Protocol · RN · Nevada
Practice Protocol for Registered Nurses in Nevada
Registered Nurses practice independently in Nevada. A practice protocol is voluntary; here is what one covers and what the state does require.
RNs (general licensure, not an APRN) are not subject to physician-supervision or collaborative-agreement requirements in Nevada; RN practice is governed by the Nevada Nurse Practice Act (NRS Ch. 632) without a physician-oversight gate.
What a voluntary Registered Nurse protocol covers in Nevada
Nevada requires no written protocol for registered nurses. These are the clauses a practice includes when it chooses to put one in writing. The Nevada State Board of Nursing governs registered nurses here.
The Registered Nurse ("RN") shall practice under the orders, standing orders, or delegation of the Physician, consistent with NRS Chapter 632. Nevada law does not require a supervision or collaboration agreement for this Registered Nurse's general scope of practice; the Physician shall instead be available to the Registered Nurse for consultation regarding clinical and patient care issues arising under any order or delegation.
- A voluntary protocol also carries 2 scope, 2 education and 2 registration clauses, authored in the document itself.
What Nevada does require
The supervision and prescribing rules that apply to registered nurses regardless of any protocol.
Proximity
Not codified
Supervision ratio
Not codified — no cap on file
Chart review
Not codified
Meeting cadence
Not codified
Prescriptive authority
No agreement needed to prescribe · no controlled-substance authority
RNs do not have independent prescriptive authority in Nevada; they administer medications only under a valid order from an authorized prescriber.
Written agreement
Not required
Unconditional — general RN licensure is never subject to physician supervision or a collaborative agreement, unlike the APRN/PA categories above.
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — RNs are not expressly authorized to form a professional entity under NRS Ch. 89 the way physicians/APRNs are — an RN may own non-clinical businesses (staffing, home health, the MSO/business side of a med-spa) without the ownership restriction applicable to entities delivering physician/APRN-level clinical services.
For medical-aesthetics businesses performing procedures reserved to physicians/APRNs, RN ownership of the business entity does not itself confer authority to perform those procedures.
Sources for the supervision rules (1)
About Nevada's rules
Nevada has an active corporate-practice-of-medicine doctrine (NRS 89.070) limiting professional-entity ownership to the licensed profession rendering the service — a full-practice-authority NP may independently own a med-spa-type entity, but PAs are not enumerated as eligible owners. NPs/CNMs/CNSs share a 2,000-hour APRN practice-authority threshold (NRS 632.237); CRNAs are separately and explicitly supervised (NRS 632.2397).
Other clinicians in Nevada: see the state overview.