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 FOR NURSES 
 
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 Graduate Colorado Training School for Nurses, connected with City and County Hospital, 
 
 Denver, Colorado, 1899; Post-Graduate Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, 1903; 
 
 Member Colorado State Board of Nurse Examiners, 1903-1909 
 
 SECOND EDITION. ENLARGED 
 
 PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON 
 
 W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY 
 
 1915
 
 Copyright, 1911, by W. B. Saunders Company. Revised, entirely reset, reprinted, and recopy- 
 
 righted February, 1915 
 
 Copyright 1915, by W. B. Saunders Company 
 
 PRINTED IN AMERICA 
 
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 WHO GAVE THE SUGGESTION THAT EVENTUALLY BROUGHT 
 THIS MONOGRAPH INTO EXISTENCE
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 INTRODUCTION i 
 
 SUMMARY OF LAWS: STATE BOARD OF NURSE EXAMINERS 3 
 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 17 
 
 FEES AND THEIR DISPOSITION 36 
 
 EXEMPTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 41 
 
 VIOLATIONS 42 
 
 REVOCATION 46 
 
 RECIPROCITY 5! 
 
 COMPULSORY LAWS 51 
 
 RECORDING CERTIFICATES 52 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS 52 
 
 FULL TEXT OF LAWS 54 
 
 INDEX 147
 
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 INTRODUCTION 
 
 IN the appended material the author has made an effort to com- 
 pile a comparative summary of the laws in the United States govern- 
 ing the registration of nurses, and to present it hi such shape as to 
 furnish an easy reference for those states contemplating new legal 
 enactments or the revision of laws already in existence, a means 
 of ready reference for the trained nurse in choosing her field of pro- 
 fessional activity whether temporary or permanent and to serve 
 as a basis in the collection of data for a complete history of the regis- 
 tration movement in the United States. 
 
 All the laws provide for a period during which nurses with vary- 
 ing lengths of training may be registered, usually without examina- 
 tion, thus protecting suitable nurses who trained or practised prior to 
 the time when legal enactments were thought of and standards of 
 training were in the formative period. Upon the going into effect 
 of the provisions of the acts there is no state which registers an 
 applicant who has had less than two years' training and the majority 
 of the states require three years' training. Many of the laws specify 
 that this training shall be received in a general hospital, while some 
 recognize the training given in the special hospital when it is sup- 
 plemented by a specified tune spent in an institution of* a general 
 character. Two new provisions are coming into the laws of later 
 date: For the inspection and registration of training-schools. Another 
 provision, found hi a very few laws and worthy of general adoption 
 by the states, is that of defining what is meant by "nurse" and "train- 
 ing-school," which is equivalent to restricting the use of the word 
 "nurse" to the trained, graduate, or professional woman, and gives 
 the training-school a place among educational institutions. All the 
 laws give the licentiate the title of "Registered Nurse," with the right 
 to use the abbreviation "R. N." 
 
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 2 INTRODUCTION 
 
 In amending the laws some of the states neglected to rearrange 
 the wording in different sections applicable to the same provision. 
 This mistake will lead to a misunderstanding on the part of the nurse 
 practitioner and may eventually bring unnecessary legal complica- 
 tions. Another source of possible trouble, noticed in a few instances, 
 is to make a positive statement and follow it up in the same section 
 with a proviso that negatives it. 
 
 This opportunity gives the author the privilege of extending her 
 thanks to the secretaries of the different State Boards and State 
 Associations for the copies of the laws furnished and the granting of 
 such other information made necessary for the completion of this 
 revision; also to those who kindly assisted in the sorting and compila- 
 tion of the material for publication, and in the proof-reading of the 
 copy that came from tune to time. 
 
 LOUIE CROFT BOYD. 
 DENVER, COLORADO, 
 February, 1915.
 
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 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Alabama. 
 
 Arkansas. 
 
 California. 
 
 Any incorporated or- 
 ganization teaching 
 and training its 
 pupils, giving hos- 
 pital practice in 
 hospital having at 
 least twenty beds, 
 and whose course 
 of instruction is ap- 
 proved by State 
 Health Officer. 
 
 All engaged in nurs- 
 ing at time of pas- 
 sage, or who have 
 practised for five 
 years prior to pas- 
 sage; must show 
 good moral char- 
 acter; graduate 
 from hospital or 
 sanitariunv giving 
 two years' general 
 training, and meet 
 requirements of law 
 by applying within 
 ninety days after 
 organization of 
 Board; also United 
 States Army and 
 Navy nurses honor- 
 ably discharged. 
 
