2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 28 - (2800 - 2823) HOSPITALS
2805-S - Circulating nurse required.


NY Pub Health L § 2805-S (2012) What's This?
 
    § 2805-s. Circulating nurse required. A registered nurse, qualified by
  training and experience in operating room nursing, shall be present as a
  circulating  nurse in any and each separate operating room where surgery
  is being performed for the duration of the operative procedure.  Nothing
  in this section precludes a circulating nurse from leaving the operating
  room  as part of the operative procedure, leaving the operating room for
  short periods; or, in accordance with  employee  rules  or  regulations,
  being  relieved  during  an  operative  procedure by another circulating
  nurse assigned to continue the operative procedure.

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