Bill Amendment: FL H0573 | 2014 | Regular Session

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Bill Title: Health of Residents

Status: 2014-05-02 - Died on Calendar [H0573 Detail]

Download: Florida-2014-H0573-Senate_Floor_Amendment_964640.html

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       Florida Senate - 2014                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/CS/CS/HB 573, 2nd Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Hays moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 2694 and 2695
    4  insert:
    5         Section 48. Subsection (7) of section 456.013, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         456.013 Department; general licensing provisions.—
    8         (7)(a) The boards, or the department when there is no
    9  board, shall require the completion of a 2-hour course relating
   10  to prevention of medical errors as part of the licensure and
   11  renewal process. The 2-hour course shall count towards the total
   12  number of continuing education hours required for the
   13  profession. The course shall be approved by the board or
   14  department, as appropriate, and shall include a study of root
   15  cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient
   16  safety. If the course is being offered by a facility licensed
   17  pursuant to chapter 395 for its employees, the board may approve
   18  up to 1 hour of the 2-hour course to be specifically related to
   19  error reduction and prevention methods used in that facility.
   20         (b) In addition, the course approved by the Board of
   21  Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine shall include
   22  information relating to the five most misdiagnosed conditions
   23  during the previous biennium, and an additional 3 hours on other
   24  topics, which may include risk management, medical ethics,
   25  domestic violence, HIV, physician financial responsibility
   26  requirements, and controlled substance prescribing rules, among
   27  others, as determined by the board. If the course is being
   28  offered by a facility licensed pursuant to chapter 395 for its
   29  employees, the board may approve up to 1 hour of the 2-hour
   30  course to be specifically related to error reduction and
   31  prevention methods used in that facility. The course shall be
   32  developed and offered by a statewide multispecialty professional
   33  association of physicians in this state accredited to provide
   34  educational activities designated for the American Medical
   35  Association Physician’s Recognition Award (AMA PRA) Category 1
   36  credit. For physicians licensed under chapter 459, the course
   37  may be offered by a statewide professional association of
   38  osteopathic physicians affiliated with the American Osteopathic
   39  Association. The 5-hour course shall count towards the total
   40  number of continuing education hours required for the
   41  profession.
   42         Section 49. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
   43  456.031, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   44         456.031 Requirement for instruction on domestic violence.—
   45         (1)(a) The appropriate board shall require each person
   46  licensed or certified under chapter 458, chapter 459, part I of
   47  chapter 464, chapter 466, chapter 467, chapter 490, or chapter
   48  491 to complete a 2-hour continuing education course, approved
   49  by the board, on domestic violence, as defined in s. 741.28, as
   50  part of every third biennial relicensure or recertification. The
   51  course shall consist of information on the number of patients in
   52  that professional’s practice who are likely to be victims of
   53  domestic violence and the number who are likely to be
   54  perpetrators of domestic violence, screening procedures for
   55  determining whether a patient has any history of being either a
   56  victim or a perpetrator of domestic violence, and instruction on
   57  how to provide such patients with information on, or how to
   58  refer such patients to, resources in the local community, such
   59  as domestic violence centers and other advocacy groups, that
   60  provide legal aid, shelter, victim counseling, batterer
   61  counseling, or child protection services.
   62         Section 50. Subsection (1) of section 456.033, Florida
   63  Statutes, is amended to read:
   64         456.033 Requirement for instruction for certain licensees
   65  on HIV and AIDS.—The following requirements apply to each person
   66  licensed or certified under chapter 457; chapter 458; chapter
   67  459; chapter 460; chapter 461; chapter 463; part I of chapter
   68  464; chapter 465; chapter 466; part II, part III, part V, or
   69  part X of chapter 468; or chapter 486:
   70         (1) Each person shall be required by the appropriate board
   71  to complete no later than upon first renewal a continuing
   72  educational course, approved by the board, on human
   73  immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome
   74  as part of biennial relicensure or recertification. The course
   75  shall consist of education on the modes of transmission,
   76  infection control procedures, clinical management, and
   77  prevention of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune
   78  deficiency syndrome. Such course shall include information on
   79  current Florida law on acquired immune deficiency syndrome and
   80  its impact on testing, confidentiality of test results,
   81  treatment of patients, and any protocols and procedures
   82  applicable to human immunodeficiency virus counseling and
   83  testing, reporting, the offering of HIV testing to pregnant
   84  women, and partner notification issues pursuant to ss. 381.004
   85  and 384.25.
   86  
   87  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   88  And the title is amended as follows:
   89         Delete line 292
   90  and insert:
   91         home health agencies; amending s. 456.013, F.S.;
   92         revising the requirements for the course relating to
   93         prevention of medical errors required as part of
   94         certain licensure and renewal processes; amending s.
   95         456.031, F.S.; relating to the continuing education
   96         requirement related to domestic violence for specified
   97         licensees; amending s. 456.033, F.S.; relating to the
   98         continuing education requirement related to HIV for
   99         specified licensees; providing effective dates.