Can and does the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner delegate any tasks?

Mar 01, 2009 07:37 PM

by Akercat

I was wondering Can and does the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner delegate any tasks? And if so to whoma nd to do what?

thank you!

Whispera · Mar 01, 2009, 07:51 PM

Re: Can and does the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner delegate any tasks?

Psych NPs are employed to do various jobs. What they can delegate depends on what their job is, and where they work. If they see patients in a hospital, they write orders and the hospital staff carries them out, just as if they were psychiatrists seeing patients there.

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Can and does the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner delegate any tasks?

Can and does the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner delegate any tasks?

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