CLINICAL NURSING SKILLS AND
TECHNIQUES PROCEDURAL REVIEW
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
TESTED QUESTIONS.
What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 2? Ans: the nurse's
primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family,
group,or population; maintains boundaries that establish appropriate
limits to relationship
What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 4? Ans: the nurse has
authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice; makes
decisions; and take action consistent with the obligation to promote
health and to provide optimal care
What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 1? Ans: practice with
compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique
attribute of EVERY person, maintains compassionate and caring
relationships
What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 3? Ans: promotes,
advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety, and rights of the
patient, participate in review and development of policies, reporting
,errors near misses per facility police (whether you made the error or
not), disclosing errors to patients, use the chain of command
What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 5? Ans: integrity is an
aspect of wholeness of character and is primarily self-concern of the
individual nurse, nurses have a responsibility to remain consistent with
both their personal and professional values
What does the State Nurse Practice Acts do? Ans: define the Scope
of Practice within each state, protects the public, nursing licensure, to
practice nursing in the US, RN candidates must pass the NCLEX-RN
exam, same exam in every state, tests minimum knowledge base
What is the Nurse Practice Act of Aalbama? Ans: the law that
regulates the practice of nursing within each state, establishes the
Alabama Board of Nursing (ABON) and gives the board authority over
nursing practe, the ABON is authorized to give a license to a person to
practice nursing AND has the right to take it away
What do we call doctors now a days? Ans: Health Care Providers
(HCP)
What types of conflicts do nurses have? Ans: intrapersonal,
interpersonal, intergroup conflict, organizational conflict
, What 10 aspects does a perfect nurse have? Ans: empathy, detail
oriented, communication, intuition, physical endurance, emotional
stability, critical thinking, coordinator of services, patience, dedication
What is assigning? Ans: transferring the authority, accountability,
and responsibility of client care to another
What is delegating? Ans: transferring the authority and
responsibility to another team member to complete a task, while
retaining the accountability
What is supervising? Ans: directing, monitoring, and evaluating the
performance of tasks by another. RNs are responsible for supervising
delegated tasks to an LPN or AP
What is appropriate delegation? Ans: the transfer of responsibility
for the performance of a task from one individual to another while
retaining accountability for the outcome, the individual receiving the
assignment is RESPONSIBLE for the performance of the task, the
individual delegating the task retains ACCOUNTABILITY for the
outcome
What is the difference between accountability and responsibility?
Ans: you can delegate responsibility, but you cannot delegate
accountability to anyone
, What to consider when assigning (client factors)? Ans: condition of
the patient and level of care needed, specific patient needs or
precautions, time commitment
What to consider when assigning (health care team)? Ans:
knowledge and skill of team member, amount of supervision required,
nurse to patient ratio, experience with similar patients, familiarity of
staff with unit
What are the five rights of delegation? Ans: right
direction/communication, right supervision, right circumstances, right
task, right person
What does it mean to have the right direction/communication in
delegation? Ans: clear, concise, correct, and complete initial and
ongoing directions (include time, expectations, follow-up
communication, etc)
What does it mean to have the right supervision in delegation?`.
Ans: oversee assigned/delegated tasks (huddles/checkpoints- solicit team
members opinion; credit team for accomplishments)
What does it mean to have the right circumstances in delegation?
Ans: long term vs acute vs home health; knowledge and skill of
TECHNIQUES PROCEDURAL REVIEW
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
TESTED QUESTIONS.
What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 2? Ans: the nurse's
primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family,
group,or population; maintains boundaries that establish appropriate
limits to relationship
What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 4? Ans: the nurse has
authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice; makes
decisions; and take action consistent with the obligation to promote
health and to provide optimal care
What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 1? Ans: practice with
compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique
attribute of EVERY person, maintains compassionate and caring
relationships
What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 3? Ans: promotes,
advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety, and rights of the
patient, participate in review and development of policies, reporting
,errors near misses per facility police (whether you made the error or
not), disclosing errors to patients, use the chain of command
What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 5? Ans: integrity is an
aspect of wholeness of character and is primarily self-concern of the
individual nurse, nurses have a responsibility to remain consistent with
both their personal and professional values
What does the State Nurse Practice Acts do? Ans: define the Scope
of Practice within each state, protects the public, nursing licensure, to
practice nursing in the US, RN candidates must pass the NCLEX-RN
exam, same exam in every state, tests minimum knowledge base
What is the Nurse Practice Act of Aalbama? Ans: the law that
regulates the practice of nursing within each state, establishes the
Alabama Board of Nursing (ABON) and gives the board authority over
nursing practe, the ABON is authorized to give a license to a person to
practice nursing AND has the right to take it away
What do we call doctors now a days? Ans: Health Care Providers
(HCP)
What types of conflicts do nurses have? Ans: intrapersonal,
interpersonal, intergroup conflict, organizational conflict
, What 10 aspects does a perfect nurse have? Ans: empathy, detail
oriented, communication, intuition, physical endurance, emotional
stability, critical thinking, coordinator of services, patience, dedication
What is assigning? Ans: transferring the authority, accountability,
and responsibility of client care to another
What is delegating? Ans: transferring the authority and
responsibility to another team member to complete a task, while
retaining the accountability
What is supervising? Ans: directing, monitoring, and evaluating the
performance of tasks by another. RNs are responsible for supervising
delegated tasks to an LPN or AP
What is appropriate delegation? Ans: the transfer of responsibility
for the performance of a task from one individual to another while
retaining accountability for the outcome, the individual receiving the
assignment is RESPONSIBLE for the performance of the task, the
individual delegating the task retains ACCOUNTABILITY for the
outcome
What is the difference between accountability and responsibility?
Ans: you can delegate responsibility, but you cannot delegate
accountability to anyone
, What to consider when assigning (client factors)? Ans: condition of
the patient and level of care needed, specific patient needs or
precautions, time commitment
What to consider when assigning (health care team)? Ans:
knowledge and skill of team member, amount of supervision required,
nurse to patient ratio, experience with similar patients, familiarity of
staff with unit
What are the five rights of delegation? Ans: right
direction/communication, right supervision, right circumstances, right
task, right person
What does it mean to have the right direction/communication in
delegation? Ans: clear, concise, correct, and complete initial and
ongoing directions (include time, expectations, follow-up
communication, etc)
What does it mean to have the right supervision in delegation?`.
Ans: oversee assigned/delegated tasks (huddles/checkpoints- solicit team
members opinion; credit team for accomplishments)
What does it mean to have the right circumstances in delegation?
Ans: long term vs acute vs home health; knowledge and skill of
