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SB 757 Registered nurses performing infusion svces; medical assistance svces.

Introduced by: Yvonne B. Miller | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Registered nurses performing infusion services; medical assistance services. Requires the Board of Medical Assistance Services to provide for reimbursement for infusion care rendered by registered nurses to patients in long-term care facilities, hospitals or home- and community-based care, including, but not limited to, peripheral IV catheters, Advanced Vascular Access Devices, such as Hickman, Mediport, Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters, and midlines, and IV access care and maintenance of peripheral and central catheters, when such registered nurses have met the requirements of the Board of Nursing for experience and training in such care. This bill provides an exception to the medical practice act for such registered nurses and requires the Board of Nursing to develop, in coordination with the Board of Medicine, guidelines for experiential and training requirements for registered nurses to render infusion care.


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