HNB-BC study plan

Map the five phases of the holistic caring process (assessment, diagnosis, outcomes/planning, implementation, evaluation) onto one real patient situation from your own practice

Distinguish holistic assessment from conventional assessment by listing at least eight data categories a holistic nurse collects that a problem-focused assessment omits

Write a plain-language definition of each of the five caring-process phases in your own words, then check your definitions against a nursing theory text and correct any gaps

Identify three points in the caring process where nurse and patient co-create the plan rather than the nurse deciding unilaterally

Build a holistic assessment template covering physical, emotional, spiritual, sociocultural, developmental, and environmental data

Demonstrate three different ways to elicit a patient's spiritual or meaning-making needs without imposing your own beliefs

Compare how the same symptoms would be assessed and interpreted through two different cultural health-belief frameworks

Practice documenting a holistic assessment so that each finding links to an outcome statement

Compare three holistic or unitary nursing theories on their core concepts, and state one practice implication of each

Apply an ethical decision-making framework to two situations involving conflicting patient, family, and team values

Explain how informed consent, advance directives, and scope of practice boundaries constrain holistic interventions and where they leave room for autonomy

Articulate your own values and biases in writing, naming at least three that could distort a holistic assessment

Design a therapeutic environment for one care setting by naming concrete sensory, spatial, and relational modifications

Identify communication barriers in a scripted patient encounter and rewrite the nurse's lines to remove them

Explain how to work effectively with an interpreter, including seating, pacing, and what not to say to the interpreter

Assess a patient's health literacy level using plain-language cues and adapt your teaching accordingly

Match three ethical principles to situations where cultural preference and clinical recommendation diverge

Write learning objectives for a patient education session that are behavioral, measurable, and matched to the patient's readiness to learn

Demonstrate teach-back in a written script, including what to do when the patient cannot repeat the content correctly

Adapt the same education content for three different audiences: low health literacy, an adolescent, and a caregiver

Select communication strategies for one high-emotion conversation such as bad news or a goals-of-care discussion

Evaluate a patient education handout for readability and rewrite it to a plain-language standard

Complete a structured self-assessment of your own physical, emotional, spiritual, and professional well-being and score it honestly

Build a personal self-care plan with specific daily and weekly actions, each tied to a named stressor you identified

Describe at least three evidence-informed strategies for recognizing compassion fatigue and moral distress in yourself and colleagues

Design a brief peer-support or debriefing practice you could actually start on your unit

Explain how a nurse's unmanaged stress shows up in patient care and what to do in the moment when you notice it

Re-test yourself on the two heaviest domains and rank your weak sub-areas by score rather than by feel

Re-derive the five caring-process phases and three theories from memory, then correct against your notes

Work through applied scenario items that combine assessment, ethics, and cultural considerations in a single case

Rewrite your two weakest concept summaries into one-page study sheets

Complete one full-length timed practice exam under exam conditions and score every domain separately

Review every missed item and classify each error as a knowledge gap, a misread, or a judgment error

Revisit the weakest domain from the full-length results and close it with targeted review

Rehearse a test-day routine covering timing per item, how to handle uncertainty, and rest breaks