Exam 1 LVN Fundamentals questions
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NFLPN (NATIONAL FEDERATION OF LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES) - correct answer ✔✔ What
association is the official membership for licensed practical nurses/ licensed vocational nurses?
Clara Barton - correct answer ✔✔ What nursing leader is credited with the development of the
American Red Cross?
Achieve optimal levels of health care for a *defined population* through adequate and
appropriate health care services - correct answer ✔✔ The healthcare system is the complete
network of agencies, facilities, and all providers of health care in a specified geographic area.
What is the best description of the major goal of the healthcare system?
Ballard School - correct answer ✔✔ What is the name of the first school of training for the
practical nurse established in 1892 in Brooklyn, New York?
Malpractice (the failure to meet a legal duty that results in harm to another) - correct answer
✔✔ The LVN knows that building the nurse-patient relationship is important in providing
patient care, and a legal relationship is formed. If there is a breach in this relationship and harm
to the patient has occurred, which legal action can the nurse be charge with?
Justice (nurse must allocate time among all the assigned patients to meet their needs) - correct
answer ✔✔ When caring for patients, the nurse knows that part of the ethical principles include
all patients having the same right to nursing interventions. What is the term for this principal?
Known as the lady of the lamp.
,First nursing theorist, founder of modern nursing. Establish nursing school at Saint Thomas
Hospital in London. Promoted new health standards in nursing *handwashing. she cared for
wounded soldiers while making rounds with a lamp. - correct answer ✔✔ Florence Nightingale
Founder of Henry Street settlement - correct answer ✔✔ Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Founder of Planned Parenthood. Birth control activists-nurse who opened the first birth control
clinic which later became Planned Parenthood. Sought the decriminalization of contraceptive
use and abortions. - correct answer ✔✔ Margaret Sanger
Control of curriculum for nursing education - correct answer ✔✔ National League for Nursing
(NLN)
Established American Red Cross. - correct answer ✔✔ Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Professional nursing organization, fosters high standards of nursing practice & promotes the
rights of nurses in the workplace - correct answer ✔✔ American Nurses Association (ANA)
North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Virginia - correct answer ✔✔ 1st states to mandate
nursing licensure
provides direct client care under the direction of an RN, educated to provide safe responsible
and effective care - correct answer ✔✔ LPN/LVN
National Association for Practical Nurse Education and Service: planned the first standard
curriculum for LVNs, founded 1941 (formerly Association of Practical Nurse Schools) - correct
answer ✔✔ NAPNES
accreditation service for department of practical nursing programs - correct answer ✔✔ Council
of Practical Nursing Programs
, ACC is accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools and by the Bureau of
Private Postsecondary Education - correct answer ✔✔ Accreditation
Harm - correct answer ✔✔ What is the term for injury to a person or the person's property that
gives rise to a basis for a legal action against the person who caused the damage?
Applies to conduct that is detrimental to society - correct answer ✔✔ Criminal Law
The resource that an LVN would refer to in order to know what they can and cannot do within
their scope of practice - correct answer ✔✔ The Nurse Practice Act
Malpractice - correct answer ✔✔ If there is a breach in the nurse-patient relationship and harm
to the patient has occurred, which legal action can the nurse be charged with?
Informed Consent Doctrine - correct answer ✔✔ The nurse is caring for a patient scheduled for
surgery. What would the patient sign to acknowledge that they are making an intelligent
decision?
HIPPA
HIPPA stands for: Health insurance portability and accountability act - correct answer ✔✔ A
federal regulation that came into effect April 14, 2003 has impacted the healthcare field
regarding privacy of a patient's health information what is this regulation?
State laws - correct answer ✔✔ As part of their right to refuse treatment, patients may prepare
advanced directives specifying what life-saving treatments they do or do not wish to receive.
When determining the legality of an advanced directive what applicable laws should the nurse
know?
and answers rated A+
NFLPN (NATIONAL FEDERATION OF LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES) - correct answer ✔✔ What
association is the official membership for licensed practical nurses/ licensed vocational nurses?
Clara Barton - correct answer ✔✔ What nursing leader is credited with the development of the
American Red Cross?
Achieve optimal levels of health care for a *defined population* through adequate and
appropriate health care services - correct answer ✔✔ The healthcare system is the complete
network of agencies, facilities, and all providers of health care in a specified geographic area.
What is the best description of the major goal of the healthcare system?
Ballard School - correct answer ✔✔ What is the name of the first school of training for the
practical nurse established in 1892 in Brooklyn, New York?
Malpractice (the failure to meet a legal duty that results in harm to another) - correct answer
✔✔ The LVN knows that building the nurse-patient relationship is important in providing
patient care, and a legal relationship is formed. If there is a breach in this relationship and harm
to the patient has occurred, which legal action can the nurse be charge with?
Justice (nurse must allocate time among all the assigned patients to meet their needs) - correct
answer ✔✔ When caring for patients, the nurse knows that part of the ethical principles include
all patients having the same right to nursing interventions. What is the term for this principal?
Known as the lady of the lamp.
,First nursing theorist, founder of modern nursing. Establish nursing school at Saint Thomas
Hospital in London. Promoted new health standards in nursing *handwashing. she cared for
wounded soldiers while making rounds with a lamp. - correct answer ✔✔ Florence Nightingale
Founder of Henry Street settlement - correct answer ✔✔ Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Founder of Planned Parenthood. Birth control activists-nurse who opened the first birth control
clinic which later became Planned Parenthood. Sought the decriminalization of contraceptive
use and abortions. - correct answer ✔✔ Margaret Sanger
Control of curriculum for nursing education - correct answer ✔✔ National League for Nursing
(NLN)
Established American Red Cross. - correct answer ✔✔ Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Professional nursing organization, fosters high standards of nursing practice & promotes the
rights of nurses in the workplace - correct answer ✔✔ American Nurses Association (ANA)
North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Virginia - correct answer ✔✔ 1st states to mandate
nursing licensure
provides direct client care under the direction of an RN, educated to provide safe responsible
and effective care - correct answer ✔✔ LPN/LVN
National Association for Practical Nurse Education and Service: planned the first standard
curriculum for LVNs, founded 1941 (formerly Association of Practical Nurse Schools) - correct
answer ✔✔ NAPNES
accreditation service for department of practical nursing programs - correct answer ✔✔ Council
of Practical Nursing Programs
, ACC is accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools and by the Bureau of
Private Postsecondary Education - correct answer ✔✔ Accreditation
Harm - correct answer ✔✔ What is the term for injury to a person or the person's property that
gives rise to a basis for a legal action against the person who caused the damage?
Applies to conduct that is detrimental to society - correct answer ✔✔ Criminal Law
The resource that an LVN would refer to in order to know what they can and cannot do within
their scope of practice - correct answer ✔✔ The Nurse Practice Act
Malpractice - correct answer ✔✔ If there is a breach in the nurse-patient relationship and harm
to the patient has occurred, which legal action can the nurse be charged with?
Informed Consent Doctrine - correct answer ✔✔ The nurse is caring for a patient scheduled for
surgery. What would the patient sign to acknowledge that they are making an intelligent
decision?
HIPPA
HIPPA stands for: Health insurance portability and accountability act - correct answer ✔✔ A
federal regulation that came into effect April 14, 2003 has impacted the healthcare field
regarding privacy of a patient's health information what is this regulation?
State laws - correct answer ✔✔ As part of their right to refuse treatment, patients may prepare
advanced directives specifying what life-saving treatments they do or do not wish to receive.
When determining the legality of an advanced directive what applicable laws should the nurse
know?
