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Senate committee advances bill clarifying nurses' delegated assessments
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 89 to the floor. The bill replaces vague language about LPNs "contributing" to assessments with clearer language allowing registered nurses to delegate specific, focused assessments to licensed practical nurses when appropriate and within scope.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 89 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after the bill's sponsor described it as a technical cleanup to clarify scope of practice for nursing teams.
Representative Healy, who introduced the bill, told the committee that current statutory language referring to an LPN "contributing to" an assessment is ambiguous and inconsistent with administrative rules. "Contributing really isn't, they can't ask them to contribute. It's very arbitrary," Representative Healy…
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