Texas BON Study Guide

A nurse who contacts a physician to clarify a medication order is

A BON investigator in the enforcement division collected evidence that supports the BON's formal charges against a nurse regarding violations of the NPA and board rules. Attempts to notify the nurse via standard and certified mail at the nurse's last address of record have been returned to the BON office as being "undeliverable or not at this address." Since the investigator has been unable to communicate with the nurse about the BON's formal charges, Board Rule 213.16(i) on Practice and Procedure requires that

When the BON considers imposing disciplinary action, it is most concerned with the nurse consistently

A nurse quits his job, and submits a written notice at the end of his shift, telling his supervisor that he will not be back at work the following morning. The supervisor tells the nurse he has to complete the entire month's schedule or he will be committing "patient abandonment," and will be reported to the BON. This is

Which of the following would indicate that an applicant for licensure is likely to possess the good professional character necessary to hold a nursing license in Texas?

Which of the following statements correctly reflects Board Rule 217.20 regarding the Safe Harbor Peer Review?

The identity of a person submitting a complaint against a nurse to the BON is kept confidential

A nurse assesses a patient, makes a medical diagnosis of "hypertension," and determines which specific anti-hypertensive medication (including dose, route, and frequency) is appropriate for this patient. The nurse then writes a prescription for an anti-hypertensive medication and instructs the patient to have it filled at a pharmacy of her choice.

Revisions to the NPA can only occur through

The Position Statement 15.27 The Licensed Vocational Nurse Scope of Practice on the board's website outlines that LVNs have a "directed" scope of practice "under supervision." This means that

A nurse providing nursing services to a young child in a home setting asks the parent to bring the child to the nurse's home for nursing care. The nurse asks the parent to keep this arrangement confidential. This could be considered

A nurse is counseled for questioning a physician's order that made the physician mad. Which of the following documents on the BON web site best explains why the nurse was correct to question a physician's order that the nurse believed could be harmful to a patient?

Chart audits find the following practice errors committed by a nurse with observed impaired behavior at work: NO physician orders for narcotics signed out by the nurse, and NO documentation that the nurse either administered or wasted the narcotics. The best decision for the Incident Based Peer Review Committee to make is that

A nurse would be fulfilling his or her duty to safeguard patients from harm if the nurse

A person with a history of chemical dependency on controlled substances who desires to obtain or retain a license to practice nursing may be required to provide evidence of

A nurse may not be reported to the BON, may not have his or her license sanctioned by the BON, and may not be suspended or terminated from his or her employment for either appropriately invoking Safe Harbor or for advising another nurse of their right to invoke Safe Harbor. These are

One way the board carries out its mission to protect the public is by

Which of the following situations is an example of a nurse MAINTAINING appropriate professional boundaries between the nurse and the client? A nurse

According to BON Position Statement 15.24 Nurses Engaging in Reinsertion of Permanently Placed Feeding Tubes, it would be within the scope of practice for a nurse to replace a gastrostomy tube provided that

Which of the following is an example of the nurse maintaining professional boundaries of the nurse-client relationship?

Why does the BON require nurses to disclose that they have been diagnosed with, treated for, or hospitalized with certain mental illnesses?

A nurse whose license has expired

In a nurse-patient relationship, the most vulnerable patients are those who are

Action by a nurse that would constitute unprofessional conduct according to Board Rule 217.12 Unprofessional Conduct describes which of the following?

A nurse injects a medication by IV (intravenous) Push instead of IM (intramuscular) as ordered by the physician. The patient goes into cardiac arrest and dies as a result of this medication error. The nurse has worked at the facility for 15 years and this is his first error. A correct determination by the Peer Review Committee would be that

While interacting with the public in a nursing role, each nurse must wear a clearly legible insignia (such as a name badge) that identifies the nurse as

When deciding what course of action to follow, the nurse

A LVN learns that a facility licensing law requires that a registered nurse always perform a specific task related to admission of new patients. The LVN understands that this means he or she

Which of the following resources on the BON web page would assist a nurse in determining his or her scope of nursing practice?

In the NPA, "conduct subject to reporting" includes

The best method of notifying the BON about reportable violations by a nurse of the NPA and board rules is to

To help a nurse decide if a task is within his or her individual scope of practice, a prudent nurse should

A nurse is terminated and reported to the BON for committing repeated practice errors. As required in the NPA, the CNO also sends the case to the Incident Based Peer Review (IBPR) Committee because:

According to the Standards of Nursing Practice, Board Rule 217.11, a comprehensive nursing assessment

The board has adopted Disciplinary Sanction Policies regarding all of the following EXCEPT

According to Board Rule 217.3(a), Temporary Authorization to Practice, a new graduate, either a graduate vocational nurse (GVN) or a graduate professional nurse (GN), is required to avoid

Which of the following would NOT be required to establish a nursing peer review committee to conduct nursing peer review according to Section 303.0015 of the Nursing Peer Review Law?

Rule 216 related to Continuing Competency requires nurses to complete

Within the nurse licensure compact agreement, the party state that is the nurse's primary state of residence is called the nurse's

When a nurse steals valuables (such as medications, money, jewelry, or credit cards) from a patient, this may be considered criminal as well as unprofessional conduct involving

Which of the following actions by a nurse would comply with the Standards of Nursing Practice in Board Rule 217.11?

The BON differs from nursing and healthcare specialty associations since the BON