This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on vocational nursing and may be cited as the Vocational Nursing Practice Act....

(a) The Legislature hereby declares the practice of licensed vocational nursing to be a profession. (b) This section shall not be construed to affect the laws relating to the practice...

There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California, consisting of 11 members. Within the meaning of this...

Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California in exercising its licensing,...

(a) Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of California. The board shall have the following composition: (1) Two members shall be...

Members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years. Vacancies occurring shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term. Appointments to the office shall be for a term...

The Governor has the power to remove any member of the board from office for neglect of any duty required by law, or for incompetency, or unprofessional or dishonorable conduct....

The board at its first meeting after appointment, and annually thereafter at its first meeting in each year, shall elect from its members a president, vice president, and such other officers as...

(a) The board shall select an executive officer who shall perform duties as are delegated by the board and who shall be responsible to it for the accomplishment of those duties. (b) The...

The board for the purpose of transacting its business shall meet at least twice each year, at times and places it designates by resolution....

Special meetings may be held at such times as the board may elect, or on the call of the president of the board, or of not less than five members thereof. A written notice of the time, place,...

Meetings may be held at any time and place by the written consent of all members of the board....

Six members of the board constitute a quorum for transaction of business at any meeting....

The board shall keep a record of all its proceedings, including a register of all applicants for licenses under this chapter and the action of the board upon each application....

The office of the board shall be in the City of Sacramento. Suboffices may be established in Los Angeles and San Francisco and such records as may be necessary may be transferred...

The board shall prosecute all persons guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter. It may employ such clerical assistance as it may deem necessary to carry into effect the provisions...

Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103....

The board shall issue a license designated as licensed vocational nurse license....

The board shall accept in payment of any fee required by this chapter cash or any customary or generally accepted medium of exchange, including check, cashier's check, certified check...

The practice of vocational nursing within the meaning of this chapter is the performance of services requiring those technical, manual skills acquired by means of a course in an...

This chapter confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery or to undertake the prevention, treatment or cure of disease, pain, injury, deformity, or mental or physical...

A licensed vocational nurse when directed by a physician and surgeon may do all of the following: (a) Administer medications by hypodermic injection. (b) Withdraw blood from a patient, if...

(a) A licensed vocational nurse, acting under the direction of a physician may perform: (1) tuberculin skin tests, coccidioidin skin tests, and histoplasmin skin tests,...

This chapter does not prohibit the performance of nursing services by any person not licensed under this chapter; provided, that such person shall not in any way assume to practice as...

A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency which occurs outside both the place and the course of his employment shall not be liable...

Vocational nursing services may be rendered by a student enrolled in an accredited school of vocational nursing when these services are incidental to his or her course of study....

This chapter does not prohibit vocational nursing or the care of the sick, with or without compensation or personal profit, when done by the adherents of and in connection with the practice...

Every licensee under this chapter may be known as a licensed vocational nurse and may place the letters L.V.N. after his name....

An applicant for a licensed vocational nurse license shall comply with each of the following: (a) Be at least 17 years of age. (b) Have successfully completed at least an approved...

An applicant for a license authorizing him to practice vocational nursing in this State under this chapter, upon the filing of his application shall pay the fee required by this chapter....

Every person to whom a license is issued after August 30, 1962, shall, as a condition precedent to its issuance, and in addition to any other fee which may be payable, pay the initial license...

After receiving the results of having passed the examination and upon receipt of the initial license fee required by subdivision (e) of Section 2895, the board shall issue a receipt...

The board shall hold not less than two examinations each year for applicants desirous of practicing vocational nursing in this State, at such times and places as the board may determine....

Examinations shall be written, but in the discretion of the board may be supplemented by an oral or practical examination in such subjects as the board determines. All examinations...

Any applicant who fails to pass his first examination may take a second examination upon payment of the fee required by this chapter....

The board shall issue a license to each applicant who passes the examination. The form of the license shall be determined in accordance with Section 164....

The board upon written application and receipt of the required application fee may issue a license without examination to any applicant who possesses a valid, unrevoked license as...

