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The statute uses those words. APRNs are licensed, independent practitioners within standards established or recognized by the board of nursing, and each APRN is accountable to patients, to the nursing profession and to the board of nursing for 5 things. 4 of them run to the work: complying with the requirements of the chapter and the quality of advanced nursing care rendered, recognizing limits of knowledge and experience, planning for the management of situations beyond the nurse's expertise, and consulting with or referring patients to other licensed healthcare providers as appropriate. The 5th sends nurse anesthetists to a chapter of their own. Rhode Island's definition of the title covers 3 roles, the certified nurse practitioner, the certified registered nurse anesthetist and the certified clinical nurse specialist, each functioning in a population focus.

The employer does, in writing. For a licensed Rhode Island hospital it's the governing board that determines the scope of practice of the nurse anesthetists; in a clinic or an office it's the licensed anesthetist, physician or dentist. All responsibilities have to be in writing in the form prescribed by hospital or office policy. Alongside that, nurse anesthetists practice in accordance with the current American Association of Nurse Anesthetists guidelines, provided those guidelines neither violate nor contradict the facility's bylaws, rules, regulations and policies, nor the chapter itself. Where the anesthesia chapter and the general nursing chapter disagree about licensing and practice for a CRNA, the anesthesia chapter controls.

It licenses them, on 2 levels the Director of the Department of Health establishes. A Rhode Island nursing assistant is trained to provide personal care and related health care and assistance to people who are sick, disabled or infirm and who live in or receive services from facilities and agencies the state licenses. A medication aide is a nursing assistant who's had additional training in the administration of medication, holding a license of its own. Nobody may be employed in the state at either level without holding the nursing assistant license, and the only abbreviation a nursing assistant may use here is N.A. Reaching the second level puts conditions on the school as much as on the student. The training program has to be offered by a college or university approved by an appropriate accrediting authority, correspondence courses and online learning programs aren't approved, and every instructor has to be a licensed pharmacist with no less than a bachelor's degree in pharmacy, though those instructors may bring in competent resource personnel from other health fields to deliver discrete lectures.