Nurse Practice Examination Act with complete solutions
The definition of practical nursing includes:
1Assessing the health status of individuals
2Teaching nursing knowledge and skills
3Establishing goals to meet health care needs
4Maintaining safe nursing care that is rendered indirectly - ✔✔4 (Maintaining safe nursing care
that is rendered indirectly)
It is outside the scope of practice for an LPN to:
1Perform an electrocardiogram on a client
2Assess a client to formulate a plan of care
3Reinforce foot care teaching for a diabetic client
4Obtain a blood specimen from a client - ✔✔2 (Assess a client to formulate a plan of care)
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):
1Administration of conscious sedation
2Taking vital signs
3Administering IV medications
4Performing sclerotherapy - ✔✔3 (Administering IV medications)
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) - ✔✔Provide nursing services
independent of a registered nurse (RN) or physician
Which of the following is included in the definition of registered nursing (RN):
Activities are performed under the direction and supervision of a physician
Establishing a nursing diagnosis
Managing the physical and psychosocial health status of clients
Using research skills - ✔✔Establishing a nursing diagnosis
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 - ✔✔Writing orders for laboratory tests
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 - ✔✔Insertion of an intraarterial
catheter
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 - ✔✔Delegate assessment to an LPN
It is within the scope of practice for a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) in Arizona to:
Prescribe overthecounter
drugs
Establish a medical diagnosis
Prescribe durable medical equipment
Perform radiography - ✔✔Prescribe durable medical equipment
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
The definition of practical nursing includes:
1Assessing the health status of individuals
2Teaching nursing knowledge and skills
3Establishing goals to meet health care needs
4Maintaining safe nursing care that is rendered indirectly - ✔✔4 (Maintaining safe nursing care
that is rendered indirectly)
It is outside the scope of practice for an LPN to:
1Perform an electrocardiogram on a client
2Assess a client to formulate a plan of care
3Reinforce foot care teaching for a diabetic client
4Obtain a blood specimen from a client - ✔✔2 (Assess a client to formulate a plan of care)
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):
1Administration of conscious sedation
2Taking vital signs
3Administering IV medications
4Performing sclerotherapy - ✔✔3 (Administering IV medications)
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) - ✔✔Provide nursing services
independent of a registered nurse (RN) or physician
Which of the following is included in the definition of registered nursing (RN):
Activities are performed under the direction and supervision of a physician
Establishing a nursing diagnosis
Managing the physical and psychosocial health status of clients
Using research skills - ✔✔Establishing a nursing diagnosis
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 - ✔✔Writing orders for laboratory tests
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 - ✔✔Insertion of an intraarterial
catheter
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 - ✔✔Delegate assessment to an LPN
It is within the scope of practice for a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) in Arizona to:
Prescribe overthecounter
drugs
Establish a medical diagnosis
Prescribe durable medical equipment
Perform radiography - ✔✔Prescribe durable medical equipment
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
