Practice Guidelines
Practice Guidelines illustrate how LPNs can meet the standards of practice when performing specific activities and are written to guide and inform LPN practice.
Blood and Blood-Product Transfusion Therapy
Blood/blood-product transfusion therapy is a therapeutic nursing intervention that involves the preparation, administration, monitoring, evaluation, and documenting of these products.
Boundaries in the Nurse-Client Relationship
This joint Practice Standard is the result of professional collaboration between CLPNBC, the College of Registered Nurses of BC, and the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of BC.
Consent
An adult has the right to choose, refuse, or revoke health care. According to legislation, consent means ensuring that an adult is fully informed about the health-care treatment.
Documentation
Documentation is any written or electronically-generated information regarding a client.
Duty to Provide Care
Duty to provide care is the legal obligation of an LPN to take reasonable care to avoid causing harm to clients.
Duty to Report
Legislation requires LPNs to report in writing to CLPNBC (or another person's College), if the LPN, on reasonable and probable grounds, believes that the continued practice of a designated health profession by the other person might constitute a danger to the public.
Medication Adminstration
Medication administration is a nursing intervention that involves the preparation, administration, evaluation, and documentation of ordered medications.
Peripheral Infusion Therapy
Peripheral infusion therapy is a nursing intervention that involves the preparation, administration, evaluation, and documentation of an ordered substance (medicated or non-medicated) into a vein, either intermittently or continuously.
Self-Employment
A self-employed LPN is a registrant who provides direct nursing services for