CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 5976
Chapter 177, Laws of 1997
55th Legislature
1997 Regular Session
USE OF "NURSE" AS
PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATION
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97
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Passed by the Senate March 14,
1997
YEAS 46 NAYS 0
 BOB
MORTON
President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 10, 1997
YEAS 96 NAYS 2
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CERTIFICATE
I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby
certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5976 as passed by
the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
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CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
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 MIKE O'CONNELL
Secretary
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Approved April 23, 1997 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 23, 1997 - 4:47 p.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 5976
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Passed
Legislature - 1997 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 03/05/97.
Clarifying who may legally use the title
"nurse."
AN
ACT Relating to the use of the title of nurse as a professionally licensed
designation; and amending RCW 18.79.030.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
18.79.030 and 1994 sp.s. c 9 s 403 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
It is unlawful for a person to practice or to offer to practice as a registered
nurse in this state unless that person has been licensed under this chapter. A
person who holds a license to practice as a registered nurse in this state may
use the titles "registered nurse" and "nurse"
and the abbreviation "R.N." No other person may assume ((that))
those titles or use the abbreviation or any other words, letters,
signs, or figures to indicate that the person using them is a registered nurse.
(2)
It is unlawful for a person to practice or to offer to practice as an advanced
registered nurse practitioner or as a nurse practitioner in this state unless
that person has been licensed under this chapter. A person who holds a license
to practice as an advanced registered nurse practitioner in this state may use
the titles "advanced registered nurse practitioner," ((and))
"nurse practitioner," and "nurse" and the
abbreviations "A.R.N.P." and "N.P." No other person may
assume those titles or use those abbreviations or any other words, letters,
signs, or figures to indicate that the person using them is an advanced
registered nurse practitioner or nurse practitioner.
(3)
It is unlawful for a person to practice or to offer to practice as a licensed
practical nurse in this state unless that person has been licensed under this
chapter. A person who holds a license to practice as a licensed practical
nurse in this state may use the titles "licensed practical
nurse" and "nurse" and the abbreviation
"L.P.N." No other person may assume ((that)) those
titles or use that abbreviation or any other words, letters, signs, or
figures to indicate that the person using them is a licensed practical nurse.
(4)
Nothing in this section shall prohibit a person listed as a Christian Science
nurse in the Christian Science Journal published by the Christian Science
Publishing Society, Boston, Massachusetts, from using the title "Christian
Science nurse," so long as such person does not hold himself or herself
out as a registered nurse, advanced registered nurse practitioner, nurse
practitioner, or licensed practical nurse, unless otherwise authorized by law
to do so.
Passed the Senate March 14, 1997.
Passed the House April 10, 1997.
Approved by the Governor
April 23, 1997.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 23, 1997.