BILL NUMBER: SB 774	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Ashburn

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act relating to nurse practitioners.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 774, as introduced, Ashburn. Nurse practitioners.
   Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, provides for the
certification and regulation of nurse practitioners and
nurse-midwives by the Board of Registered Nursing and specifies
requirements for qualification or certification as a nurse
practitioner. Under the act, the practice of nursing is defined, in
part, as providing direct and indirect patient care services, as
specified. The practice of nursing is also described as the
implementation, based on observed abnormalities, of standardized
procedures, defined as policies and protocols developed by specified
facilities in collaboration with administrators and health
professionals, including physicians and surgeons and nurses.
   This bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation to define the scope of practice for nurse
practitioners.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to define the scope of practice for nurse practitioners
in the State of California.