Doctors and Nurses
AB 1436 by Assembly member Ed Hernandez (D-Baldwin Park) would remove a requirement that nurse practitioners be supervised by a physician or surgeon and would consider nurse practitioners primary care providers (Bill Text, 4/9). The measure has been sent to the Assembly Business and Professions Committee (Bill Status, 4/9).
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