California Business and Professions Code 4502.3 – (a) A psychiatric technician, when prescribed by a licensed …
(a) A psychiatric technician, when prescribed by a licensed physician and surgeon, may perform the following activities on a patient with a mental illness or developmental disability:
(1) Tuberculin, coccidioidin, and histoplasmin skin tests, providing the administration is within the course of a tuberculosis control program.
Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 4502.3
- psychiatric technician: means any person who, for compensation or personal profit, implements procedures and techniques that involve understanding of cause and effect and that are used in the care, treatment, and rehabilitation of mentally ill or emotionally disturbed persons, or persons with intellectual disabilities, and who has one or more of the following:
California Business and Professions Code 4502
- Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Business and Professions Code 15
(2) Immunization techniques, providing the administration is upon the standing orders of a supervising licensed physician and surgeon or pursuant to written guidelines adopted by a hospital or medical group with whom the supervising licensed physician and surgeon is associated.
(b) In performing activities pursuant to subdivision (a), the psychiatric technician shall satisfactorily demonstrate competence in all of the following:
(1) Administering the testing or immunization agents, including knowledge of all indications and contraindications for the administration of the agents.
(2) Recognizing any emergency reactions to the agent that constitute a danger to the health or life of the patient.
(3) Treating those emergency reactions by using procedures, medication, and equipment within the scope of practice of the psychiatric technician.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 632, Sec. 37. (AB 1536) Effective January 1, 2022.)