Nurses (Registered Psychiatric) Regulation, section 7(1)(b):
A registrant in the course of practising psychiatric nursing may administer a substance
BCCNM
limits and conditions
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| RPNs must not administer substances via intrathecal, epidural and perineural spaces. |
Nurses
(Registered Psychiatric) Regulation, section 7(1)(b):
BCCNM limits and conditions
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| RPNs must not induce general anesthesia or maintain general anesthetic agents. |
Nurses
(Registered Psychiatric) Regulation, section 7(1)(b):
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| ...by mechanical ventilation |
BCCNM limits and conditions
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| RPNs must successfully complete additional education to care for clients on mechanical ventilation. |
Nurses (Registered Psychiatric) Regulation, section 7(1)(b):
BCCNM limits and conditions
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| RPNs must successfully complete additional education to carry out peritoneal dialysis. |
Nurses (Registered Psychiatric) Regulation, section 7(1)(b):
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| ...by enteral instillation or parenteral instillation |
BCCNM limits and conditions
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| RPNs must successfully complete additional education to carry out hemodialysis.
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| RPNs must successfully complete additional education to carry out venipuncture and to establish intravenous access.
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| RPNs must successfully complete additional education to administer a substance via central venous access devices.
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| RPNs are limited to administering blood and blood products to clients with stable and predictable physiological health.
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| RPNs must successfully complete additional education to administer blood or blood products.
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RPNs may administer substances by injection, inhalation, ventilation, irrigation and instillation. These substances include air and water.
Some of the nursing activities under this restricted activity could be done to assess or treat a condition within autonomous scope of practice and would, therefore, not require a client-specific order from a listed health professional (see Assessing Clients and Treating Conditions).
Stable and predictable physiological health means the degree to which a client's condition is likely to change.
Definitions from the Regulation
Substance includes air and water but excludes a drug specified in Schedule I, IA, II, or IV of the Drug Schedules Regulation.
Enteral instillation means instillation directly into the gastrointestinal tract.
Parenteral instillation means instillation directly into the blood stream.
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