| (a) An LVN providing services on behalf of a center
must work under the supervision of an RN and is responsible to provide,
within the LVN's level of competence and scope of practice, nursing
care to the center's minors as ordered in the plan of care.
(b) An LVN must be responsible for the following:
(1) maintaining compliance with the standards of nursing
practice;
(2) providing nursing interventions that includes parental
training, information, and education to increase a parent's confidence
and competence in caring for a minor;
(3) having knowledge of the availability of community
resources;
(4) participating on the IDT and in the IDT meetings
regarding a minor's plan of care and progress;
(5) communicating findings to a minor's prescribing
physician and an RN; and
(6) administering medication, intravenous infusions,
parenteral feeding, and other specialized treatments; monitoring and
documenting the effect of medications, therapies, and progress in
accordance with accepted standards of professional practice.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §550.405 adopted to be effective September 1, 2014, 39 TexReg 6569; transferred effective May 1, 2019, as published in the Texas Register April 12, 2019, 44 TexReg 1875 |
