Examples of Advanced Practices
| Category of advanced practice | Examples |
| Medication management | Deciding when medication needs to be stopped |
| Deciding when to give medication (adjunct) | |
| Deciding what dose to give | |
| Assessing for contraindications or drug incompatibilities | |
| Administering medications | |
| Responding to adverse reactions (minor and major) | |
| Writing a report after a reaction | |
| Nonmedical cardiac stress testing | Standing in when there is no physician in the stress room |
| Preparing the patient | |
| Taking the lead in cardiac stressing | |
| Being responsible for monitoring the patient | |
| Taking appropriate action if the patient has a problem | |
| Deciding when to administer a radiopharmaceutical | |
| Deciding when to cease a stress test | |
| Responding to cardiac events; deciding when help is required | |
| X-ray imaging | Requesting before ventilation–perfusion imaging |
| Requesting to investigate unexplained hot areas seen on a bone scan | |
| Requesting CT after SPECT to establish | |
| Precise location (could be low-dose CT) | |
| Diagnosis (diagnostic-quality or high-dose CT) | |
| Surgical preparations (mark up for surgery) | Being involved with nuclear medicine scanning |
| Identifying the nodes on a scan | |
| Marking skin to suggest where the node is for the surgeon | |
| Formal reports about scans | Describing what is seen |
| Noting whether there are incidental findings and whether they are clinically significant | |
| Answering the clinical question | |
| Making a (pathologic) diagnosis or indicating normality | |
| Suggesting a prognosis based on scan findings | |
| Suggesting the next step (e.g., further imaging) | |
| Radionuclide therapy sessions | Assessing the clinical presentation |
| Evaluating information from the diagnostic work-up | |
| Deciding whether the case is suited to radionuclide therapy | |
| Taking a lead role in calculating the dose | |
| Preparing the patient for the dose; including assessment of contraindications | |
| Administering the dose | |
| Assessing the patient for complications | |
| Following up the patient |