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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1809
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995
Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/28/95.
Authorizing
naturopaths to give direction to registered nurses.
AN ACT Relating to
naturopath's authority to give direction to persons licensed under chapter
18.79 RCW; amending RCW 18.79.260 and 18.79.270; creating a new section; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 18.79.260 and 1994
sp.s. c 9 s 426 are each amended to read as follows:
A registered nurse
under his or her license may perform for compensation nursing care, as that
term is usually understood, of the ill, injured, or infirm, and in the course
thereof, she or he may do the following things that shall not be done by a
person not so licensed, except as provided in RCW 18.79.270:
(1) At or under the
general direction of a licensed physician and surgeon, dentist, osteopathic
physician and surgeon, naturopathic physician, podiatric physician and
surgeon, physician assistant, osteopathic physician assistant, or advanced
registered nurse practitioner acting within the scope of his or her license,
administer medications, treatments, tests, and inoculations, whether or not the
severing or penetrating of tissues is involved and whether or not a degree of
independent judgment and skill is required. Such direction must be for acts
which are within the scope of registered nursing practice;
(2) Delegate to other
persons engaged in nursing, the functions outlined in subsection (1) of this section;
(3) Instruct nurses in
technical subjects pertaining to nursing;
(4) Hold herself or
himself out to the public or designate herself or himself as a registered
nurse.
Sec. 2. RCW 18.79.270 and 1994
sp.s. c 9 s 427 are each amended to read as follows:
A licensed practical
nurse under his or her license may perform nursing care, as that term is
usually understood, of the ill, injured, or infirm, and in the course thereof
may, under the direction of a licensed physician and surgeon, osteopathic
physician and surgeon, dentist, naturopathic physician, podiatric
physician and surgeon, physician assistant, osteopathic physician assistant,
advanced registered nurse practitioner acting under the scope of his or her
license, or at the direction and under the supervision of a registered nurse,
administer drugs, medications, treatments, tests, injections, and inoculations,
whether or not the piercing of tissues is involved and whether or not a degree
of independent judgment and skill is required, when selected to do so by one of
the licensed practitioners designated in this section, or by a registered nurse
who need not be physically present; if the order given is reduced to writing
within a reasonable time and made a part of the patient's record. Such
direction must be for acts within the scope of licensed practical nurse
practice.
NEW SECTION. Sec.
3. By July 31, 1996, the
Washington state nursing care quality assurance commission shall develop rules
for nursing practice under the direction of naturopathic physicians.
NEW SECTION. Sec.
4. This act shall take
effect August 1, 1996.
