The registered nurse shall be held accountable for the quality of nursing care given to patients. This includes but is not limited to, assessing the patient’s needs, supervising, formulating a nursing diagnosis, planning for, implementing and evaluation of the nursing care in the promotion and the maintenance of health of each patient for whom responsibility has been accepted.

The registered nurse is accountable for the quality of care given by self or others being supervised. The registered nurse may assign nursing duties to other qualified personnel; assign duties of medication administration of patient medications to other licensed nurses only except as set out in Part 2860, Rule 1.3(a)(2)of the Administrative Code; and assign duties for giving patient treatments to licensed nurses and/or auxiliary workers based upon knowledge of their educational preparation and experienced. The registered nurse remains accountable for the acts carried out, as well as, the outcome of the acts delegated.