Practice Directions and Guidance Documents
Practice Directions
The CLPNM’s practice directions establish professional expectations for practical nurses in Manitoba. All practical nurses – including student practical nurses, graduate practical nurses, and licensed practical nurses – are expected to review, understand and comply with the information disseminated in practice directions.
- Assignment and Delegation to Unregulated Health Care Providers
- Aesthetic Nursing
- Communicating With Your Regulator [NEW]
- Continuing Competence Program Also see Continuing Competence Program resources here
- Duty to Provide Care Also see the Duty to Provide Care Guidance Document here
- Fitness to Practice
- Graduate Practical Nurse Practice
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Nursing Foot Care
- Pronouncing Death and Viewing the Body
- Rural, Remote and Underserved Populations: Access to Prescribed Medications
- Self-Employed Practice Also see information on registering your self-employed practice here
- Social Media
- Telepractice Also see information on registration for virtual practice here
- Therapeutic Relationships and Professional Boundaries
Guidance Documents
Guidance documents are intended to help practical nurses and their employers make decisions that align with the legislation, regulations, professional standards, and practice directions that guide and direct practical nursing practice.
- Competency Documents
- Continuing Competence Program Instruction Guide
- Determining Appropriate LPN Practice
- Duty to Provide Care Guidance Document
Also see the Duty to Provide Care Practice Direction here - Duty to Report Interpretive Document
- Federal Exemptions for the Administration of Controlled Substances
- Guidance Document on Agency Nursing
Also see the CLPNM Fact Sheet for Nursing Agencies here - Guidance for Nurses on Medical Assistance in Dying
- Guidance for Nurses on Medical Cannabis
- LPN Practice and Treatment of STBBIs
- Making Decisions About Masks
- Nursing in a Team Environment Resource Document
- Nursing Practice and Conduct in a Pandemic
- Unregistered Practice in Ontario [NEW]
