RCW 18.79.060
"Licensed practical nursing practice" defined—Exceptions.
"Licensed practical nursing practice" means the performance of services requiring the knowledge, skill, and judgment necessary for carrying out selected aspects of the designated nursing regimen under the direction and supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon, dentist, osteopathic physician and surgeon, physician assistant, podiatric physician and surgeon, advanced registered nurse practitioner, registered nurse, or midwife.
Nothing in this section prohibits a person from practicing a profession for which a license has been issued under the laws of this state or specifically authorized by any other law of the state of Washington.
This section does not prohibit the nursing care of the sick, without compensation, by an unlicensed person who does not hold himself or herself out to be a licensed practical nurse.
[ 2020 c 80 § 16; 2012 c 13 § 2; 1994 sp.s. c 9 § 406.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2020 c 80 §§ 12-59: See note following RCW 7.68.030.
Intent—2020 c 80: See note following RCW 18.71A.010.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 18 - Businesses and Professions
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.