NEWFOUNDLAND REGULATION 89/00

Nurse Practitioner Primary Health Care
Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Registered Nurses Act

(Filed December 13, 2000)

Under the authority of section 22.1 of the Registered Nurses Act, the council with the approval of the minister makes the following regulations.

Dated at St. John's, December 13, 2000.

Diane Calvert Simms, R.N.
President of the Council of
Registered Nurses of Newfoundland and Labrador

Roger Grimes
Minister of Health and Community Services

REGULATIONS

Analysis

        1.   S.1 R&S
Short title

        2.   S.2 Amdt.
Definitions

        3.   S.2.1 Added
Application of Parts

 

 

        4.   Part VI Added

                      PART VI
        NURSE
        PRACTITIONER -
        SPECIALIST

              20.   Practice protocol

NR 65/98

        1. Section 1 of the Nurse Practitioner Primary Health Care Regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

Short title

        1. These regulations may be cited as the Nurse Practitioner Regulations.

 

        2. (1) Section 2 of the regulations is amended by adding immediately after paragraph (e) the following:

          (e.1)  "nurse practitioner - primary health care" means a registered nurse who meets the requirements for licensure by the association for practice as a nurse practitioner in accordance with Parts I to V;

          (e.2)  "nurse practitioner - specialist" means a registered nurse who meets the requirements for licensure by the association for practice as a nurse practitioner - specialist;

             (2)  Section 2 of the regulations is amended by striking out the semi-colon and the word "and" at the end of paragraph (g) and substituting a period.

             (3)  Paragraph 2(h) of the regulations is repealed.

 

        3. The regulations are amended by adding immediately after section 2 the following:

Application of Parts

      2.1 (1) Parts I to V of these regulations apply only to a nurse practitioner - primary health care.

             (2)  Part VI of these regulations apply only to a nurse practitioner - specialist.

 

        4. The regulations are amended by adding immediately after section 19 the following:

PART VI
NURSE PRACTITIONER - SPECIALIST

Practice protocol

      20. (1) A person licensed as a nurse practitioner - specialist by the council shall practice only as provided for in a practice protocol issued to him or her.

             (2)  A practice protocol referred to in subsection (1) is not transferrable.

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