 All who apply before 
 July i, 1914, and 
 have graduated 
 from a reputable 
 training-school con- 
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 eral hospital. 
 
 Examination to test 
 applicants' fitness 
 to practice, and 
 shall be in following 
 subjects: Practical 
 nursing, surgical 
 nursing, obstetric 
 nursing, hygiene, 
 contagion, diet 
 cooking, materia 
 medica, anatomy, 
 physiology, gyne- 
 cology, care of chil- 
 dren, and urinary 
 analysis; genito- 
 urinary to be given 
 to male nurses. If 
 applicant fails she 
 or he may take a 
 second examina- 
 tion, but no more 
 than two examina- 
 tions may be given 
 without payment 
 of additional fee. 
 
 Must furnish satis- 
 factory evidence of 
 having graduated 
 from an accredited 
 training-school for 
 nurses. All appli- 
 cants must be of 
 good moral char- 
 acter and comply 
 with provisions of 
 this act. 
 
 After May i, 1914, 
 applicants must be 
 nineteen years old, 
 and have passed 
 eighth grade or pos- 
 sess its equivalent.
 
 i8 
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Colorado. 
 
 Connecticut. 
 
 All engaged in nurs- 
 ing at time of pas- 
 sage of act, of good 
 moral character, 
 graduated prior to 
 April, 1906, train- 
 ing-school con- 
 nected with hospi- 
 tal or sanitarium 
 giving two years' 
 general training; 
 prior to 1901 
 eighteen months 
 general training, 
 and maintain 
 
 proper standards. 
 Those in training 
 in wards of general 
 hospital or sani- 
 tarium in the state 
 where two years' 
 training with sys- 
 tematic course of 
 instruction is given 
 and who graduate 
 hereafter, provided 
 they make applica- 
 tion before April, 
 1909. All nurses 
 who have served 
 in army or navy 
 of the United 
 States and been 
 honorably dis- 
 charged. 
 
 Within two years 
 from passage of 
 act: Must be 
 twenty-one years 
 old, of good moral 
 character, by affi- 
 davit or otherwise 
 show graduation 
 from a two years' 
 training in public 
 or private hospital 
 where medical, sur- 
 gical, and obstet- 
 ric cases are 
 treated; also stu- 
 dent in such a 
 training-school who 
 
 Board to determine 
 fitness of applicant 
 to practice. 
 
 Applicant to be 
 twenty-one years 
 old, of good moral 
 character, gradu- 
 ate of training- 
 school which gives 
 two years' training 
 in a public or pri- 
 vate hospital which 
 cares for medical, 
 surgical and obstet- 
 ric cases, or who 
 has had experience 
 which Board shall 
 decide is equiva- 
 lent. Examination 
 to cover elemen-
 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Connecticut. 
 
 shall graduate 
 
 tary anatomy and 
 
 
 (Continued). 
 
 later. 
 
 physiology, medi- 
 
 
 
 
 cal, surgical, and 
 
 
 
 
 obstetric nursing, 
 
 
 
 
 dietetics, and home 
 
 
 
 
 sanitation. 
 
 
 Delaware. 
 
 Before June i, 191 1: 
 
 Graduates from 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 
 Those possessing 
 
 special hospital 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 necessary qualifi- 
 
 giving two years' 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 cations; graduates 
 
 training, examina- 
 
 character, graduate 
 
 
 of a general hospi- 
 
 tion to be in sub- 
 
 of school connected 
 
 
 tal or sanitarium 
 
 jects not adequate- 
 
 with general hospital 
 
 
 which gave two 
 
 ly taught in their 
 
 giving three years' 
 
 
 years' training prior 
 
 schools. 
 
 training in hospital, 
 
 
 to 1898; graduates 
 
 
 and after June i, 
 
 
 of special hospital 
 
 
 1911, to have the 
 
 
 which gave two 
 
 
 equivalent of high- 
 
 
 years' training and 
 
 
 school education or 
 
 
 who obtain one 
 
 
 pass an examina- 
 
 
 year additional in 
 
 
 tion in collateral 
 
 
 an approved gen- 
 
 
 subjects. 
 
 
 eral hospital. 
 
