BSNC 1020 MIDTERM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

BSNC 1020 MIDTERM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. What is autonomous scope of practice for RN's?
Answer:
· Assuming accountability and responsibility for making decisions about client care · Performing activities
they are educated, competent and allowed to perform without a client specific order

Question:
2. what is not autonomous practice
Answer:
· Not autonomous practice is any BCCNM standard, limit, or condition, or and organizational/employer
policies, processes, or restrictions.

Question:
3. How do nurses apply the standards for acting within autonomous scope of practice?
Answer:
· Performing restricted activities that are not listed in section 6 of nurses and NP unless they are prohibited
by BCCNM

Question:
4. what is a listed health professional
Answer:
o Physicians o NP o Certified RN o Dentists o Midwives o Naturopaths o Podiatrists o Pharmacists

Question:
5. what is a non listed health professional
Answer:
o Wound clinicians o RNs who aren't certified o Registered psychiatric nurses o Dietitians

Question:
6. How do nurses apply the standards for acting with client-specific orders?
Answer:
o be documented in the client's permanent record by the regulated health professional giving the
client-specific order, o include all the information needed for the ordered activity to be carried out safely
(e.g., time, frequency, dosage), and o include a written/electronic signature. o Must also consider the four
controls on practice

Question:
7. section 7 restricted activities that require an order
Answer:
o Procedures below the body surface o Administering substances o Putting items into body openings o
Putting substances into ears o Hazardous forms of energy o Medications o Allergy testing and treatment

,Question:
8. restricted activities that do not require an order
Answer:
· Diagnosis · Wound care · Intravenous · Inhalation · Instillation and injection · Assessing clients and
treating conditions · Managing labour · Hazardous forms of energy · Ordering the application of energy ·
Medications · prescribing · Therapeutic diets

Question:
9. what is a condition
Answer:
· A condition is different from a disease or disorder. A condition can be improved or resolved by a
registered nurse's interventions and achieves outcomes for which the registered nurse is accountable

Question:
10. section 6 is
Answer:
restricted activities that do not require an order

Question:
11. section 7 is
Answer:
restricted activities that do require an order

Question:
12. 2 exceptions RN can function outside of their scope
Answer:
risk of death that's urgent and formal delegation

Question:
13. • What did the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) do?
Answer:
- Approved in 1898 -> signified a professional standard of education for Canadian nurses that recognized
nursing knowledge, altruism and compassion
- In-home nursing often in outpost and remote regions

Question:
14. • What were some of Florence Nightingale's biggest contributions to nursing?
Answer:
- Nursing as a highly-regarded profession
- Took a team of nurses to the Crimean war
- Reduced the soldier mortality rate
- Nightingale model; a administrative model; hospital-based model overseen by trained staff/instructors;
nursing students provided the bulk of care
- Published a book focused on health>illness care; need for good environment (clean air and water)
- Advocate for the health of people, healthcare reform and educational preparation for nursing

, Question:
15. • What is the principle of altruism?
Answer:
selflessness

Question:
16. What is BCCNM?
Answer:
regulatory college

Question:
17. How many health professions are there in BC?
Answer:
26

Question:
18. Where does BCCNM get its authority?
Answer:
health professions act

Question:
19. would governs the health professions act
Answer:
provincial government

Question:
20. Who decides if a health profession will be regulated?
Answer:
provincial government

Question:
21. What is the name of the Act that provides BCCNM its authority?
Answer:
The Health Professions Act

Question:
22. What two documents govern nursing practice in BC?
Answer:
health professions act and code of ethics for registered nurses

Question:
23. what are the five reserved titles under bccnm
Answer:
RN LPN NP MIDWIFE RPN