Sections
15 entriesSection 4500Establishes “Psychiatric Technicians Law” as the name of the chapter and allows the chapter to be cited by that name. The provision…Section 4501Defines “board” for the chapter as the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California. Sets the definition…Section 4501.1Requires protection of the public to be the board's highest priority when it performs licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever public protection…Section 4501.2Establishes that repeal of the referenced board provision makes the board’s successor entity subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of…Section 4502Defines “psychiatric technician” as a compensated person performing specified care, treatment, rehabilitation, therapeutic, observational, medication, or recording functions for mentally ill, emotionally…Section 4502.1Allows a psychiatric technician working in a mental health facility or developmental disability facility to administer medications by hypodermic injection when a…Section 4502.2Allows a psychiatric technician, when a licensed physician and surgeon prescribes it, to withdraw blood from a patient with a mental illness…Section 4502.3Allows a psychiatric technician, on a physician's prescription, to perform specified skin tests within a tuberculosis-control program and immunizations under qualifying standing…Section 4503Requires the board to administer and enforce the chapter and sets January 1, 2029, as the date on which this provision is…Section 4503.1Establishes that, notwithstanding any other law, repeal of the referenced board provision renders the successor entity to the board identified in that…Section 4504Requires the board to prosecute persons guilty of violating the psychiatric-technicians chapter and allows it to employ clerical assistance, set compensation, and…Section 4505Allows the board to employ personnel it considers necessary to administer the chapter, subject to the exception incorporated by the referenced provision.…Section 4507Exempts specified licensed physicians, psychologists, nurses, social workers, therapists, counselors, credentialed teachers, occupational therapists, and named therapeutic personnel from the chapter. The…Section 4508Exempts services regulated by the psychiatric-technicians chapter from its prohibitions when provided, with or without compensation or personal profit, according to the…Section 4509.5Allows persons to perform services described in the psychiatric-technician practice definition for training purposes when the training is intended to qualify them…