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Can and does the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner delegate any tasks?

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Can and does the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner delegate any tasks?

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Psych NPs are employed to do various jobs. What they can delegate depends on what their job is, and where they work. If they see patients in a hospital, they write orders and the hospital staff carries them out, just as if they were psychiatrists seeing patients there.