NURSE PRACTICE ACT EXAMINATION ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The definition of practical nursing includes:
1Assessing the health status of individuals
2Teaching nursing knowledge and skills
3Establishing goals to meet health care needs
4Maintaining safe nursing care that is rendered indirectly - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅4 (Maintaining safe
nursing care that is rendered indirectly)
It is outside the scope of practice for an LPN to:
1Perform an electrocardiogram on a client
2Assess a client to formulate a plan of care
3Reinforce foot care teaching for a diabetic client
4Obtain a blood specimen from a client - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅2 (Assess a client to formulate a plan of
care)
An example an additional act that may be performed by an LPN that requires additional education and
training as prescribed by the Board and that is recognized as proper to be
performed by a practical nurse would be (hint: see advisory opinions):
1Administration of conscious sedation
2Taking vital signs
3Administering IV medications
4Performing sclerotherapy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅3 (Administering IV medications)
It would be a violation of the nurse practice act for an LPN to:
Provide nursing services independent of a registered nurse (RN) or physician
Plan and participate in a staff education meeting with a nursing supervisor
Utilize the title "nurse" when employed in the school health office
Delegate data gathering to a certified nursing assistant (CNA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Provide nursing
services independent of a registered nurse (RN) or physician
, Which of the following is included in the definition of registered nursing (RN):
Activities are performed under the direction and supervision of a physician
Establishing a nursing diagnosis
Managing the physical and psychosocial health status of clients
Using research skills - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Establishing a nursing diagnosis
Which of the following activities would be outside the scope of practice for an RN:
Writing orders for laboratory tests
Administering blood products
Evaluating the effects of medication
Initiating a drug regimen based on protocols - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Writing orders for laboratory tests
An example an additional act that may be performed by an RN that requires additional
education and training as prescribed by the Board and that is recognized as proper to be
performed by an RN (excluding advanced practice nurses) would be (hint: see advisory
opinions):
Insertion of an intraarterial
catheter
Amniotomy
Certification of Death
Epidural Anesthesia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Insertion of an intraarterial
catheter
It would be a violation of the nurse practice act for an RN to:
Delegate assessment to an LPN
Supervise the care of other RNs
Delegate a sterile dressing change to an LPN
Provide lab results to a client - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Delegate assessment to an LPN
The definition of practical nursing includes:
1Assessing the health status of individuals
2Teaching nursing knowledge and skills
3Establishing goals to meet health care needs
4Maintaining safe nursing care that is rendered indirectly - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅4 (Maintaining safe
nursing care that is rendered indirectly)
It is outside the scope of practice for an LPN to:
1Perform an electrocardiogram on a client
2Assess a client to formulate a plan of care
3Reinforce foot care teaching for a diabetic client
4Obtain a blood specimen from a client - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅2 (Assess a client to formulate a plan of
care)
An example an additional act that may be performed by an LPN that requires additional education and
training as prescribed by the Board and that is recognized as proper to be
performed by a practical nurse would be (hint: see advisory opinions):
1Administration of conscious sedation
2Taking vital signs
3Administering IV medications
4Performing sclerotherapy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅3 (Administering IV medications)
It would be a violation of the nurse practice act for an LPN to:
Provide nursing services independent of a registered nurse (RN) or physician
Plan and participate in a staff education meeting with a nursing supervisor
Utilize the title "nurse" when employed in the school health office
Delegate data gathering to a certified nursing assistant (CNA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Provide nursing
services independent of a registered nurse (RN) or physician
, Which of the following is included in the definition of registered nursing (RN):
Activities are performed under the direction and supervision of a physician
Establishing a nursing diagnosis
Managing the physical and psychosocial health status of clients
Using research skills - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Establishing a nursing diagnosis
Which of the following activities would be outside the scope of practice for an RN:
Writing orders for laboratory tests
Administering blood products
Evaluating the effects of medication
Initiating a drug regimen based on protocols - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Writing orders for laboratory tests
An example an additional act that may be performed by an RN that requires additional
education and training as prescribed by the Board and that is recognized as proper to be
performed by an RN (excluding advanced practice nurses) would be (hint: see advisory
opinions):
Insertion of an intraarterial
catheter
Amniotomy
Certification of Death
Epidural Anesthesia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Insertion of an intraarterial
catheter
It would be a violation of the nurse practice act for an RN to:
Delegate assessment to an LPN
Supervise the care of other RNs
Delegate a sterile dressing change to an LPN
Provide lab results to a client - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Delegate assessment to an LPN
