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Registered Nurse Practice Information
The following documents pertain to the general practice of Registered Nurses:
- Abandonment of Patients
- Abuse Reporting Requirements
- Administration of Insulin in Schools by Unlicensed Personnel
- An Explanation of the Scope of RN Practice Including Standardized Procedures
- Background Checks for Student Clinical Placement
- California State Board of Education Response to Frequently Asked Questions on Medication Administration Assistance in Schools
- Children in School with Specialized Physical Health Care Services
- Complaint Disclosure Policy
- Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Registered Nursing Practice
- Conscious Sedation
- Department of Health Services: Reporting and Inspection Requirements
- Dual Licensure
- Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Pain Management
- Good Samaritan
- Guidelines for Proposed New Programs to Prepare Students for Registered Nursing Licensure
- Interim Permittee Functions
- Intermediate Care Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled
- License Information
- Medical Assistant Laws and Regulations, FAQs
- Medical Practice Act: Business and Professions Code Section 2023 Study and Evaluation: Use of Laser or Intense Light Pulse Devices
- Is Your Medical Assistant Practicing Beyond His or Her Scope of Training?
- Newborn Hearing Screening Testing in General Acute Care Hospital
- New Law Protects Title "Nurse" and Requires Name Tags
- Pain Assessment: The Fifth Vital Sign
- Pain Management Policy
- Position Statement Regarding Violence Against Health Care Workers and Patients
- Preparation Required for Licensed Vocational Nurses
- Residential Care for the Elderly Employee Training for Self-Administration of Medication
- RN Notification of Medical Laboratory Testing Ordered by a Registered Dietician to Afford the RN an Opportunity to Assess the Patient
- RN Responsibility When Floating to New Patient Care Unit or Assigned to New Population
- RN Scope of Practice - Frequently Asked Questions
- RN Supervision of Medical Assistants
- RN Tele-Nursing and Telephone Triage
- Reproductive Privacy Act
- Schedule IV Controlled Substances Reported to CURES
- School Nurse Function
- Scope of Regulation
- Scrub Nurse Functions by Non-RNs
- Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist Perform Flexible Endoscopic Procedure
- Standardized Procedure Guidelines
- Standards of Competent Performance
- Statement on Delivery of Health Care
- Student Workers
- Supervisor's Responsibility
- The Nurse's Role in Pain Management
- The Registered Nurse as Patient Advocate
- The RN as First Assistant to the Surgeon
- The Registered Nurse as Supervisor
- Understanding the Role of the Registered Nurse and Interim Permittee
- Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
- Unlicensed Assistive Personnel Acute Care
- Use of Lasers, Dermabrators, Botox, and Other Treatements by Non-Physicians
(Excerpted from the Medical Board of California's Action Report - October 2002 - Pages 6&7)
