Alberta allowing nurses to prescribe drugs, order X-rays in travel, workplace health and safety clinics

Under an expanded scope of practice, Alberta nurses working in travel clinics, workplace health and safety clinics and for STI programs will be allowed to order X-rays for patients or prescribe medications. They won't be permitted to write scripts for controlled drugs, however. Rules set out by the provincial government also mean that nurse practitioners in Alberta will be allowed to set fractured bones.