NJE Test Questions and Answers |
Latest Version | 2025/2026 | Correct &
Verified
What is professional accountability in delegation?
✔✔Ensure tasks are safe, legal, and within the delegatee’s competence.
What is the nurse’s role in end-of-life care?
✔✔Respect patient wishes, provide comfort, and ensure dignity.
What is the nurse’s duty in maintaining sterile technique?
✔✔Follow established protocols to prevent contamination and infection.
What is the nurse’s responsibility in reporting abuse by colleagues?
✔✔Report promptly to the board or authorized authority to protect patients.
What is the nurse’s duty in disaster or emergency preparedness?
✔✔Ensure continuity of care, safe medication supply, and patient safety during emergencies.
What is the nurse’s responsibility regarding patient falls?
✔✔Assess risk, implement preventive measures, and document incidents.
What is the nurse’s duty in handling advance directives?
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,✔✔Ensure they are accessible, understood, and honored in patient care decisions.
What is a nurse’s role in providing culturally competent care?
✔✔Respect patient beliefs and provide care appropriate to cultural and personal needs.
What is the nurse’s responsibility in medication reconciliation?
✔✔Verify patient medications, doses, and interactions during care transitions.
What is the nurse’s role in participating in research?
✔✔Ensure ethical conduct, informed consent, and patient safety.
What is the nurse’s responsibility when patients are under isolation precautions?
✔✔Follow all infection control measures and educate staff and patients.
What is the nurse’s role in telehealth practice?
✔✔Ensure patient privacy, accurate documentation, and compliance with applicable laws.
What is the purpose of nursing jurisprudence?
✔✔To ensure nurses understand and comply with laws, rules, and regulations governing nursing
practice.
Who regulates nursing practice in the United States?
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, ✔✔State Boards of Nursing in each state.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
✔✔A law that defines the scope, responsibilities, and legal limitations of nursing practice.
What must a nurse do before practicing in a new state?
✔✔Obtain a valid license from that state’s board of nursing.
What is professional accountability?
✔✔Being responsible for one’s actions, decisions, and adherence to professional standards.
What is mandatory reporting?
✔✔The legal obligation to report unsafe, illegal, or unethical practices affecting patients.
Who must nurses report suspected abuse to?
✔✔The appropriate state or local protective services or authorities.
What is considered unprofessional conduct?
✔✔Practicing nursing under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
What is informed consent?
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Latest Version | 2025/2026 | Correct &
Verified
What is professional accountability in delegation?
✔✔Ensure tasks are safe, legal, and within the delegatee’s competence.
What is the nurse’s role in end-of-life care?
✔✔Respect patient wishes, provide comfort, and ensure dignity.
What is the nurse’s duty in maintaining sterile technique?
✔✔Follow established protocols to prevent contamination and infection.
What is the nurse’s responsibility in reporting abuse by colleagues?
✔✔Report promptly to the board or authorized authority to protect patients.
What is the nurse’s duty in disaster or emergency preparedness?
✔✔Ensure continuity of care, safe medication supply, and patient safety during emergencies.
What is the nurse’s responsibility regarding patient falls?
✔✔Assess risk, implement preventive measures, and document incidents.
What is the nurse’s duty in handling advance directives?
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,✔✔Ensure they are accessible, understood, and honored in patient care decisions.
What is a nurse’s role in providing culturally competent care?
✔✔Respect patient beliefs and provide care appropriate to cultural and personal needs.
What is the nurse’s responsibility in medication reconciliation?
✔✔Verify patient medications, doses, and interactions during care transitions.
What is the nurse’s role in participating in research?
✔✔Ensure ethical conduct, informed consent, and patient safety.
What is the nurse’s responsibility when patients are under isolation precautions?
✔✔Follow all infection control measures and educate staff and patients.
What is the nurse’s role in telehealth practice?
✔✔Ensure patient privacy, accurate documentation, and compliance with applicable laws.
What is the purpose of nursing jurisprudence?
✔✔To ensure nurses understand and comply with laws, rules, and regulations governing nursing
practice.
Who regulates nursing practice in the United States?
2
, ✔✔State Boards of Nursing in each state.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
✔✔A law that defines the scope, responsibilities, and legal limitations of nursing practice.
What must a nurse do before practicing in a new state?
✔✔Obtain a valid license from that state’s board of nursing.
What is professional accountability?
✔✔Being responsible for one’s actions, decisions, and adherence to professional standards.
What is mandatory reporting?
✔✔The legal obligation to report unsafe, illegal, or unethical practices affecting patients.
Who must nurses report suspected abuse to?
✔✔The appropriate state or local protective services or authorities.
What is considered unprofessional conduct?
✔✔Practicing nursing under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
What is informed consent?
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