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Chapter 18.79 RCW

NURSING CARE

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HTMLPDF 18.79.010Purpose.
HTMLPDF 18.79.020Definitions.
HTMLPDF 18.79.030Licenses required—Titles.
HTMLPDF 18.79.040"Registered nursing practice" defined—Exceptions.
HTMLPDF 18.79.050"Advanced registered nursing practice" defined—Exceptions.
HTMLPDF 18.79.060"Licensed practical nursing practice" defined—Exceptions.
HTMLPDF 18.79.070Board established—Membership—Qualifications (as amended by 2025 c 58).
HTMLPDF 18.79.070Board of nursing established—Membership—Qualifications (as amended by 2025 c 5).
HTMLPDF 18.79.080Board—Order of removal—Vacancy.
HTMLPDF 18.79.090Board—Compensation.
HTMLPDF 18.79.100Board—Officers—Meetings.
HTMLPDF 18.79.110Board—Duties and powers—Rules—Successor to boards.
HTMLPDF 18.79.120Application of Uniform Disciplinary Act.
HTMLPDF 18.79.140Executive director—Qualifications.
HTMLPDF 18.79.150Schools and programs—Requirements—Approval.
HTMLPDF 18.79.160Applicants—Required documentation—Criteria—Rules.
HTMLPDF 18.79.170Examination—Rules.
HTMLPDF 18.79.180Interim permits—License—Expiration upon failure.
HTMLPDF 18.79.190Reciprocity—Foreign programs—Examination.
HTMLPDF 18.79.200License procedures, requirements, fees.
HTMLPDF 18.79.202License fee surcharge—Use of proceeds—Nursing resource center account—Report to the legislature—Review—Rules.
HTMLPDF 18.79.210License renewal—Procedures, requirements, fees.
HTMLPDF 18.79.230Temporary retirement—Renewal—Fee—Qualification.
HTMLPDF 18.79.240Construction.
HTMLPDF 18.79.250Advanced registered nurse practitioner—Activities allowed.
HTMLPDF 18.79.256Advanced registered nurse practitioner—Scope of practice—Document attestation.
HTMLPDF 18.79.260Registered nurse—Activities allowed—Delegation of tasks.
HTMLPDF 18.79.270Licensed practical nurse—Activities allowed.
HTMLPDF 18.79.280Medication, tests, treatments allowed.
HTMLPDF 18.79.290Catheterization of students—Rules.
HTMLPDF 18.79.300Department—Rules for administration.
HTMLPDF 18.79.310Rules, regulations, decisions of previous boards—Effect.
HTMLPDF 18.79.330Finding.
HTMLPDF 18.79.340Nursing technicians.
HTMLPDF 18.79.350Nursing technicians—Nursing functions.
HTMLPDF 18.79.360Applications for registration as a nursing technician—Fee.
HTMLPDF 18.79.370Nursing technicians—Registration renewal.
HTMLPDF 18.79.390Secretary and board relationship.
HTMLPDF 18.79.400Pain management rules—Criteria for new rules.
HTMLPDF 18.79.410Board—Information to legislature.
HTMLPDF 18.79.420Down syndrome—Parent information.
HTMLPDF 18.79.430Student nurse preceptor grant program—Report.
HTMLPDF 18.79.440Public posting of enforcement actions restricted—Substance use disorder monitoring stipend program.
HTMLPDF 18.79.450Multistate license.
HTMLPDF 18.79.460Multistate license—Background checks.
HTMLPDF 18.79.470Multistate license—Publication on website.
HTMLPDF 18.79.480Multistate license—Rule making.
HTMLPDF 18.79.490Nurse anesthetists grant program.
HTMLPDF 18.79.492Nurse anesthetists workforce shortage report.
HTMLPDF 18.79.800Opioid drug prescribing rules—Adoption.
HTMLPDF 18.79.810Opioid drugs—Right to refuse.
HTMLPDF 18.79.900Severability—1994 sp.s. c 9.
HTMLPDF 18.79.901Headings and captions not law—1994 sp.s. c 9.
HTMLPDF 18.79.902Effective date—1994 sp.s. c 9.