 
 
 District of 
 
 Nurses possessing 
 
 Those engaged in 
 
 Over twenty-three 
 
 Columbia. 
 
 necessary qualifi- 
 
 nursing for four 
 
 years of age, of good 
 
 
 cations who have 
 
 years just prior to 
 
 moral character, 
 
 
 been graduated 
 
 passage of the Act 
 
 free from habits 
 
 
 and engaged in 
 
 and have spent one 
 
 liable to interfere 
 
 
 nursing for five 
 
 year in a hospital 
 
 with her services as 
 
 
 years just prior to 
 
 or sanitarium may 
 
 a nurse; who holds 
 
 
 passage of the act; 
 
 pass a practical ex- 
 
 a diploma from a 
 
 
 those graduated 
 
 amination, certifi- 
 
 t r a i n i n g-school 
 
 
 from training- 
 
 cates to show that 
 
 registered by the 
 
 
 schools in District 
 
 they have not ful- 
 
 examining Board as 
 
 
 of Columbia within 
 
 filled all the re- 
 
 maintaining proper 
 
 
 five years from the 
 
 quirements for 
 
 educational stand- 
 
 
 passage of the act. 
 
 graduate nurses. 
 
 ards, that gives 
 
 
 
 
 not less than two 
 
 
 
 
 years' training in 
 
 
 
 
 a general hospital 
 
 
 
 
 or instruction of 
 
 
 
 
 the same kind as 
 
 
 
 
 that given in a gen- 
 
 
 
 
 eral hospital. 
 
 Florida. 
 
 All nurses who grad- 
 
 Graduates from 
 
 Applicant must be 
 
 
 uate before June i, 
 
 t r a i n i n g-schools 
 
 twenty-two years 
 
 
 1916, possessing 
 
 connected with 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 qualifications and 
 
 special hospitals 
 
 character, have 
 
 
 upon payment of 
 
 giving two years' 
 
 equivalent of gram- 
 
 
 fee: Graduates from 
 
 training, who pass 
 
 mar schooling, and 
 
 
 t r a i n i n g-schools 
 
 special examination 
 
 graduate from 
 
 
 connected with gen- 
 
 before June i, 1916, 
 
 training-school pre- 
 
 
 eral hospital or 
 
 in subjects not ade- 
 
 sided over by gradu-
 
 20 
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Florida 
 
 sanitarium giving 
 
 quately taught in 
 
 ate nurse, and giving 
 
 (Continued) . 
 
 two years' training, 
 
 their training- 
 
 a systematic course 
 
 
 or prior to 1897 hav- 
 
 schools. All nurses 
 
 in medical, surgical, 
 
 
 ing had one year's 
 
 after June i, 1916. 
 
 and obstetric nurs- 
 
 
 training, who main- 
 
 
 ing covering two 
 
 
 tain proper stan- 
 
 
 years; or has re- 
 
 
 dards, and are en- 
 
 
 ceived two years' 
 
 
 gaged in nursing at 
 
 
 training in some 
 
 
 time of passage of 
 
 
 reputable hospital 
 
 
 law, or have been 
 
 
 and received a cer- 
 
 
 engaged in nursing 
 
 
 tificate from the 
 
 
 for five years after 
 
 
 superintendent or 
 
 
 graduation prior to 
 
 
 physician in charge 
 
 
 passage of law; also 
 
 
 and which shall be 
 
 
 those in training at 
 
 
 approved by the 
 
 
 time of passage of 
 
 
 Medical Association 
 
 
 law, graduate here- 
 
 
 of the County where 
 
 
 after, and possess 
 
 
 hospital is located; 
 
 
 the required quali- 
 
 
 or graduated from 
 
 
 fications; also grad- 
 
 
 training-school in 
 
 
 uates from train- 
 
 
 connection with a 
 
 
 ing-s c h o o 1 s con- 
 
 
 hospital in good 
 
 
 nected with special 
 
 
 standing supplying 
 
 
 hospitals giving two 
 
 
 a systematic two 
 
 
 years' training who 
 
 
 years' training ob- 
 
 
 obtain one year's 
 
 1 
 
 tained in two or 
 
 
 training in an ap- 
 
 
 more hospitals. 
 
 
 proved general hos- 
 
 
 
 
 pital. All these ap- 
 
 
 
 
 plications must be in 
 
 
 
 
 before June i, 1916. 
 
 
 
 Georgia. 
 
