California Business and Professions Code

§ 2859

BPC § 2859 Effective Jan 1, 2023Div. 2 · Ch. 6.5 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The practice of vocational nursing within the meaning of this chapter is the performance of services requiring those technical, manual skills acquired by means of a course in an approved school of vocational nursing, or its equivalent, practiced under the direction of a licensed physician and surgeon or registered nurse, as defined in Section 2725, or naturopathic doctor, as defined in Section 2859.1, and in accordance with this section and Section 2859.1.

(b)A vocational nurse, within the meaning of this chapter, is a person who has met all the legal requirements for a license as a vocational nurse in this state and who for compensation or personal profit engages in vocational nursing, as defined under subdivision (a).

(c)The changes made to this section by the act adding this subdivision do not authorize a licensed vocational nurse acting under the direction of a naturopathic doctor to perform any function outside the existing scope of practice of a licensed vocational nurse.

…

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 713, Sec. 1. (SB 994) Effective January 1, 2023.