Requisite Skills Abilities
Entry-Level Competency
Scope of practice
Practice Standards
Professional Standards
100

Requisite skills abilities can be defined as: 

What is providing the public and practitioners with information about the nature of the activities that licensed practical nurses must be able to perform, and the general demands of practical nursing education and practice.

100

Define entry-level competency

What is reflect the knowledge, skills, and judgement required of nurses to provide safe, competent, ethical and compassionate care. 

100

Nurse who studies from the same body of nursing knowledge as registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses. Their practice is based on a foundational knowledge, critical thinking, critical inquiry and clinical judgment.

What is an LPN?

100

Set out requirements for specific aspects of LPN practice.

What is practice standards 

100

Name the 4 professional standards 

What is responsibility & accountability, competency-based practice, client-focused provision of service, ethical practice 

200

Ability to conduct oneself in a professional manner.

What is behavioral 

200

1) professional practice, 2) legal practice, 3) ethical practice, 4) foundations of practice, and 5) collaborative practice.

What are the 5 categories? 

200

LPN communicate and collaborate with the client about nursing diagnoses, decisions, actions, and outcomes to support the client to be an active participant in making informed decisions about their care.

What is autonomously? 

200


Nurses are attentive to signs that a colleague is unable to perform their duties, and they are obligated to take the necessary steps to protect client safety.

What is duty to report?

200

Supervises, leads and assigns appropriately to other members of the health care team

What is client-focused provision of care

300

Ability to perform and have control over each of the following actions to provide safe client care and to actively participate in educational activities.

What is physical? 

300

Practises according to legislation, standards of practice, ethics and organizational policies.

What is legal practice?

300
With further education LPNs can care for clients with complex needs. 

What is conditions? 

300

 Racism and discrimination negatively affects clients access to health care and health outcomes

What is Indigenous cultural safety, cultural humility and anti-racism 

300

Begins, maintains and ends nurse-client relationships in a way that puts the client’s needs first

What is ethical practice? 

400

State the regulatory requirements 

 What is: Cognitive, Communication, Interpersonal, Behavioral, Physical, Sensory Perceptual, Environmental

400

Supports clients in making informed decisions about their health care and respects their decisions.

What is professional practice? 

400

BCCNM uses three regulatory mechanisms to establish limits and conditions on LPN practice:

What is additional education, formal post-basic education, & other supports 

400

Name 7 of the practice standards:

What is boundaries in the nurse-client relationship, communicable disease: preventing nurse-client transmission, conflict of interest, consent, documentation, duty to provide care, duty to report, indigenous cultural safety; cultural humility and antiracism, medication, privacy & confidentiality, regulatory supervision of students, use of title, working with HCAs

400

Name 4 indicators from the responsibility & accountability standard

  1. Maintains current registration.
  2. Maintains own competence to practise.
  3. Maintains own physical, psychological and emotional fitness to practise.
  4. Practises within own level of competence, employer policies, the LPN scope of practice and all relevant legislation.
  5. Is accountable and responsible for own nursing decisions, actions and professional conduct.
  6. Seeks guidance and direction as required.
  7. Takes action to promote safe, competent and ethical care for clients.
  8. Advocates for and/or helps to develop policies and procedures consistent with BCCNM Standards of Practice.
  9. Understands the role of BCCNM and its relationship to one’s own practice.