Practice exam

Question 1

When a registered nurse (RN) delegates an activity to an enrolled nurse or health care assistant, who is accountable for the outcome?

Answer 1

The RN retains the accountability for the activity

Question 2

How many versions of the treaty are there?

Answer 2

Two

Question 3

What are the 5 aspects of nursing documentation?

Answer 3

Fact, accuracy, completeness, currency, and organisation.

Question 4

According to the NZ health strategy 2016 what does people-centred care mean?

Answer 4

Taking the focus of care from the hospital into homes, focusing on wellness before sickness, and providing care that is centred on the individual.

Question 5

Why do nurses use reflection on and in their nursing practice?

Answer 5

To make sense of their experiences so they can learn from them and make changes in required.

Question 6

What is the best way to describe professional boundaries?

Answer 6

Professional boundaries that the nurse uses to manage the power imbalances in the nurse/health consumer relationship.

Question 7

What is the best definition of primary healthcare?

Answer 7

Primary healthcare is provided in the community often by the gp or practice nurse.

Question 8

What are the 4 key values underpinning the NCNZs code of conduct for nurses?

Answer 8

Respect, trust, partnership, and integrity

Question 9

What is one characteristic of a quantitative research approach?

Answer 9

It has an objective approach and usually occurs in controlled settings.

Question 10

What are the 4 domains of competence under the NCNZ.

Answer 10

Professional responsibility, management of nursing care, interpersonal relationships, and interprofessional healthcare and quality improvement.

Question 11

What does the NCNZ issue to nurses so that they can continue to practice?

Answer 11

An annual practicing certificate.

Question 12

Ian an act of law in NZ legally binding?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

What are the three principles of the treaty of waitangi?

Answer 13

Partnership, protection, and participation.

Question 14

Which acts govern nursing practice in NZ?

Answer 14

HDCA, HPCAA, and the privacy act

Question 15

What is taonga?

Answer 15

A treasured possession

Question 16

Culturally unsafe nursing practice compromises any action which?

Answer 16

Diminishes and demeans a health consumers cultural identity

Question 17

In NZ the RNs scope of practice includes doing what?

Answer 17

Utilising nursing knowledge and complex judgement to care for health consumers.

Question 18

What did the cartwright inquiry expose?

Answer 18

Faliure to adequately treat patients with cervical carcinomas, a gross breach of patient rights, and highlighted that there was no legislation in place protecting patient rights.

Question 19

Who was the pioneer of modern nursing?

Answer 19

Florence nightingale

Question 20

What is the purpose of the NZNO code of ethics for nurses?

Answer 20

To guide nurses practice and communicate the nursing professions ethical values.

Question 21

What defines professionalism for an RN?

Answer 21

Demonstrating accountability for their nursing practice and accepting responsibility for their actions and decision-making.

Question 22

What is a current MOH health target?

Answer 22

Increased immunisation

Question 23

To practice in a culturally safe manner, a nurse needs to do what?

Answer 23

Reflect on ones cultural identity, empower the patients cultural identity, and have awareness of components that constitute culture.

Question 24

What are 3 codes or guidelines produced by the NCNZ?

Answer 24

Code of conduct, Guidelines for cultural safety an treaty, and competencies for RNs

Question 25

What is non-maleficence defined as?

Answer 25

Avoidance of harm

Question 26

Should nursing documentation be objective or subjective?

Answer 26

Objective

Question 27

The hui process is best described as?

Answer 27

A framework for working with Maori

Question 28

Which data collection method is most suitable for qualitative research?

Answer 28

In depth interviews

Question 29

What is the purpose of the health practitioners competence assurance act (HPCAA)?

Answer 29

To protect the health and safety of the public by ensuring competence of health practitioners

Question 30

How many rights are in the health and disability commissioners code of health and disability consumers rights? (Code of rights 1996) and who do they protect?

Answer 30

10 for health consumers

Question 31

Are nursing notes and nursing docmentation covered in the health information privacy code 2020?

Answer 31

Yes

Question 32

How would a nurse know if they are providing culturally safe nursing care to a health consumer?

Answer 32

Having the health consumer comfortably share personal preferences and contribute to their care decisions.

Question 33

What is the best definition of a code?

Answer 33

A practical guide on how to achieve legal standards of care required by an act.

Question 34

Who determines how effective the nursing practice of a person from another culture is?

Answer 34

The health consumer and whanau

Question 35

What should feedback look and feel like?

Answer 35

Specific, timely, genuine, balanced, and objective.

Question 36

What is a vision from the NZ health strategy 2015?

Answer 36

Stay well

Question 37

How does a nurse ensure recognising health in taonga?

Answer 37

Recognising that maori health is worthy of protection in order to achieve positive health outcomes.

Question 38

What is the registration body that governs the practice of nurses in NZ?

Answer 38

NCNZ