COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ What are the Professional Nursing Standards?.
Answer: 1. Professional Responsibility and Accountability2.
Knowledge-Based Practice3. Client-Focused Provision of Service4. Ethical
Practice
◍ What is the Health Professions Act?.
Answer: Authority that BCCNM must hold nurses to a particular standard.
Gives BCCNM its mandate to govern nursing progression.
◍ What is the first hospital diploma school?.
Answer: St. Catherine's Training School
◍ What are restricted activities that don't need an order?.
Answer: Part of general nursing practice. 1. Diagnosis2. Wound care3.
Intravenous4. Inhalation5. Instillation and injection6. Assessing clients and
treating conditions7. Managing labour8. Hazardous forms of energy9.
Ordering the application of energy10. Medications11. Prescribing
medications12. Therapeutic diets
◍ What does BCNU do?.
Answer: Acts on behalf of workers and secures salary, benefits, and working
conditions.
◍ Who does BCNU serve?.
Answer: Nurses
◍ What does Standard 2: Knowledge-Based Practice mean?.
Answer: Practicing within your own scope of practice. Understanding your
, limits.
◍ What are BCCNM's functions?.
Answer: Sets requirements for registration, recognizes education programs,
establishes and monitors standards of practice and ethics, establishes and
employs registration inquiries, promotes and collaborates relations with
other organizations to enhance interprofessional practice
◍ What is the title for a registered nurse with certified practice?.
Answer: RN-C
◍ What do verbal orders require?.
Answer: 2 nurses
◍ What is a retired nurse?.
Answer: A nurse that is not working anymore
◍ What do BCCNM's scope of practice standards do?.
Answer: Articulates activities that RNs are educated and authorized to
perform.
◍ What things does the BCCNM set?.
Answer: Professional conduct, professional practice, reserved titles, scope of
practice, and bylaws.
◍ What does section 7 state?.
Answer: Restricted activities that do require an order
◍ What does Standard 3: Client-Focused Provision of Service mean?.
Answer: Acting in the client's best interest, putting the client at the centre of
care. Providing care that is holistic, not only looking at physical needs but
looking at all dynamics.
◍ What did Florence Nightingale do for the Crimean War?.
Answer: Reduced mortality rates by improving sanitation measures
◍ What does the BCCNM do for nurses?.
Answer: Gives us registration