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Statute:

Circulating nurse required

ยง 2805-s. Circulating nurse required. A registered nurse, qualified by
training and experience in operating room nursing, shall be present as a
circulating nurse in any and each separate operating room where surgery
is being performed for the duration of the operative procedure. Nothing
in this section precludes a circulating nurse from leaving the operating
room as part of the operative procedure, leaving the operating room for
short periods; or, in accordance with employee rules or regulations,
being relieved during an operative procedure by another circulating
nurse assigned to continue the operative procedure.

PBH 2805-S 2014-09-22

Sections:

ARTICLE 28 - Hospitals
SECTION 2800 - Declaration of policy and statement of purpose
SECTION 2801 - Definitions
SECTION 2801-A - Establishment or incorporation of hospitals
SECTION 2801-B - Improper practices in hospital staff appointments and extension of professional privileges prohibited
SECTION 2801-C - Injunctions
SECTION 2801-D - Private actions by patients of residential health care facilities
SECTION 2801-E - Voluntary residential health care facility rightsizing demonstration program
SECTION 2801-F - Residential health care facility quality incentive payment program
SECTION 2801-G - Community forum on hospital closure
SECTION 2801-H - Personal caregiving and compassionate caregiving visitors to nursing home residents during declared local or state health emergencies
SECTION 2802 - Approval of construction
SECTION 2802-A - Transitional care unit demonstration program
SECTION 2802-B - Health equity impact assessments
SECTION 2803 - Commissioner and council; powers and duties
SECTION 2803-A - Authority to contract
SECTION 2803-AA - Sickle cell disease information distribution
SECTION 2803-AA*2 - Nursing home infection control competency audit
SECTION 2803-B - Uniform reports and accounting systems for hospital costs
SECTION 2803-C - Rights of patients in certain medical facilities
SECTION 2803-C-1 - Rights of patients in certain medical facilities; long-term care ombudsman program
SECTION 2803-D - Reporting abuses of persons receiving care or services in residential health care facilities
SECTION 2803-E - Residential health care facilities; return and redistribution of unused medication
SECTION 2803-E*2 - Reporting incidents of possible professional misconduct
SECTION 2803-F - Respite projects
SECTION 2803-G - Board of visitors in county owned residential health care facility
SECTION 2803-H - Health related facility; pet therapy programs
SECTION 2803-I - General hospital inpatient discharge review program
SECTION 2803-J - Information for maternity patients
SECTION 2803-J*2 - Nursing home nurse aide registry
SECTION 2803-K - In-patient nasogastric feeding procedures
SECTION 2803-L - Community service plans
SECTION 2803-M - Discharge of hospital patients to adult homes
SECTION 2803-N - Hospital care for maternity patients
SECTION 2803-O - Hospital care for mastectomy, lumpectomy, and lymph node dissection patients
SECTION 2803-O-1 - Required protocols for fetal demise
SECTION 2803-P - Disclosure of information concerning family violence
SECTION 2803-Q - Family councils in residential health care facilities
SECTION 2803-R - Dissemination of information about the abandoned infant protection act
SECTION 2803-S - Access to product recall information
SECTION 2803-T - Preadmission information
SECTION 2803-U - Hospital substance use disorder policies and procedures
SECTION 2803-V - Lymphedema information distribution
SECTION 2803-V*2 - Standing orders for newborn care in a hospital
SECTION 2803-W - Independent quality monitors for residential health care facilities
SECTION 2803-W*2 - Disclosure of information concerning pregnancy complications
SECTION 2803-X - Requirements related to nursing homes and related assets and operations
SECTION 2803-Y - Provision of residency agreement
SECTION 2803-Z - Transfer, discharge and voluntary discharge requirements for residential health care facilities
SECTION 2803-Z*2 - Antimicrobial resistance prevention and education
SECTION 2804 - Units for hospital and health-related affairs
SECTION 2804-A - State task force on clinical practice guidelines and medical technology assessment
SECTION 2805 - Approval of hospitals; operating certificates
SECTION 2805-A - Disclosure of financial transactions
SECTION 2805-B - Admission of patients and emergency treatment of nonadmitted patients
SECTION 2805-C - Every private proprietary nursing home having a capacity of eighty patients or more may have a licensed medical doctor in attendance, upo...
SECTION 2805-D - Limitation of medical, dental or podiatric malpractice action based on lack of informed consent
SECTION 2805-E - Reports of residential health care facilities
SECTION 2805-F - Money deposited or advanced for admittance to nursing homes; waiver void; administration expenses
SECTION 2805-G - Maintenance of records
SECTION 2805-H - Immunizations
SECTION 2805-I - Treatment of sexual offense victims and maintenance of evidence in a sexual offense
SECTION 2805-J - Medical, dental and podiatric malpractice prevention program
SECTION 2805-K - Investigations prior to granting or renewing privileges
SECTION 2805-L - Adverse event reporting
SECTION 2805-M - Confidentiality
SECTION 2805-N - Child abuse prevention
SECTION 2805-O - Identification of veterans and their spouses by nursing homes, residential health care facilities, and adult care facilities
SECTION 2805-P - Emergency treatment of rape survivors
