PN 1001 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS RECENT VERSION

PN 1001 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS RECENT VERSION 1. What is an LPN? - ANSWER Same studies in nursing knowledge as RN and Psych Nurses Practice based on foundational knowledge, critical thinking, critical inquiry, and clinical judgement may use the term nurse (use of title) 2. What do LPNs do? - ANSWER Care for patients across the lifespan Health services: health promotion, maintenance and restoration of health, prevention, treatment and palliation of illness and injury (focusing on clients with stable and predictable health outcomes) assess patient health status as well as plan, implement and evaluate care and coordinate health services may care for patients with more complex needs after successfully completing additional education work collaboratively with patients, their family members, and other health care team members to provide safe, COMPETENT and ETHICAL care 3. Where can LPNs work - ANSWER Hospitals (Acute Care) - Medical/Surgical/Emergency etc. Long-term care facilities Home and community care Health clinics Schools Occupational/industrial health Correctional facilities Palliative care - (Hospice) Mental health facilities 4. Control on Nursing Practice - ANSWER "The government, BCCNM, employers and LPNs work together to ensure the public receives safe, competent and ethical care through specific controls on LPN practice." (BCCNM, 2022) 5. Government Control on LPN practice - ANSWER Legislation/Regulation Health Professions Act (HPA): Sets parameters & provides a common regulatory framework for B.C.'s regulated health professions. (i.e., nurses, chiropractors, dental hygienists, dieticians, etc.) Nurses (Licensed Practical) Regulation: - Part of HPA specific to LPNs - Defines scope of practice - Outlines requirements for registration, practice, conduct and continuing competence 6. BCCNM control on LPN Practice - ANSWER BCCNM sets standards, limits, and conditions for LPN practice. Standard: An expected and achievable level of performance against which actual performance can be compared. It is the minimum level of acceptable performance. Limit: Specifies what LPNs are not permitted to do. Condition: Sets out the circumstances under which LPNs may carry out an activity. i.e. after successfully completing additional education 7. Organization/Employer control on LPN Practice - ANSWER Employer/organization policies may restrict LPN practice in a particular agency or unit. - i.e. A facility may not allow LPNs to start IVs or care for pediatric patients It is important for nurses to understand the policies of their employer 8. LPN control on own practice - ANSWER It is the individual nurse's responsibility to determine their own competence to carry out a particular activity. What do you do if you do not feel competent with a skill that is within your scope of practice? - Ask the nurse to double check materials gathered or ask them to hear your steps. 9. Control of Practice - ANSWER Basically as you go up the pyramid each control narrows LPN practice bottom up Regulation and legislation BCCNM standards, limits and conditions Organizational policies Individual nurse competence 10. Standards of Practice - ANSWER Professional Standard: describe the behaviours that LPN must demonstrate in their practice. These standards apply to LPNs in all areas of practice, for example clinical practice, education, administration and research Practice Standard: are a series of documents that set out requirements for practice and provide additional information about specific aspects of LPN practice, for ex. medication administration Scope of Practice Standards: describe the standards, limits and conditions related to nursing activities that LPNs are educated and authorized to perform in BC under the Nurses (Licensed Practical) Regulation. 11. Professional Standard - ANSWER Professional standards are meant to guide and direct LPN practice. 12. 4 professional standards: - Responsibility and Accountability ex. own up to your mistakes - Competency-Based Practice ex. always upgrade your learning, always do things up to the standard - Client-Focused Provision of Service ex. always think about the best interest of the client - Ethical Practice ex. do not judge, always make the right judgement and decision, analyze situations in a general sense PNs, BCCNM, employers, educators and the public all use the professional standards to support safe, competent and ethical care. 13. Practice Standard - ANSWER Practice standards set out requirements for specific aspects of LPN practice. LPN Practice Standards include: - Boundaries in the Nurse-Client Relationship - Communicable Diseases: Preventing Nurse-to-Client Transmission - Conflict of Interest - Consent - Documentation - Duty to Provide Care - Duty to Report - Medication - Privacy and Confidentiality - Regulatory Supervision of Students - Use of Title - Working with Health Care Assistants - Indigenous cultural safety, cultural humility, and anti-racism (NEW) 14. LPN scope of practice - ANSWER "BCCNM's Scope of Practice for Licensed Practical Nurses is based on the Regulation and sets out the activities that LPNs are educated and authorized to perform if employer policy permits it and if the LPN has the competence." BCCNM 2022 15. Multisource feedback - ANSWER Peer feedback provides nurses an opportunity to obtain feedback on their professional practice in a collegial and supportive way. demonstrate responsibility and accountability for their continuing competence Awareness of the influence of ongoing learning on their nursing practice is empowering and validating for nurses and their peers. NOT for reporting concerns about a nurse's practice. A healthcare professional who has serious concerns about the practice of a colleague should refer to Duty to Report practice standard or make a report to their manager or supervisor. They can also submit a complaint to BCCNM Giving Feedback - As part of the multisource feedback process, nurses are expected to seek feedback from both nurse and non-nurse colleagues. Colleagues who are approached by a nurse should be candid in their feedback and ensure they include written feedback in the open-text portions of the questionnaire, in addition to the Likert scale rating. Comments help nurses identify their strengths and areas for improvement. - Simple, straightforward, and practical feedback is constructive and provides insight into behaviour the nurse likely is unaware of. 16. Beginning history - ANSWER infectious disease occuring and good nursing only effective defence 17. confidentiality - ANSWER Nurses are ethically obligated to keep patient privacy 18. Multidisciplinary communication - ANSWER Sharing required medical info w other healthcare professional to provide coninunity of care