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Jun 13, 2012 | print number 3289a |
Jun 13, 2012 | amend (t) and recommit to higher education |
Jan 04, 2012 | referred to higher education |
Feb 15, 2011 | referred to higher education |
senate Bill S3289A
Sponsored By
Catharine Young
(R, C, IP) 0 Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee
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- In Committee
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Co-Sponsors
Tony Avella
(D) 0 Senate District
Adriano Espaillat
(D, WF) 0 Senate District
Velmanette Montgomery
(D) 0 Senate District
Suzi Oppenheimer
(D, WF) 0 Senate District
S3289 - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A5308
- Current Committee:
- Senate Higher Education
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §6902, Ed L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010: A765
2013-2014: A4846
S3289 - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S3289 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to services performed by nurse practitioners PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To end the requirement of a collaboration agreement between a nurse practitioner and a physician as a condition for practice. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: The bill amends the nurse practice act in Education law to delete the requirements for collaboration agreements and practice protocols between nurse practitioners and physicians. JUSTIFICATION: Nurse Practitioners (NPs) practice in a variety of primary and specialty care settings including ambulatory, acute, long term care, and primary care. Nurse practitioners are licensed and certified by the State Education Department to diagnose illness and physical conditions and perform therapeutic and corrective measures, order tests, prescribe medications, medical devices and immunizing agents and, when appropriate, refer patients to other
S3289 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3289 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 15, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to services performed by nurse practitioners THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "nurse practitioners modernization act". S 2. Subdivision 3 of section 6902 of the education law, as added by chapter 257 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows: 3. (a) The practice of registered professional nursing by a nurse practitioner, certified under section six thousand nine hundred ten of this article, may include the diagnosis of illness and physical condi- tions and the performance of therapeutic and corrective measures within a specialty area of practice[, in collaboration with a licensed physi- cian qualified to collaborate in the specialty involved, provided such services are performed in accordance with a written practice agreement and written practice protocols. The written practice agreement shall include explicit provisions for the resolution of any disagreement between the collaborating physician and the nurse practitioner regarding a matter of diagnosis or treatment that is within the scope of practice of both. To the extent the practice agreement does not so provide, then the collaborating physician's diagnosis or treatment shall prevail]. (b) Prescriptions for drugs, devices and immunizing agents may be issued by a nurse practitioner, under this subdivision and section six thousand nine hundred ten of this article[, in accordance with the prac- tice agreement and practice protocols]. The nurse practitioner shall obtain a certificate from the department upon successfully completing a program including an appropriate pharmacology component, or its equiv- alent, as established by the commissioner's regulations, prior to prescribing under this subdivision. The certificate issued under section EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01405-02-1
Co-Sponsors
Tony Avella
(D) 0 Senate District
Adriano Espaillat
(D, WF) 0 Senate District
Velmanette Montgomery
(D) 0 Senate District
Suzi Oppenheimer
(D, WF) 0 Senate District
S3289A (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A5308
- Current Committee:
- Senate Higher Education
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §6902, Ed L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
-
2009-2010: A765
2013-2014: A4846
S3289A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S3289A TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the nurse practitioners modernization act; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To limit the requirement of a collaboration agreement between a nurse practitioner and a physician as a condition for practice. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: The bill amends the nurse practice act in Education law to limit the requirements for written collaboration agreements and practice protocols between nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians to NPs who are practicing for less than 36 months and 3,600 hours with exceptions for good cause approved by the Education Department. Under the exceptions allowed, a collaborating physician may be substituted by a collaborating NP who is past his or her written-collaboration term and is qualified to collaborate in the specialty involved. NPs who have passed the written-collaboration term successfully will
S3289A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3289--A 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 15, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, AVELLA, ESPAILLAT, MONTGOMERY, OPPENHEIMER, RITCHIE, ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the nurse practitioners modernization act; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "nurse practitioners modernization act". S 2. Subdivision 3 of section 6902 of the education law, as added by chapter 257 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows: 3. (a) (I) The practice of registered professional nursing by a nurse practitioner, certified under section six thousand nine hundred ten of this article AND PRACTICING FOR FEWER THAN THIRTY-SIX MONTHS AND THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED HOURS, may include the diagnosis of illness and physical conditions and the performance of therapeutic and corrective measures within a specialty area of practice, in collaboration with a licensed physician qualified to collaborate in the specialty involved, provided such services are performed in accordance with a written prac- tice agreement and written practice protocols. The written practice agreement shall include explicit provisions for the resolution of any disagreement between the collaborating physician and the nurse practi- tioner regarding a matter of diagnosis or treatment that is within the scope of practice of both. To the extent the practice agreement does not so provide, then the collaborating physician's diagnosis or treatment shall prevail. IN THE EVENT THAT (I) AN EXISTING WRITTEN PRACTICE AGREEMENT WITH A COLLABORATING PHYSICIAN TERMINATES AS A RESULT OF THE EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01405-04-2
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