position. How best would you describe the ANA and National Staff Development Organization's Standards of Nursing Professional Development?

The ANA and National Nursing Staff Development Organization model of nursing professional development specialist practice identifies inputs, throughputs, and outputs. What is included as the throughputs?

What is unique about the NAM approach to healthcare professions education?

The 2008 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) edition of The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice is best described as supporting which of the following statements in its Essentials to be met by its accredited schools of nursing with BSN programs?

What was not considered to be a major problem when the National Council of State Boards of Nursing developed the Transition-to-Practice Model?

The Health Professions Education report indicates change is needed in healthcare professions education. What are the core competencies the report identifies?

What is the core concern of the ANA staff development standards?

As Director of Nursing Education, you are often asked to respond to change. For example, a new policy is not working well and you are told to do something to fix this. What is the best response you could give to this request?

How is continuing education credit for healthcare professions currently provided?

Conceptual Base for Leadership and Management

Healthcare Policy, Legal Issues, and Ethics in Healthcare Delivery

Operational and Strategic Planning: Change, Innovation, and Decision Making

Organizational Structure for Effective Care Delivery

Healthcare Economics

Acute Care Organizations: an Example of a Healthcare Organization

Publiccommunity Health: Expansion and Need for Leadership

Recruitment and Retention: Meeting Staffing Requirements

Managing Patient-Centered Care

Diversity and Disparities in Health Care

Consumers and Nurses

Developing Interprofessional and Intraprofessional Teams

Improving Teamwork: Collaboration, Coordination, and Conflict Resolution

Effective Staff Communication and Working Relationships

Delegation for Effective Outcomes

Evidence-Based Practice and Management

Healthcare Quality: a Critical Health Policy Issue

Implementing Healthcare Quality Improvement

Healthcare Informatics and Technology

Filters

Exam 20: Staff Education to Meet Health Professions Core Competencies and Improve Care

What would not be found in a budget for staff development department?

What did the NAM recognize as it was developing the Quality Chasm series of reports on healthcare?

What is the newest trend in continuing education?

What is the common length of the typical nurse residency program?

What is a major recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages (ACICBL)? Select all that apply.

What should be included in general orientation? Select all that apply.

What would a nursing education division include in its annual evaluation of the division?

Which of the following statements best describe orientation? Select all that apply.

A new Chief Nursing Executive has joined the hospital. He is meeting with the nurse management staff to discuss staff education. Which of the following is the best approach to take when organizing staff education within a healthcare organization?

What is the first step in the staff nursing education process?

You are orienting a new nursing professional development specialist to the position. How best would you describe the ANA and National Staff Development Organization's Standards of Nursing Professional Development?

The ANA and National Nursing Staff Development Organization model of nursing professional development specialist practice identifies inputs, throughputs, and outputs. What is included as the throughputs?

What is unique about the NAM approach to healthcare professions education?

The 2008 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) edition of The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice is best described as supporting which of the following statements in its Essentials to be met by its accredited schools of nursing with BSN programs?

What was not considered to be a major problem when the National Council of State Boards of Nursing developed the Transition-to-Practice Model?

The Health Professions Education report indicates change is needed in healthcare professions education. What are the core competencies the report identifies?

What is the core concern of the ANA staff development standards?

As Director of Nursing Education, you are often asked to respond to change. For example, a new policy is not working well and you are told to do something to fix this. What is the best response you could give to this request?

How is continuing education credit for healthcare professions currently provided?

Conceptual Base for Leadership and Management

Healthcare Policy, Legal Issues, and Ethics in Healthcare Delivery

Operational and Strategic Planning: Change, Innovation, and Decision Making

Organizational Structure for Effective Care Delivery

Healthcare Economics

Acute Care Organizations: an Example of a Healthcare Organization

Publiccommunity Health: Expansion and Need for Leadership

Recruitment and Retention: Meeting Staffing Requirements

Managing Patient-Centered Care

Diversity and Disparities in Health Care

Consumers and Nurses

Developing Interprofessional and Intraprofessional Teams

Improving Teamwork: Collaboration, Coordination, and Conflict Resolution

Effective Staff Communication and Working Relationships

Delegation for Effective Outcomes

Evidence-Based Practice and Management

Healthcare Quality: a Critical Health Policy Issue

Implementing Healthcare Quality Improvement

Healthcare Informatics and Technology

Filters