CAVRN Practice Test (15 Questions)

16%

Quality & Safety

Apply quality indicators, risk surveillance, data interpretation, medication review, identity safeguards, scope, and patient-rights requirements in virtual care.

• Facilitate nursing-sensitive indicator, core-measure, patient-experience, and disease-specific standard compliance
• Interpret physiologic data, early warning scores, AI-enabled surveillance, and predictive analytics for improvement or deterioration
• Identify medication discrepancies, verify identity and room participants, and practise within licensure, rights, and facility policy

17%

Patient & Caregiver Education

Orient patients to virtual nursing, individualize education for patients and caregivers, assess comprehension, and address social drivers of health.

• Explain the virtual nurse role, technology, care model, and advantages and assess understanding
• Select virtual teaching methods from the setting, topic, readiness, and learning-needs assessment
• Develop individualized plans, verify patient and caregiver comprehension, identify barriers, and connect appropriate resources

24%

Communication

The largest domain covers virtual etiquette, rapport, interprofessional communication strategies, conflict resolution, privacy, and audio-video use.

• Use virtual entry protocols, introduce the virtual role, maintain professional presence, and optimize audio and video quality
• Build rapport using timing, tone, eye contact, body language, awareness, and patient-caregiver communication planning
• Use closed-loop communication, active listening, approved workflows, conflict resolution, and privacy and recording safeguards

14%

Teamwork & Inter-Professional Collaboration

Collaborate across the care team, delegate safely, escalate clinical and technology failures, debrief events, and document accurately.

• Communicate care-plan deviations, clarify virtual nursing responsibilities, support shared decisions, and apply the Five Rights of Delegation
• Initiate escalation and recognize, document, and report failed clinical or technology pathways
• Deliver psychologically safe feedback, participate in debriefing, and follow scribing and AI-assisted documentation standards

11%

Coaching & Mentoring

Adapt coaching to the audience, support real-time decisions, create psychological safety, and validate competence through approved methods.

• Coach graduate, novice, charge, float or travel nurses, and nurse aides using an audience-appropriate communication method
• Model professional and therapeutic communication, coach prioritization, and use evaluation tools for individualized validation
• Conduct purposeful check-ins, build partnerships, identify contacts, and participate in competency validation

9%

Leadership Skills

Prioritize operations, apply emotional intelligence, support team development, and identify quality, safety, workflow, and technology risks.

• Prioritize by acuity, flow, quality checks, staffing, daily operations, and strategic goals
• Use emotional intelligence and identify development or focused-preceptorship needs
• Reach out and escalate team support needs and report potential care, technology, trend, and workflow risks

9%

Informatics & Technology

Use and evaluate virtual-care technology, protect privacy and security, integrate application data, and use analytics to set priorities.

• Optimize hardware and software, troubleshoot and escalate gaps, guide peers, and evaluate workflow technology during testing
• Follow privacy, consumer-device, cybersecurity, VPN, and organizational security requirements
• Interpret data across EHR, monitoring, reporting, and analytic dashboards to improve decisions and clinical prioritization