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✔✔True or False:
Once a graduate successfully passes the National Council Licensure Examination
(NCLEX) they are licensed as a nurse? - ✔✔False - they still must apply within the state
they want to work to become a nurse. It is a states board of nursing that is responsible
for licensure.
NCLEX is responsible for testing - the state is responsible for licensure.
✔✔Nursing Practice Acts - ✔✔Define legal scope of nursing practice for a state.
Exclude untrained people from practicing nursing. Make and enforce rules and
regulations for nurses.
✔✔Identify the patient by 2 ways - ✔✔1. Verify the patient's name
2. Verify the medical record #
✔✔1. Assessment - ✔✔1. Collect Data: subjective--"I'm sick" (what the patient tells
you); objective--tachycardic (what you observe)
PERSON
2. Validate data
3. Organize Data
✔✔2. Diagnoses - ✔✔1. Analyze Data
2. Formulate diagnosis
✔✔3. Planning - ✔✔1. Establish goals
2. Develop outcome criteria
✔✔4. Implementation - ✔✔1. Carrying out the plan/ perform the skills
Before you
✔✔5. Evaluation - ✔✔1. Goal achievement
2. Reassess/ Revise
3. Terminate if goal is met
✔✔Which step of the nursing process is a nurse using when she takes the patient blood
pressure every 4 hours? - ✔✔Implementing
✔✔8 Rights of Medication Administration - ✔✔1. Right Person
2. Right Medication
3. Right Time
4. Right Dose