632.017 - “Practice of practical nursing” defined. - Nevada Statutes

632.017  “Practice of practical nursing” defined.  “Practice of practical nursing” means the performance of selected acts in the care of the ill, injured or infirm under the direction of a registered professional nurse, an advanced practitioner of nursing, a licensed physician, a physician assistant licensed pursuant to chapter 630 or 633 of NRS, a licensed dentist or a licensed podiatric physician, not requiring the substantial specialized skill, judgment and knowledge required in professional nursing.

      (Added to NRS by 1987, 1525; A 1993, 2218; 1999, 1325; 2001, 1, 792; 2007, 1828)