Nursing Scope of Practice in California

Instructions:

You will research which organization is responsible for the Nurses scope of practice in your state of residence or any other state of your choice. You are encouraged to research different states to have a broad understanding of the scope of practice of all nurses in the US. After you selected your state, please answer the following questions:

1. You are asked to care for an unfamiliar patient population or to go to a unit or perform a procedure with which you feel unqualified. What do you do?

2. The evening supervisor asks Tom, a new graduate who has just completed his orientation to an adolescent pediatric
unit, to cover the patient assignment of an infant unit nurse who needs to transport a stable infant to its home hospital.

3. Sue is asked to administer the drug XYZ, an experimental chemotherapeutic, to one of her patients. Sue has no knowledge or experience with the drug XYZ.

4. Nurse P is told by Nurse B, the charge nurse, that she must work another shift because of multiple sick calls for the upcoming shift. Nurse P is reluctant to work an additional shift because of her own fatigue level.

5. Patient Abandonment