ARM 24.159.1604. TASKS WHICH MAY BE ROUTINELY ASSIGNED TO AN UNLICENSED PERSON IN ANY SETTING WHEN A NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP EXISTS

(1) The following are tasks that are not within the exclusive scope of a licensed nurse's practice and may be within the scope of sound nursing practice to be assigned to a UAP: (a) noninvasive and nonsterile treatments unless otherwise prohibited by these rules; (b) the collecting, reporting, and documentation of data including, but not limited to: (i) vital signs, height, weight, intake and output; (ii) changes from baseline data established by the nurse; (iii) environmental situations; (iv) patient or family comments relating to the patient's care; (v) behaviors related to the plan of care. (c) ambulation, positioning, and turning; (d) personal hygiene and elimination; (e) oral feeding, cutting up food, or placing of meal trays; (f) socialization activities; (g) activities of daily living; (h) assisting with self-administration of medications where the following acts are used: (i) verbal suggestions, prompting, reminding, gesturing, or providing a written guide for self-administering medications; (ii) handing a prefilled, labeled medication holder, labeled unit dose container, syringe, or original marked, labeled container from the pharmacy to the patient; (iii) opening the lid of the above-referenced container for the patient; (iv) guiding the hand of the patient to self-administer the medication; (v) holding and assisting the patient in drinking fluid to assist in the swallowing of oral medications; (vi) assisting with removal of a medication from a container for residents with a physical disability which prevents independence in the act.