2021 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 6.5 - Vocational Nursing
ARTICLE 2 - Scope of Regulation
Section 2860.7.

(a) A licensed vocational nurse, acting under the direction of a licensed physician and surgeon may perform: (1) tuberculin skin tests, coccidioidin skin tests, and histoplasmin skin tests, providing such administration is within the course of a tuberculosis control program, and (2) immunization techniques, providing such administration is upon standing orders of a supervising licensed physician and surgeon, or pursuant to written guidelines adopted by a hospital or medical group with whom the supervising licensed physician and surgeon is associated.

(b) The supervising licensed physician and surgeon under whose direction the licensed vocational nurse is acting pursuant to subdivision (a) shall require the licensed vocational nurse to do all of the following:

(1) Satisfactorily demonstrate competence in the administration of immunizing agents, including knowledge of all indications and contraindications for the administration of such agents, and in the recognition and treatment of any emergency reactions to such agents which constitute a danger to the health or life of the person receiving the immunizations.

(2) Possess such medications and equipment as required, in the medical judgment of the supervising licensed physician and surgeon, to treat any emergency conditions and reactions caused by the immunizing agents and which constitute a danger to the health or life of the person receiving the immunization, and to demonstrate the ability to administer such medications and to utilize such equipment as necessary.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require physical presence of a directing or supervising licensed physician and surgeon, or the examination by a licensed physician and surgeon of persons to be tested or immunized.

(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 632, Sec. 8. (AB 1536) Effective January 1, 2022.)