Bill Text: GA SB244 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Engrossed

Georgia Senate Bill 244 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Ga. Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act; performance of health maintenance act. by a designated caregiver shall not be prohibited

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-01 - Effective Date [SB244 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-SB244-Engrossed.html

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Senate Bill 244

By: Senators Unterman of the 45th, Thomas of the 54th and Goggans of the 7th

AS PASSED SENATE

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Code Section 43-26-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to the "Georgia Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act," so as to provide that the performance of health maintenance activities by a designated caregiver shall not be prohibited; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Code Section 43-26-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to the "Georgia Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act," is amended by revising paragraph (8) as follows:

"(8) 'Practice nursing as a registered professional nurse' means to practice nursing by performing for compensation any of the following:

(A) Assessing the health status of individuals, groups, or both throughout the life span;

(B) Establishing a nursing diagnosis;

(D) Planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care;

(E) Providing for safe and effective nursing care rendered directly or indirectly;

(F) Managing and supervising the practice of nursing;

(G) Collaborating with other members of the health care team in the management of care;

(H) Teaching the theory and practice of nursing;

(I) Administering, ordering, and dispensing medications, diagnostic studies, and medical treatments authorized by protocol, when such acts are authorized by other general laws and such acts are in conformity with those laws;

(J) Administering medications and treatments as prescribed by a physician practicing medicine in accordance with Article 2 of Chapter 34 of this title, a dentist practicing dentistry in accordance with Chapter 11 of this title, or a podiatrist practicing podiatry in accordance with Chapter 35 of this title; or

(K) Performing any other nursing act in the care and counsel of the ill, injured, or infirm, and in the promotion and maintenance of health with individuals, groups, or both throughout the life span.

This paragraph shall not prohibit the performance of health maintenance activities by a designated caregiver for an individual at the direction of such individual or his or her agent. For purposes of this paragraph, 'health maintenance activities' means those activities which enable an individual with disabilities to live as independently as possible in a home and community of his or her choice and include those specialized procedures, beyond activities of daily living, which the individual would perform himself or herself if he or she were able and which the attending physician or registered professional determines can be safely performed in the home and community by a designated caregiver as directed by the individual or his or her agent."

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.