RCW 18.79.010
Purpose.
It is the purpose of the nursing care quality assurance commission to regulate the competency and quality of professional health care providers under its jurisdiction by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing qualifications for licensing, consistent standards of practice, continuing competency mechanisms, and discipline. Rules, policies, and procedures developed by the commission must promote the delivery of quality health care to the residents of the state of Washington.
[ 1994 sp.s. c 9 § 401.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 18 - Businesses and Professions
18.79.010 - Purpose.
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.
18.79.210 - License renewal—Procedures, requirements, fees.
18.79.230 - Temporary retirement—Renewal—Fee—Qualification.
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.
18.79.340 - 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.
18.79.800 - Opioid drug prescribing rules—Adoption.
18.79.810 - Opioid drugs—Right to refuse.
18.79.900 - Severability—1994 sp.s. c 9.