Nurse who was training with physician to give steroid injections did not act outside his scope of practice  

The Georgia Board of Nursing sought to sanction an advanced practice registered nurse for exceeding the scope of his practice by performing a transforaminal epidural injection (TEI), a type of steroid injection for pain management. The Court determined the nurse had not violated any laws that would warrant a sanction.  The evidence showed the nurse had been training under a physician’s supervision to provide TEI, with the intent of adding this procedure to his Nurse Protocol Agreement once he had completed a minimum number of these procedures.