 Nurses possessing 
 
 Graduates from 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 
 necessary qualifi- 
 
 chartered training- 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 cations who apply 
 
 school connected 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 before June i, 
 
 with general hos- 
 
 character and pro- 
 
 
 1909; also gradu- 
 
 pital or sanitarium, 
 
 fessional standing. 
 
 
 ates of training- 
 
 in which medical, 
 
 
 
 schools connected 
 
 surgical, gyneco- 
 
 
 
 with hospital or 
 
 logic and obstetric 
 
 
 
 sanitarium giving 
 
 cases are treated, 
 
 
 
 two years' instruc- 
 
 where three years' 
 
 
 
 tion, or prior to 
 
 training with sys- 
 
 
 
 or during 1897 one 
 
 tematic course of 
 
 
 
 year's training; also 
 
 instruction is given, 
 
 
 
 nurses in training 
 
 or graduates with 
 
 
 
 at time of passage 
 
 same training ob- 
 
 
 
 of act and who 
 
 tained in two or 
 
 
 
 shall graduate 
 
 more hospitals. All 
 
 
 
 hereafter. 
 
 applicants at same 
 
 
 
 
 examination shall 
 
 
 
 
 be subjected to 
 
 
 
 
 same kind of an 
 
 
 
 
 examination. 

 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
 
 21 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Idaho. 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 Applications to be 
 made before July i, 
 191 1, in following 
 manner: Graduates 
 from reputable 
 training-school con- 
 nected with general 
 or special hospital 
 giving a two years' 
 course of training 
 between date above 
 and January i, 
 1890. 2. Graduates, 
 on or prior to Jan- 
 uary i, 1897, from 
 reputable training- 
 school connected 
 with general hos- 
 pital, which gave 
 one year's training, 
 and who have had 
 five years' experi- 
 ence subsequent to 
 graduation. 3. 
 
 Nurses now in train- 
 ing in reputable 
 training-school con- 
 nected with a gen- 
 eral hospital which 
 gives two years' 
 training, provided 
 they graduate 
 
 therefrom. Also 
 nurses who apply 
 on or after January 
 i, 1914, provided 
 they are graduates 
 from reputable 
 training - schools 
 connected with gen- 
 eral hospitals giving 
 a systematic course 
 covering three 
 years. 
 
 Nurses who apply on 
 or after January i, 
 1914, and shall be 
 graduates from rep- 
 utable training- 
 schools connected 
 with special hospital 
 giving two years' 
 training, and have 
 obtained one year's 
 additional training 
 in a general hospital 
 in those subjects 
 not adequately 
 taught in their 
 training-schools. 
 
 Applications to be in 
 writing, applicant 
 to be resident of 
 state, of good moral 
 character, twenty- 
 two years of age, 
 graduate from ac- 
 credited school for 
 
 Applicants furnish 
 evidence of being 
 twenty-one years 
 old, of good moral 
 character, and grad- 
 uates from training- 
 schools connected 
 with general hospi- 
 tal, approved by 
 Board, where a sys- 
 tematic course, cov- 
 ering two years, is 
 given.
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Illinois 
 (Continued) . 
 
 Indiana. 
 
 Diplomas from a 
 training-school con- 
 nected with a gen- 
 eral hospital giving 
 two years' training; 
 those having had 
 seven years' ex- 
 perience, three 
 spent in a general 
 or special hospi- 
 tal, and engaged 
 in nursing at date 
 of or prior to the 
 passage of act; ap- 
 plication to be 
 made before Jan- 
 uary i , 1906. Nurses 
 
 nurses connected 
 with general hospi- 
 tal giving a system- 
 atic course covering 
 three years and 
 possessing other 
 qualifications pre- 
 scribed by Board. 
 Pupils may apply 
 within three months 
 of graduation, but 
 certificate is not 
 issued until diploma 
 is granted by 
 school. Also nurses 
 who graduated from 
 a training-school 
 connected with any 
 hospital of good 
 standing, requiring 
 two years' training, 
 and who possess the 
 other necessary 
 qualifications, pro- 
 vided application is 
 filed within six 
 months subsequent 
 to passage of act, 
 or at time of appli- 
 cation shall have 
 obtained one year's 
 additional training 
 in subjects not ade- 
 quately taught in 
 their schools. 
 Graduates of train- 
 ing-schools con- 
 nected with special 
 hospitals who pass 
 examination in sub- 
 jects not adequate- 
 ly taught in their 
 schools. By-laws 
 to provide for ex- 
 amination of nurses 
 who apply before 
 January i, 1906, 
 who have not grad- 
 uated from a train- 
 ing-school, have 
 been nursing ten 
 years and present 
 
