Bill Text: NY A06030 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes physicians to prescribe non-patient specific orders that a registered professional nurse may perform including electrocardiogram tests to detect signs and symptoms of acute coronary syndrome, administering point-of-care blood glucose tests to evaluate acute mental status changes in persons with suspected hypoglycemia, administering tests and intravenous lines to persons that meet severe sepsis and sepsis shock criteria, and pregnancy tests.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-07-19 - signed chap.193 [A06030 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06030-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6030--C

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from  said
          committee  with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommit-
          ted to said committee --  again  reported  from  said  committee  with
          amendments,  ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  non-patient  specific
          orders a registered professional nurse may perform

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section  6909  of  the  education  law  is
     2  amended  by  adding four new paragraphs (i), (j), (k) and (l) to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (i) administering electrocardiogram tests to detect signs and symptoms
     5  of acute coronary syndrome.
     6    (j) administering point-of-care blood glucose tests to evaluate  acute
     7  mental status changes in persons with suspected hypoglycemia.
     8    (k)  administering  tests  and  intravenous lines to persons that meet
     9  severe sepsis and septic shock criteria.
    10    (l) administering tests to determine pregnancy.
    11    § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 6527 of the education law is amended  by
    12  adding four new paragraphs (i), (j), (k) and (l) to read as follows:
    13    (i) administering electrocardiogram tests to detect signs and symptoms
    14  of acute coronary syndrome.
    15    (j)  administering point-of-care blood glucose tests to evaluate acute
    16  mental status changes in persons with suspected hypoglycemia.
    17    (k) administering tests and intravenous lines  to  persons  that  meet
    18  severe sepsis and septic shock criteria.
    19    (l) administering tests to determine pregnancy.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10534-06-3