Nurse Practitioner's professional role includes which of the following?

• A. Administering medications in hospital settings only.
• B. Designing long-term care facility budgets.
• C. Diagnosing and managing acute, chronic, and complex health conditions; focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, and can provide counseling for mental health.
• D. Performing only administrative tasks.

Answer: (C)

Nurse Practitioners provide comprehensive clinical care as advanced practice clinicians who diagnose and manage a wide range of health conditions, with a strong emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention, and they also offer counseling for mental health. This scope includes assessing patients, ordering and interpreting tests, creating and adjusting treatment plans, and prescribing medications in many settings. The option described captures this broad, patient-centered scope of practice.

The other descriptions are too narrow or inaccurate for the NP role: administering medications only in hospital settings ignores outpatient, urgent care, and specialty contexts where NPs also practice; designing budgets is not part of clinical care; and performing only administrative tasks misses the direct clinical responsibilities that define the role.