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Report a Disease To report a disease , contact your local county health department. Report a Foodborne Illness. In such instances, written prescriptions may be used, which must meet the requirements under current section Additionally, effective July 1, , the Department shall annually review the amount of any fees collected under section Summary: The bill exempts medical doctors, osteopathic physicians, and chiropractic physicians from the requirement to be licensed as a home medical equipment provider in order to sell or rent electrostimulation medical equipment and supplies to their own patients in the course of their practice.
Written documentation that reasonably supports that a person has a disability may be provided by any federal, state, or local government agency, specified health care practitioners, telehealth providers, or out-of-state practitioners who have provided in-person care or services to the tenant on at least one occasion.
It also creates the misdemeanor crime of providing false or fraudulent emotional support animal information or documentation and requires a convicted person to perform 30 hours of community service for an organization serving persons with disabilities, or another entity or organization the court determines appropriate. Written consent for the pelvic exam is not required if a court orders the exam to collect evidence or if the exam is necessary to avert a serious risk of irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the patient.
The bill creates the crime of reproductive battery. It is a third-degree felony for a health care practitioner to intentionally transfer human reproductive material into the body of a recipient or implant a human embryo of a donor, knowing that the recipient has not consented to the use of the reproductive material or embryo from that donor.
If the health care practitioner is the donor of the reproductive material, the penalty is increased to a second-degree felony. The statute of limitations for prosecuting the crime of reproductive battery does not begin to run until the date that the violation is discovered and reported to a law enforcement agency or any other governmental agency.
Additionally, it is not a defense to the crime that the recipient consented to the use of an anonymous donor. Summary: The bill prohibits a physician from performing an abortion on a minor unless the physician has received a notarized, written consent statement signed by the minor and her mother, father, or legal guardian and the physician has been presented with proof of identification and proof of parentage or guardianship by the parent or legal guardian.
However, the consent requirement does not apply if:. The bill also authorizes a third-degree felony penalty for a physician who recklessly or intentionally performs, or attempts to perform, an abortion on an unemancipated minor without the required consent.
The bill also increases the penalty for violating requirements established for infants born alive in section Summary: This bill requires an athletic trainer to work within his or her scope of practice as defined by the Board of Athletic Training and revises the educational and internship requirements for licensure. Summary: The bill revises section Summary: This bill reestablishes the licensure, renewal, and revocation of health access dental licenses.
Summary: The bill amends section Summary: The bill revises the requirements for certain health care practitioners providing an opioid drug listed as a Schedule II controlled substance to inform the patient about possible nonopioid alternatives, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of nonopioid alternatives, and provide the pamphlet as required in section Summary: The bill amends numerous practice acts to streamline regulation and increase efficiency.
The bill makes numerous updates and changes to programs and health care professions regulated under the boards and Department of Health DOH :. Summary: The Board of Nursing voted to initiate rulemaking on various aspects of HB during its meetings on June 5, The registration application for autonomous APRNs will be available after it has been adopted by rule, which is anticipated to take approximately 90 days.
The Board voted to approve the application and move forward with rulemaking at its June 5th meeting. This definition will also move through the rulemaking adoption process prior to becoming effective.
The Board determined that an equivalency to the required graduate level coursework required for registration would be 45 CE hours in each of the required subject areas. These hours must be offered by a Board-approved provider or a national organization empowered to accredit nursing CE.
The courses must have been taken within the 5 years preceding the registration application. Submitted courses must have documentation of differential diagnosis and pharmacology in the course description and objectives. CNAs will also be required to have 2 hours of in-service training in medication administration and medical error prevention on a yearly basis. Registration eligibility requirements are established in the legislation and include: no discipline within 5 years of applying for the registration; completion of 3, clinical practice hours as an APRN under the supervision of physician within the 5 years immediately preceding the registration request; and, within the past 5 years, completion of graduate-level semester hours, or the equivalent, in differential diagnosis and pharmacology 3 hours in each subject.
The registration application will be available after July 1, Financial responsibility requirements are established in the new law for APRN autonomous practice. Practice requirements are also in the legislation and will be interpreted by the Board during its June meeting as part of the implementation of the bill. Additional continuing education CE requirements are put in place for autonomous practice. Ten hours of CE, approved by the Board, must be completed at each renewal in addition to completing the 30 hours of CE already in place, even if the APRN is exempt from existing CE requirements due to his or her national certification.
Autonomous APRNs must also now report adverse incidents as outlined in the legislation and additional disciplinary actions are added to the Nurse Practice Act.
