The registered nursing profession is now under The Regulated Health Professions Act as of today.

The RHPA sets out a new way of regulating who does what in the provision of health services by designating reserved acts for those duties that need to be done by a competently trained professional.

Registered nurses will be able to do 14 of the 21 categories of reserved acts.

Reserved acts are activities such as screening and ordering diagnostic tests and prescribing and administering drugs.

This regulation allows for a new designation of registered nursing, which will be called the Registered Nurse Authorized Prescriber.

For more information on the RHPA go to www.gov.mb.ca/health/rhpa.