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Committee approves measure letting advanced practice registered nurses pronounce deaths and sign certificates with hospital permission
Summary
House Bill 17-34 was amended to permit advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to pronounce death and sign death certificates in hospital settings when the facility medical director authorizes it and no other physician (other than an emergency physician) is immediately available.
The Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee recommended House Bill 17‑34 for passage after the sponsor and coroner association representatives explained the operational need in hospitals where emergency physicians are unable to leave the emergency department to go to an inpatient floor for a pronouncement.
Representative Paul Childress introduced the bill and deferred to Kevin Cleghorn,…
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