A registered nurse is a person who practices
professional nursing.
Professional nursing means
the performance for compensation of any act in the observation or
care of the ill, injured or infirm, or for the maintenance of health
or prevention of illness of others, which act requires substantial
nursing skill, knowledge or training, or application of nursing
principles based on biological, physical and social sciences, such
as the observation and recording of symptoms and reactions, the
execution of procedures and techniques in the treatment of the sick
under the general or special supervision or direction of a physician,
podiatrist, or dentist, or under an order of a person who is licensed
to practice medicine, podiatry, or dentistry in another state if
that person prepared the order after examining the patient in that
other state and directs that the order be carried out in this state,
and the execution of general nursing procedures and techniques.
Except as provided in
s.
50.04(2)(b), Wis. Stats., the practice of professional
nursing includes the supervision of a patient and the supervision
and direction of licensed practical nurses and less skilled assistants.
Except as provided for
in s.
N 3.05(4)(c), Wis. Admin. Code, no person may
practice or attempt to practice professional nursing, nor use the
title, letters or anything else to indicate that he or she is a
registered or professional nurse unless the person holds a current
registered nurse license granted by the Board of Nursing
