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Committee approves bill letting nurses delegate nonclinical tasks to certified medical assistants
Summary
House Bill 327 would allow nurses licensed under the nursing chapter to delegate nonclinical tasks to certified medical assistants; the committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after testimony and clarification about scope and training requirements.
Representative Healy introduced House Bill 327 as a measure to clarify that advanced practice registered nurses and other nurses licensed under the nursing chapter may delegate nonclinical tasks to certified medical assistants. “This bill does simply put it into code that a nurse can oversee a medical assistant in this setting,” Representative Healy said, adding that medical assistants are distinct from CNAs, LPNs and RNs and historically were supervised within physician-led offices.
Healy told the committee that the change is intended to reflect modern clinic staffing, where advanced practice nurses often manage patient care and medical assistants perform routine tasks. “They can go…
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