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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="8-701" future_version_removed="true" title_number="8" title_name="Nurses" subtitle_number="7">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this title, an individual may not practice, attempt to practice, or offer to practice registered nursing, advanced practice registered nursing, or licensed practical nursing in this State unless licensed by the Board to practice registered nursing, advanced practice registered nursing, or licensed practical nursing, respectively.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this title, an individual may not practice, attempt to practice, or offer to practice electrology in this State unless licensed by the Board to practice electrology.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in this title, an individual may not practice, attempt to practice, or offer to practice as a certified nursing assistant unless certified by the Board as a certified nursing assistant.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in this title, an individual may not practice, attempt to practice, or offer to practice as a certified nursing assistant in a specific category unless certified by the Board as a certified nursing assistant in that category.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this title, an individual may not practice, attempt to practice, or offer to practice as a certified medication technician in this State unless certified by the Board to practice as a certified medication technician.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this title, an individual may not practice, attempt to practice, or offer to practice as a certified medicine aide unless certified by the Board to practice as a certified medicine aide.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this title, an individual may not practice, attempt to practice, or offer to practice as a licensed direct–entry midwife unless licensed by the Board to practice as a licensed direct–entry midwife.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this title, an individual may not practice, attempt to practice, or offer to practice as a licensed certified midwife unless licensed by the Board to practice as a licensed certified midwife.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this title, an individual may not practice, attempt to practice, or offer to practice as a certified dialysis technician unless certified by the Board to practice as a certified dialysis technician.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>An individual may not require a licensee to perform an act that is beyond the licensee’s knowledge and skills.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>An individual may not direct a licensee to delegate a nursing task to a nurse when the individual reasonably believes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The nurse lacks the knowledge and skills to perform the nursing task; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The patient’s condition does not allow delegation of the nursing task.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
