DIVISION 2. HEALING ARTS 500-4999.129›CHAPTER 6.5. Vocational Nursing 2840-2895.5›ARTICLE 2. Scope of Regulation 2859-2873.6
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California Business and Professions Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
The practice of vocational nursing within the meaning of this chapter is the performance of services requiring those technical, manual skills acquired by means of a course in an approved school of vocational nursing, or its equivalent, practiced under the direction of a licensed physician, or registered professional nurse, as defined in Section 2725.
A vocational nurse, within the meaning of this chapter, is a person who has met all the legal requirements for a license as a vocational nurse in this state and who for compensation or personal profit engages in vocational nursing as the same is hereinabove defined.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 338, Sec. 4. (SB 539) Effective January 1, 2012.)
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