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✔✔What are BCCNM's standards? - ✔✔Professional standards, practice standards,
scope of practice standards, and limits and conditions
✔✔What do BCCNM's professional standards do? - ✔✔Framework for nursing practice
in BC. Describes the minimal level of performance required to provide safe, competent,
and ethical care.
✔✔What do BCCNM's practice standards do? - ✔✔Provide further direction by outlining
principles and requirements related to specific aspects of nursing practice
✔✔What do BCCNM's scope of practice standards do? - ✔✔Articulates activities that
RNs are educated and authorized to perform.
✔✔What do BCCNM's limits and conditions do? - ✔✔Assist nurses to provide safe,
competent, and ethical care by setting these requirements for practice
✔✔What are BCCNM's functions? - ✔✔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 does BCNU do? - ✔✔Acts on behalf of workers and secures salary, benefits,
and working conditions.
✔✔Who does BCNU serve? - ✔✔Nurses
✔✔What does the CNA do? - ✔✔Deals with broad issues in nursing and holds the code
of ethics. They are the liaison with nursing as a profession and the government.
✔✔What does the NNPBC do? - ✔✔Acts on behalf of nursing, advances the profession,
and influences health and social policy.
✔✔What does the ICN do? - ✔✔Works to ensure nursing quality care, sounds health
policies globally, and advances nursing knowledge. Operated by nurses worldwide.
✔✔What does the CNPS do? - ✔✔Protects you as a nurse and offers legal advice, risk
management services, legal assistance, and professional liability protection to nurses.
✔✔What are the Professional Nursing Standards? - ✔✔1. Professional Responsibility
and Accountability
2. Knowledge-Based Practice
, 3. Client-Focused Provision of Service
4. Ethical Practice
✔✔What does Standard 1: Professional Responsibility and Accountability mean? -
✔✔Maintain standards of nursing practice and professional conduct determined by
BCCNM.
✔✔What does Standard 2: Knowledge-Based Practice mean? - ✔✔Practicing within
your own scope of practice. Understanding your limits.
✔✔What does Standard 3: Client-Focused Provision of Service mean? - ✔✔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 does Standard 4: Ethical Practice mean? - ✔✔Maintaining client dignity.
Acting within the code of ethics.
✔✔What is the CNA Code of Ethics? - ✔✔1. Providing safe, compassionate,
competent, and ethical care.
2. Promoting health and well-being.
3. Promoting and respecting informed decision-making.
4. Honouring dignity
5. Maintain privacy and confidentiality
6. Promoting justice
7. Being accountable
✔✔What is the Health Professions Act? - ✔✔Authority that BCCNM must hold nurses to
a particular standard. Gives BCCNM its mandate to govern nursing progression.
✔✔What are the controls of practice? - ✔✔1. Individual Nurse Competence:
commitment to keeping skills and knowledge current.
2. Employer Policies: processes, policies, and procedures to ensure RNs meet
standards of practice.
3. BCCNM Standards, Limits, and Conditions define regulations and develop standards,
limits, and conditions to help RNs in practice.
4. Regulation/Legislation
✔✔Who can use reserved titles? - ✔✔Any one who is registered with BCCNM and
given the permission
✔✔What is the title for a student nurse? - ✔✔SN