The physician asks the nurse to perform a procedure. The nurse is unsure whether nurses are allowed to perform this procedure. What is the nurse's best source of information to determine whether the procedure can legally be performed by the nurse?
1.
Ask another nurse with more experience
2.
Nurse Practice Act
3.
Call the nursing instructor
4.
Call any school of nursing
ANS: 2
The Nurse Practice Act is the best resource to determine what practices are allowable for LPNs in that state.
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