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PBH - Public Health
Article 28 - Hospitals
2805-S - Circulating Nurse Required.
Universal Citation: NY Pub Health L § 2805-S (2018)
§ 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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