Board of Nursing - 3 CCR 716-1
DEPARTMENT OF REGULATORY AGENCIES
Division of Registrations
Board of Nursing
3 CCR 716-1
CHAPTER XIII
RULES AND REGULATIONS REGARDING
THE DELEGATION OF NURSING TASKS
1. STATEMENT AND BASIS OF PURPOSE
The rules contained in this Chapter are adopted pursuant to authority granted the Board by C.R.S. 12-37-108(1)(j), and specifically pursuant to authority granted in C.R.S. 12-38-132(6). The purpose of these rules is to specify procedures and criteria regarding the delegation of nursing tasks.
2. The professional nurse is responsible for and accountable to each consumer of nursing care for the quality of nursing care he or she provides either directly or through the delegated care provided by others. Supervision of personnel associated with nursing tasks is included in the legal definition of the practice of professional nursing.
3. DEFINITIONS: For the purposes of these Chapter XIII rules, the following terms have the indicated meaning.
3.1 "Board" means the State Board of Nursing.
3.2 "Client" means the recipient of nursing care.
3.3 "Delegatee" means an individual receiving the Delegation who acts in a complementary role to the professional nurse, who has been trained appropriately for the task delegated, and whom the professional nurse authorizes to perform a task that the individual is not otherwise authorized to perform.
3.4 "Delegation" means the assignment to a competent individual the authority to perform in a selected situation a selected nursing task included in the practice of professional nursing as defined in section 12-38-103(10).
3.5 "Delegator" means the professional nurse making the Delegation; the Delegator must hold a current, active license.
3.6 Individualized Healthcare Plan (“IHP”) means a plan for a specific Client that is developed by a professional nurse employed or contracted by the Client’s School or Licensed Child Care Facility, in conjunction with the Client and parent or guardian and, if applicable, based on the Client’s Practitioner’s orders for the administration of Medications and/or treatments for the Client.
3.7 "Licensed Child Care Facility" means any facility licensed as a family child care home or child care center as defined in C.R.S. 26-6-102.
3.8 “Medication” means any prescription or nonprescription drug as defined in C.R.S. 12-22-102.
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