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Limits and conditions on activities that are not restricted

Part 3: Activities that are not restricted


​Non-Restricted Activities

BCCNM Limits and Conditions​
1.

Applying a restraint​​

LPNs a​pply restraints when an order from an authorized health professional is in place.

​2.

Taking an electrocardiogram

LPNs take el​ectrocardiograms (ECGs):

  1. After successful​ly completing additional education
  2. When a health car​e professional authorized to read the ECG is immediately available

​LP​Ns are not responsible for reading or interpreting ECG results.

​3.

Caring for a client​ on telemetry

LPNs work in a team nursing approach to provide care for clients on telemetry:

  1. With stable or predictable states of health

  2. ​After successfully completing additional education

​LPNs are not responsible for monitoring or interpreting telemetry readings.

​4.

Changing a ​chest tube dressing

LPNs chang​e chest tube dressings:

  1. For clients with stab​le or predictable states of health

  2. After successfully completing additional education

  3. By fol​lowing decision support tools

​5.

Changing a dressing on a central venous line​

LPNs do not change dressings on central venous access devices or central venous lines.

Also see hemodialysis for exceptions

​6.

Measuring a vis​​ible central venous line

LPNs measure a visible central venous line on clients with stable or pred​ictable states of health.

Also see hemodialysis for exceptions

​7.

Performing Hum​​an Immunodeficiency Virus Point of Care Testing

LPNs perform Human Immunodeficiency Virus  (HIV) point of care testing (POCT):

  1. After successfully completing additional education

  2. By following established organizational processes and procedures for HIV POCT

  3. When​ an authorized health professional is available for consultation and referral

​8.

Performing skin and wound care above the dermis​

LPNs who make a nursing d​iagnosis and treat reddened skin, skin tears and wounds above the dermis, without an order, follow decision support tools.

​9.

Preparing and giving an​​ unscheduled drug

​LPNs compound, dispense and administer naloxone with​out an order, when used to treat an opioid overdose emergency.​


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