(1) In addition to the exemptions from licensure in Section 58-1-307, the following persons may engage in acts included within the definition of the practice of nursing, subject to the stated circumstances and limitations, without being licensed under this chapter:

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Terms Used In Utah Code 58-31b-308

  • Division: means the Division of Professional Licensing created in Section 58-1-103. See Utah Code 58-1-102
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: means :
         (24)(a) an individual;
         (24)(b) an association;
         (24)(c) an institution;
         (24)(d) a corporation;
         (24)(e) a company;
         (24)(f) a trust;
         (24)(g) a limited liability company;
         (24)(h) a partnership;
         (24)(i) a political subdivision;
         (24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and
         (24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Practice of nursing: includes :
         (12)(a) initiating and maintaining comfort measures;
         (12)(b) promoting and supporting human functions and responses;
         (12)(c) establishing an environment conducive to well-being;
         (12)(d) providing health counseling and teaching;
         (12)(e) collaborating with health care professionals on aspects of the health care regimen;
         (12)(f) performing delegated procedures only within the education, knowledge, judgment, and skill of the licensee;
         (12)(g) delegating nursing tasks that may be performed by others, including an unlicensed assistive personnel; and
         (12)(h) supervising an individual to whom a task is delegated under Subsection (12)(g) as the individual performs the task. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
     (1)(a) friends, family members, foster parents, or legal guardians of a patient performing gratuitous nursing care for the patient;
     (1)(b) persons providing care in a medical emergency;
     (1)(c) persons engaged in the practice of religious tenets of a church or religious denomination; and
     (1)(d) after July 1, 2000, a person licensed to practice nursing by a jurisdiction that has joined the Nurse Licensure Compact – Revised to the extent permitted by Section 58-31e-102.
(2) Notwithstanding Subsection (1)(d), the division may, in accordance with Section 58-31e-102, limit or revoke practice privileges in this state of a person licensed to practice nursing by a jurisdiction that has joined the Nurse Licensing Compact.