NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 93

HOUSE BILL 169

AN ACT TO AMEND THE NURSE PRACTICE ACT TO ALLOW NURSES TO PERFORM CERTAIN MEDICAL ACTS, TO PROVIDE FOR EDUCATION CREDITS FOR CERTAIN LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 90-158(3)a. of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting between the word "permit" as it appears at the end of the ninth line and "medical" as it appears at the beginning of the tenth line the following: "except under supervision of a physician licensed to practice medicine in North Carolina".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 90-162 is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:

"The Board of Nursing shall appoint and maintain a subcommittee of the Board to work jointly with a subcommittee of the Board of Medical Examiners to develop rules and regulations to govern the performance of medical acts by registered nurses. Rules and regulations developed by this subcommittee from time to time shall govern the performance of medical acts by registered nurses and shall become effective when they have been adopted by both the Board of Nursing and the Board of Medical Examiners. The Board of Medical Examiners shall have responsibility for securing compliance with these regulations."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 90-167.1 is hereby amended by inserting between the comma following the word "state" and the word "the" in the third line thereof the following: "or upon application to a diploma school in this State by a graduate of a military school comparable to those accredited under this Article".

Sec. 4. G.S. 90-170(2)(c) is hereby amended by inserting between the comma following the word "article" and the word "or" as the same appear in the third line thereof the following: "or a comparable military school".

Sec. 5.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of March, 1973.