California Code of Regulations
Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations
Division 25 - Board of Vocational Nurse and Psychiatric Technician Examiners of the State of California
Chapter 1 - Vocational Nurses
Article 8 - Intravenous Therapy
Section 2542.1 - Intravenous Therapy
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
The Board will consider a licensed vocational nurse as competent to start and superimpose intravenous fluids via primary or secondary infusion lines who has completed one of the following:
(a) A course in intravenous therapy approved by the Board, as defined in Section 2542.3.
(b) Submitted certification, satisfactory to the Board, by one of the persons specified in Section 2542.4, that the licensee has been instructed in the subject areas specified in Section 2542.3 and that the licensee has the knowledge, skills and abilities to safely practice venipuncture. For further limitations, see Business and Professions Code section 2860.5.
1. Amendment
of subsection (b)(3) filed 10-7-77; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 77, No. 41).
2. Amendment of subsection (b)(3) filed
1-11-79; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 79, No. 2).
3.
Amendment of subsection (b) filed 4-22-81; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 81, No. 17).
4. Amendment filed 11-16-83; effective upon
filing pursuant to Government Code section
11346.2
(d) (Register 83, No. 47)
5.
Amendment of first paragraph and subsection (b) filed 3-24-92; operative
4-23-92 (Register 92, No. 13).
6. Repealer and new section filed
1-29-2003; operative 2-28-2003 (Register 2003, No. 5).
7. Change
without regulatory effect repealing 1-29-2003 amendments filed 11-30-2005
pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2005, No. 48).
Note: Authority cited: Section 2854, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Section 2860.5, Business and Professions Code.
