PMHNP BOARDS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A
State legislative statues do what two things ✔✔1. grant legal authority for NP practice
2. Provides nurse practice act specific to state
What does the Nurse Practice Act do
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PMHNP BOARDS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A
State legislative statues do what two things ✔✔1. grant legal authority for NP practice
2. Provides nurse practice act specific to state
What does the Nurse Practice Act do ✔✔1. provides title protection
2. defines advanced practice
3. prevailing state laws that define scope of practice
4. places restriction on practice
5. disciplinary action
6. regulate NP development of collaborative agreement with MD
7. guides statutory law
8. oversees license
9. credentialing
10. certification
11 defines scope of practice
12. defines standards of practice
what are state grounds for disciplinary action ✔✔- practicing with out licesne
- falsification of records
- medicare fraud
- failure to use appropriate nursing judgement
-failure to follow accepted nursing standards
- failure to complete accurate nursing documentation
what is a collaborative aggrement ✔✔also known as a protocol that describes whaty types of durgs
might be prescribed and difines some form of oversight for NP practice
what is statutory law ✔✔-rules and regulations difer for each state
-may further define scope of practice and practice requirements
-may provide restrictions in practice unique to specific state
what is licensure ✔✔- a process by which an agency of state gov. grants permission to persons to
engate in the practice of that profession
-also progibits all others from legally doing protectedpractice
what is credentialing ✔✔process used to protect the public y ensureing a minimum level of
professional competence
What is certification? ✔✔-a credential that provides title protection
-determines scope of practice
-the process by which a professional organization or association certifies that a person licensed to
practic as a professional has met certain predetermed standsrds specified by that profession for
specialty practice
-assuuers the public that a person has mastery of specified body of knowledge
-assures that the person has acquired the skils necessary to function in a particular specialty
define scope of practice ✔✔-defines the NP roles and actions
-identifies the competencies assumed to be held by all nps who function in a particluar role
-varies broadly from state to state
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what are standards of practice. ✔✔authoritative statements regarding the quality and type of
practice that should be provided
-provide a way to judge the nature of care provided
-reflect professional agreement focused on the minimum levels of acceptable performance
-reflect the expectation for the care that should be provided to clients with vaious illnesses
-can be used to legally describe the standard of care that must be met by a provider
-may be precise protocols thta must be followed o more general guidelines that recommend
actions.
what is confidentiality ✔✔-the clients right to assume that information given to the healthcare
provider will not be discoled
-protected under federal statute through the medical record confidentiality act of 1995
-pretains to verbal and written client information
-requires that the provider discuss confidentiality issues with clients establish consent and clarify
andy questions about disclosure of information
-requires that provider obtain a signed medica
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