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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="8-205" title_number="8" title_name="Nurses" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="State Board of Nursing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In addition to the powers and duties set forth elsewhere in this title, the Board has the following powers and duties:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To adopt rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To set standards for the practice of registered nursing, advanced practice registered nursing, licensed practical nursing, certified nursing assistants, certified dialysis technicians, certified medication technicians, electrology, direct–entry midwifery, and certified midwifery;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>To adopt rules and regulations for the performance of delegated medical functions that are recognized jointly by the State Board of Physicians and the State Board of Nursing, under § 14–306(d) of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>To adopt rules and regulations for the performance of additional nursing acts that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>May be performed under any condition authorized by the Board, including emergencies; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Require education and clinical experience;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>To adopt rules and regulations for registered nurses to perform independent nursing functions that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Require formal education and clinical experience; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>May be performed under any condition authorized by the Board, including emergencies;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>To adopt rules and regulations for licensed practical nurses to perform additional acts in the practice of registered nursing that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Require formal education and clinical experience;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>May be performed under any condition authorized by the Board, including emergencies; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Are recognized by the Nursing Board as proper for licensed practical nurses to perform;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>To keep a record of its proceedings;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>To submit to the Governor, the Secretary, and, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the General Assembly, an annual report that includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The following data calculated on a fiscal year basis:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The number of initial and renewal licenses and certificates issued;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The number of positive and negative criminal history records checks results received;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>The number of individuals denied initial or renewal licensure or certification due to positive criminal history records checks results;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>The number of individuals denied licensure or certification due to reasons other than a positive criminal history records check;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>The number of new complaints received;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>The number of complaints carried over from year to year;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="7">
          <text>The most common grounds for complaints;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="8">
          <text>The number and types of disciplinary actions taken by the Board; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="9">
          <text>Any additional aggregate data, identified by the Board in consultation with stakeholders, determined to be necessary to facilitate workforce and health planning purposes that does not reference any individual’s name or other personal identifier; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>By analyzing information gathered from renewal applications submitted under § 8–312 of this title, an evaluation of the State’s nursing workforce by certification level, region, and type of workplace, including hospitals and home health workers;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>To enforce the employment record requirements of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>To keep separate lists, which lists are open to reasonable public inspection, of all:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Registered nurses licensed under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Licensed practical nurses licensed under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Nurse midwives certified under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Nurse practitioners certified under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Nurse anesthetists certified under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Clinical nurse specialists certified under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Certified medication technicians certified under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>Electrologists licensed under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>Direct–entry midwives licensed under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>Certified midwives licensed under this title; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>Other licensees with a nursing specialty that is certified under this title;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>To collect any funds of the Board;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>To report any alleged violation of this title to the State’s Attorney of the county where the alleged violation occurred;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>In accordance with the State budget, to incur any necessary expense for prosecution of an alleged violation of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <text>On receipt of a written and signed complaint, including a referral from the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, conduct an unannounced inspection of the office of a nurse in independent practice, other than an office of a nurse in independent practice in a hospital, related institution, freestanding medical facility, or a freestanding birthing center, to determine compliance at that office with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines on universal precautions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="15">
      <text>To maintain a nurse aide registry that complies with federal law;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="16">
      <text>To appoint standing and ad hoc committees from among Board members as necessary; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="17">
      <text>To delegate to the executive director of the Board the authority to discharge Board duties deemed appropriate and necessary by the Board and to hold the executive director accountable to the Board.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>With regard to any list kept by the Board under subsection (a)(10) of this section, upon written request from an individual licensee the Board shall delete that individual’s name from any licensee list purchased from the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board is the only unit of the Department that is responsible for adopting rules and regulations to determine:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Individuals to whom any act of the practice of registered nursing and licensed practical nursing may be delegated; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The acts that may be delegated safely.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Department shall retain its authority to require training for nonlicensed patient care personnel under § 19–308.1 of the Health – General Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
