PRACTICE STANDARDS
LPN/RN/RPN?
GENERAL: SCOPE OF PRACTICE
WHICH CARNA DOCUMENT?
ENTRY TO PRACTICE COMPETENCIES (ETPCs)
100
This is the practice standard (including the definition) you are following when you ensure that you know what legislation is relevant to and impacts your practice setting.
What is Practice Standard 1: Professional Responsibility: The registered nurse is personally responsible and accountable for ensuring that their nursing practice and conduct meet the standards of the profession and legislative requirements?
100
This provider is the appropriate nursing care provider to provide nursing care for clients with complex, unstable or rapidly changing health status.
What is the RN or RPN?
100
These are the four domains of nursing practice identifiable within the practice of Registered Nursing.
What are Clinical Practice? Research? Education? Administration?
100
This type of CARNA document describes the minimum expectations that must be met by members of the profession.
What are standards documents?
100
This Board approves Alberta nursing education programs leading to initial entry-to-practice as a registered nurse.
What is NEPAB? (Nursing Education Program Approval Board)
200
These activities are defined as “Regulated health services which have been identified as involving a significant degree of risk to the public. They are also activities that demand specific competencies on the part of the person performing them” . For 100 additional points, identify where these are listed.
What are restricted activities? The complete list of restricted activities is in Schedule 7.1 of the Government Organization Act (GOA) Could also answer located in: the Registered Nurse Profession Regulations.
200
These three key factors must be considered when making decisions about the appropriate nursing provider of care.
What are characteristics of the client, of the environment, and of the nurse.
200
This the name of the highest level Scope of Practice boundary on Registered Nursing Practice in Alberta.
What is the Health Professions Act, Schedule 24.
200
This CARNA document may be useful in guiding a Registered Nurse who wants to start up a nursing blog.
What is CARNA’s Social Media Guideline?
200
The competency categories are based on the Nursing Practice Standards. However, this is one additional category that is not yet represented in a Nursing Practice Standard (although CARNA is in the process of adding this as a nursing practice standard as well).
What is “self-regulation”?
300
You are following this Practice Standard (include the definition) when you ensure that you support your clinical decisions with evidence that is current and sound.
What is Knowledge-based practice: "The registered nurse continually strives to acquire knowledge and skills to provide competent, evidence-based nursing practice"?
300
An appropriate nursing provider when the client of care is at the population level.
What is the RN or RPN?
300
This is one other way (beyond formal schooling) that Registered Nurses gain the breadth and depth of knowledge required of a Registered Nurse.
What is nursing experience OR a commitment to lifelong continuing learning?
300
This document may provide the RN some guidance as he/she tries to figure out how to keep track of activities undertaken to remain competent in practice.
What is the Interpretive document: Documenting Your Continuing Competence Activities?
300
This is the total current number of CARNA ETPCs.
What is 119?
400
In adhering to practice standard 3 around ethical practice, it is essential for the RN to practice in accordance with the CNA Code of Ethics (2008). These are 3 of the 7 core values underlying the Code of Ethics.
What are any 3 of: providing safe, compassionate, competent and ethical care; promoting health and well-being; promoting and respecting informed decision-making; preserving dignity; maintaining privacy and confidentiality; promoting justice; and being accountable?
400
Which nursing provider has a mental health focus in his/her nursing education?
What is an RPN?
400
This is one of the main goals of nursing practice in the domain of administration.
What are: quality outcomes focused on client safety, OR obtaining the required infrastructures to provide care that meets the expectations of clients, the profession and society.
400
This Interpretive document is designed to inform potential nursing students, admission officers, nursing faculties, disability service providers and equity officers, and the public of the general demands and performance expectations of registered nurses upon initial entry to practice in Alberta
What is Requisite Skills and Abilities for Becoming a Registered Nurse in Alberta - May 2011 ?
400
These are the two sections of the Entry to Practice Competency category related to knowledge-based practice.
What are: Specialized Body of Knowledge and Competent Application of Knowledge?
500
The practice standard (with definition) that includes the following indicator: “The registered nurse uses communication and team building skills to enhance client care.”
What is Practice Standard 4: Provision of service to the public. The registered nurse provides nursing service in collaboration with the client, significant others and other health professionals.?
500
These nursing providers can assign restricted activities to unregulated health care workers.
What are LPNs, RNs, RPNs
500
In this direct practice role, the RN supports clients to obtain the required information, care and resources to meet health needs, and may act on the client’s behalf to achieve these things if the client is unable to do so.
What is the client advocacy role?
500
This type of document sets out CARNA's formal stand or beliefs on particular issues, and are intended to provide members with interpretation or clarification.
What are position statements?
500
In this category of the ETPC’s, the new graduate demonstrates consideration of the spiritual and religious beliefs and practices of clients.
What is ethical practice?
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