# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 39 — Board of Nursing — Certificate Holders

### Chapter 05 — Standards of Practice for Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA)

#### Regulation .01 Exclusions.

*COMAR 10.39.05.01*

This chapter is not applicable to and does not restrict or limit:

A. Other health care practitioners who are authorized to perform these duties under their respective acts;

B. The provision of gratuitous care by self, family, or friends;

C. A nurse from delegating a nursing task to an unlicensed individual if acceptance of delegated nursing tasks does not become a routine part of the unlicensed individual’s job duties; or

D. A cognitively capable adult from employing an unlicensed caregiver in the adult’s home to assist the adult in treatments of a routine nature and in self-administration of medication.