New Jersey Board of Nursing

(This may be all the information you need to make your decision. If not, continue to the next step.) Resource documents you might need include:

1. Nursing Practice Statutes: N.J.S.A. 45:11-23, 11-23, 46;
2. Delegation Regulations: N.J.A.C. 13:37-6.2;
3. Standards of Nursing Practice from your professional nursing organization;
4. The agency's accrediting body's regulations.

The nurse is accountable for clarifying any order or treatment regimen believed to be inaccurate or contraindicated by consulting with the licensed prescribing practitioner, and notifying the prescribing practitioner when the RN makes a decision not to administer the medicine or treatment.

• If NO, the act is NOT within your scope of practice without the above.
• If YES, continue to the next step.

• If NO, the act is NOT within your scope of practice without the above.
• If YES, continue to the next step.

Documentation to validate your educational and clinical competence should be maintained for a four year period.

• If NO, the act is NOT within your scope of practice without the above.
• If YES, continue to the next step.

Nurses are accountable for knowing and conforming to their scope of practice in the Nursing Practice statutes, Board regulations, and any other State and Federal laws impacting their practice.

• If NO, the act is NOT within your scope of practice. Performance of the act may place the patient and the nurse at risk.
• If YES, continue to the next step.

• If NO, the act is NOT within your scope of practice.
• If YES, you may perform the act based upon a valid order in accordance with the institution/agency or provider's established protocols, policies and procedures.