does not need to obtain permission from others to carry out actions she has decided on.
Instead, the nurse’s education has prepared her to enact the decisions. For example, a nurse can
decide to initiate an educational teaching plan with a new mother who is trying to initiate breast
feeding her newborn but who is not being consistently successful. No one needs to give the nurse
permission to do this education with the mother. For example, a nurse can initiate a teaching plan
for a caregiver at home who does not understand when or how to interpret the patient’s symptoms
or does not know when to decide to administer a medication. Again, the nurse can carry out these
teaching plans and no one needs to give him or her permission to do them