Bill Title: Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that registered professional nursing practice is a scientific process founded on a professional body of knowledge. It is a learned profession based on the understanding of the human condition across the life span and environment, includes all nursing specialties, and means the performance of any nursing act based upon professional knowledge, judgment, and skills acquired by means of completion of an approved professional nursing education program. Provides that registered professional nurses may delegate nursing interventions and tasks (rather than nursing interventions) to other registered professional nurses and licensed practical nurses based on a comprehensive nursing assessment. Provides that registered professional nurses may delegate tasks to unlicensed personnel based on a comprehensive nursing assessment. Provides that a registered professional nurse is prohibited from delegating work requiring nursing knowledge, assessment, judgment, inference, decision making (including medication administration), the development of a plan of care, and the evaluation of a plan of care to unlicensed non-nurse personnel. Removes provisions concerning delegation of nursing interventions and administration of medications in community-based or in-home care settings. Makes other changes. Effective August 1, 2023.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [SB1277 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Contact	Phone	District	Sponsorship	State Profile	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Mattie Hunter [D]	Primary	N/A	217-782-5966	SD-003	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Robert Peters [D]	Cosponsor	N/A	217-782-5338	SD-013	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Doris Turner [D]	Cosponsor	N/A	217-782-0228	SD-048	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator David Koehler [D]	Cosponsor	N/A	217-782-8250	SD-046	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Adriane Johnson [D]	Cosponsor	N/A	217-782-8181	SD-030	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	N/A	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Emil Jones [D]	Cosponsor	N/A	217-782-9573	SD-014	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Laura Murphy [D]	Cosponsor	N/A	217-782-3875	SD-028	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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