BSNC 1020 MIDTERM EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is autonomous scope of practice for RN's? -
correct answer ✅· Assuming accountability and responsibility for
making decisions about client care
· Performing activities they are educated, competent and allowed
to perform without a client specific order
what is not autonomous practice -
correct answer ✅· Not autonomous practice is any BCCNM
standard, limit, or condition, or and organizational/employer
policies, processes, or restrictions.
How do nurses apply the standards for acting within autonomous
scope of practice? -
correct answer ✅· Performing restricted activities that are not
listed in section 6 of nurses and NP unless they are prohibited by
BCCNM
what is a listed health professional -
correct answer ✅o Physicians
o NP
o Certified RN
o Dentists
,BSNC 1020 MIDTERM EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
o Midwives
o Naturopaths
o Podiatrists
o Pharmacists
what is a non listed health professional -
correct answer ✅o Wound clinicians
o RNs who aren't certified
o Registered psychiatric nurses
o Dietitians
How do nurses apply the standards for acting with client-specific
orders? -
correct answer ✅o be documented in the client's permanent
record by the regulated health professional giving the client-specific
order,
o include all the information needed for the ordered activity to be
carried out safely (e.g., time, frequency, dosage), and
o include a written/electronic signature.
o Must also consider the four controls on practice
,BSNC 1020 MIDTERM EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
section 7 restricted activities that require an order -
correct answer ✅o Procedures below the body surface
o Administering substances
o Putting items into body openings
o Putting substances into ears
o Hazardous forms of energy
o Medications
o Allergy testing and treatment
restricted activities that do not require an order -
correct answer ✅· Diagnosis
· Wound care
· Intravenous
· Inhalation
· Instillation and injection
· Assessing clients and treating conditions
· Managing labour
· Hazardous forms of energy
· Ordering the application of energy
· Medications
, BSNC 1020 MIDTERM EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
· prescribing
· Therapeutic diets
what is a condition -
correct answer ✅· A condition is different from a disease or
disorder. A condition can be improved or resolved by a registered
nurse's interventions and achieves outcomes for which the
registered nurse is accountable
section 6 is -
correct answer ✅restricted activities that do not require an order
section 7 is -
correct answer ✅restricted activities that do require an order
2 exceptions RN can function outside of their scope -
correct answer ✅risk of death that's urgent and formal delegation
• What did the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) do? -
correct answer ✅- Approved in 1898 -> signified a professional
standard of education for Canadian nurses that recognized nursing
knowledge, altruism and compassion
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is autonomous scope of practice for RN's? -
correct answer ✅· Assuming accountability and responsibility for
making decisions about client care
· Performing activities they are educated, competent and allowed
to perform without a client specific order
what is not autonomous practice -
correct answer ✅· Not autonomous practice is any BCCNM
standard, limit, or condition, or and organizational/employer
policies, processes, or restrictions.
How do nurses apply the standards for acting within autonomous
scope of practice? -
correct answer ✅· Performing restricted activities that are not
listed in section 6 of nurses and NP unless they are prohibited by
BCCNM
what is a listed health professional -
correct answer ✅o Physicians
o NP
o Certified RN
o Dentists
,BSNC 1020 MIDTERM EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
o Midwives
o Naturopaths
o Podiatrists
o Pharmacists
what is a non listed health professional -
correct answer ✅o Wound clinicians
o RNs who aren't certified
o Registered psychiatric nurses
o Dietitians
How do nurses apply the standards for acting with client-specific
orders? -
correct answer ✅o be documented in the client's permanent
record by the regulated health professional giving the client-specific
order,
o include all the information needed for the ordered activity to be
carried out safely (e.g., time, frequency, dosage), and
o include a written/electronic signature.
o Must also consider the four controls on practice
,BSNC 1020 MIDTERM EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
section 7 restricted activities that require an order -
correct answer ✅o Procedures below the body surface
o Administering substances
o Putting items into body openings
o Putting substances into ears
o Hazardous forms of energy
o Medications
o Allergy testing and treatment
restricted activities that do not require an order -
correct answer ✅· Diagnosis
· Wound care
· Intravenous
· Inhalation
· Instillation and injection
· Assessing clients and treating conditions
· Managing labour
· Hazardous forms of energy
· Ordering the application of energy
· Medications
, BSNC 1020 MIDTERM EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
· prescribing
· Therapeutic diets
what is a condition -
correct answer ✅· A condition is different from a disease or
disorder. A condition can be improved or resolved by a registered
nurse's interventions and achieves outcomes for which the
registered nurse is accountable
section 6 is -
correct answer ✅restricted activities that do not require an order
section 7 is -
correct answer ✅restricted activities that do require an order
2 exceptions RN can function outside of their scope -
correct answer ✅risk of death that's urgent and formal delegation
• What did the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) do? -
correct answer ✅- Approved in 1898 -> signified a professional
standard of education for Canadian nurses that recognized nursing
knowledge, altruism and compassion
