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HB 870 Respiratory care practitioners; auth. to administer controlled substances within scope of practice.

Introduced by: Kathy J. Byron | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Respiratory care practitioners; authorization to administer controlled substances within scope of practice. Adds respiratory care practitioners to the exception to the practice of medicine relating to authority to draw blood, give intravenous infusions and injections, and insert tubes. This provision also clarifies the present authority of respiratory care practitioners to administer controlled substances to coincide with current training and practice by removing the restriction on the present authority to drugs administered by inhalation. The new language allows prescribers to authorize respiratory care practitioners to administer controlled substances and devices that are within the respiratory care practitioner's scope of practice, which might include intravenous infusions and injections and the insertion of tubes. Technical amendments are included to revise the lettering of the subsections.


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