NAC632.212. Duties included; competency required.

     1. The Board will interpret the practice of professional nursing to include, but not be limited to, the duties specified in NAC 632.214 to 632.224, inclusive.

     2. A registered nurse shall demonstrate in the performance of those duties competence in:

     (a) The diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems;

     (b) Exercising sound judgment;

     (c) Making decisions;

     (d) Carrying out his or her duties based on an established plan of care;

     (e) Evaluating, assessing and altering, if appropriate, the established plan of care;

     (f) Delegating appropriate duties to other persons;

     (g) Supervising a person to whom the registered nurse has delegated nursing duties;

     (h) Maintaining accountability in the delegation of care;

     (i) Administering medication and carrying out treatments which are properly authorized;

     (j) Determining the necessity and appropriateness of health care services for a patient or prospective patient and determining that patient’s eligibility for payment of those health care services by a licensed insurer;

     (k) Managing the cases of patients assigned to him or her by coordinating services and collaborating with other health care professionals in the provision of health care services;

     (l) Planning for the discharge of patients; and

     (m) Managing risk in the provision of health care services.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Nursing, eff. 11-2-87; A 6-26-96; R112-11, 2-15-2012)