Chapter 112

Section 73J. The provisions of sections seventy-three C to seventy-three L, inclusive, shall not apply to registered physicians or optometrists.

Section 73K. Any person entering the employ of a physician, optometrist, licensed dispensing optician as an apprentice for the purpose of obtaining the experience and training referred to in section seventy-three E, may make written application for certification as an apprentice …

Section 73L. The board may, upon application and after hearing, revoke an order of suspension or grant a new license to any person whose license has been revoked or suspended under the provisions of section seventy-three H, if the board is satisfied that this can be done consiste…

Section 73M. The provisions of sections sixty-six to seventy-three L, inclusive, and any rules or regulations promulgated pursuant thereto shall not apply to the retail sale of simple ready-to-wear magnifying spectacles or eyeglasses; provided, however, that a seller of said read…

Section 74. The board of registration in nursing in this section and in sections seventy-four A to eighty-one C, inclusive, called the board, shall hold examinations for the registration of nurses at such times and places as it shall determine. Applications for registration, sign…

Section 74A. The board shall hold examinations for the licensing of practical nurses at such times and places as it shall determine. Applications for licenses as practical nurses, signed and sworn to by the applicants, shall be made on blanks approved by the board. An applicant w…

Section 74C. The governor shall appoint an advisory council on continuing education, consisting of seventeen members, three representatives of the public, five licensed practical nurses, three registered nurses with a baccalaureate degree or higher, three registered nurses with a…

Section 74D. Any contract or agreement which creates or establishes the terms of a partnership, employment, or any other form of professional relationship with a nurse registered to practice as a registered nurse pursuant to section seventy-four, or a practical nurse registered t…

Section 74E. (a) The board of registration in nursing may obtain a state and national fingerprint-based criminal background check, as authorized by Public Law 92-544, to determine the suitability of an applicant for a license to practice nursing pursuant to sections 74, 74A, 76 a…

Section 75. Examinations shall be wholly or in part in writing, in the English language, shall include the principles and practice of nursing but shall be limited to such subjects as are included in the curriculum established by the board, shall be in content both reasonable and …

Section 76. The board may register or license in like manner, without examination, any person who has been registered as a nurse or licensed as a practical nurse, as the case may be, in another state under laws which, in the opinion of the board, maintain standards substantially …

Section 76A. The board may, at its discretion, certify as authorized to practice professional nursing any person who furnishes proof, satisfactory to the board, that he was graduated from an approved school of nursing and that he was registered to practice professional nursing in…

Section 76B. Any person who has taken and passed the State Board Testing Pool Exam by standards acceptable to the board, and has been registered by a province of Canada in which an examination was taken before August first, nineteen hundred and seventy, and meets the eligibility …

Section 77. The board shall investigate all complaints of violation of sections seventy-four to eighty-one C, inclusive, and report same to the proper prosecuting officers. The board shall participate in national data reporting systems which provide information on individual nurs…

Section 78. The board shall keep records of the names of all persons registered and licensed by it and of all money received and disbursed by it and duplicates thereof shall be open to public inspection in the office of the state secretary. It shall make an annual report of the c…

Section 79. The board may make such rules and regulations consistent with law relative to its procedure under sections seventy-four to seventy-eight, inclusive, as it deems expedient. The board may assess a licensed nurse a penalty of not more than $2,000 for each violation of re…

Section 8. No person shall enter upon, or continue in, the practice of medicine within the commonwealth until he has presented to the clerk of the city or town where he has, or intends to have, an office or his usual place of business, his certificate of registration as a physici…

Section 80. Whoever, not being lawfully authorized to practice as a registered nurse within the commonwealth, practices or attempts to practice professional nursing or uses the abbreviation R.N., or any other words, letters or figures to indicate that the person using the same is…

Section 80A. Whoever, not being lawfully authorized to practice as a licensed practical nurse within the commonwealth, practices or attempts to practice practical nursing or uses the abbreviation L.P.N., or any other words, letters or figures to indicate that the person using the…

Section 80B. The practice of nursing shall mean the performance for compensation of those services which assist individuals or groups to maintain or attain optimal health. Nursing practice requires substantial specialized knowledge of nursing theory and related scientific, behavi…

Section 80C. A nurse-midwife who is designated by the board of registration in nursing pursuant to the provisions of section eighty B may engage in the practice of nurse-midwifery.

