Independent nursing interventions

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Please can someone tell me if these are Independent nursing interventions.

Oxygen administration

Drug administration

Change the patient position frequently

Monitoring input and output flow.

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Drug administration is not. You need doctor orders to administer medications.

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Specializes in Hospice + Palliative.

what do you think? Which of those can a nurse decide to do without any input from another health care professional?

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Tell us what you think and why...

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

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Which of those are part of the medical plan of care out into place as a result of a medical diagnosis, and which are part of a nursing plan of care put in place as a result of a nursing diagnosis? Look at scope of practice. There's your answer.

But I'm thinking that 10 days later the OP's homework assignment has already been turned in. :)

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