Authority: IC 16-28-1-7
Affected: IC 16-28
Sec. 15. "Comprehensive nursing care" includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- (1) Intravenous feedings.
- (2) Enteral feeding.
- (3) Nasopharyngeal and tracheostomy aspiration.
- (4) Insertion and sterile irrigation and replacement of suprapubic catheters.
(5) Application of dressings to wounds that:
- (A) require use of sterile techniques, packing, or irrigation; or
- (B) are infected or otherwise complicated.
- (6) Treatment of Stages 2, 3, and 4 pressure ulcers or other widespread skin disorders.
- (7) Heat treatments that have been specifically ordered by a physician as part of active treatment and require observation by nurses to adequately evaluate the process.
- (8) Initial phases of a regimen involving administration of medical gases.
(Indiana Department of Health; 410 IAC 16.2-1.1-15; filed Jan 21, 2003, 8:34 a.m.: 26 IR 1904, eff Mar 1, 2003; readopted filed May 22, 2007, 1:44 p.m.: 20070613-IR-410070141RFA; readopted filed Sep 11, 2013, 3:19 p.m.: 20131009-IR- 410130346RFA; readopted filed Nov 13, 2019, 3:14 p.m.: 20191211-IR-410190391RFA)