South Carolina Board of Nursing

Position Statements

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• Age Parameters for Nurse Practitioner Practice

• Assisting with Medications

• Code of Ethics (adopted by S.C. Board of Nursing)

• Delegation of Nursing Care Tasks to Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP)

• Pain Management

• Patient Abandonment

• Pharmacotherapeutics Education Required For Prescriptive Authority Application

• Prescriptions for APRN's with Prescriptive Authority

• Scope of Practice Decision Tree

• Simulation as a Teaching Strategy in Nursing Education

• The Role of the Registered Nurse (RN) in the Management of Patients Receiving IV Conscious Sedation for Short-term Therapeutic, Diagnostic, or Surgical Procedures

• Use of Samples by APRN's with Prescriptive Authority