Professional Standard
LPN maintains standards of nursing practice and professional conduct
What is Responsibility and Accountability
The nurse1-client relationship is the foundation of nursing practice across all populations and cultures and in all practice settings. It is therapeutic and focuses on the needs of the client.2 It is based on trust, respect and professional intimacy,3 and it requires the appropriate use of authority.
Nurses1 have an obligation to provide safe, competent and ethical care to their clients, in accordance with BCCNM’s Standards of Practice and relevant legislation. There are, however, some circumstances in which it is acceptable for a nurse to withdraw from care provision or refuse to provide care.
What is Duty to provide care
Provincial Insurance Plans “must entitle one hundred percent of the insured persons of the province to the insured healthcare services provided by the plan on uniform terms and conditions”
What is universality
Nurses have a professional responsibility to provide regulatory supervision of student activities that affect clients (e.g., assessments, treatments, interventions).
What is regulatory supervision of students
The licensed practical nurse applies appropriate knowledge, skills, judgment and attitudes consistently in nursing practice.
What is competency- based practice
It is caused by an infectious agent that is spread from person to person, either directly or indirectly. This practice standard provides licensed practical nurses (LPNs) with information to make decisions about preventing, detecting and controlling the spread of infectious agents from nurses to clients.
What is Communicable Diseases
Nurses1 (in all positions and settings) have a legal and ethical obligation to report incompetent or impaired practice or unethical conduct of regulated health professionals. It is important for nurses to understand when to report, what to report and how to report, and to know what is legally and ethically required.
What is Duty to report
The Provincial Insurance plan “must not impose any minimum period of residence in the province, or waiting period, in excess of 3 months before residents are eligible for insured health services”
What is portability
Nurse carries particular meaning and conveys a level of knowledge and skill in managing the health care of a client. Reserved titles are restricted by the Health Professions Act for use only by the registrants of a regulatory college.
What is Use of Title
The licensed practical nurse provides nursing services and works with others in the best interest of clients.
What is Client- Focused provision of service
It occurs when a nurse’s1 personal, business, commercial, political, academic or financial interests, or the interests of the nurse’s family or friends, interfere with the nurse’s professional responsibilities or a client’s best interests.
What is Conflict of interest
It begins with a self-examination of the nurse or midwife’s values, assumptions, beliefs, and privileges embedded in their own knowledge and practice, and consideration of how this may impact the therapeutic relationship with Indigenous clients.
What is cultural humility
Provide insured residents reasonable access to health services and providers based on medical need regardless of ability to pay.
What is Accessibility
They are caregivers who provide personal care assistance and services in a variety of health care settings such as acute care, assisted living, residential care, and home and community care.
What is HCA
The licensed practical nurse understands, upholds and promotes the ethical standards of the nursing profession.
What is Ethical Practice
It is the voluntary agreement to some act or purpose made by a capable individual. Clients and their substitute decision makers have the legal right to agree to, refuse or revoke permission for proposed care, service, treatment or research provided by a health care professional, at anytime.
What is consent
It refers to Schedule I, IA, II, III, and unscheduled drugs as defined in the provincial Drug Schedules Regulation under the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act (PODSA).
What is Medication
Each Province “must administer and operate on a non-profit basis by a public authority appointed or designated by the government”
What is Public Administration
Responsible for assessing clients and assigning client care, or parts of client care, to HCAs.
What is LPN
Reflect the values of the nursing profession, clarify what the profession expects of licensed practical nurses, and represent the criteria that BCCNM uses to measure LPN practice in BC.
What is Professional Standards
It includes any written and/or electronically generated information about a client1 that describes the care or service provided to that client. Nurses2 document timely and appropriate reports of assessments, decisions about client status, plans, interventions, and client outcomes.
Documentation
When clients entrust their information to a nurse, they expect and rely on it being kept confidential.
What is Privacy and Confidentiality
Care is provided regardless of Race, Gender, Income, Ethnicity, or Religion
what is Universality
It is based on the Regulation and sets out the activities that LPNs are educated and authorized to perform if employer policy permits it, and if the LPN has the competence.
What is LPN Scope of Practice