File Code: Health Occupations
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 484
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Goldwater, Walkup, Parker, and Eckardt
- Entitled:
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Nurses - Exercise of Professional Judgment
Authorizing nurses to exercise professional judgment by providing
grounds for disciplining a supervisory nurse directing another nurse
to perform a designated nursing act or responsibility that the nurse
has justifiably refused to do, or for interfering with, inhibiting, or
preventing another nurse from justifiably refusing to accept such a
responsibility; creating an exception during medical emergencies;
authorizing discipline by a Health Occupations Board for violations of
these prohibitions; etc.
House Action
- 1/30
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/19
- Hearing 3/4 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/24
- Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Joan N. Parker, District 10
- Delegate Mary Roe Walkup, District 36
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- DISCIPLINE
- EMERGENCIES -see also- AMBULANCES; RESCUE SQUADS
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- NURSES
- PENALTIES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health Occupations
- (
8-316 ,
8-316 ,
8-316 ,
8-708 ,
8-710
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)