Report Title:
Prescriptive Authority; Advanced Practice Nurses
Description:
Makes permanent the board of nursing's power to grant prescriptive authority to qualified advanced practice nurses. Requires board to designate the applicable formularies and to establish an advisory committee to advise on the formularies.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
2981 |
TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to nurses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Act 192, Session Laws of Hawaii 2002, as amended by section 27 of Act 3, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003, is amended by amending section 5 to read as follows:
"SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2004, except that title 16, chapter 89C, Hawaii administrative rules, shall remain in effect until the board of nursing adopts rules pursuant to section 2 of this Act; and [provided] further except that the amendments made to section 457-8.6, Hawaii Revises Statutes, in section 1 of this Act, shall [be reenacted in the form in which it read on the day before the effective date of this Act.] not be repealed."
SECTION 2. Section 457-8.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§457-8.6 Prescriptive authority for advanced practice registered nurses. The board shall grant prescriptive authority to qualified advanced practice registered nurses and shall designate the requirements for advanced nursing practice related to prescriptive authority. The board of [medical examiners] nursing shall [submit an annual report of the formularies to the board of nursing.] designate the applicable formularies. The board shall establish an advisory committee to advise the board on issues relating to the formularies. The advisory committee shall be composed of:
(1) Three persons licensed as advanced practice nurses with prescriptive authority under chapter 457;
(2) Three persons licensed as physicians under chapter 453; and
(3) Three persons licensed as pharmacists under chapter 461."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2004.
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