 Applicant to be 
 twenty-one years 
 old and of good 
 moral character.
 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Indiana 
 
 in training at pas- 
 
 required creden- 
 
 
 (Continued). 
 
 sage of act and 
 
 tials from physi- 
 
 
 
 who possess neces- 
 
 cians. After June 
 
 
 
 sary qualifications; 
 
 i, 1908, applicant 
 
 
 
 graduates from 
 
 to furnish satisfac- 
 
 
 
 special hospitals 
 
 tory evidence of 
 
 
 
 giving two years' 
 
 qualifications, have 
 
 
 
 training, who ob- 
 
 equivalent of high- 
 
 
 
 tain six months ad- 
 
 school education, 
 
 
 
 ditional training in 
 
 graduate from train- 
 
 
 
 a general hospital 
 
 ing-school connect- 
 
 
 
 approved by Board; 
 
 ed with general 
 
 
 
 graduates who have 
 
 hospital, approved 
 
 
 
 nursed five years 
 
 by Board, where a 
 
 
 
 prior to passage of 
 
 systematic course 
 
 
 
 this act; all eligible 
 
 of instruction cov- 
 
 
 
 before June i, 1908. 
 
 ering two years is 
 
 
 
 All honorably dis- 
 
 given. 
 
 
 
 charged army and 
 
 
 
 
 navy nurses of 
 
 
 
 
 United States. 
 
 
 
 Iowa. 
 
 Graduates and resi- 
 
 Examination to 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 
 dents of state who 
 
 cover elementary 
 
 twenty-three years 
 
 
 have been engaged 
 
 hygiene, anatomy, 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 in nursing prior to 
 
 physiology, ma- 
 
 character, schools 
 
 
 passage of act; also 
 
 teria medica, diet- 
 
 to be recognized 
 
 
 those who graduate 
 
 etics, practical 
 
 by State Board of 
 
 
 prior to July i, 
 
 nursing, medical 
 
 Health, applicants 
 
 
 1907. 
 
 and surgical nurs- 
 
 to have received 
 
 
 
 ing, obstetrics, 
 
 two years' instruc- 
 
 
 
 nursing of chil- 
 
 tion in general hos- 
 
 
 
 dren, and the rules 
 
 pital practice. After 
 
 
 
 and regulations of 
 
 July i, 1910, train- 
 
 
 
 the State Board of 
 
 ing school must give 
 
 
 
 Health relating to 
 
 three years' training 
 
 
 
 infectious diseases 
 
 and be attached to 
 
 
 
 and quarantine 
 
 general hospital. 
 
 
 
 and other subjects 
 
 
 
 
 required from time 
 
 
 
 
 to time. 
 
 
 Kansas. 
 
 Applicant to present 
 
 After July i, 1913, 
 
 Applicants to be 
 
 
 diploma issued be- 
 
 applicant to have 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 fore July i, 1913, 
 
 diploma from train- 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 from training-school 
 
 ing-school connect- 
 
 character, and have 
 
 
 connected with gen- 
 
 ed with chartered 
 
 received the equiv- 
 
 
 eral hospital, state 
 
 hospital requiring 
 
 alent of a common 
 
 
 hospital, sanita- 
 
 two years' course of 
 
 school education. 
 
 
 rium, or special hos- 
 pital holding a char- 
 
 systematic training! 
 in general hospital, 
 
 
 
 ter, or from one of 
 
 state hospital, sani- 
 
 
 
 these hospitals, 
 
 tarium, or special 
 
 
 
 without a charter 
 
 hospital of good 

 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Kansas 
 (Continued) 
 
 Kentucky. 
 
 prior to July i, 
 1913, where a sys- 
 tematic course of 
 training is given in 
 one or more hospi- 
 tals; also to appli- 
 cant holding cer- 
 tificate issued prior 
 to 1905 by any in- 
 stitution giving one 
 year's training, pro- 
 vided applicant has 
 had seven years' 
 practice. Appli- 
 cants who show di- 
 ploma from train- 
 ing-school connect- 
 ed with chartered 
 general hospital, 
 sanitarium, or spe- 
 cial hospital giv- 
 ing two years' train- 
 ing. 
 
