California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 2 - Scope of Regulation

  • Section 2859.
    The practice of vocational nursing within the meaning of this chapter is the performance of services requiring those technical, manual skills acquired by means of...
  • Section 2860.
    This chapter confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery or to undertake the prevention, treatment or cure of disease, pain, injury, deformity, or mental...
  • Section 2860.5.
    A licensed vocational nurse when directed by a physician and surgeon may do all of the following:(a) Administer medications by hypodermic injection.(b) Withdraw blood from a patient,...
  • Section 2860.7.
    (a) A licensed vocational nurse, acting under the direction of a physician may perform: (1) tuberculin skin tests, coccidioidin skin tests, and histoplasmin skin tests, providing such...
  • Section 2861.
    This chapter does not prohibit the performance of nursing services by any person not licensed under this chapter; provided, that such person shall not in...
  • Section 2861.5.
    A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency which occurs outside both the place...
  • Section 2862.
    Vocational nursing services may be rendered by a student enrolled in an approved school of vocational nursing when these services are incidental to his or...
  • Section 2863.
    This chapter does not prohibit vocational nursing or the care of the sick, with or without compensation or personal profit, when done by the adherents...
  • Section 2864.
    Every licensee under this chapter may be known as a licensed vocational nurse and may place the letters “L.V.N.” after his name.(Added by Stats. 1951,...
  • Section 2866.
    An applicant for a licensed vocational nurse license shall comply with each of the following:(a) Be at least 17 years of age.(b) Have successfully completed at least...
  • Section 2867.
    An applicant for a license authorizing him to practice vocational nursing in this State under this chapter, upon the filing of his application shall pay...
  • Section 2867.5.
    Every person to whom a license is issued shall, as a condition precedent to its issuance and in addition to any other fee that may...
  • Section 2867.6.
    After receiving the results of having passed the examination and upon receipt of the initial license fee required by subdivision (e) of Section 2895, the...
  • Section 2868.
    The board shall hold not less than two examinations each year for applicants desirous of practicing vocational nursing in this State, at such times and...
  • Section 2870.
    Examinations shall be written, but in the discretion of the board may be supplemented by an oral or practical examination in such subjects as the...
  • Section 2871.
    Any applicant who fails to pass his first examination may take a second examination upon payment of the fee required by this chapter.(Amended by Stats....
  • Section 2872.
    The board shall issue a license to each applicant who passes the examination. The form of the license shall be determined in accordance with Section...
  • Section 2872.1.
    The board upon written application and receipt of the required application fee may issue a license without examination to any applicant who possesses a valid,...
  • Section 2872.2.
    (a) An applicant for license by examination shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by the board.(b) If the application for licensure by examination is...
  • Section 2873.
    Any person possessing either the education or the experience, or any combination of both the education and the experience, equivalent to that acquired in an...
  • Section 2873.5.
    Any person who has served on active duty in the medical corps of any of the armed forces, in which no less than an aggregate...
  • Section 2873.6.
    (a) Any person who on the effective date of this section is employed as a medical technical assistant or as a senior medical technical assistant by...

Last modified: October 22, 2018