No. HB 375
Filed under Healthcare.
Autonomous Practice by a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist; Revises staff membership & clinical privileges for certain certified registered nurse anesthetists; authorizes certain certified registered nurse anesthetists to perform specified acts; revises practice requirements for autonomous advanced practice registered nurses; authorizes autonomous advanced practice registered nurses to perform certain acts.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDA certified registered nurse anesthetist registered for autonomous practice under section 464.0123 may determine anesthesia care, order preanesthetic medication, and perform anesthesia procedures without a medical-staff-approved protocol, but only acts authorized under Part I of chapter 464.
Hospitals will no longer have to require medical direction or an established protocol before granting staff membership or clinical privileges to an autonomously registered CRNA, though each facility may still choose to impose its own protocol requirement.
The law now names certified registered nurse anesthetists as a category eligible for autonomous practice, alongside certified nurse midwives and primary-care nurse practitioners already listed in the statute.
AIAmends s. 395.0191 so the requirement that facility staff privileges depend on physician-directed medical direction under an established protocol no longer applies to an advanced practice registered nurse registered as a certified registered nurse anesthetist under s. 464.0123, though the facility may still choose to require a protocol.
AIAmends s. 464.012(4)(b) so a certified registered nurse anesthetist registered and practicing autonomously under s. 464.0123 without an established protocol may determine anesthesia type, order preanesthetic medication, and perform anesthesia procedures without operating under a protocol approved by the facility's medical staff.
AIAmends s. 464.0123(3)(a) to add certified registered nurse anesthetists registered under this section as a practice-requirement category, granting them the acts listed in s. 464.012(4)(b) alongside the certified-nurse-midwife and primary-care categories already in the statute.
AIThe same amendment adds a limit: a certified registered nurse anesthetist practicing autonomously without an established protocol may only perform acts already authorized under Part I of chapter 464, the general nurse licensure law.