1. Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN): RN- demonstrating a greater
dept and breath of knowledge, a greater analysis and synthesis of data,
increased complexity of skills and interventions and greater role autonomy.
2. What is the purpose of NP certification?: certification provides a process for
validation of an advanced practice nurse's qualifications and knowledge for
practice as a nurse practitioner
3. NP Certification: part of the requirements for NP licensure in nearly all of the
US states & will likely be a requirement of employment in the remaining states.
4. Nurse Practice Act: - law that is enforced by each state's nursing board
- Nurses at all levels must comply with the law and related rules in order to
maintain their licenses
5. Nurse Practice Act
components: background
6. State to state practice
acts:
7. The process of
Credentialing:
8. Information review during
NP credentialing process:
, Fitzgerald- NP role, certification, licensure, credentialing
9. CORI and SORI:
10 National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB):
, Fitzgerald- NP role, certification, licensure, credentialing
11. False:
12. BON:
13. True:
14. False
True:
15. True
True: 18
Schedule I
Controlled
Substances:
16. DEA number: Substances
in this
schedule
have no
currently
17. DEA responsibilities: accepted
medical use
in the United
States.
Heroin,
MDMA, PCP
19. Schedule II Controlled Substances: Morphine, Fentanyl, methadone,
oxycodone, hydrocodone, methylphenidate, anabolic steroids