Introduction

These scope of practice standards outline the requirements for nurses when they are providing client care in the following ways:

• Acting within autonomous scope of practice

• Acting with client-specific orders

• Giving client-specific orders

Registered nurses may provide care to clients by:

• acting within autonomous scope of practice when carrying out:

  • non-restricted activities, and

  • restricted activities within section 6 (restricted activities that do not require an order) of the Nurses (Registered) and Nurse Practitioners Regulation.  

• acting on a client-specific order from a listed health professional for a restricted activity included in section 7 (restricted activities that require an order) of the Nurses (Registered) and Nurse Practitioners Regulation.  

• acting on a client-specific order from a non-listed health professional for an activity that is within the registered nurse’s autonomous scope of practice and the registered nurse’s individual competence

• giving a client-specific order for an activity within the registered nurse’s autonomous scope of practice and the registered nurse’s individual competence

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