Alabama Administrative Code
Title 610 - ALABAMA BOARD OF NURSING
Chapter 610-X-6 - STANDARDS OF NURSING PRACTICE
Section 610-X-6-.04 - Practice Of Professional Nursing (Registered Nurse Practice)

Universal Citation: AL Admin Code R 610-X-6-.04

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 5, February 29, 2024

(1) The practice of professional nursing includes the performance, for compensation, of any act in the care and counselling of persons or in the promotion and maintenance of health and prevention of illness and injury based upon the nursing process which includes systematic data gathering, assessment, appropriate nursing judgment and evaluation of human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as case finding, health teaching, and health counselling; and provision of care supportive to or restorative of life and well-being, and executing medical regimens including administering medications and treatments prescribed by a licensed or otherwise legally authorized physician or dentist. A nursing regimen shall be consistent with and shall not vary any existing medical regimen. Additional acts requiring appropriate education and training designed to maintain access to a level of health care for the consumer may be performed under emergency or other conditions which are recognized by the nursing and medical professions as proper to be performed by a registered nurse.

(2) The scope of an individual registered nurse's level of practice includes, but is not limited to:

(a) License status, including Board approval for advanced practice as detailed in Chapters 610-X-5 and 610-X-9 of these rules.

(b) Educational preparation, initial and continued.

(c) State and federal statutes and regulations.

(d) State and national standards appropriate to the scope and the type of practice.

(e) Nursing experience.

(f) Demonstrated competence.

(g) Facility policy and procedures, Board approved standardized procedures and approved medical protocols.

(3) Practice as an advanced practice nurse (APRN) requires educational preparation, appropriate certification, and Board approval to practice, as outlined in Chapters 610-X-5 and 610-X-9 of these rules. The APRN shall comply with the standards for RNs as specified in these rules. Standards for a specific role and population focus of APRNs supersede standards for RNs where conflict between the standards, if any, exists.

(a) The APRN in collaborative practice may not discontinue treatment of a patient, as long as further treatment is medically indicated, without giving the patient reasonable written notice and sufficient opportunity to make alternative arrangements for care.

Rule .03 was renumbered .04 as per certification filed November 23, 2009; effective December 28, 2009.

Author: Alabama Board of Nursing

Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 34-21-1(3)(a), 34-21-2(a)(21), 34-21-85.

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