Amended
IN
Senate
June 26, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 27, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 17, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 23, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Low |
February 17, 2023 |
Existing law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information in the Health and Welfare Agency to oversee health planning and health policy research, such as the health care workforce research and data center. Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nurses within
the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing.
This bill would require a general acute care hospital that is located in the service area of a community college with an approved school of nursing to make quarterly reports to the Department of Health Care Access and Information and the Board of Registered Nurses of the number of nursing clinical placements filled by the hospital for that quarter, and would require the department to categorize the information, as specified, and post it on its internet website. The bill would require a community college with postsecondary educational students in an approved school of nursing or an approved program of nursing education, as defined, to notify the Department of Health Care Access and Information and the Board of Registered Nursing, by March 1 of each year, of the number of clinical placements the community college will require for the next academic year. The bill would
require a general acute care hospital to meet the clinical placement needs of community colleges or be subject to a fine.
(a)A general acute care hospital that is located in the service area of a community college with an approved school of nursing shall report to the department and the Board of Registered Nursing, on a quarterly basis, the number of nursing clinical placements filled by the hospital for that quarter. The department shall categorize the information by hospital, school type, school name, and clinical placement location. The department shall post the information on its internet website.
(b)By March 1 of each year, a community college with postsecondary educational students enrolled in an approved school of nursing or an approved program of nursing education, as defined
in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 2786 of the Business and Professions Code, shall notify the department and the Board of Registered Nursing of the number of clinical placements the community college will require for the next academic year.
(c)A general acute care hospital that is located in the service area of a community college with an approved school of nursing shall meet the clinical placement needs of community colleges with postsecondary educational students enrolled in an approved school of nursing or an approved program of nursing education. A hospital that fails to meet those placement needs may be subject to a fine.