If such an assignment is inadvertently given to a LVN, he/she is responsible for notifying the nurse who made the assignment that it is beyond his/her scope of practice to perform the assigned task.

A doctor describes a nurse that he recruited for his own practice while she was receiving treatment for breast cancer. I am nominating Lily Apfel, LVN, for the Extraordinary Healer® Award. I came to ...

Active and retired nurses in Deep East Texas are paying tribute to their own. Their mission is to honor nurses at the end of ...

To submit a legal/professional nursing question for future consideration, write to the editor at syox@medscape.net (Include "Ask the Expert" in subject line.) A registered nurse (RN) wrote to ...

This article was originally published in 2012. To a patient, it may look like a nurse is touching a wrist, changing a bandage, reading a chart and asking random questions. What she’s also doing ...