Bill Text: CA AB1015 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Board of Registered Nursing: workforce planning: nursing programs: clinical placements.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-10-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 591, Statutes of 2021. [AB1015 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1015-Amended.html
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Amended
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Senate
September 01, 2021 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Blanca Rubio (Coauthor: Senator Ochoa Bogh) |
February 18, 2021 |
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 2717 is added to the Business and Professions Code, immediately following Section 2716, to read:2717.
(a) The board shall incorporate regional forecasts into its biennial analyses of the nursing workforce conducted pursuant to Section 502.(a)The board shall collect and analyze workforce data from its licensees for future workforce planning. The board may collect the data at the time of license renewal or from a scientifically selected random sample of its licensees. The board shall produce reports on the workforce data it collects, at a minimum, on a biennial basis. The board shall maintain the confidentiality of the information it receives from licensees under this section and shall only release information in an aggregate form that cannot be used to identify an individual. The workforce data collected by the board shall include, at a minimum, employment information such as hours of work, number of positions held, time spent in direct patient care, clinical practice area, type of employer, and work location. The data shall also include future work intentions,
reasons for leaving or reentering nursing, job satisfaction ratings, and demographic data.
(b)Aggregate information collected pursuant to this section shall be placed on the board’s internet website.
(c)(1)Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the board shall collect, at least biennially, at the times of both issuing an initial license and issuing a renewal license, all of the following data on nurses licensed under this chapter:
(A)Location of practice, including city, county, and ZIP Code.
(B)Race or ethnicity, subject to
paragraph (3).
(C)Gender.
(D)Languages spoken.
(E)Educational background.
(F)Classification of primary practice site among the types of practice sites specified by the board, including, but not limited to, clinic, hospital, managed care organization, or private practice.
(2)The board shall annually provide the data collected pursuant to paragraph (1) to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development in a manner directed by the office that allows for inclusion of the data into the annual report required by Section 128052 of the Health and Safety Code.
(3)A licensee may, but is not required to, report
the licensee’s race or ethnicity to the board.
(d)The board shall incorporate regional forecasts into its biennial analyses of the nursing workforce.
(e)The board shall develop a plan to address regional areas of shortage identified by its nursing workforce forecast. The board plan shall identify additional facilities that could offer clinical placement slots.
(f)The board shall annually collect, analyze, and report information related to the number of clinical placement slots that are available and the location of those clinical placement slots within the state, including, but not limited to, information concerning the total number of placement slots a clinical facility can accommodate and how many slots the programs that use the facility will need. The board shall place the annual report on its internet website.
(g)The board
may expend the sum of one hundred forty-five thousand dollars ($145,000) from the Board of Registered Nursing Fund in the Professions and Vocations Fund for the purpose of implementing this section.
