SECTION 550.405. Licensed Vocational Nurse Responsibilities

(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.

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