Bill Text: GA SB244 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
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The House Committee on Health and Human Services offers the following substitute
to SB 244:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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;
(C)
Establishing nursing goals to meet identified health care needs;
(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 so long as the caregiver is a family member or other person not
receiving compensation for providing the health maintenance activities and meets
minimum standards as determined by the Division of Mental Health, Developmental
Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases of the Department of Human Resources. 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.