Which of the following is NOT one of the seven major areas of nursing responsibilities?

• A. Modeling and Valuing Nursing, Professional Growth, Standards of Nursing Practice, Nursing Research, Professional Stewardship and the advancement of Nursing, Patient Advocacy, Legal and ethical practice
• B. Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, Collaboration, Education, Advocacy
• C. Clinical Skills, Patient Safety, Family Centered Care, Public Health, Leadership, Research, Ethics
• D. Ethics, Legalities, Management, Delegation, Research, Education, Scheduling

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is that seven major areas of nursing responsibilities describe broad professional domains in which nurses are accountable, such as ethics and legal practice, patient advocacy, standards of practice and professional growth, nursing research, collaboration and leadership, and patient safety or family-centered/public health care. The nursing process, by contrast, is a method for delivering care—an organized sequence used to plan and carry out care for a patient, typically described as assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. While collaboration, education, and advocacy are important activities within nursing, the four steps of the nursing process are not themselves a set of major responsibility areas. That mismatch makes this option the one that does not fit with the seven major areas of nursing responsibilities.