WHNP Boards: Professional Issues Exam

WHNP Boards: Professional Issues Exam

Questions and Answers How often do you renew WHNP certification and through who? - Correct Answers ✅- every 3 yrs Through National Certification Corporation (NCC) How can you renew WHNP certification? - Correct Answers

✅Must be renewed through ONE of the following ways:

• Professional development certification maintenance

program: take NCC specialty assessment evaluation, which

covers topics that reflect major content areas tested on certification exam; results determine topics and mount of continuing education required (15 - 50 hrs, including 5 hrs for taking assessment)

• Complete 50 continuing education hours covering all core

certification knowledge competency areas

• Retake the certification examination

What is Integrated primary care? - Correct Answers ✅- comprehensive, coordinated care, focused on particular needs of patient, clinician continuity, patient record continuity, effective communication of information 1 / 4

WHNP Boards: Professional Issues Exam

Questions and Answers What is Accessible primary care? - Correct Answers ✅- eliminiation of geographic, cultural, language, reimbursement barriers to care What is Accountable primary care? - Correct Answers ✅- clinician and system accountability for services provided What is majority of personal healthcare needs for primary care? - Correct Answers ✅- competency to manage most healthcare needs, use consultation and referral as needed, sustained relationship between clinician and patient over time what is context of family and community for primary care? - Correct Answers ✅- understanding of circumstances of the pt that affect health and healthcare outcomes, awareness of community health trends, use of specific health promotion/disease prevention strategies within this context What is the purpose of healthy people 2020? - Correct Answers ✅- provide science-based, 10 yr national objectives for improving the health of all Americans

• establish benchmarks and monitor progress 2 / 4

WHNP Boards: Professional Issues Exam

Questions and Answers

• overarching goals of Healthy People 2020 - Correct

Answers ✅1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.

• Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve

the health of all groups.

• Create social and physical environments that promote

good health for all.

• Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy

behaviors across all life stages.What is the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative? - Correct Answers ✅- Launched by WHO and UNICEF in 1991

- Purpose: encourage and recognize birthing hospitals and

centers that offer an optimal level of care for infant feeding and mother-baby bonding Qualifications to receive Baby-Friendly designation? - Correct Answers ✅- implementation of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

• Compliance with the International Code on Marketing

Breastmilk Substitutes 3 / 4

WHNP Boards: Professional Issues Exam

Questions and Answers Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding - Correct Answers ✅- Have written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all heatlhcare staff

• Train all staff in skills necessary to implement this policy
• inform all pregnant women about benefits and management

of breastfeeding

• help moms initiate breastfeeding within one hour of birth
• show mothers how to breastfeed and how to maintain

lactation, even if they are separated from infant

• give infants no food or drink other than breastmilk, unless

medically indicated

- practice rooming in: allow mothers and infants to remain

together 24hrs/day

• encourage breastfeeding on demand
• give no pacifiers or artificial nipples to breastfeeding infants
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