SECTION 550.403. Registered Nurse Responsibilities

An RN providing services on behalf of a center must be responsible for the following:

(1) maintaining compliance with the standards of nursing practice and delegation;

(2) developing a minor's plan of care;

(3) providing nursing interventions that includes parental training, information, and education to increase a parent's confidence and competence in caring for a minor;

(4) coordinating services with other service providers;

(5) monitoring the ongoing physical and developmental growth of a minor;

(6) having knowledge of access to available community resources;

(7) participating on the IDT and in the IDT meetings regarding a minor's plan of care and progress;

(8) 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;

(9) communicating findings to a minor's prescribing physician and the center's nursing director; and

(10) supervising the center's direct care staff.

Source Note: The provisions of this §550.403 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