Describe the HPA - ✔✔Health Profession Act: provides a common regulatory framework for BC's
regulates health professions
Identify the 5 levels - ✔✔1. HPA
2. LEGISLATION
3. BCCNP:
Regulate schools, standards
Have their own investigative department
4. EMPLOYER
5. SELF: am i safe to practice self regulation
Describe the standards of practice - ✔✔The practice standards and professional standards
1. Professional Standards: REGULATE OUR BEHAVIOUR
- Guide how you behave professionally
- Provide overall framework for the practice of nurses
- Set out minimum levels of performance that nurses are required to achieve in their practice
2. Practice Standards
- Requirements related to specific aspects of nurses practice
- Provides additional info on specific topics
- Guides and directs nurses practice
3. Scope of Practice
- Decision support tools
- Standards, limits and conditions
,- Restricted and unrestricted tasks
Identify the 5 levels of entry level competencies - ✔✔1. Professional Practice
2. Ethical practice
3. Legal practice
4. Foundations of practice
5. Collaborative practice
Describe the 5 categories of entry level competencies - ✔✔1) Professional Practice: LPN's are
responsible and accountable for safe, competent and ethical nursing practice
2) Ethical Practice: LPN's use ethical framework when making professional judgements and practice
decisions
3) Legal practice: LPN's adhere to provincial/territorial and federal legislation
4) Foundations of practice: LPN's use critical thinking, reflection and evidence for ADPIE
5) Collaborative Practice: LPN's collaborate w/clients and health care members
What is the difference between morals and ethics? - ✔✔Moral = your belief
Ethical = what is right, not your decision
What are the 4 domains of nursing - ✔✔1. Evaluation
2. Clinical
3. Research
4. Administration
The foundational process of research is? - ✔✔The scientific method
What is the primary purpose/mandate of regulation? - ✔✔Their mandate at all times is to serve and
protect the public in 2 different ways:
Beneficence - doing good or promoting good, speaks directly to the duty of obligation
, Non-maleficence - not allowing harm; duty to report, commitment to provide least harmful
interventions
Which standards guide our behaviour as nurses? - ✔✔Professional Standards
Ethical standards are located in which BCCNP publication? - ✔✔Professional Standards #4
What is a decision support tool? - ✔✔Anything that helps make better decisions based on scientific
evidence
What are two things that can impact communication - ✔✔1. Repetition Compulsion Cycle: person in this
cycle is not receiving and perceiving the info they have been given 2. Catastrophe thinking leads to
catastrophic action → comes in place when resolving an ethical dilemma
Describe self-regulation - ✔✔In Canada, nursing is a self-regulating position = nurses are bound to a
code of ethics to serve and protect the public
The government has granted a professional group like RN's or LPN's the privilege and responsibility to
regulate themselves
Describe the 2 types of delegation - ✔✔An RN can delegate a task to an LPN and an HCA:
The RN can teach the HCA how to do a task that is not even in their core competency profile
ex) an HCA giving a needle
An LPN CAN ASSIGN a task to an HCA only if it is within their core competency profile, if the employer
sanctions it, and if the HCA is competent enough to do it
Where can the statement of delegation be found in? - ✔✔Practice Standards of LPN's: Working with
HCA's
Describe who is at fault during the act of DOT - ✔✔RN can delegate the supervision of that DOT to an
LPN: LPN supervises it but if something goes wrong the person who made the DOT is at fault -
responsibility falls on the RN
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