54-1412. EXCEPTIONS TO LICENSE REQUIREMENTS. This act shall not be construed to require licensure or to prohibit the practice of nursing by persons assisting in an emergency, students enrolled in approved nursing education programs performing functions incident to formal instruction, nurses licensed by another state, territory or country and employed by the United States government performing official duties, persons rendering nursing services or care of the sick when done in connection with the practice of the religious tenets of any church by adherents thereof, and by such other persons as may be exempt from licensure by rules of the board. Nothing shall be construed as prohibiting the use of medical attendants by the department of correction at its correctional institutions.
History:
[(54-1412), added 1977, ch. 132, sec. 2, p. 285; am. & redesig. 1998, ch. 118, sec. 9, p. 443.]