12881714, 59A-18.002 - Florida Administrative Rules, Law, Code, Register

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Notice: 12881714

Notice of Development of Rulemaking

Department:

AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION

Division:

Health Facility and Agency Licensing

Chapter:

NURSE REGISTRIES STANDARDS AND LICENSING

Overview

RULE:

59A-18.002	Definitions
59A-18.004	Licensure Requirements, Procedures, and Fees
59A-18.005	Registration Policies
59A-18.006	Administrator
59A-18.007	Registered Nurse and Licensed Practical Nurse
59A-18.0081	Certified Nursing Assistant and Home Health Aide
59A-18.009	Homemakers or Companions
59A-18.010	Acceptance of Patients or Clients
59A-18.011	Medical Plan of Treatment
59A-18.012	Clinical Records
59A-18.013	Administration of Drugs and Biologicals
59A-18.017	Supplemental Staffing for Health Care Facilities
59A-18.018	Emergency Management Plans

PURPOSE:

The purpose is to revise the rules in Chapter 59A-18 to reduce the regulatory burden for nurse registries and to update the rules to conform to law changes.  The revisions remove the requirements for a full time administrator and for evidence of training for homemakers and companions, and remove the rules that are now in state laws and in the 59A-35 pertaining to licensing procedures and background screening.  The revisions also add advanced registered nurse practitioners and physician assistants since they are permitted in 400.506(13)(a), F.S. to write orders and sign plans of treatment in addition to physicians;  remove the rule on nursing records of assessments of clients served by home health aides and nursing assistants since the requirement for such assessments is no longer in law; replace screen prints from the Department of Health web site for written verification of licensing of independent contractors; and remove the reference to 400.509 for homemakers and companions in the definition of “nurse registry services” since the requirement for nurse registries to also register as homemaker companion services organizations was removed from the law.  The rule on health statements is updated to state that the person is free from communicable disease that could be casually transmitted, as recommended by the Department of Health. A definition is added for satellite offices, additional offices in the same county as the main office of the nurse registry under the same license per 400.506(1), F.S.  The updates correct the numbering of paragraphs of laws to conform to statutory numbering changes and web site addresses.

SUBJECT:

Nurse Registry Licensing and Standards

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

400.506, 400.497, Florida Statutes

LAW:

400.506, 408.810, 400.488, Florida Statutes

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

4/17/2013 Vol. 39/75

RELATED STATUTES
AND LAWS:

400.506, 400.497, Florida Statutes, 400.506, 408.810, 400.488, Florida Statutes

OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE:

Joint Administrative Procedures Committee
Florida Administrative Law Central Online Network (F.A.L.C.O.N.)

RELATED COURT CASES:

Division of Administrative Hearings

FEDERAL eRULEMAKING
WEB PORTAL:

Regulations.gov

HOW TO LINK TO
THIS NOTICE:

http://flrules.org/gateway/ruleno.asp?id=59A-18.002&PDate=4/17/2013&Section=1

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