CPNRE Study Guide 2026
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📋 CPNRE Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CPNRE Topics to Study (45)
✍️ Sample CPNRE Questions & Answers
1. A practical nurse is teaching a client about lifestyle modifications to prevent cardiovascular disease. Which instruction is MOST important?
Regular aerobic exercise at the recommended level is one of the most evidence-based strategies for cardiovascular disease prevention, reducing risk factors comprehensively.
2. Which of the following scenarios constitutes a breach of client confidentiality by a practical nurse?
Licensed Practical Nurses have a legal and ethical duty to protect the privacy and confidentiality of a client's personal health information. Disclosing information to anyone outside the immediate circle of care, including a spouse, without the client's explicit consent is a breach of this duty. Sharing information during shift report, with the pharmacist for medication safety, or with other members of the interdisciplinary team for care planning are all appropriate and necessary communications for providing safe care.
3. A practical nurse is assigned care that requires competencies they do not possess. What is appropriate?
Practical nurses must practice only within their competence. Identifying a competency gap to the charge nurse is the professional obligation.
4. A practical nurse witnesses a colleague falsifying a client's vital signs documentation. What is the ethical and professional obligation?
Falsifying health records is a serious professional offence requiring mandatory reporting through appropriate channels to protect client safety.
5. A practical nurse is assisting with feeding a client who has dysphagia following a stroke. Which intervention is a priority to prevent aspiration?
Positioning the client fully upright (90-degree angle or high-Fowler's position) is the most critical intervention to prevent aspiration. This position uses gravity to facilitate the passage of food and liquid down the esophagus and away from the trachea. The client should remain upright for at least 30 minutes after the meal.
6. Which statement best describes 'unconditional positive regard' as applied to therapeutic nurse-client relationships?
Unconditional positive regard means accepting the client as a person of inherent worth and dignity, separate from their behaviors, values, or decisions, without conditions or judgment.