California Codes, Business and Professions Code, Division 2 — Healing Arts, Chapter 6 — Nursing, Article 2 — Scope of Regulation

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Section 2725Defines nursing practice to include direct and indirect patient care, medication and treatment implementation, skin tests, immunizations, blood withdrawal, observation, referral, standardized-procedure…Section 2725.1Allows a registered nurse in specified licensed clinics to dispense drugs or devices on authorized orders from listed practitioners. Prohibits clinics from…Section 2725.2Allows a registered nurse to dispense self-administered FDA-approved hormonal contraceptives and administer approved hormonal injections under standardized procedures covering training, examination, contraindications,…Section 2725.3Prohibits specified licensed health facilities from assigning unlicensed personnel nursing functions in place of a registered nurse or functions under registered-nurse supervision…Section 2725.4Allows trained nurse practitioners and certified nurse-midwives to perform first-trimester abortions by aspiration techniques after required clinical and didactic competency training; violations…Section 2725.5Defines “advanced practice registered nurse” as a licensed registered nurse who has met the requirements of one of the referenced advanced-practice articles.…Section 2726Limits the chapter from conferring authority to practice medicine or surgery except where the chapter otherwise expressly provides such authority. The rule…Section 2727Exempts gratuitous nursing by friends or family, incidental sick care by domestic workers or housekeepers not practicing nursing, domestic family remedies, and…Section 2727.5Exempts a chapter-licensed person from civil damages for acts or omissions while rendering emergency care in good faith at an emergency scene…Section 2728Allows attendants, psychiatric technicians, and interim permittees to provide nursing services under adequate supervision in institutions overseen or visited by State Hospitals,…Section 2728.5Allows licensed psychiatric technicians and interim permittees to provide care, treatment, rehabilitation, and nursing services within their licensed or authorized scope in…Section 2729Allows a student to render nursing services when those services are incidental to the student's course of study in a board-approved prelicensure…Section 2730Exempts a nurse legally qualified in another state or country from licensure in this state for nursing care provided to a patient…Section 2731Exempts nursing or care of the sick, with or without compensation or personal profit, when performed by adherents of a well-recognized church…Section 2732Prohibits a person from engaging in nursing practice, as defined by the referenced scope provision, without an active-status license issued under the…Section 2732.05Requires an employer or agent to confirm before employment that a registered nurse or holder of a listed board certification, temporary license,…Section 2732.1Allows the board, after approving a written examination application, to issue an interim permit until the first examination or six months, whichever…Section 2733Allows the board, after application approval and required fee payment, to issue six-month temporary nursing, public-health-nurse, clinical-nurse-specialist, nurse-midwife, nurse-anesthetist, or nurse-practitioner credentials.…Section 2734Allows a licensee, by written application and payment of the biennial renewal fee, to place a nursing license on inactive status for…Section 2736Requires a registered-nurse applicant to complete preliminary education and board-prescribed nursing courses in an approved in-state program, or an out-of-state school the…Section 2736.1Requires applicants matriculating on or after September 1, 1985 to receive instruction in detecting and treating alcohol and chemical-substance dependency, and applicants…Section 2736.5Requires the board to adopt regulations making implicit-bias curriculum part of all continuing-education courses beginning January 1, 2022, and requires providers to…Section 2736.6Requires the board by regulation to determine additional nursing preparation, completed in a board-approved school, that a licensed vocational nurse must complete…Section 2737Requires an applicant seeking a license to practice nursing in the state to pay the fee required by the chapter when filing…Section 2740Requires examinations to be written, while allowing the board to supplement them with oral or practical examinations in subjects it determines. Allows…Section 2741Requires every application for reexamination under the chapter to be submitted with the fees prescribed by the chapter. The payment requirement applies…Section 2742Requires the board to issue a nursing license to each applicant who passes the required examination and satisfies all other licensing requirements.…

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