Knowledge and Application of CLPNBC Professional and Practice Standards

This article discusses the CLPNBC Professional and Practice Standards and their role in guiding nursing practice in British Columbia. It covers the ethical principles, nursing actions, and scenarios that LPNs may encounter in their practice. The article emphasizes the importance of reviewing the standards to ensure clinically safe and competent ethical-based care practice.

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Introduction
The CLPNBC refers to the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of British Columbia. It is a
college of nursing professionals. Its role and legal obligation is to protect the public through
regulation of nursing professionals which includes (Licensed Practical Nursing, Nursing
Professional, Registered Nursing and Registered Nurse and Registered Professional Nursing),
setting standards of practice and assessing nursing education programs in British Columbia and
also solve and address the complaints about British Columbia College of nursing professionals
(LPNABC, 2018).
The main purpose of the professional standard document is that it helps to describe and prescribe
the competence along with the levels of care in all the phases of the nursing process. It helps to
direct and maintain the legal, acceptable and clinically competent and safe standards of care. The
document also provides an evaluation tool to all the nursing professionals to ensure that the
optimum levels of clinical nursing proficiency, safety and competency are practiced (Kennedy et
al, 2018). It is also used to provide a framework that guides in the development of clinical
competency checklist or proficient evaluation of an employer or employee or a specific clinical
unit. It can also be used as a comparison tool for evaluating nursing care if the nurse is suspected
to be practicing unsafe working habits or when a nurse fails to adhere to organizational policies
or legally and widely accepted standards and guidelines established by the states and federal laws
(McKenzie, 2018). The professional documents aid the management team and health care
organizations of British to develop safe stuffing practices and to delegate tasks to licensed nurses
and ensure quality documentation and also develop policies for the new technology such as
social media. The professional document also ensures that all the nurses’ accountability for any

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clinical decisions they make and the clinical actions that they undertake hence maintain
competence during the nursing career (Stalling, 2018). The standards also guide the nurses in
their persistency while enhancing the knowledge base on clinical experience, continuing clinical
education and the latest clinical guidelines among other safe nursing practices. The sole purpose
of practice standards is to guide and directs nurses’ practice. They set out levels of performance
that the British Columbia College of nursing professionals and registered nurse are required to
meet in their practices.
The Body
Nursing actions from the responsibility and accountability includes; nursing decision
making, advocates for the patients where the nurse agitates for the patients’ rights for better
treatment, nursing management whereby the nurse assumes full management of the patients,
leadership where a nurse lead others in meeting the objectives of the profession and teamwork
whereby all the nursing staff work together to achieve common objectives (Carrier, 2019).
Nursing actions from the competency-based practice include; the ability to provide
individualized nursing care to the patients, deliver patient-centered care to the patients and also
the ability to demonstrate high levels of cultural competence (Aebersold et al, 2018). The nursing
actions on the scenario of a client-focused provision of service include; collaborating with the
patient in order to achieve the objectives, communicate to the patient on any intervention to be
carried out and consults with nurses, students, and any other health care provider concerning
more appropriate patient care. The ethical principles that nurses must practice include; practice
beneficence which means that everything that a nurse do should benefit the patient, employ non-

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maleficence which means that all that is being done to the patient should not be harmful and
practice veracity that is the act of doing what is universally true and acceptable, and autonomy
whereby the nurse practices independently (Stalling, 2018). One nursing practice from
boundaries in a nursing-client relationship involves; demonstrating high levels of trust and
empathy, in the case of communicable diseases while preventing nurse to client transmission, the
nurse should always wear protective items such as gown, apron, face and nose mask that is, the
nurse should practice infection prevention techniques. In the scenario of conflict of interest, the
nurse should prioritize patients’ care if there is no risk associated with it. In the scenario of
consent, the nurse should always seek informed consent from the patient before attending to the
patient in the cases such as pre-operative care in case the patient is not in a position to give
informed consent, a spouse or a close relative should do so (Aebersold et al.2013). In the
scenario of documentation, the nurse should document all the procedures done, validly and
appropriately. The document should be clear, self-explanatory and without any ambiguity so that
any next person reading should not struggle to read and understand. In the scenario of care
provision, the nurse should ensure to meet the physiological, psychological and physical needs of
the patient. In the scenario of reporting as a duty, the nurse should always report and document
all the information correctly and safely, that is, the person receiving the report, the time and the
information being reported (Carrier, 2019). In the scenario of medication administration, the
nurse should ensure to administer the right drug to the right patient at the right time with the right
dosage through the right route of administration. In the case of privacy and confidentiality, the
nurse should always ensure patients’ privacy by screening the patient when being done a
procedure and avoid overcrowding and restrict unauthorized personnel during a clinical
procedure. In the scenario of the use of licensed practical nursing, the nurse is able to perform

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basic medical procedures such as checking vital signs, feeding the patients and passing
medication (Stalling, 2018). In the scenario of working with health care assistants, the nurses are
expected to allocate them duties as per their abilities.
Conclusion
The role of CLPNBC as it applies to the personal and professional practice of a Licensed
Practical Nurse includes; outlining of the standards, care conditions and limits that are set by the
British Columbia College of nursing practice for a licensed practical nurse of nurse practice in
British Columbia (Kennedy et al. 2018). These standards, limits, and conditions set complements
with the regulations and further defines the licensed practical nursing (LPN) scope of practice.
They cannot be looked at as by themselves but must be reviewed as the bigger picture in order to
provide clinically safe and very competent ethical based care practice (McKenzie, 2018). The
licensed practical nurse should carefully consider the activities they carry out either with or
without an order. Therefore the main role of the CLPNBC is to protect the public but they don't
advocate for the review the professional practice but only review the emerging inquiries for
public safety. The reason for the review of CLPNBC documents by the LPN is because the
nursing profession is ever changing and there is a demand to respond to public legislation, meet
public demands and also comply with the latest advances in medical health care. The LPN
provides routine care to the patients, monitor patients' health, plays the assistant role to the
registered nurse and doctors, act as agents where they communicate information to the patients
concerning medications, they also do provide home-based care and ensure the appropriate
lifestyle changes. This is a clear indication that the LPN is getting updates with time hence

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deems it necessary to review the CLPNBC for the better standards and latest guidelines
available.

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