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Nina,
I'll stop laughing in a million years.
Since when does the Chief of Radiology dictate
the "Practice of Nursing" for your state and facility? That's a new one on
me.
All kidding aside.
I always thought it was the State Board of
Nursing. Does your State Board of Nursing have an appendix section stating
something like "advanced practices and procedures that can be documented
and competencies provided the RN may perform these procedures?" Our Alaska
State State Board of Nursing has a position statement that addresses this:
Formal programs of study that are designed to
extend and expand upon basic registered nurse preparateion. Sugn courses
of study extend and expand the knowledge base of practice and provide for
supervised practice in applying new knowledge in new ways. New practice
scopes are defined by the program's educational objectives.
The parameters ofthe practice scopes are
defined by basicational preparation and advanced or specialty education.
Within this scope of practice, all nurses can remain current and increase their
expertise and skill in a variety of ways, e.g., practice experience, in-service
education, and continuing education. Practice responsibility, acountability and
relative levels of independence are also expanded in this way.
We also have documented education and
certifications of courses we took to use ultrasound. Bard was the ones
that set up our class. There are multiple other courses out there.
Nancy Moureau has a Ultrasound class that I know of. We have had some of
our PICC RN's attend this and get the certificate and then presented this to our
Nursing Administration and State Board of Nursing and we are placing PICC's in
our facility with their blessing. We also have developed a yearly
competency for PICC placement that included the Ultrasound items. This
also included check-off's for all three Ultrasounds we have and how they differ
and their use.
Check your facilities Nursing guidelines, policies
and procedures. Also go to your Nursing administration with a Action Plan,
educational opportunites, implementation plan to train and document such
training for your nurses, along with yearly competency or whatever your facility
needs. Check out your state board of Nursing statutes and regulations
for a position statement on advanced procedures, and specialty
practices. These are prior to obtaining a NP or advanced practice
degree. This is simply expanding your practice and specialty.
Let me know if this helps.
Betsy Harmon RN CRNI
Vascular Access Team
Critical Care Unit
Alaska Native Medical Center
Anchorage, Alaska
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- Ultrasound "certification"? ninaelledge
- Re: Ultrasound "certification"? Elizabeth Harmon
- Re: Ultrasound "certification"? Elizabeth Harmon
