Bill Text: CT HB05288 | 2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Circulating Nurses.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-24 - Public Hearing 03/01 [HB05288 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2010-HB05288-Introduced.html
General Assembly |
Raised Bill No. 5288 | ||
February Session, 2010 |
LCO No. 1274 | ||
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Referred to Committee on Public Health |
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Introduced by: |
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AN ACT CONCERNING CIRCULATING NURSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2010) (a) As used in this section:
(1) "Circulating nurse" means a registered nurse licensed under chapter 378 of the general statutes, who is educated, trained or experienced in perioperative nursing and who is responsible for coordinating the nursing care and safety needs of a patient in an operating room;
(2) "Outpatient surgical facility" has the same meaning as provided in subsection (a) of section 19a-493b of the general statutes; and
(3) "Perioperative nursing" means nursing services that are provided to patients during the preoperative, intraoperative and immediate postoperative periods of a surgical procedure.
(b) Any hospital or outpatient surgical facility shall ensure that a circulating nurse is assigned to, and present for the duration of, each surgical procedure performed in an operating room of such hospital or outpatient surgical facility. While assigned to a surgical procedure, no hospital or outpatient surgical facility shall assign a circulating nurse to another procedure that is scheduled to occur concurrently or that may overlap in time with the originally assigned surgical procedure. A circulating nurse assigned to a surgical procedure shall be present for the duration of the procedure unless it becomes necessary for the nurse to leave the operating room as part of the procedure or the nurse is relieved by another circulating nurse.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
October 1, 2010 |
New section |
Statement of Purpose:
To require that a circulating nurse be present during every surgical procedure that takes place in an operating room of a hospital or outpatient surgical facility.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]