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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2712
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2712
Five members of the board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2713
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2713
The board shall keep a record of all its proceedings, including a register of all applicants for licenses under this chapter and the action of the board upon each application.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2714
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2714
The office of the board shall be in the city of Sacramento. Suboffices may be established in Los Angeles and San Francisco and such records as may be necessary may be transferred temporarily to them. Legal proceedings against the board may be instituted in any county in which any
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2715
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2715
(a) The board shall prosecute all persons guilty of violating this chapter. (b) Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board, in accordance with the Civil Service Law, may employ personnel, including legal counsel, as it deems necessary to carry into effect this chapter. (c) Th
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2716
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2716
Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2717
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2717
(a) The board shall incorporate regional forecasts into its biennial analyses of the nursing workforce conducted pursuant to Section 502. (b) The board shall develop a plan to address regional areas of shortage identified by its nursing workforce forecast.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725
(a) In amending this section at the 1973–74 session, the Legislature recognizes that nursing is a dynamic field, the practice of which is continually evolving to include more sophisticated patient care activities. It is the intent of the Legislature in amending this section at th
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725.1
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered nurse may dispense drugs or devices upon an order by a licensed physician and surgeon or an order by a certified nurse-midwife, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant issued pursuant to Section 2746.51, 2836.1, or 3
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725.2
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered nurse may dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and may administer injections of hormonal contraceptives approved by the FDA in strict adherence to
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725.3
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725.3
(a) A health facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or (f), of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code shall not assign unlicensed personnel to perform nursing functions in lieu of a registered nurse and may not allow unlicensed personnel to perform functions unde
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725.4
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725.4
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the following shall apply: (a) In order to perform an abortion by aspiration techniques pursuant to Section 2253, a person with a license or certificate to practice as a nurse practitioner practicing pursuant to a standardized
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2725.5
“Advanced practice registered nurse” means those licensed registered nurses who have met the requirements of Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 2746), Article 7 (commencing with Section 2825), Article 8 (commencing with Section 2834), or Article 9 (commencing with Section 2838)
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2726
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2726
Except as otherwise provided herein, this chapter confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2727
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2727
This chapter does not prohibit: (a) Gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family. (b) Incidental care of the sick by domestic workers or by persons primarily employed as housekeepers as long as they do not practice nursing within the meaning of this chapter.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2727.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2727.5
A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency which occurs outside both the place and the course of that person’s employment shall not be liable for any civil damages as the result of acts or omissions by that person in
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2728
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2728
If adequate medical and nursing supervision by a professional nurse or nurses is provided, nursing service may be given by attendants, psychiatric technicians, or psychiatric technician interim permittees in institutions under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hos
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2728.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2728.5
Except for those provisions of law relating to directors of nursing services, nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall prevent the utilization of a licensed psychiatric technician or psychiatric technician interim permittee in performing services used in the ca
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2729
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2729
Nursing services may be rendered by a student when these services are incidental to the course of study of one of the following: (a) A student enrolled in a board-approved prelicensure program or school of nursing. (b) A nurse licensed in another state or country taking a board-a
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2730
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2730
If he does not represent or hold himself out as a professional nurse licensed to practice in this State and if he has an engagement, made in another State or country, requiring him to accompany and care for a patient temporarily residing in this State during the period of such en
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2731
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2731
This chapter does not prohibit nursing or the care of the sick, with or without compensation or personal profit, when done by the adherents of and in connection with the practice of the religious tenets of any well recognized church or denomination, so long as they do not otherwi
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2732
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2732
No person shall engage in the practice of nursing, as defined in Section 2725, without holding a license that is in an active status issued under this chapter except as otherwise provided in this act. Every licensee may be known as a registered nurse and may place the letters “R.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2732.05
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2732.05
(a) Every employer of a registered nurse, every employer of a registered nurse required to hold any board-issued certification, and every person acting as an agent for such a nurse in obtaining employment, shall ascertain that the nurse is currently authorized to practice as a re
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2732.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2732.1
(a) An applicant for license by examination shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by the board. Upon approval of the application, the board may issue an interim permit authorizing the applicant to practice nursing pending the results of the first licensing exa
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2733
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2733
(a) (1) (A) Upon approval of an application filed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 2732.1, and upon the payment of the fee prescribed by subdivision (k) of Section 2815, the board may issue a temporary license to practice professional nursing, and a temporary certificate to
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2734
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2734
Upon application in writing to the board and payment of the biennial renewal fee, a licensee may have their license placed in an inactive status for an indefinite period of time. A licensee whose license is in an inactive status may not practice nursing. However, a licensee does