A student nurse employed as a personal care assistant may perform patient care:
A. learned in school.
B. expected of a nurse at that level.
C. identified in the position's job description.
D. requiring technical rather than professional skills.
C
During the time a student nurse works as an employee of a health care facility, he or she must only perform tasks that appear in a job description for a nurse's aide or nursing assistant. Even if a student nurse has previously learned a task or procedure in nursing school, he or she must not perform this task as a nursing assistant because it is outside the scope of the nursing assistant job description.
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