SECTION 2805-Q - Hospital visitation by domestic partner
SECTION 2805-R - Patients unable to verbally communicate
SECTION 2805-S - Circulating nurse required
SECTION 2805-T - Clinical staffing committees and disclosure of nursing quality indicators
SECTION 2805-U - Credentialing and privileging of health care practitioners providing telemedicine services
SECTION 2805-V - Observation services
SECTION 2805-W - Patient notice of observation services
SECTION 2805-X - Hospital-home care-physician collaboration program
SECTION 2805-Y - Identification and assessment of human trafficking victims
SECTION 2805-Z - Hospital domestic violence policies and procedures
SECTION 2806 - Hospital operating certificates; suspension or revocation
SECTION 2806-A - Temporary operator
SECTION 2806-B - Residential health care facilities; revocation of operating certificate
SECTION 2807 - Hospital reimbursement provisions; generally
SECTION 2807-A - General hospital nineteen hundred eighty-six and nineteen hundred eighty-seven inpatient rates and charges
SECTION 2807-AA - Nurse loan repayment program
SECTION 2807-B - Outstanding payments and reports due under subdivision eighteen of section twenty-eight hundred seven-c, sections twenty-eight hundred se...
SECTION 2807-C - General hospital inpatient reimbursement for annual rate periods beginning on or after January first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight
SECTION 2807-D - Hospital assessments
SECTION 2807-DD - Temporary nursing home stability contributions
SECTION 2807-D-1 - Hospital quality contributions
SECTION 2807-E - Uniform bills
SECTION 2807-F - Health maintenance organization payment factor
SECTION 2807-I - Service and quality improvement grants
SECTION 2807-J - Patient services payments
SECTION 2807-K - General hospital indigent care pool
SECTION 2807-L - Health care initiatives pool distributions
SECTION 2807-M - Distribution of the professional education pools
SECTION 2807-N - Palliative care education and training
SECTION 2807-O - Early intervention services pool
SECTION 2807-P - Comprehensive diagnostic and treatment centers indigent care program
SECTION 2807-R - Funding for expansion of cancer services
SECTION 2807-S - Professional education pool funding
SECTION 2807-T - Assessments on covered lives
SECTION 2807-U - Transfers for tax credits
SECTION 2807-V - Tobacco control and insurance initiatives pool distributions
SECTION 2807-W - High need indigent care adjustment pool
SECTION 2807-X - Grants for long term care demonstration projects
SECTION 2807-Y - Pool administration
SECTION 2807-Z - Review of eligible federally qualified health center capital projects
SECTION 2808 - Residential health care facilities; rates of payment
SECTION 2808-A - Liability of certain persons
SECTION 2808-B - Certification of financial statements and financial information
SECTION 2808-C - Reimbursement of general hospital inpatient services
SECTION 2808-D - Nursing home quality improvement demonstration program
SECTION 2808-E - Residential health care for children with medical fragility in transition to young adults and young adults with medical fragility demonst...
SECTION 2808-E*2 - Nursing home ratings
SECTION 2809 - Residential health care facilities; powers to require security
SECTION 2810 - Residential health care facilities; receivership
SECTION 2811 - Discounts and splitting fees with medical referral services; prohibited
SECTION 2812 - Construction
SECTION 2813 - Separability
SECTION 2814 - Health networks, global budgeting, and health care demonstrations
SECTION 2815 - Health facility restructuring program
SECTION 2815-A - Community health care revolving capital fund
SECTION 2816 - Statewide planning and research cooperative system
SECTION 2816-A - Cardiac services information
SECTION 2817 - Community health centers capital program
SECTION 2818 - Health care efficiency and affordability law of New Yorkers (HEAL NY) capital grant program
SECTION 2819 - Hospital acquired infection reporting
SECTION 2820 - Home based primary care for the elderly demonstration project
SECTION 2821 - State electronic health records (EHR) loan program
SECTION 2822 - Residential care off-site facility demonstration project
SECTION 2823 - Supportive housing development program
SECTION 2824 - Central service technicians
SECTION 2824*2 - Surgical technology and surgical technologists
SECTION 2825 - Capital restructuring financing program
SECTION 2825-A - Health care facility transformation program: Kings county project
SECTION 2825-B - Oneida county health care facility transformation program: Oneida county project
SECTION 2825-C - Essential health care provider support program
SECTION 2825-D - Health care facility transformation program: statewide
SECTION 2825-E - Health care facility transformation program: statewide II
SECTION 2825-F - Health care facility transformation program: statewide III
SECTION 2825-G - Health care facility transformation program: statewide IV
SECTION 2825-H - Health care facility transformation program: statewide V
SECTION 2826 - Temporary adjustment to reimbursement rates
SECTION 2827 - Plant-based food options
SECTION 2828 - Residential health care facilities; minimum direct resident care spending
SECTION 2828*2 - Essential support persons allowed for individuals with disabilities during a state of emergency
SECTION 2829 - Nursing homes; disclosure requirements
SECTION 2830 - Surgical smoke evacuation
SECTION 2830*2 - Regulation of the billing of facility fees

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