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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 314 REGISTERED NURSES -- PRACTICAL NURSES
314.046 Registered nurse may sign the provisional report of death, when.
Download pdfreceiving the services of a hospice program licensed by the State of Kentucky under KRS
Chapter 216B, dies at home or in a hospice inpatient program or unit, a registered nurse,
licensed or privileged by the Kentucky Board of Nursing and employed by the attending
hospice, and who treated the patient, may make the actual determination and
pronouncement of death. The nurse shall release the body to the funeral director after
having signed on the designated line the provisional report of death as furnished by the
state registrar of vital statistics. Effective: June 1, 2007
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 86, sec. 6, effective June 1, 2007. -- Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 436, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990.
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