California Code of Regulations
Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations
Division 14 - Board of Registered Nursing
Article 6 - Nurse-Midwives
Section 1463 - Scope of Practice
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
The scope of nurse-midwifery practice includes:
(a) Providing necessary supervision, care and advice in a variety of settings to women during the antepartal, intrapartal, postpartal, interconceptional periods, and family planning needs.
(b) Conducting deliveries on his or her own responsibility and caring for the newborn and the infant. This care includes preventive measures and the detection of abnormal conditions in mother and child.
(c) Obtaining physician assistance and consultation when indicated.
(d) Providing emergency care until physician assistance can be obtained.
(e) Other practices and procedures may be included when the nurse-midwife and the supervising physician deem appropriate by using the standardized procedures as specified in Section 2725 of the Code.
1. New section
filed 4-6-79; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 79, No.
14).
2. Editorial correction to subsection designations (Register
79, No. 14).
3. Amendment of subsection (e) and repealer of
subsection (f) filed 12-4-85; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 85,
No. 49).
Note: Authority cited: Section 2715, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 2746, 2746.2 and 2746.5, Business and Professions Code.