 Graduate nurses hon- 
 orably engaged in 
 nursing at time of 
 passage of law, resi- 
 dents of state for 
 six months, of good 
 moral character, 
 and graduates from 
 training-school con- 
 nected with special 
 hospital, infirmary, 
 or general hospital 
 of good reputation, 
 and in other re- 
 spects meet require- 
 ments of law; also 
 all graduated prior 
 to 1893 and having 
 had one year's train- 
 ing in a reputable 
 school; also all 
 nurses in training in 
 school giving a sys- 
 tematic training, 
 provided they grad- 
 uate. All these 
 applications to be 
 in on or before 
 August i, 1914. 
 
 standing. Rules for 
 examinations to be 
 furnished upon re- 
 quest. 
 
 Examination to show 
 qualifications of 
 nurse to practice. 
 
 Applicants to furnish 
 satisfactory evi- 
 dence of being 
 twenty-one years of 
 age, of good moral 
 character, and have 
 been graduated from 
 training-school con- 
 nected with special 
 hospital, infirmary, 
 or general hospital 
 approved by Board.
 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Louisiana. 
 
 Pupils in training at 
 
 Until July i, 1913, 
 
 Applicants to be 
 
 
 time of passage of act 
 
 nurses having had 
 
 twenty-one years of 
 
 
 and who graduate 
 
 one year's training 
 
 age, of good moral 
 
 
 before July i, 1915, 
 
 in a recognized 
 
 character, have 
 
 
 from schools in state, 
 
 school, three years 
 
 equivalent of high- 
 
 
 all applications to be 
 
 of actual experience, 
 
 school education, 
 
 
 made before July i , 
 
 and be vouched for 
 
 and be graduate of 
 
 
 1915. Nurses prac- 
 
 by five reputable 
 
 training-school con- 
 
 
 tising in state, who 
 
 physicians. 
 
 nected with general 
 
 
 show themselves to 
 
 
 hospital in good 
 
 
 be graduates from 
 
 
 standing, of which 
 
 
 training - schools 
 
 
 Board shall be the 
 
 
 connected with gen- 
 
 
 judge. 
 
 
 eral hospitals or 
 
 
 
 
 sanitariums giving 
 
 
 
 
 two years' training, 
 
 
 
 
 shall be required to 
 
 
 
 
 be registered before 
 
 
 
 
 July i, 1913. 
 
 
 
 Maryland. 
 
 Those showing re- 
 
 Board makes require- 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 
 quirements. Grad- 
 
 ments. Graduates 
 
 twenty-three years 
 
 
 uates from training- 
 
 from training- 
 
 of age, good moral 
 
 
 schools connected 
 
 schools connected 
 
 character, equiva- 
 
 
 with general hospi- 
 
 with special hospi- 
 
 lent of high-school 
 
 
 tal or sanitarium 
 
 tals are eligible for 
 
 education, gradu- 
 
 
 giving two years' 
 
 registration prior to 
 
 ate from training- 
 
 
 training, or prior to 
 
 June i, 1906, upon 
 
 school connected 
 
 
 1897 having given 
 
 passing special ex- 
 
 with a general hos- 
 
 
 one year's training 
 
 amination in sub- 
 
 pital where a three 
 
 
 and maintaining 
 
 jects not adequate- 
 
 years' training with 
 
 
 proper standards, 
 
 ly taught in their 
 
 a systematic course 
 
 
 and are engaged in 
 
 training-schools. 
 
 of instruction is 
 
 
 nursing at date of 
 
 
 given, or same train- 
 
 
 passage of act; 
 
 
 ing obtained in two 
 
 
 those engaged in 
 
 
 or more hospitals. 
 
 
 nursing five years 
 
 
 
 
 after graduation 
 
 
 
 
 prior to passage of 
 
 
 
 
 act; those in train- 
 
 
 
 
 ing at time of pas- 
 
 
 
 
 sage of act and who 
 
 
 
 
 graduate hereafter; 
 
 
 
 
 graduates from 
 
 
 
 
 training-schools con- 
 
 
 
 
 nected with special 
 
 
 
 
 hospitals giving two 
 
 
 
 
 years' course who 
 
 
 
 
 obtain one year's 
 
 
 
 
 additional training 
 
 
 
 
 in approved general 
 
 
 
 
 hospital; all eligible 
 
 
 
 
 before June i, 1906. 
 

