Key Terms
Official recognition by a state that standards or requirements have been met
What is a Certification?
RN
When is a Registered nurse?
A nurse practice act defines an RN and LPN/LVN and their scope of practice. True or False?
True
CNA
What is a Certified nursing assistant?
A nursing care or function, procedure, skill, or activity
What is a Nursing Task?
BON
What is the Board of nursing?
Each state has the same exact nurse practice act. True or False?
False
LNA
What is a Licensed nursing assistant?
The dishonest use of property
what is Misappropriation?
LPN
What is a Licensed practical nurse
Nurse Practice Acts allow for people to practice without a license. True or False?
False
RNA
What is a Registered nurse aide?
Job description
What is document describing what an agency (employer) requires you to do?
OBRA
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987?
Nurse Ally was convicted of a crime in Louisiana, but she lives and works in New Jersey. Can New Jersey’s Board of Nursing suspend or revoke her license for this? Yes or No
Yes
SRNA
What is a State registered nurse aide?
Endorsement
what is a state recognizes the license, certificate, or registration issued by another state; also referred to as reciprocity or equivalency?
NATCEP
What is a Nursing assistant training and competency evaluation program?
A state’s board of nursing suspended Nurse Sally’s license because she began selling and distributing drugs from the hospital she worked at. Is it within the right of the state’s Board of Nursing to do so? Why?
Yes, because the board of nursing enforces the Nurse Practice Acts, which state that Sally cannot do that.
STNA
What is a State tested nurse aide?