2014 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 8 - THE PROFESSIONS
Article 139 - (6900 - 6911) NURSING
6909 - Special provision.

 6909. Special   provision.   1.   Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent
  provision of any general, special, or local law, any licensed registered
  professional nurse or  licensed  practical  nurse  who  voluntarily  and
  without  the  expectation  of monetary compensation renders first aid or
  emergency treatment at the scene of  an  accident  or  other  emergency,
  outside a hospital, doctor's office or any other place having proper and
  necessary  medical  equipment,  to  a  person who is unconscious, ill or
  injured shall not be liable for damages for  injuries  alleged  to  have
  been  sustained  by  such  person  or  for damages for the death of such
  person alleged to have occurred by reason of an act or omission  in  the
  rendering  of  such  first  aid  or  emergency  treatment  unless  it is
  established that such injuries were or such death was  caused  by  gross
  negligence on the part of such registered professional nurse or licensed
  practical  nurse.  Nothing  in  this  subdivision  shall  be  deemed  or
  construed  to  relieve  a  licensed  registered  professional  nurse  or
  licensed  practical  nurse  from  liability  for damages for injuries or
  death caused by an act or omission on  the  part  of  such  nurse  while
  rendering professional services in the normal and ordinary course of her
  practice.
2.  Nothing in this article shall be construed to confer the authority
  to practice medicine or dentistry.
3. An applicant for a license as a registered  professional  nurse  or
  licensed  practical  nurse by endorsement of a license of another state,
  province or country whose application  was  filed  with  the  department
  under  the laws in effect prior to August thirty-first, nineteen hundred
  seventy-one shall be licensed only upon  successful  completion  of  the
  appropriate  licensing  examination  unless satisfactory evidence of the
  completion  of  all  educational  requirements  is  submitted   to   the
  department prior to September one, nineteen hundred seventy-seven.
4.   A   certified  nurse  practitioner  may  prescribe  and  order  a
  non-patient  specific  regimen  to  a  registered  professional   nurse,
  pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner, consistent with
  subdivision  three  of  section  six  thousand  nine hundred two of this
  article, and consistent with the public health law, for:
(a) administering immunizations.
(b) the emergency treatment of anaphylaxis.
(c) administering purified protein derivative (PPD) tests.
(d) administering  tests  to  determine  the  presence  of  the  human
  immunodeficiency virus.
(e)  administering  tests to determine the presence of the hepatitis C
  virus.
5. A registered professional nurse may execute a non-patient  specific
  regimen prescribed or ordered by a licensed physician or certified nurse
  practitioner, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner.
6.  A  registered  professional nurse defined under subdivision one of
  section  sixty-nine  hundred  two  of  this  article  may  use  accepted
  classifications   of   signs,   symptoms,  dysfunctions  and  disorders,
  including, but not limited to,  classifications  used  in  the  practice
  setting for the purpose of providing mental health services.
* 7.  (a)  A  certified  nurse  practitioner may prescribe and order a
  non-patient specific regimen  to  a  licensed  pharmacist,  pursuant  to
  regulations  promulgated  by  the  commissioner, and consistent with the
  public health law, for administering immunizations to prevent  influenza
  or pneumococcal disease and medications required for emergency treatment
  of  anaphylaxis.  Nothing in this subdivision shall authorize unlicensed
  persons to administer immunizations, vaccines or other drugs.
(b) A certified nurse practitioner may prescribe and order  a  patient
  specific  regimen  to  a  licensed  pharmacist,  pursuant to regulations

  promulgated by the commissioner, and consistent with the  public  health
  law, for administering immunizations to prevent acute herpes zoster.
(c)   A  certified  nurse  practitioner  may  prescribe  and  order  a
  non-patient specific regimen  to  a  licensed  pharmacist,  pursuant  to
  regulations  promulgated  by  the  commissioner, and consistent with the
  public  health  law,  for   administering   immunizations   to   prevent
  meningococcal disease.
* NB Effective until July 1, 2015
* 7.  A  certified  nurse  practitioner  may  prescribe  and  order  a
  non-patient specific regimen  to  a  licensed  pharmacist,  pursuant  to
  regulations  promulgated  by  the  commissioner, and consistent with the
  public health law, for  administering  immunizations.  Nothing  in  this
  subdivision   shall   authorize   unlicensed   persons   to   administer
  immunizations, vaccines or other drugs.
* NB Effective July 1, 2015 until March 31, 2016