The nurse has moved from another state and will begin a new job as a psychiatric nurse at an inpatient facility. To find the guidelines for practice in his new state, he would look at the state's
1. legal parameters.
2. medical statutes.
3. mental health laws.
4. nurse practice act.
4
States' individual practice acts regulate the practice of nursing.
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