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		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Flora</ns0:AuthorText>
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		<ns0:Title>An act to amend Section 2729 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts. </ns0:Title>
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			<ns0:Subject>Nursing: students in out-of-state nursing programs.</ns0:Subject>
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			<html:p>Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing to license and regulate the practice of nursing. The act prohibits a person from engaging in the practice of nursing without an active license but authorizes a student to render nursing services incidental to the student’s course of study, as specified.</html:p>
			<html:p>This bill would additionally authorize a student to render nursing services if the student is a resident of the state and enrolled in a prelicensure distance education nursing program based at an out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution, as defined, for the purpose of gaining clinical experience in a clinical setting that meets certain criteria, including that the program is accredited by a programmatic accreditation entity recognized by the United States Department of Education and that the
		program maintains minimum faculty to student ratios required of board-approved programs for inperson clinical experiences. The bill would require the student to be supervised in person by a registered nurse licensed by the board while rendering nursing services. The bill would prohibit a clinical agency or facility from offering clinical experience placements to an out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution if the placements are needed to fulfill the clinical experience requirements of in-state students enrolled in a board-approved nursing program.</html:p>
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		<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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				Section 2729 of the 
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				 is amended to read:
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							<html:p>A student may render nursing services if those services are incidental to the course of study of one of the following:</html:p>
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								(a)
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								A student enrolled in a board-approved prelicensure program or school of nursing.
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								(b)
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								A nurse licensed in another state or country taking a board-approved continuing education course or a postlicensure course.
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								(c)
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								(1)
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								A student who is a resident of the state and enrolled in a prelicensure distance education nursing program based at an out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution for the
				  purpose of gaining clinical experience in a clinical setting that meets all of the following criteria:
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								(A)
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								The program is accredited by a programmatic accreditation entity recognized by the United States Department of Education.
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								(B)
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								The board does not otherwise approve the program.
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								(C)
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								The student placement does not impact any students already assigned to the agency or facility.
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								(D)
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								The program does not make payments to any clinical agency or facility in exchange for clinical experience placements for students enrolled in a nursing program offered by or affiliated with the institution or private postsecondary school of nursing.
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								(E)
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								The program qualifies graduates for licensure under this chapter.
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								(F)
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								The program maintains minimum faculty to student ratios required of board-approved programs for inperson clinical experiences.
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								The program pays a one-time fee of one hundred dollars ($100) to the board for each student under this subdivision who participates in clinical experience placements in the state.
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								A student described by this subdivision shall be supervised in person by a registered nurse licensed by the board pursuant to this chapter while rendering nursing services.
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								A clinical agency or facility shall not offer clinical experience placements to an out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution if the placements are needed to fulfill the clinical experience requirements of an in-state student enrolled in a board-approved nursing program.
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								For purposes of this subdivision, “out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution” has the same meaning as defined in Section 94850.5 of the Education Code.
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