Find a comprehensive guide to understanding and preparing for the South Dakota Board of Nursing UMA exam. Designed to assess your proficiency in managing personal health information securely, the UMA exam plays a vital role in ensuring privacy and empowering individuals to control their health data. Here, you will find a wealth of resources, guidelines, and essential information to help you navigate the exam process with confidence.
What can I expect from the exam?
- Consists of 65 multiple choice questions
- Applicants are allowed 2 hours to take the exam
- Once the exam is started an applicant cannot save and finish at a later time
- Applicants cannot use any resources while taking the exam, e.g. books, notes, cell phones, open computer files or browsers
- The exam may not be printed, copied, videotaped, or photographed
Exam Content Areas
- General Information: 15%
- Governmental regulations related to the administration of medication
- Terminology, abbreviations, and symbols
- Basic nursing tasks/functions/activities
- Accountability and functioning as a member of the healthcare team
- Medication Specific Information: 25%
- Medication administration systems
- Forms of medication
- Procedures and routes of medication administration
- Medication references
- Delegation and Rights of Medication Administration: 30%
- Role of UMA in administering medications
- Rights of medication administration
- Infection control policies and procedures
- Communication with nurse
- Preventative measures to protect patients, others, and self
- Body Systems: 15%
- Overview of major categories of medications related to body systems
- Assist in observing patients and identifying patient needs
- Ethics, Mandatory Reporting: 15%
- Mandatory reporting
- Ethical issues
- Patient rights, concerns, decisions, dignity, and respect of patient property
- Confidentiality