Nevada laws affecting APRNs

Dear APRN Colleagues:

Please see the below summary from NAPNA Immediate Past President Jeanine Packham. She is a committee member of the NSBN APRN Advisory Committee and also works tirelessly as my partner representing NAPNA's members in various venues. It is the Board's pleasure to represent our members, and if you are not a member or have lapsed, please renew so we may continue or greatest work. It will be a productive and busy upcoming session which we are already laying the groundwork. As always, if you have specific scope of practice questions, please direct them to the Nevada State Board of Nursing, your regulatory board.

As  a committee member of the NSBN APRN Advisory Committee, we were updated by the board’s attorney regarding the following new laws (other than the ones I was updating everyone on during the session) impacting APRNs.  This is for informational purposes only if you have a Nevada nursing license.

 SB 66

Healthcare providers are required to report persons who come or are brought for treatment of burns and injuries from a knife or firearms.  This bill adds a requirement to report treatment of any person who comes or is brought in for treatment of an injury which the provider concludes was a result of a declared emergency or disaster or illness which the provider concludes was contracted during a public health emergency to the State Disaster Identification Coordination Committee.

 

SB 315

The NSBN is required to annually disseminate information regarding signs of pediatric cancer.

 

AB147

APRNs can order home health.

 

AB275

Nurses can get licenses with tax ID if they do not have a social security number.

 

AB319

NSBN can be petitioned for a determination of whether the person’s criminal history will disqualify the person from obtaining a license from the regulatory body.

 

AB 534

License renewal applications will include a question regarding whether he or she has received training in the treatment of mental or emotional trauma.  If the applicant has received training to provide such treatment immediately following an emergency or disaster, the applicant is required to describe the training and indicate if he or she is willing to respond immediately should an emergency or disaster arise at any location in this state.  The NSBN is required to maintain and provide to a governmental entity responding to an emergency or disaster (1) a list of all licensees and the types of training that the licensee reports having received; and (2) the names and contact information for licensees who have training in the treatment of mental and emotional trauma immediately following an emergency or disaster and are willing to respond immediately to an emergency or disaster at any location in this State.  Such information is otherwise confidential.  License renewal will not be denies solely because the applicant has failed to comply with this requirement.

 

Dr. Jeanine N. Packham DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, CCRN-CMC, PHN