CLINICAL NURSING SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES
10 PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
EXPLANATIONS 2026
◉ What does it mean to have the right task in delegation?
Answer: is it safe to delegate? requires little supervision
◉ What does it mean to have the right person in delegation?
Answer: license, certification and role description; strengths,
experience, competence?
◉ Who can RNs delegate to?
Answer: other licensed nurses: LPN/LVN, RNs
◉ Who can Assistive Personnel (AP) delegate to?
Answer: CNA or CMA, monitor techs, dialysis techs, phlebotomists,
orderlies/house attendants, nursing students
LPNs can also delegate to NAPs
◉ What do RNs delegate tasks based on?
Answer: the needs or condition of the patient, potential for harm,
stability of the patient's condition, complexity of the task,
,predictability of the outcome, abilities of the staff whom the task is
delegated
◉ What can RNs not delegate?
Answer: nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, planning, and
evaluation; patient education (LPNs may reinforce education); tasks
that require clinical judgement critical thinking
◉ What are some examples of tasks delegated to LPNs?
Answer: monitoring client findings as input to the RN's ongoing
assessment, reinforcement of client teaching from standard care
plan, insertion of urinary catheter, medication administration (IV
meds?) NO BLOOD ANYTHING
◉ What are some examples of tasks delegated to CNAs?
Answer: activities of daily lining (ADLs): bathing, grooming,
dressing, toileting, ambulating, feeding (with swallowing
precautions), positioning, bedmaking; specimen collection (non-
sterile), intake and output, vital signs (on stable clients)
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 7?
Answer: "The Nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the
profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional
standards of development, and the generation of both nursing and
health policy."
, ◉ What is evidence?
Answer: up to date information from relevant. valid research
◉ What is the best evidence?
Answer: it comes from well designed, systematically conducted
research studies (non-research: chart reviews, clinician's expertise,
risk management data, etc.)
◉ What is evidence-based practice?
Answer: it is a problem-solving approach to clinical practice that
combines the best available evidence in combination with a
clinician's expertise, patient preferences and values, and available
health care resources in making decisions about patient care
◉ What are the 6 steps of EBP?
Answer: ask a clinical question, collect the most-relevant and best
evidence, critically appraise the evidence you gather, apply or
integrate evidence along with your clinical expertise, patient
preferences, and values in make a practice decision or chance,
evaluate the practice decision or change, & communicate your
results
◉ Developing a PICOT question: P?
10 PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
EXPLANATIONS 2026
◉ What does it mean to have the right task in delegation?
Answer: is it safe to delegate? requires little supervision
◉ What does it mean to have the right person in delegation?
Answer: license, certification and role description; strengths,
experience, competence?
◉ Who can RNs delegate to?
Answer: other licensed nurses: LPN/LVN, RNs
◉ Who can Assistive Personnel (AP) delegate to?
Answer: CNA or CMA, monitor techs, dialysis techs, phlebotomists,
orderlies/house attendants, nursing students
LPNs can also delegate to NAPs
◉ What do RNs delegate tasks based on?
Answer: the needs or condition of the patient, potential for harm,
stability of the patient's condition, complexity of the task,
,predictability of the outcome, abilities of the staff whom the task is
delegated
◉ What can RNs not delegate?
Answer: nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, planning, and
evaluation; patient education (LPNs may reinforce education); tasks
that require clinical judgement critical thinking
◉ What are some examples of tasks delegated to LPNs?
Answer: monitoring client findings as input to the RN's ongoing
assessment, reinforcement of client teaching from standard care
plan, insertion of urinary catheter, medication administration (IV
meds?) NO BLOOD ANYTHING
◉ What are some examples of tasks delegated to CNAs?
Answer: activities of daily lining (ADLs): bathing, grooming,
dressing, toileting, ambulating, feeding (with swallowing
precautions), positioning, bedmaking; specimen collection (non-
sterile), intake and output, vital signs (on stable clients)
◉ What is the ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 7?
Answer: "The Nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the
profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional
standards of development, and the generation of both nursing and
health policy."
, ◉ What is evidence?
Answer: up to date information from relevant. valid research
◉ What is the best evidence?
Answer: it comes from well designed, systematically conducted
research studies (non-research: chart reviews, clinician's expertise,
risk management data, etc.)
◉ What is evidence-based practice?
Answer: it is a problem-solving approach to clinical practice that
combines the best available evidence in combination with a
clinician's expertise, patient preferences and values, and available
health care resources in making decisions about patient care
◉ What are the 6 steps of EBP?
Answer: ask a clinical question, collect the most-relevant and best
evidence, critically appraise the evidence you gather, apply or
integrate evidence along with your clinical expertise, patient
preferences, and values in make a practice decision or chance,
evaluate the practice decision or change, & communicate your
results
◉ Developing a PICOT question: P?
