Section 632.212 - Duties included; competency required1. 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) Synthesizing the biological, psychological and social aspects of the patient's condition;(c) Exercising sound judgment;(e) Carrying out his or her duties based on an established plan of care;(f) Evaluating, assessing and altering, if appropriate, the established plan of care;(g) Delegating appropriate duties to other persons in accordance with section 1;(h) Supervising a person to whom the registered nurse has delegated nursing duties;(i) Maintaining accountability in the delegation of care;(j) Administering medication and carrying out treatments which are properly authorized;(k) 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;(l) 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, including, without limitation, an ongoing evaluation of the patient's focused nursing assessments conducted by a licensed practical nurse pursuant to NAC 632.232;(m) Planning for the discharge of patients; and(n) Managing risk in the provision of health care services.Nev. Admin. Code § 632.212
Added to NAC by Bd. of Nursing, eff. 11-2-87; A 6-26-96; R112-11, 2-15-2012; A by R091-15, eff. 4/4/2016; A by R019-22A, eff. 6/13/2022