§ 18.79.010 Purpose
§ 18.79.020 Definitions
§ 18.79.030 Licenses required — Titles
§ 18.79.040 “Registered nursing practice” defined — Exceptions
§ 18.79.050 “Advanced registered nursing practice” defined — Exceptions
§ 18.79.060 “Licensed practical nursing practice” defined — Exceptions
§ 18.79.070 Commission established — Membership — Qualifications
§ 18.79.080 Commission — Order of removal — Vacancy
§ 18.79.090 Commission — Compensation
§ 18.79.100 Commission — Officers — Meetings
§ 18.79.110 Commission — Duties and powers — Rules — Successor to boards
§ 18.79.120 Application of Uniform Disciplinary Act
§ 18.79.140 Executive director — Qualifications
§ 18.79.150 Schools and programs — Requirements — Approval
§ 18.79.160 Applicants — Required documentation — Criteria — Rules
§ 18.79.170 Examination — Rules
§ 18.79.180 Interim permits — License — Expiration upon failure
§ 18.79.190 Reciprocity — Foreign programs — Examination
§ 18.79.200 License procedures, requirements, fees
§ 18.79.202 License fee surcharge — Use of proceeds — Nursing resource center account — Report to the legislature — Review — Rules
§ 18.79.210 License renewal — Procedures, requirements, fees
§ 18.79.230 Temporary retirement — Renewal — Fee — Qualification
§ 18.79.240 Construction
§ 18.79.250 Advanced registered nurse practitioner — Activities allowed
§ 18.79.256 Advanced registered nurse practitioner — Scope of practice — Document attestation
§ 18.79.260 Registered nurse — Activities allowed — Delegation of tasks
§ 18.79.270 Licensed practical nurse — Activities allowed
§ 18.79.280 Medication, tests, treatments allowed
§ 18.79.290 Catheterization of students — Rules
§ 18.79.300 Department — Rules for administration
§ 18.79.310 Rules, regulations, decisions of previous boards — Effect
§ 18.79.330 Finding
§ 18.79.340 Nursing technicians
§ 18.79.350 Nursing technicians — Nursing functions
§ 18.79.360 Applications for registration as a nursing technician — Fee
§ 18.79.370 Nursing technicians — Registration renewal
§ 18.79.390 Secretary and commission relationship
§ 18.79.400 Pain management rules — Criteria for new rules
§ 18.79.410 Commission — Information to legislature
§ 18.79.420 Down syndrome — Parent information
§ 18.79.430 Student nurse preceptor grant program — Report
§ 18.79.435 Rural workforce pilot projects
§ 18.79.440 Public posting of enforcement actions restricted — Substance use disorder monitoring stipend program
§ 18.79.450 Multistate license
§ 18.79.460 Multistate license — Background checks
§ 18.79.470 Multistate license — Publication on website
§ 18.79.480 Multistate license — Rule making
§ 18.79.800 Opioid drug prescribing rules — Adoption
§ 18.79.810 Opioid drugs — Right to refuse
§ 18.79.900 Severability — 1994 sp.s. c 9
§ 18.79.901 Headings and captions not law — 1994 sp.s. c 9
§ 18.79.902 Effective date — 1994 sp.s. c 9

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