{"id":10667,"date":"2015-04-06T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/?p=10667"},"modified":"2015-04-04T10:31:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T15:31:22","slug":"samuels-law-update-s-371","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/samuels-law-update-s-371\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel’s Law update s.371"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"healthcare\"<\/a>After many conversations with interested parties, we have come to an agreement\u00a0on language for S. 371.\u00a0We have agreed on 4 points: 1-Transparency 2-gross negligence 3-no additional burden on nurses 4-death cases will get a fast track. Below is the updated amendment.
\nBILL NO: S. 371\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Reference is to the bill as introduced.)\u00a0 \u00a0 Senator BRYANT proposed the following amendment (371R001 EB KLB):\u00a0 \u00a0 Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking all after the enacting words and inserting:
\n\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SECTION 1.\u00a0 This act may be cited as \u201cSamuel\u2019s Law\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/
\n\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SECTION 2.\u00a0 Section 40-33-110 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding an appropriately lettered subsection at the end to read:
\n\u201c( )(1)\u00a0\u00a0 This subsection shall be known as \u201cSamuel\u2019s Law\u201d.
\n(2)\u00a0 Upon a finding by the board that a person licensed under this chapter acted in a willful, wanton, or grossly negligent manner by misreading a physician\u2019s order causing a patient to be over-medicated or under-medicated and resulting in the patient\u2019s death, the board shall revoke the person\u2019s license to practice nursing in this State. As used in this subsection, \u201cwillful, wanton, or grossly negligent\u201d means an act or course of action, or inaction, which denotes a lack of reasonable care and a conscious disregard or indifference to the rights, safety, or welfare of others and which does or could result in death.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/
\n\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SECTION 3.\u00a0 Section 40-33-80 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
\n\u201cSection 40-33-80.\u00a0 (A)<\/span>\u00a0 The department shall investigate complaints and violations of this chapter as provided in Section 40-1-80.
\n(B)(1)<\/span> The department shall begin an investigation of a complaint within twenty-four hours of receipt of the complaint in instances involving a patient death and the complaint alleges a person licensed under this chapter misread a physician order resulting in the overmedication or undermedication of the patient and contributed to the patient\u2019s death.
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(2)<\/span>\u00a0 Upon receipt of the complaint described in subsection (B)(1) and receipt of sufficient evidence demonstrating a person licensed under this chapter poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the public, the Board may place the person on temporary suspension pending a final determination as provided for in this chapter and Chapter 1, Title 40.
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(3)<\/span>\u00a0 The Board shall make a final determination on complaint described in subsection (B)(1) no later than one year from the date the complaint was filed. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Board shall be required to allow family members of a deceased patient to provide written statements, testimony, or both prior to the Board issuing a final determination.
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(4)<\/span>\u00a0 For purposes of this section \u2018family member\u2019 shall mean the spouse, parent, brother, sister, child, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, or grandchild.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/
\n\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SECTION 4.\u00a0 It is not the intent of the General Assembly to burden the nursing profession by this legislation. As a result, the department and the Board are prohibited from promulgating new regulations, adding educational requirements, or imposing additional duties on nurses based solely on this legislation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/
\n\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SECTION 5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After many conversations with interested parties, we have come to an agreement\u00a0on language for S. 371.\u00a0We have agreed on 4 points: 1-Transparency 2-gross negligence 3-no additional burden on nurses 4-death cases will get a fast track. Below is the updated amendment. BILL NO: S. 371\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Reference is to the bill as introduced.)\u00a0 \u00a0 Senator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-2M3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10670,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}