Introduction
RPN in Canada You practice within your college standards and employer policies. Items test safe medication administration (including controlled drugs per protocol), IV therapy only when authorized and competent, wound care within scope, sterile technique when required, and immediate RN/NP/physician notification for unstable clients. You do not diagnose or prescribe unless the exam stem explicitly places you in an extended authorized role. Top traps: acting on verbal orders without policy-compliant confirmation, withholding critical findings, accepting unsafe RN ratios without appropriate reporting, or performing controlled acts outside authorization. Items love SBAR, infection outbreaks, falls risk, and elder abuse reporting duties. For REx-PN (Canada), questions rarely announce the topic in the first sentence. They hide it inside vitals, labs, and a short story. Your job is to name the clinical problem, justify why it matters now, and select the safest next step for the role you are given—before you let distractors pull you toward busywork or out-of-scope heroics. When two answers feel partly right, pick the one that and in the stem. On the exam, writers...