{"Nursing care":"Initiating and maintaining comfort measures, providing health counseling, collaborating with other health care professionals, performing delegated procedures within the individual\u2019s level of competency, as well as promoting and supporting normal bodily functions such as breathing, heart rhythm and rate, eating, sleeping, and continence."}
Emergency Law Inventory | Full Law Text

Law Number

Utah Code Ann. 58-31b-308(1)(b)

Summary Title

License Reciprocity: Nursing Functions During Medical Emergency

Summary

An individual who provides nursing care during a medical emergency does not need a Utah license to practice nursing.

Full Title

Exemptions from licensure

Full Text

(1) In addition to the exemptions from licensure in Section 58-1-307, the following persons may engage in acts included within the definition of the practice of nursing, subject to the stated circumstances and limitations, without being licensed under this chapter: . . . . (b) persons providing care in a medical emergency