In addition to the exemptions from licensure in Section 58-1-307, the following persons may engage in acts included within the definition of the practice of nursing, subject to the stated circumstances and limitations, without being licensed under this chapter:
Terms Used In Utah Code 58-31b-308
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
promoting and supporting human functions and responses;
(c)
establishing an environment conducive to well-being;
(d)
providing health counseling and teaching;
(e)
collaborating with health care professionals on aspects of the health care regimen;
(f)
performing delegated procedures only within the education, knowledge, judgment, and skill of the licensee;
(g)
delegating nursing tasks that may be performed by others, including an unlicensed assistive personnel; and
(h)
supervising an individual to whom a task is delegated under Subsection (12)(g) as the individual performs the task. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
(a)
friends, family members, foster parents, or legal guardians of a patient performing gratuitous nursing care for the patient;
(b)
persons providing care in a medical emergency;
(c)
persons engaged in the practice of religious tenets of a church or religious denomination; and
(d)
after July 1, 2000, a person licensed to practice nursing by a jurisdiction that has joined the Nurse Licensure Compact – Revised to the extent permitted by Section 58-31e-102.
(2)
Notwithstanding Subsection (1)(d), the division may, in accordance with Section 58-31e-102, limit or revoke practice privileges in this state of a person licensed to practice nursing by a jurisdiction that has joined the Nurse Licensing Compact.