Updates on the implementation of this law will be added to the website. Summary: The bill revises requirements and responsibilities of a consultant pharmacist by authorizing a consultant pharmacist to enter into a written collaborative practice agreement to provide medication management services with a health care facility medical director or Florida-licensed allopathic physician, osteopathic physician, podiatric physician, or dentist to:.
A consultant pharmacist may only provide services to the patients of the health care practitioner with whom the consultant pharmacist has a written collaborative practice agreement. The bill requires both the consultant pharmacist and health care practitioner to maintain a copy of the collaborative agreement and make it available upon request or during an inspection.
The bill also requires the consultant pharmacist to maintain all drug, patient care, and quality assurance records. The bill authorizes a consultant pharmacist to provide services to patients in an ambulatory surgical center, hospital, alcohol or chemical dependency treatment center, inpatient hospice, or ambulatory care center, in addition to those authorized in current law nursing home and home health agency patients.
The bill clarifies that a consultant pharmacist is not authorized to diagnose any disease or condition, and authorizes the Board of Pharmacy to establish additional education requirements for licensure as a consultant pharmacist. The bill prohibits a nursing home from taking adverse action against a prescriber or resident who refuses to use the institutional formulary. The bill establishes minimum experience, education, and training requirements for PTs who perform dry needling.
Summary: The bill authorizes a pharmacist to enter into a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement CPPA with a physician to manage chronic health conditions if the pharmacist meets certain qualifications. The bill prohibits a collaborating pharmacist from modifying or discontinuing any medication that is prescribed by a health care practitioner with whom he or she does not enter into a CPPA and from initiating or prescribing a controlled substance.
The bill authorizes a pharmacist, who meets certain qualifications, to test or screen for and treat minor, nonchronic health conditions within the framework of a written protocol with a supervising physician. The conditions are limited to influenza, streptococcus, lice, skin conditions, and minor, uncomplicated infections.
The bill requires the Board of Pharmacy to adopt, by rule, a formulary of medicinal drugs that an authorized pharmacist may prescribe to treat minor, non-chronic health conditions. A pharmacist may not prescribe any controlled substance; however, the Board-developed formulary may include any non-controlled substance, including those that typically need a prescription to dispense, such as antibiotics, and over-the-counter medications.
The bill authorizes a pharmacist to use certain laboratory or clinical tests, as well as any established screening procedures for which no test is available. A pharmacy in which a pharmacist provides services for minor, non-chronic health conditions must prominently display a sign advising a patient receiving such services to seek follow-up care from a physician. The Board of Pharmacy shall adopt guidelines for the circumstances under which the information required under this subsection shall be provided.
Summary: The bill prohibits the Department of Health DOH from denying the issuance of, refusing to renew, suspending, or revoking a professional license based solely on the licensee being delinquent on a payment of or defaulting on his or her student loans. The bill removes the specific provision allowing DOH to discipline a health care practitioner for failing to repay a student loan and the associated mandatory discipline. Summary: The bill creates section Summary: The bill expands current law to authorize a community pharmacy to provide outpatient dispensing through the use of an automated pharmacy system.
Summary: The bill requires certain offenses be included in grounds for discipline for health care practitioners. It requires the Department of Health to issue an Emergency Order suspending the license of any health care practitioner who is arrested for committing or attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit any act that would constitute a violation of certain offenses in this state or similar offenses in another jurisdiction. The bill also amends sections Summary: The bill authorizes certified pharmacists and registered pharmacy interns under the supervision of a pharmacist to administer immunizations or vaccines as of April 30, , as listed in the Adult Immunization Schedule by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC , recommended by the CDC for International Travel or licensed for use in the United States, or authorized for emergency use by the U.
Food and Drug Administration. The bill also authorizes certified pharmacists to administer influenza vaccines to individuals seven years of age or older through an established protocol with a supervising physician. The bill excludes visual assessment, imaging, and diagnostic medical or surgical procedures from the definition of pelvic examination, requires informed verbal consent of conscious patients in addition to written consent, prescribes those circumstances when consent is not required, and limits the need for informed consent to the initial pelvic examination of a pregnant woman under certain circumstances.
Summary: The bill allows prescribing health care practitioners, who are required to provide information about nonopioid alternatives, to provide health care patients or their representatives under certain circumstances the required educational pamphlet electronically in lieu of providing a printed copy. Summary: The bill authorizes medicinal drugs to be dispensed by a hospital that operates a Class II or Class Ill institutional pharmacy to any inpatient upon discharge or patient discharged from an emergency department if the prescribing practitioner determines that the medicinal drug is warranted and community pharmacy services are not readily accessible to the patient.
The drug may be dispensed up to a hour supply or through the end of the next business day.
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