RN performing pap smears
RN First Assistants revised and reaffirmed (see Declaratory Statement)
Discontinuing temporary transvenous atrial and ventricular pacing electrodes not within realm of nursing
RN First Assistants revised (see Declaratory Statement)
RN assisting physician to biopsy lesions through colonscope, gastroscope and sigmoidoscope
RN assisting physician with advancement and withdrawal of arterial guide wires within arterial catheters
Advancing endoscopes (see also, npop85.13)
Removal of post-PTCA arterial sheaths
Staffing of special care units
RN performing breast cancer screening
Delegating nursing functions in school nursing
Inserting Medicut catheter percutaneously into stomach
RN assisting physician with advancement, withdrawing and rotation of endoscopes
Release of a patient to funeral home without pronouncement of death by M.D. (superseded by npop86.04)
RN accepting verbal or telephone order from physician for a no code[DNR](with provisos)
Removal of arterial sheath following angiographic procedure
Removal of arterial catheter following angiographic procedure (Superseded by npop86.03)
RN monitoring and nursing care of patients with the I.A.B.P. (intra-aortic balloon pump)
RN practicing hypnosis
Ochsner Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program commensurate with educational criteria for PNA
Monitoring and clinical supervision of EMT doing invasive procedures (superseded by later opinion)
Neonatal Nursing: Chest tube insertion, umbilical artery catheterization, umbilical venous catheterization, percutaneous central venous catheter insertion, peripheral arterial line insertion, and peripheral venous cutdown under less than life threatening circumstances Lumbar puncture and suprapubic bladder aspiration