 
 26 
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Massachu- 
 
 Residents of Com- 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 Applications to be 
 
 setts. 
 
 monwealth, who 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 made on blanks 
 
 
 shall make appli- 
 
 old and of good 
 
 furnished by Board 
 
 
 cation within one 
 
 moral character. 
 
 and signed and 
 
 
 year from passage 
 
 If applicant fails 
 
 sworn to. 
 
 
 of act and who 
 
 to pass, may be re- 
 
 
 
 shall by affidavit 
 
 examined if appli- 
 
 
 
 or otherwise sat- 
 
 cation is made 
 
 
 
 isfy the Board of 
 
 within the year. 
 
 
 
 having nursed for 
 
 Examinations shall 
 
 
 
 five years next 
 
 be partly written 
 
 
 
 prior to date of ap- 
 
 in English and 
 
 
 
 plication, or those 
 
 partly in practical 
 
 
 
 having had expe- 
 
 work; shall include 
 
 
 
 rience in hospitals 
 
 the principles and 
 
 
 
 or training-schools 
 
 methods of nursing, 
 
 
 
 which will justify 
 
 credit to be given 
 
 
 
 registration by the 
 
 for examinations in 
 
 
 
 Board. 
 
 special branches. 
 
 
 Michigan. 
 
 Before December i, 
 
 After December i, 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 
 1912: Graduate of 
 
 1912: Graduates 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 general hospital, 
 
 from schools giving 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 state hospital, sani- 
 
 two years' training 
 
 character, and who 
 
 
 tarium, or special 
 
 with systematic in- 
 
 has received the 
 
 
 hospital which 
 
 struction in a gen- 
 
 equivalent of a 
 
 
 gives two years' 
 
 eral hospital, state 
 
 grammar school ed- 
 
 
 training with syste- 
 
 hospital, or special 
 
 ucation. 
 
 
 matic instruction in 
 
 hospital in good 
 
 
 
 hospital, or its 
 
 standing, the ex- 
 
 
 
 equivalent received 
 
 amination to be in 
 
 
 
 in one or more gen- 
 
 accordance with 
 
 
 
 eral hospitals of 
 
 rules prescribed by 
 
 
 
 good standing; also 
 
 Board. Within two 
 
 
 
 if applicant gradu- 
 
 years following pas- 
 
 
 
 ated prior to 1895 
 
 sage of act: Those 
 
 
 
 and received one 
 
 who have pursued 
 
 
 
 year's training in 
 
 the vocation of 
 
 
 
 any of the aforesaid 
 
 nursing for five 
 
 
 
 institutions under 
 
 years or more prior 
 
 
 
 conditions satis- 
 
 to passage of act 
 
 
 
 factory to Board, 
 
 and who present 
 
 
 
 is nursing at the 
 
 certificates show- 
 
 
 
 date of passage of 
 
 ing competency and 
 
 
 
 the act, or has been 
 
 signed by one regis- 
 
 
 
 nursing five years 
 
 tered physician and 
 
 
 
 after graduation 
 
 two registered 
 
 
 
 and prior to pass- 
 
 nurses. 
 
 
 
 ing of law, and 
 
 
 
 
 shall make appli- 
 
 
 
 
 cation before De- 
 
 
 
 
 cember i, 1911. 
 

 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Minnesota. 
 
 Nurses possessing 
 
 Applicant to be ex- 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 
 necessary qualifi- 
 
 amined in both 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 cations if applica- 
 
 theoretic and prac- 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 tion be made prior 
 
 tical nursing; grad- 
 
 character, educa- 
 
 
 to January i, 1910; 
 
 uates of training- 
 
 tion equivalent to 
 
 
 also graduates of 
 
 schools connected 
 
 entrance require- 
 
 
 training - schools 
 
 with special hospi- 
 
 ments of high- 
 
 
 connected with 
 
 tals giving two 
 
 schools of state, 
 
 
 general hospital or 
 
 years' course, the 
 
 graduate of train- 
 
 
 sanitarium giving 
 
 examination to be 
 
 ing-s c h o o 1 con- 
 
 
 two years' course, 
 
 in subjects not ade- 
 
 nected with general 
 
 
 or prior to 1897 
 
 quately taught in 
 
 hospital giving 
 
 
 one year's course, 
 
 their schools; also 
 
 three years' train- 
 
 
 and who maintain 
 
 those who have 
 
 ing with systematic 
 
 
 proper standards; 
 
 nursed for five 
 
 course of instruc- 
 
 
 also those engaged 
 
 years prior to pas- 
 
 tion given in hospi- 
 
 
 in nursing at date 
 
 sage of act who pre- 
 
 tal, or with corre- 
 
 
 of passage of act or 
 
 sent certificates 
 
 sponding training 
 
 
 have been engaged 
 
 signed by one li- 
 
 which may be ob- 
 
 
 in nursing five 
 
 censed physician 
 
 tained in two or 
 
 
 years after gradu- 
 
 and two registered 
 
 more hospitals. 
 