Section 80D. An advisory committee composed of five practicing nurse-midwives appointed by the board of registration in nursing for a two-year term shall be consulted on matters relating to the practice of nurse-midwifery and shall annually prepare a report informing the board of…

Section 80E. (a) A nurse practitioner or psychiatric nurse mental health clinical specialist may issue written prescriptions and medication orders and order tests and therapeutics pursuant to guidelines mutually developed and agreed upon by the nurse and a supervising nurse pract…

Section 80F. (a) The board shall establish a rehabilitation program designed to assist nurses, whose competency has been impaired because of substance abuse disorders, to return to practice. Such program shall be designed in such a manner so that the public health and safety will…

Section 80G. A nurse authorized to practice as a certified nurse-midwife, under section 80C, may order and interpret tests, therapeutics and prescribe medications in accordance with regulations promulgated by the board and the commissioner of public health under subsection (g) of…

Section 80H. (a) A nurse anesthetist may issue written prescriptions and medication orders and order tests and therapeutics pursuant to guidelines mutually developed and agreed upon by the nurse anesthetist and a supervising nurse anesthetist with independent practice authority o…

Section 80I. When a law or rule requires a signature, certification, stamp, verification, affidavit or endorsement by a physician, when relating to physical or mental health, that requirement may be fulfilled by a nurse practitioner or psychiatric nurse mental health clinical spe…

Section 80J. A nurse authorized to practice as a psychiatric nurse mental health clinical specialist pursuant to section 80B may order tests, therapeutics and prescribe medications in accordance with regulations promulgated by the board and subject to subsection (g) of section 7 …

Section 80K. The board shall promulgate regulations, subject to approval by the commissioner, to ensure that nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists and psychiatric nurse mental health clinical specialists under the board of registration in nursing are subject to requirements com…

Section 81. Neither section eighty nor eighty A, as the case may be, shall apply to any person duly licensed to practice nursing within any other jurisdiction, while discharging official duties as an employee of the federal government.

Section 81A. The board shall upon the request of any school for nurses or for practical nurses in the commonwealth inspect said school and notify its trustees or other governing body if said school is approved for the purposes of section seventy-four or seventy-four A, as the cas…

Section 81B. The board may approve, for the purposes of sections seventy-four, seventy-four A or seventy-six A, any school for nurses or for practical nurses, as the case may be, in another state or country which maintains standards substantially the same as those required for an…

Section 81C. The board may make such rules and regulations consistent with law relative to procedure under sections eighty-one A and eighty-one B as it deems expedient, and shall make reasonable rules and regulations concerning the general conduct of approved schools, including t…

Section 81D. The following words and phrases as used in sections eighty-one D to eighty-one T, inclusive, hereinafter referred to as said sections, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:— ''Board'', the board of registration of professional eng…

Section 81E. The board shall examine applicants for registration as professional engineers and as professional land surveyors and applicants desiring to take written or oral examinations to evidence qualification for registration as professional engineers or professional land sur…

Section 81F. The secretary of the board shall receive and account for all moneys received under said sections and shall pay the same to the state treasurer. Said secretary shall give to the state treasurer a bond, in such sum and with such sureties as may from time to time be req…

Section 81G. The board may employ such clerical and other assistance as may be necessary for the proper performance of its work.

Section 81H. The board shall keep a full record of its proceedings and a register of applications for registration, which register shall show (a) the name, age and residence of each applicant; (b) the date of the application; (c) the place of business of such applicant; (d) his e…

Section 81I. A roster showing the names and places of business of all registered professional engineers and all registered land surveyors shall be prepared by the secretary of the board during the month of July of each year, commencing in nineteen hundred and forty-two. Such rost…

Section 81J. The following shall be considered as minimum evidence satisfactory to the board that an applicant is qualified for registration as a professional engineer or professional land surveyor, respectively, to wit: (1) As a professional engineer: (a) A person holding a cert…

Section 81K. Applications for registration shall be on forms prescribed and furnished by the board, shall contain statements made under oath, showing the applicant's education and detailed summary of this technical work, and shall contain not less than five references. For engine…

Section 81L. When oral or written examinations are required they shall be held at such time and place as the board shall determine. If examinations are required on fundamental engineering subjects, such as are ordinarily given in college curricula, the applicant shall be permitte…

Section 81M. The board shall issue a certificate of registration upon payment of the registration fee to any applicant who, in the opinion of the board, has satisfactorily met all the requirements of said sections. In the case of a registered professional engineer, the certificat…

Section 81N. Certificates of registration shall expire June thirtieth in every even-numbered year, and may be renewed as hereinafter provided. The secretary of the board shall, at least one month in advance of the expiration date of such certificate, notify the registrant of such…

Section 81P. The board shall have the authority to reprimand a registrant and to suspend the registration of a registrant for a limited period to be specified in such suspension order for any fraud, deceit, gross negligence, incompetence, misconduct or any crime involving moral t…

Section 81Q. The board, for any reason which it may deem sufficient, may reissue a certificate of registration to any person whose certificate has been revoked. A new certificate of registration, to replace any certificate revoked, lost, destroyed or mutilated, may be issued, sub…