Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language
Laws of Minnesota 1988 CHAPTER 440-H.F.No. 1784 An act relating to nurse-midwives; allowing a certified nurse-midwife to prescribe and administer drugs and therapeutic devices; allowing an appropriately certified and licensed health care professional to prescribe legend drugs and controlled substances; amending Minnesota Statutes 1986, sections 148.171; 151.37, subdivision 2; and 152.12, subdivision 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 148.171, is amended to read: 148.171 [DEFINITIONS.] As used in sections 148.171 to 148.285: (1) The term "Board" shall mean Minnesota board of nursing. (2) The term "Registered Nurse" abbreviated R.N., shall mean a natural person licensed by the Minnesota board of nursing to practice professional nursing. (3) The practice of professional nursing means the performance for compensation or personal profit of the professional interpersonal service of: (a) providing a nursing assessment of the actual or potential health needs of individuals, families, or communities; (b) providing nursing care supportive to or restorative of life by functions such as skilled ministration of nursing care, supervising and teaching nursing personnel, health teaching and counseling, case finding and referral to other health resources; and (c) evaluating these actions. The practice of professional nursing includes both independent nursing functions and delegated medical functions which may be performed in collaboration with other health team members, or may be delegated by the professional nurse to other nursing personnel. Independent nursing function may also be performed autonomously. The practice of professional nursing requires that level of special education, knowledge, and skill ordinarily expected of an individual who has completed an approved professional nursing education program as described in section 148.211, subdivision 1. A registered nurse who has graduated from a program of study designed to prepare registered nurses for advanced practice as nurse-midwives and who is certified through the national professional nursing organization for nurse-midwives may prescribe and administer drugs and therapeutic devices within practice as a nurse-midwife. Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 151.37, subdivision 2, is amended to read: Subd. 2. A licensed practitioner in the course of professional practice only, may prescribe, administer, and dispense a legend drug,ormay cause the same to be administered by a nurse or intern under the practitioner's direction and supervision, and may cause a person who is an appropriately certified and licensed health care professional to prescribe and administer the same within the expressed legal scope of the person's practice as defined in Minnesota Statutes. Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 152.12, subdivision 1, is amended to read: Subdivision 1. A licensed doctor of medicine, a doctor of osteopathy, duly licensed to practice medicine, a doctor of dental surgery, or a doctor of dental medicine, or a licensed doctor of podiatry, and in the course of professional practice only, may prescribe, administer, and dispense a controlled substance included in Schedules II through V of section 152.02,ormay cause the same to be administered by a nurse, an intern or an assistant under the direction and supervision of the doctor, and may cause a person who is an appropriately certified and licensed health care professional to prescribe and administer the same within the expressed legal scope of the person's practice as defined in Minnesota Statutes. Sec. 4. [EFFECTIVE DATE.] Sections 1 to 3 are effective the day following final enactment. Approved April 4, 1988
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