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2001 SESSION
HB 2272 Health; verbal orders in hospitals.
Introduced by: James M. Shuler | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Health; verbal orders in hospitals. Requires the regulations of the Board of Health for the licensure of hospitals to allow those hospital employees, designated in the medical staff bylaws or hospital policies and procedures, to accept emergency telephone and other verbal orders for medication or treatment for hospital patients from physicians and other persons lawfully authorized by state law to give patient orders. The verbal orders would have to be signed within a reasonable time, not to exceed 72-hours, by the person giving the order, or, if that person is not available within the 72-hour period, by another physician or person authorized to give orders.
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:
Health; verbal orders in hospitals. Allows hospitals to develop a protocol that would allow hospital employees to accept verbal orders for medication or treatment for patients from physicians or other persons authorized to give patient orders. The verbal orders would have to be signed within a set time period, not to exceed seventy-two hours, by the person giving the order, or, if that person were unavailable, by another physician or person authorized to give orders.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Health; verbal orders in hospitals. Allows hospitals to develop a protocol that would allow hospital employees to accept verbal orders for medication or treatment for patients from physicians or other persons authorized to give patient orders. The verbal orders would have to be signed within a set time period by the person giving the order, or, if that person were unavailable, by another physician or person authorized to give orders.