Enhanced Table of Specifications (TOS) for Philippine Nursing Board Exams

These flashcards provide definitions and key terms for the Enhanced Table of Specifications for Nursing Practice, covering the main topics, competencies, and categories found across the various nursing practice areas.

Nursing Practice I

Focuses on the care of individuals, families, population groups, and the community, specifically covering Community Health Nursing including communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Nursing Practice II

Focuses on care of the mother and adolescent (well-clients or at-risk) and human growth and development from neonate to adolescent.

Nursing Practice III

Focuses on care of clients with problems in surgery, oxygenation, fluids and electrolytes, infectious, inflammatory, and immunologic response, and cellular aberrations.

Nursing Practice IV

Focuses on care of clients with problems in nutrition, gastro-intestinal, metabolism and endocrine, and perception and coordination.

Nursing Practice V

Focuses on care of clients with maladaptive patterns of behavior and clients with life-threatening conditions or multi-organ problems.

Bloom's Taxonomy Levels

The structural framework used in the assessment, comprising: Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating.

PQF Level: $6$

The Philippine Qualifications Framework level assigned to the nursing profession for which these competencies are designed.

Weight of Content (Part A)

$80\%$ of the examination weight, focusing on safe quality care competencies and application of program outcomes $1$ and $2$.

Weight of Content (Part B)

$20\%$ of the examination weight, focused on integrated program outcomes $3$ to $10$, including health education and research.

BEmONC

Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care, categorized under government programs for high-risk maternal conditions.

CEmONC

Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care, categorized under government programs for high-risk maternal conditions.

Cardinal Movements of Fetus

The specific sequence of movements a fetus performs during the labor process.

Leopold's Maneuver

A common and systematic way to determine the position of a fetus inside the woman's uterus.

SGA

Small for Gestational Age, a neonatal condition identified under Nursing Practice II.

LGA

Large for Gestational Age, a neonatal condition identified under Nursing Practice II.

Stages of Labor

The phases of the labor process included in maternal care competencies.

Partograph

A tool used to monitor labor progress and ensure the safety of both mother and child during birth.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Global targets integrated into the Philippine health care delivery system competencies.

Primary Health Care (PHC)

The framework for essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community.

Epidemiology

The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations.

Vital Statistics

Quantitative data concerning a population, such as births, deaths, and marriages.

Demography

The study of human populations, including their size, growth, density, and distribution.

Program Outcome 4

Practice nursing in accordance with existing laws, legal, ethical, and moral principles.

Program Outcome 6

Report and document client care accurately and comprehensively.

Program Outcome 9

Apply techno-intelligent care systems in health care delivery.

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

The bodies pathway for responding to stress, including acute and long-term effects.

mhGAP

Mental Health Gap Action Programme, which includes management of Depressive Disorder, PTSD, Psychosis, Epilepsy, Intellectual Disability, and Suicide.

NANDA Taxonomy

The standardized classification system for nursing diagnoses.

DSM IVA

The diagnostic tool used for classifying mental health disorders in psychiatric nursing.

Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS)

A clinical syndrome caused by a systemic inflammatory response, categorized under multi-system problems.

Multi-Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)

The progressive dysfunction of two or more organ systems in an acutely ill patient.

ABG Analysis

Arterial Blood Gas analysis, used to monitor acid-base balance and oxygenation status.

Techno-intelligent care systems

The application of advanced technology and intelligent processes in health care delivery.