Texas nurse practice act and nurse jurisprudence exam with
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accurate detailed answers || ||
define nurse jurisprudence according to the texas BON - ✔✔Jurisprudence is the science or
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
philosophy of law. The Texas Nurse Practice Act and the Texas Board of Nursing Rules and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Regulations Relating to Nurse Education, Licensure, and Practice are the laws that govern the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
practice of nursing practice in Texas. Your nursing practice is directly affected by your ability to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
make informed decision within the parameters of these laws. You need to know how the rules
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
apply to you, and then apply them in your nursing practice.
|| || || || || || || || || ||
state the reason new nurses must take and pass the nurse jurisprudence exam to receive their
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
license to practice professional nursing in Texas - ✔✔BON staff have heard nurses who were
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
disciplined by the board proclaim "If only i had known and understood about my 'duty to the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
patient' under the NPA and board rules I would have not gotten into trouble with the BON"
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
identify several topics covered on the nurse jurisprudence exam - ✔✔-licensure and regulation
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-ethics
-practice
-peer reviews
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-disciplinary action ||
make and accept assignments
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-nurses must take into consideration the staff person's:
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educational preparation, ||
experience,
knowledge and || ||
physical and emotional ability || || ||
, explore implications for practice from rule 217.11 standards of nursing practice from the Texas
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Nurse Practice Act - ✔✔Rule 217.11 is the foundation for all other standards:
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" ...maintain a safe environment for clients and others"
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*this standard supersedes any physician order, facility policy, or administrative directive
|| || || || || || || || || ||
explore conditions under which the nurse's duty to a patient begins - ✔✔You understand the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
minimum standards of care once you receive your nursing license || || || || || || || || || ||
-Nurses duty to a patient: || || || ||
*begins when there is a relationship established between the nurse and the patient
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
*begins when the nurse has a responsibility for a patient
|| || || || || || || || ||
*doesn't begin with a single event (clocking in) || || || || || || ||
*when a nurse knows or should have known that a situation potentially
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
discuss the process of safe harbor - ✔✔-Complete quick request first
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
-then before the shift ends complete the comprehensive one
|| || || || || || || ||
mandatory overtime: ||
-a hospital is prohibited from scheduling mandatory overtime
|| || || || || || ||
-on call time cannot be used to produce mandatory overtime
|| || || || || || || || ||
-exceptions: disaster, state of emergency, unforeseen event, nurse is doing a procedure and cannot
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
leave(patient safety) ||
retaliation by the hospital is prohibited || || || || ||
the nurse should invoke safe harbor when asked to accept an assignment that is unsafe or outside
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
of her knowledge, skills, physical/emotional abilities
|| || || || ||
|| || || || || || || || ||
accurate detailed answers || ||
define nurse jurisprudence according to the texas BON - ✔✔Jurisprudence is the science or
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
philosophy of law. The Texas Nurse Practice Act and the Texas Board of Nursing Rules and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Regulations Relating to Nurse Education, Licensure, and Practice are the laws that govern the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
practice of nursing practice in Texas. Your nursing practice is directly affected by your ability to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
make informed decision within the parameters of these laws. You need to know how the rules
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
apply to you, and then apply them in your nursing practice.
|| || || || || || || || || ||
state the reason new nurses must take and pass the nurse jurisprudence exam to receive their
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
license to practice professional nursing in Texas - ✔✔BON staff have heard nurses who were
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
disciplined by the board proclaim "If only i had known and understood about my 'duty to the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
patient' under the NPA and board rules I would have not gotten into trouble with the BON"
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
identify several topics covered on the nurse jurisprudence exam - ✔✔-licensure and regulation
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
-ethics
-practice
-peer reviews
||
-disciplinary action ||
make and accept assignments
|| || || ||
-nurses must take into consideration the staff person's:
|| || || || || || || ||
educational preparation, ||
experience,
knowledge and || ||
physical and emotional ability || || ||
, explore implications for practice from rule 217.11 standards of nursing practice from the Texas
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Nurse Practice Act - ✔✔Rule 217.11 is the foundation for all other standards:
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
" ...maintain a safe environment for clients and others"
|| || || || || || || || ||
*this standard supersedes any physician order, facility policy, or administrative directive
|| || || || || || || || || ||
explore conditions under which the nurse's duty to a patient begins - ✔✔You understand the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
minimum standards of care once you receive your nursing license || || || || || || || || || ||
-Nurses duty to a patient: || || || ||
*begins when there is a relationship established between the nurse and the patient
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
*begins when the nurse has a responsibility for a patient
|| || || || || || || || ||
*doesn't begin with a single event (clocking in) || || || || || || ||
*when a nurse knows or should have known that a situation potentially
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
discuss the process of safe harbor - ✔✔-Complete quick request first
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
-then before the shift ends complete the comprehensive one
|| || || || || || || ||
mandatory overtime: ||
-a hospital is prohibited from scheduling mandatory overtime
|| || || || || || ||
-on call time cannot be used to produce mandatory overtime
|| || || || || || || || ||
-exceptions: disaster, state of emergency, unforeseen event, nurse is doing a procedure and cannot
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
leave(patient safety) ||
retaliation by the hospital is prohibited || || || || ||
the nurse should invoke safe harbor when asked to accept an assignment that is unsafe or outside
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
of her knowledge, skills, physical/emotional abilities
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