Bill Text: IL SB1741 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a licensed practical nurse's scope of practice.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB1741 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB1741-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB1741 Introduced 2/9/2017, by Sen. Pamela J. Althoff SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 65/55-30
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a licensed practical nurse's scope of practice.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Nurse Practice Act is amended by changing
Section 55-30 as follows:
(225 ILCS 65/55-30)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
Sec. 55-30. LPN scope of practice.
(a) Practice as a licensed practical nurse means a scope of
basic nursing practice, with or without compensation, as
delegated by a registered professional nurse or an advanced
practice nurse or as directed by a physician assistant,
physician, dentist, or podiatric physician, and and includes,
but is not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Collecting data and collaborating in the
assessment of the health status of a patient.
(2) Collaborating in the development and modification
of the registered professional nurse's or advanced
practice nurse's comprehensive nursing plan of care for all
types of patients.
(3) Implementing aspects of the plan of care as
delegated.
(4) Participating in health teaching and counseling to

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promote, attain, and maintain the optimum health level of
patients, as delegated.
(5) Serving as an advocate for the patient by
communicating and collaborating with other health service
personnel, as delegated.
(6) Participating in the evaluation of patient
responses to interventions.
(7) Communicating and collaborating with other health
care professionals as delegated.
(8) Providing input into the development of policies
and procedures to support patient safety.
(Source: P.A. 98-214, eff. 8-9-13.)