RN vs LPN vs UAP Scope — NCLEX Cheat Sheet
Who can do what — delegation scope
👤 By the CinnaRN Clinical Content Team
🕐 Updated 2026-07-11
🏷️ Management of Care
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Delegate the task, never the accountability. The RN keeps assessment, teaching, and evaluation.
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Use this quick-reference guide to spot, treat, and prevent RN vs LPN vs UAP Scope on the NCLEX. Keep it handy during review and on exam day!
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- Assessment, teaching, evaluation, care plan
- Unstable / unpredictable patients
- IV push, blood, titration, triage
- Stable patients with predictable outcomes
- Reinforce teaching, most PO/IM meds, routine wound/trach/tube care
- ADLs, hygiene, feeding, ambulating
- Vitals, I&O, weight, glucose checks (stable)
- NOT assessment or teaching
✨Quick Tip
Assessment, teaching, evaluation, care plan.
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