Nosal-Tabor v. Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center

Opinion

AARON, J.

I

INTRODUCTION

The Nursing Practice Act (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 2700 et seq.) regulates the practice of nursing in California. The Nursing Practice Act permits nurses to perform certain functions that would otherwise be considered the illegal practice of medicine, when such functions are performed pursuant to a hospital’s “standardized procedures.” (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 2725, subd. (c).) The Nursing Practice Act further provides that the content of such standardized procedures shall be governed by guidelines promulgated by the Board of Registered Nursing and the Medical Board of…