Medication aides.

WORKING DRAFT
2007
STATE OF
WYOMING
07LSO-0359

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0062

Medication aides.

Sponsored by:
Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming Nursing Practice Act; authorizing certification of properly trained medication assistants as specified; providing a definition; requiring a study and report; making appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.
W.S. 33
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21
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120(a) by creating a new paragraph (xiii) and by renumbering (xiii) as (xiv) and 33
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21
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122(c)(x
x
i
v
) are amended to read:

33
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21
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120.

Definitions
.

(a)

As used in this act:

(xiii)

"Medication assistant" means a certified nursing assistant additionally trained and certified by the board to administer oral, topical or transdermal medications to residents or patients in health care facilities excluding acute care facilities;

(xiii)
(xiv)

"This act" means W.S. 33
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21
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119 through 33
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21
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157.

33
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21
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122.

Board of nursing; powers and duties.

(c)

Without limiting the foregoing, the board of nursing may do the following:

(xxi
v
)

By board rule and regulation, regulate the qualifications, certification, recertification, examination and discipline of nursing assistants
,

and
nurse aides
and medication assistants
. For purposes of carrying out this paragraph, fingerprints and other information necessary for a criminal history record background check pursuant to W.S. 7
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19
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201 s
hall be provided to the board.

Section 2.

The state board of nursing shall report to the joint labor, health and social services interim committee before November 1, 2007, regarding the
progress
of
the
medication assistant
program
.

Section 3.

(a)

There is appropriated from the general fund to the state board of nursing
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008
:

(i)

Forty
-five thousand dollars ($
4
5,000.00) to develop rules and regulations required by this act and to implement initial licensing of medication assistants;

(ii)

Twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) to develop recommendations for long-term funding of continuing medication assistant licensing activities.

Section 4.

This act is effective July 1, 2007.

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