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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.