An applicant for license by examination shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by the board. After completion of a board accredited or approved nursing program and...

Any person possessing either the education or the experience, or any combination of both the education and the experience, equivalent to that acquired in an accredited school of...

Any person who has served on active duty in the medical corps of any of the armed forces, in which no less than an aggregate of 12 months was spent in rendering bedside patient care, and...

(a) Any person who on the effective date of this section is employed as a medical technical assistant or as a senior medical technical assistant by the Department of Corrections or...

The Department of Corrections and the Department of the Youth Authority shall jointly study, in consultation with the Board of Registered Nurses, the Board of Vocational Nursing...

Every licensee may be disciplined as provided in this article. The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2...

The board shall discipline the holder of any license, whose default has been entered or who has been heard by the board and found guilty, by any of the following methods: (a)...

If the holder of a license is suspended, he shall not be entitled to practice vocational nursing during the term of suspension and shall return his license to the board. Upon the expiration...

The board may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter for any of the following: (a) Unprofessional conduct, which includes, but is not limited to, the following: (1)...

(a) If a licensed vocational nurse has knowledge that another person has committed any act prohibited by Section 2878, the licensed vocational nurse shall report this information to the...

In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct within the meaning of this chapter, it is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this chapter to do any of...

A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions and duties of a licensed vocational...

(a) A person whose license has been revoked, suspended, surrendered, or placed on probation, may petition the board for reinstatement or modification of the penalty, including...

The board may deny any application or may suspend or revoke any license issued under this chapter based upon the denial of licensure, suspension, restriction, or other disciplinary action...

The board may issue an initial license on probation, with specific terms and conditions, to any applicant who has violated any term of this chapter, but who has met all other...

The board shall prepare and maintain a list of accredited schools of vocational nursing in this State whose graduates, if they have the other necessary qualifications provided in...

An accredited school of vocational nursing is one which has been approved by the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians, gives a course of instruction in vocational nursing...

The board shall deny the application for accreditation made by, and shall revoke the accreditation given to, any school of vocational nursing which does not give to student applicants...

The course of instruction of an accredited school of vocational nursing shall consist of not less than the required number of hours of instruction in such subjects as the board may from...

It shall be the duty of the board, through an official representative, to inspect all schools of vocational nursing in this state at such times as the board shall deem necessary....

None of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any school or schools conducted by any well recognized church or denomination for the purpose of training the adherents of...

It is unlawful for any person or persons not licensed as provided in this chapter to impersonate in any manner or pretend to be a licensed vocational nurse, or to use the...

It is unlawful for a person to wilfully make any false representation or to impersonate any other person or permit or aid any person in any manner to impersonate him in connection...

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon a conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than...

The Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury....

Licenses issued under this chapter prior to January 1, 1974, shall, unless renewed, expire on the last day of the month following the month in 1974 in which the licensee's birthday occurs...

Except as provided in Sections 2892.3 and 2892.5, an expired license may be renewed at any time within four years after its expiration upon filing of an application for renewal on...

A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the licensee, while the license remains suspended and until it...

A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration, the licensee, as a condition precedent...

A license which is not renewed within four years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reissued, or reinstated thereafter, but the holder of the license may apply for and obtain...

(a) Each person renewing his or her license under the provisions of this chapter shall submit proof satisfactory to the board that, during the preceding two-year period, he or she...

The board shall collect a biennial fee, not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200), from any provider of a course in continuing education who requests approval by the board of such...

At least once in every calendar month, the board shall furnish the Controller a detailed statement of all moneys collected by the board under this chapter or from any other source, and,...

All money in the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund is hereby continuously appropriated to the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians, without regard...

The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter in connection with the issuance of licenses under its provisions is that fixed by the following schedule: (a) The fee to be paid upon...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an applicant for license renewal who receives his or her license after payment by a check or money order that is subsequently returned unpaid,...

As provided in subdivision (d) of Section 2895, the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians shall collect an additional five dollar ($5) assessment at the time of...