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DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 6.5 - Vocational Nursing
ARTICLE 2 - Scope of Regulation
Section 2859.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 2859 (2021)
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(a) The practice of vocational nursing within the meaning of this chapter is the performance of services requiring those technical, manual skills acquired by means of a course in an approved school of vocational nursing, or its equivalent, practiced under the direction of a licensed physician and surgeon, or registered nurse, as defined in Section 2725.
(b) A vocational nurse, within the meaning of this chapter, is a person who has met all the legal requirements for a license as a vocational nurse in this state and who for compensation or personal profit engages in vocational nursing, as defined under subdivision (a).
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 632, Sec. 6. (AB 1536) Effective January 1, 2022.)
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