texas nurse practice act and nurse jurisprudence exam questions and answers 100% pass

texas nurse practice act and nurse

jurisprudence exam questions and

answers 100% pass

define nurse jurisprudence according to the texas BON ✔✔Jurisprudence is the science or

philosophy of law. The Texas Nurse Practice Act and the Texas Board of Nursing Rules and

Regulations Relating to Nurse Education, Licensure, and Practice are the laws that govern the

practice of nursing practice in Texas. Your nursing practice is directly affected by your ability to

make informed decision within the parameters of these laws. You need to know how the rules

apply to you, and then apply them in your nursing practice.

state the reason new nurses must take and pass the nurse jurisprudence exam to receive their license

to practice professional nursing in Texas ✔✔BON staff have heard nurses who were disciplined

by the board proclaim "If only i had known and understood about my 'duty to the patient' under

the NPA and board rules I would have not gotten into trouble with the BON"

identify several topics covered on the nurse jurisprudence exam ✔✔-licensure and regulation

-ethics

-practice

-peer reviews

-disciplinary action

make and accept assignments

-nurses must take into consideration the staff person's:

educational preparation,

experience,

knowledge and

physical and emotional ability

explore implications for practice from rule 217.11 standards of nursing practice from the Texas

Nurse Practice Act ✔✔Rule 217.11 is the foundation for all other standards:

" ...maintain a safe environment for clients and others"

*this standard supersedes any physician order, facility policy, or administrative directive

explore conditions under which the nurse's duty to a patient begins ✔✔You understand the

minimum standards of care once you receive your nursing license

-Nurses duty to a patient:

*begins when there is a relationship established between the nurse and the patient

*begins when the nurse has a responsibility for a patient

*doesn't begin with a single event (clocking in)

*when a nurse knows or should have known that a situation potentially

discuss the process of safe harbor ✔✔-Complete quick request first

-then before the shift ends complete the comprehensive one

mandatory overtime:

-a hospital is prohibited from scheduling mandatory overtime

-on call time cannot be used to produce mandatory overtime

-exceptions: disaster, state of emergency, unforeseen event, nurse is doing a procedure and cannot

leave(patient safety)

retaliation by the hospital is prohibited

the nurse should invoke safe harbor when asked to accept an assignment that is unsafe or outside

of her knowledge, skills, physical/emotional abilities

safe harbor applies to all nurses when the nurse believes an assignment may place patients at risk

of harm, thus violating the nurses' duty to a patient