California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 2 - Scope of Regulation

• Section 2725.
  (a) In amending this section at the 1973–74 session, the Legislature recognizes that nursing is a dynamic field, the practice of which is continually evolving to...
• Section 2725.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered nurse may dispense drugs or devices upon an order by a licensed physician and surgeon or an...
• Section 2725.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered nurse may dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and may...
• Section 2725.3.
  (a) A health facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or (f), of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code shall not assign unlicensed personnel...
• Section 2725.4.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the following shall apply:(a) In order to perform an abortion by aspiration techniques pursuant to Section 2253, a person...
• Section 2725.5.
  “Advanced practice registered nurse” means those licensed registered nurses who have met the requirements of Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 2746), Article 7 (commencing with...
• Section 2726.
  Except as otherwise provided herein, this chapter confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery.(Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 355.)
• Section 2727.
  This chapter does not prohibit:(a) Gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family.(b) Incidental care of the sick by domestic servants or by...
• Section 2727.5.
  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 2728.
  If adequate medical and nursing supervision by a professional nurse or nurses is provided, nursing service may be given by attendants, psychiatric technicians, or psychiatric...
• Section 2728.5.
  Except for those provisions of law relating to directors of nursing services, nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall prevent the...
• Section 2729.
  Nursing services may be rendered by a student when these services are incidental to the course of study of one of the following:(a) A student enrolled...
• Section 2730.
  If he does not represent or hold himself out as a professional nurse licensed to practice in this State and if he has an engagement,...
• Section 2731.
  This chapter does not prohibit nursing or the care of the sick, with or without compensation or personal profit, when done by the adherents of...
• Section 2732.
  No person shall engage in the practice of nursing, as defined in Section 2725, without holding a license which is in an active status issued...
• Section 2732.05.
  (a) Every employer of a registered nurse, every employer of a registered nurse required to hold any board-issued certification, and every person acting as an agent...
• Section 2732.1.
  (a) An applicant for license by examination shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by the board.Upon approval of the application, the board may...
• Section 2733.
  (a) (1) (A) Upon approval of an application filed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 2732.1, and upon the payment of the fee prescribed by subdivision (k) of...
• Section 2734.
  Upon application in writing to the board and payment of the biennial renewal fee, a licensee may have his license placed in an inactive status...
• Section 2736.
  (a) An applicant for licensure as a registered nurse shall comply with each of the following:(1) Have completed such general preliminary education requirements as shall be determined...
• Section 2736.1.
  (a) The course of instruction for an applicant who matriculates on or after September 1, 1985, shall include training in the detection and treatment of alcohol...
• Section 2736.6.
  The board shall determine by regulation the additional preparation in nursing, in a school approved by the board, which is required for a vocational nurse,...
• Section 2737.
  An applicant for a license authorizing him to practice nursing in this State under this chapter, upon the filing of his application shall pay the...
• Section 2738.
  The board shall hold not less than two examinations each year at such times and places as the board may determine.(Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch.
• Section 2740.
  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 2741.
  An application for reexamination shall be accompanied by the fees prescribed by this chapter.(Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 621, Sec. 38. Effective January 1, 2006.)
• Section 2742.
  The board shall issue a license to each applicant who passes the examination and meets all other licensing requirements. The form of the license shall...

Last modified: October 22, 2018