NMCN Nursing Exam flashcards
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- Accreditation of nursing program
- Formal approval granted by the national nursing council confirming that a training institution meets the prescribed curriculum, faculty, and clinical practice standards.
- Clinical instructor qualification
- Requirement that a supervisor of students hold a current practicing license in the relevant cadre, a recognized teaching qualification, and specified post-registration experience.
- Clinical logbook
- Student-held record of supervised patient encounters and procedures, signed by the supervising nurse, used to verify competence before graduation and examination entry.
- Formative versus summative assessment
- Formative evaluation monitors progress during training and gives feedback; summative evaluation occurs at the end and determines pass or fail decisions.
- Minimum clinical practice hours
- The council-mandated number of supervised direct patient care hours a student must complete across required settings before eligibility to sit the licensure examination.
- Curriculum approval
- Council review and authorization of a nursing program's content, hours, and assessment plan; unapproved changes can render graduates ineligible for licensure.
- Required clinical rotations
- Mandated placements in medical-surgical, maternal-child, community, and mental health settings that must be completed before a student can graduate.
- Nurse educator degree requirement
- Minimum academic credential, typically a bachelor's degree in nursing plus a teaching qualification, required for faculty teaching in accredited nursing programs.
- Scope of practice
- The legally defined activities a nurse or midwife may perform according to their cadre; practicing beyond it constitutes a disciplinary offence.
- Nursing process
- The required five-step framework of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation that structures and documents all nursing care delivery.
- Informed consent elements
- Consent is valid only when voluntary, given by a person with capacity, and based on disclosure of the procedure, risks, benefits, and alternatives.
- Medication rights
- The verification set applied before administration: right patient, drug, dose, route, time, documentation, and reason; deviations are reported through the incident system.
- Contemporaneous documentation
- Recording care at the time it occurs, factually and legibly, signed and dated; later corrections use a single line, initial, and date without erasing.
- WHO five moments
- Hand hygiene indications: before touching a patient, before clean procedure, after body fluid exposure, after touching a patient, and after touching surroundings.
- Standard precautions
- Infection control measures applied to every patient regardless of diagnosis, including hand hygiene, gloves, gowns, and safe sharps handling.
- Partograph use
- A graphic labor monitoring tool plotting cervical dilatation, descent, contractions, and fetal heart rate to detect prolonged or obstructed labor early.
- Mandatory reporting duty
- Legal obligation to report suspected abuse, notifiable diseases, and unsafe practice by colleagues; failing to report is itself a professional breach.
- Confidentiality limits
- Patient information may be disclosed without consent only where law requires it or where there is serious risk to life or public safety.
- Duty of advocacy
- The nurse's obligation to act in the patient's interest, including escalating unsafe staffing, errors, or orders through the proper chain of authority.
- Professional boundaries
- Limits protecting the therapeutic relationship; intimate or financial relationships with current patients are prohibited and boundary crossings must be reported.
- Disciplinary process stages
- Complaint or report, investigation, notice to the practitioner, hearing before the disciplinary committee, determination of findings, and imposition of sanction.
- Range of sanctions
- Penalties from caution and conditional practice through suspension to removal from the register; permanent deregistration is the most severe outcome.
- Impaired practice referral
- Handling of substance misuse or mental incapacity through a health committee, with restrictions imposed where needed to protect patient safety.
- Professional misconduct categories
- Acts including falsifying records, practicing while suspended, and practicing without a license, each attracting the maximum disciplinary penalty.
- Employer notification duty
- Obligation on employers to inform the regulatory council when a nurse is dismissed or resigns because of professional misconduct.
- Regulatory body mandate
- The council maintains the register, sets entry standards, issues licenses, and investigates complaints, accountable to the public rather than to members.
- Initial licensure requirements
- Graduation from an accredited program, passing the national licensure examination, and evidence of good character and fitness to practice.
- License renewal requirements
- Time-limited registration renewed by demonstrating the required continuing professional development credits and paying the prescribed renewal fee.
- CPD credit requirement
- A minimum number of continuing professional development points per renewal cycle, with a defined proportion in ethics or specialty practice areas.
- Practicing on expired license
- Unlawful practice; reinstatement may require a late fee, additional CPD credits, or a return-to-practice competency assessment.
- Provisional license
- A time-limited registration permitting supervised practice only, with supervision conditions and duration set by the regulatory council.
- Reciprocity or endorsement
- Registration of a nurse licensed in another jurisdiction after credential verification and, where required, a competency examination.
- Public register verification
- Employers must confirm a nurse's current registration on the council's public register before employment and at each renewal cycle.