NRNP 6565 Week 2: Nurse Practitioner Professional Practices

As healthcare providers, we strive to deliver optimal, safe care. Ongoing healthcare research, evidenced-based care, and effective guidelines for practice offer a stabilizing force. Our duty, as healthcare providers, is to “do no harm.” As providers, primary care nurse practitioners provide preventive and primary care, which entails complex management. Understanding legal terminology is essential to the role. Terms such as “standard of care,” “malpractice,” and “negligence” are inevitable and essential components for understanding the legal challenges advanced practice nurses will experience during their careers NRNP 6565: Synthesis in Advanced Nursing Practice Care of Patients in Primary Care Settings.

 

Another essential professional element in clinical practice is reimbursement. All NPs must give due diligence and ensure all services provided are accurately coded and billed appropriately. Avoiding fraudulent billing is a key element to your success as an NP. As providers, we are ultimately responsible for billing that occurs with our assigned Medicare, Medicaid, and other third-party reimbursement entities’ assigned numbers.

 

This week, you will explore nurse practitioner professional practices and complete a Knowledge Check on those topics. You will also take a practice exam, which will help you assess your current knowledge level in the content areas that will be assessed on the certification exam.

 

Learning Objectives

 

Students will:

 

Evaluate mastery of nurse practitioner knowledge in preparation for the nurse practitioner national certification examination

Identify key concepts of professional issues related to coding/billing, malpractice, and negligence NRNP 6565: Synthesis in Advanced Nursing Practice Care of Patients in Primary Care Settings

Learning Resources

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Assignment: Practice Exam Questions

Chapter 31 of your Nurse Practitioner Certification Intensive Review text contains practice exam questions that will help you prepare to take the national certification.

 

To Prepare:

 

You do not need to study or prepare for this test. It is being used as a diagnostic pre-assessment to gauge your current knowledge.

Set aside time to complete 100 of these questions.

By Day 7

Complete the practice questions and afterward, score your results using the answer key in the text.

Save your score for next week, when you will create a certification exam study plan based on your results.

Note: Your grade for the Week 3 Assignment will not be derived from your test results but from your self-reflection and study plan NRNP 6565: Synthesis in Advanced Nursing Practice Care of Patients in Primary Care Settings.

Knowledge Check: Professional Practices

This knowledge check consists of 10 short-answer and true/false questions that focus on the following content areas:

 

Coding/Billing

Malpractice/Negligence