NURSE PRACTICE ACT
LATEST EXAMINATION QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS 2025/2026
1. The definition of practical nursing includes:
1 Assessing the health status of individuals
2 Teaching nursing knowledge and skills
3 Establishing goals to meet health care needs
4 Maintaining safe nursing care that is rendered indirectly - ANSWER→-4
(Maintaining safe nursing care that is rendered indirectly)
2. It is outside the scope of practice for an LPN to:
1 Perform an electrocardiogram on a client
2 Assess a client to formulate a plan of care
3 Reinforce foot care teaching for a diabetic client
4 Obtain a blood specimen from a client - ANSWER→-2 (Assess a client to
formulate a plan of care)
3. 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):
1 Administration of conscious sedation
2 Taking vital signs
3 Administering IV medications
4 Performing sclerotherapy - ANSWER→-3 (Administering IV
medications)
4. 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) -
ANSWER→-Provide nursing services independent of a registered nurse
(RN) or physician
5. Which of the following is included in the definition of registered nursing
(RN):
Activities are performed under the direction and supervision of a physician
1
, Establishing a nursing diagnosis
Managing the physical and psychosocial health status of clients
Using research skills - ANSWER→-Establishing a nursing diagnosis
6. 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 - ANSWER→-Writing orders
for laboratory tests
7. 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 -
ANSWER→-Insertion of an intraarterial
catheter
8. 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 - ANSWER→-Delegate assessment to an LPN
9. It is within the scope of practice for a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) in
Arizona to:
Prescribe over the counter
drugs
Establish a medical diagnosis
Prescribe durable medical equipment
Perform radiography - ANSWER→-Prescribe durable medical equipment
10.Under the definition of delegation, a nurse may delegate:
Decision making and nursing judgment to other licensed nurses
To any person whose job description includes the delegated activity
All assessments except the initial assessment
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LATEST EXAMINATION QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS 2025/2026
1. The definition of practical nursing includes:
1 Assessing the health status of individuals
2 Teaching nursing knowledge and skills
3 Establishing goals to meet health care needs
4 Maintaining safe nursing care that is rendered indirectly - ANSWER→-4
(Maintaining safe nursing care that is rendered indirectly)
2. It is outside the scope of practice for an LPN to:
1 Perform an electrocardiogram on a client
2 Assess a client to formulate a plan of care
3 Reinforce foot care teaching for a diabetic client
4 Obtain a blood specimen from a client - ANSWER→-2 (Assess a client to
formulate a plan of care)
3. 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):
1 Administration of conscious sedation
2 Taking vital signs
3 Administering IV medications
4 Performing sclerotherapy - ANSWER→-3 (Administering IV
medications)
4. 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) -
ANSWER→-Provide nursing services independent of a registered nurse
(RN) or physician
5. Which of the following is included in the definition of registered nursing
(RN):
Activities are performed under the direction and supervision of a physician
1
, Establishing a nursing diagnosis
Managing the physical and psychosocial health status of clients
Using research skills - ANSWER→-Establishing a nursing diagnosis
6. 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 - ANSWER→-Writing orders
for laboratory tests
7. 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 -
ANSWER→-Insertion of an intraarterial
catheter
8. 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 - ANSWER→-Delegate assessment to an LPN
9. It is within the scope of practice for a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) in
Arizona to:
Prescribe over the counter
drugs
Establish a medical diagnosis
Prescribe durable medical equipment
Perform radiography - ANSWER→-Prescribe durable medical equipment
10.Under the definition of delegation, a nurse may delegate:
Decision making and nursing judgment to other licensed nurses
To any person whose job description includes the delegated activity
All assessments except the initial assessment
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