Current through September 16, 2024
1. A licensed
practical nurse may collect data and perform a skill, intervention or other
duty in addition to those taught in an educational program for practical nurses
if:
(a) The collection of data or performance
of the additional skill, intervention or other duty is within the authorized
scope of practice of a licensed practical nurse in this State.
(b) In collecting data and performing the
additional skill, intervention or other duty, the licensed practical nurse
follows the applicable written procedures and policies approved by the medical
staff, the nursing administration and the administration of the employing
agency.
(c) Before collecting data
or performing the skill, intervention or other duty, the licensed practical
nurse submits to his or her employer proof that he or she:
(1) Has completed a comprehensive program of
study and supervised clinical practice which was approved by the Board on or
after January 1, 1986;
(2) Has
completed a comprehensive program of study and supervised clinical practice
from another state; or
(3) Has
acquired the additional knowledge, skill and ability.
2. The licensed practical nurse
and his or her employer shall each maintain evidence of:
(a) The original documentation and
demonstration of the acquired knowledge, skill and ability; and
(b) Annual verification of the nurse's
continued competency regarding that knowledge, skill and ability through
recertification or records of evaluations documenting satisfactory repeated
performances of the knowledge, skill and ability in the nurse's area of
practice.
3. For the
purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection 1, collection of data and a skill,
intervention or other duty is within the authorized scope of practice of a
licensed practical nurse if it has been described as being performed by a
licensed practical nurse in two or more national nursing publications, national
nursing practice guidelines or national standards for nursing practice, or any
combination thereof, which:
(a) Are listed in
the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature,
as adopted by reference in NAC 632.110; or
(b) Have been individually approved by the
Board.
Added to NAC by Bd. of
Nursing, eff. 11-2-87; A 2-6-90; 7-16-92; 5-18-94; 9-9-94; R029-97, 1-26-98;
R102-03, 10-30-2003; R081-06, 6-28-2006; R112-11,
2-15-2012
NRS
632.120
