Bill Text: TX HB2079 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the administration by certain nurses and occupational therapists of treatments, medication, or therapy ordered by a health care practitioner.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-08 - Referred to Public Health [HB2079 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2079-Introduced.html
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By: Christian | H.B. No. 2079 |
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relating to the administration by certain nurses and occupational | ||
therapists of treatments, medication, or therapy ordered by a | ||
health care practitioner. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 301.002(2), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(2) "Professional nursing" means the performance of an | ||
act that requires substantial specialized judgment and skill, the | ||
proper performance of which is based on knowledge and application | ||
of the principles of biological, physical, and social science as | ||
acquired by a completed course in an approved school of | ||
professional nursing. The term does not include acts of medical | ||
diagnosis or the prescription of therapeutic or corrective | ||
measures. Professional nursing involves: | ||
(A) the observation, assessment, intervention, | ||
evaluation, rehabilitation, care and counsel, or health teachings | ||
of a person who is ill, injured, infirm, or experiencing a change in | ||
normal health processes; | ||
(B) the maintenance of health or prevention of | ||
illness; | ||
(C) the administration of a medication or | ||
treatment as ordered by a health care practitioner legally | ||
authorized to order the medication or treatment [ |
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(D) the supervision or teaching of nursing; | ||
(E) the administration, supervision, and | ||
evaluation of nursing practices, policies, and procedures; | ||
(F) the requesting, receiving, signing for, and | ||
distribution of prescription drug samples to patients at sites in | ||
which a registered nurse is authorized to sign prescription drug | ||
orders as provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 157; | ||
(G) the performance of an act delegated by a | ||
physician under Section 157.052, 157.053, 157.054, 157.0541, | ||
157.0542, 157.058, or 157.059; and | ||
(H) the development of the nursing care plan. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 454.213(b), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) Implementation of direct occupational therapy to a | ||
person for a specific health care condition must be based on a | ||
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |