From: Examining professional boundaries between nurses and physicians in neonatal intensive care units
Activity | NICU professionals (respondents) | Responses (N (PBE) =235, N (physicians) = 46) | |||
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No need for approval | Approval needed (from institution, director or physician) | Not performed by nurse | Unknown whether approval is needed | ||
IV push medication | PBE nursing graduates | 14 | 62 | 20 | 4 |
Physicians | 16 | 49 | 33 | 2 | |
Upper/lower limbs or skull insertion of peripheral cannula | PBE nursing graduates | 22 | 61 | 15 | 2 |
Physicians | 29 | 49 | 31 | 0 | |
Arterial line blood draw | PBE nursing graduates | 19 | 58 | 19 | 4 |
Physicians | 30 | 45 | 21 | 2 | |
Arterial line removal | PBE nursing graduates | 7 | 40 | 51 | 3 |
Physicians | 11 | 30 | 59 | 0 | |
Central lines and alternate systems push medication | PBE nursing graduates | 11 | 54 | 31 | 4 |
Physicians | 18 | 39 | 43 | 0 | |
Drawing blood for blood type and cross match | PBE nursing graduates | 3 | 35 | 60 | 2 |
Physicians | 13 | 20 | 2 | 65 |