CMS Fundamentals Practice Exam

Assessment, teaching, and evaluation are activities that require professional nursing judgment and responsibility. The RN is expected to gather comprehensive data about a patient (assessment), explain conditions, treatments, and medications to the patient and family (teaching), and review outcomes to decide whether goals are met and whether the care plan needs adjustment (evaluation). UAP tasks are routine, delegated tasks that don’t involve professional clinical decision-making. LPNs provide basic nursing care under RN supervision and may assist with data collection and implementation, but the overall responsibility for these three domains typically rests with the RN. Time Sensitive Condition isn’t a category of responsibility; it describes a clinical scenario, not who holds the responsibility.