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Senate committee approves bill allowing certified dialysis techs to give heparin and creating nursing registry
Summary
The Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee approved House Bill 11-83 to permit certified patient care technicians in dialysis centers to administer heparin under RN direction and to create a registry at the Arkansas Board of Nursing.
Representative Bentley, appearing before the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee, introduced House Bill 11-83, saying the bill would permit certified patient care technicians (PCTs) in dialysis clinics to administer heparin and would create a registry with the Board of Nursing.
The bill’s sponsor, Representative Bentley, told the committee the measure “is a very simple bill to help our certified dialysis patients across the state.” She said it “allows our PCTs to give heparin to the patients there as they do in 38…
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