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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESFifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session |
House: ED DPA 6-4-0-0 | 3rd Read 31-28-0-0-1Senate: ED DPA 7-0-0-0 | 3rd Read 18-9-3-0 |
HB 2484: schools; health care services; posting
Sponsor: Representative Parker B, LD 10
Senate Engrossed
Overview
Details posting requirements for a school, school district or charter school that employs a registered nurse (RN) or provides routine student health care services in a school health office.
History
The Arizona State Board of Nursing (AZBN) is tasked with licensing qualified RN and practical nurse applicants (A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter 15). AZBN rules detail requirements an applicant must meet to be licensed as an RN either through licensure by examination or licensure by endorsement (A.A.C. R14-19-301). AZBN does not require a school nurse to hold a school nurse certification, though eligible individuals may apply for optional school nurse certification. To receive a school nurse certification from AZBN, an applicant must hold a current RN license in good standing or multistate privilege to practice as an RN in Arizona. AZBN must grant a school nurse certificate to any applicant who meets these criteria. A school nurse certificate expires every six years (A.A.C. R4-19-309).
Provisions
1. Requires, if an RN is employed by a school, school district or charter school to provide routine student health care services in a school health office, each school where the RN provides services to prominently post on its website homepage a hyperlink to a webpage that contains a statement that an RN is assigned to the school.
2. Stipulates a school that does not employ an RN but provides routine student health care services in the school's health office must prominently post on its website homepage a hyperlink to a website that contains:
a) any health care credentials of each individual who provides routine student health care services in the school's health office; or
b) a statement that individuals who do not have health care credentials provide routine student health care services in the school's health office.
3. Allows the website posting requirements to be satisfied by the school district or charter school that operates the school if the school does not maintain its own website.
4. Instructs each school that provides routine student health care services to prominently post in its health office and, if applicable, its parent handbook:
a)
any health care credentials of
each individual who provides routine student health care services in the
school's health office; or
b) a statement that individuals who do not have health care credentials provide routine student health care services in the school's health office.
5. Defines health care credentials and RN.
Senate Amendments
1. Removes the prescribed posting requirements and instead requires each school district or charter school that provides routine student health care services in the school's health office to provide, upon request, a parent or guardian any health care credentials of each individual who provides routine student health care services in the school's health office.
2. States a school district or charter school is not required to release the personally identifiable information of an individual who provides routine student health care services.
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