 
 ation prior to pas- 
 
 nurses, this exam- 
 
 
 
 sage of act; also 
 
 ination to be prac- 
 
 
 
 those in training 
 
 tical and for a pe- 
 
 
 
 who graduate here- 
 
 riod of two years 
 
 
 
 after; also gradu- 
 
 following passage of 
 
 
 
 ates from training- 
 
 act. 
 
 
 
 schools connected 
 
 
 
 
 with special hospi- 
 
 
 
 
 tals giving two 
 
 
 
 
 years' course with 
 
 
 
 
 one year's addi- 
 
 
 
 
 tional training in 
 
 
 
 
 an approved gen- 
 
 
 
 
 eral hospital. 
 
 
 
 Mississippi. 
 
 All nurses in training 
 
 Examinations to 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 
 at time of passage 
 
 cover theoretic 
 
 eighteen years old, 
 
 
 of act, and who 
 
 and practical nurs- 
 
 good moral charac- 
 
 
 graduate on or be- 
 
 ing, anatomy, phys- 
 
 ter, common school 
 
 
 fore two years fol- 
 
 iology, bacteriol- 
 
 education or its 
 
 
 lowing, and make 
 
 ogy, materia med- 
 
 equivalent, and 
 
 
 application before 
 
 ica, dietetics, and 
 
 graduate from gen- 
 
 
 the expiration of 
 
 hygiene. Nurses, 
 
 eral hospital or san- 
 
 
 time limit; also all 
 
 not graduates, who 
 
 itarium giving two 
 
 
 nurses in the state 
 
 have practised prior 
 
 years' continuous 
 
 
 who graduated 
 
 to taking effect of 
 
 resident training 
 
 
 prior to passage of 
 
 act. 
 
 with a systematic 
 
 
 act, provided appli- 
 
 
 course of instruc- 
 
 
 cation is made with- 
 
 
 tion. 
 
 
 in one year follow- 
 
 
 
 
 ing passage of law. 
 

 
 28 
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Missouri. 
 
 Montana. 
 
 Before December i, 
 1912: Graduates 
 of schools con- 
 nected . with gen- 
 eral hospitals giv- 
 ing two or more 
 years' training with 
 systematic instruc- 
 tion in one or more 
 general hospitals 
 of good standing. 
 Before December 
 31, 1911: Those 
 who graduated 
 prior to 1895 from 
 general hospital, 
 sanitarium, or spe- 
 cial hospital ap- 
 proved by Board, 
 and who are or 
 have been for five 
 years engaged in 
 nursing at date of 
 passage of act. 
 
 Any nurse who grad- 
 uated prior to July 
 i, 1917, and after 
 January i, 1890, 
 from a reputable 
 training-school con- 
 nected with a gen- 
 eral hospital which 
 gives two years' 
 training. 
 
 After 1912: Gradu- 
 ates from schools 
 requiring two or 
 more years' course 
 with systematic in- 
 struction in a gen- 
 eral hospital, sani- 
 tarium, or special 
 hospital, or from 
 one or more hospi- 
 tals giving the same 
 training or its 
 equivalent. 
 
 Within two years, fol- 
 lowing passage of 
 act, any person who 
 has nursed for five 
 years, and who pre- 
 sents a certificate 
 that he, or she, is a 
 competent person 
 to give efficient care 
 to the sick, this 
 being signed by- 
 one licensed physi- 
 cian in active prac- 
 tice and two regis- 
 tered nurses. All 
 applicants after 
 July i, 1917; also 
 those who have 
 graduated from a 
 training-school ap- 
 proved by the 
 Board, connected 
 with a special hos- 
 pital requiring a 
 systematic course 
 of two years' train- 
 ing, and who at the 
 time of application 
 
 Applicant to be 
 twenty-one years 
 old, of good moral 
 character, and a 
 resident or gradu- 
 ate nurse of state, 
 except where other- 
 wise provided; also 
 must have equiv- 
 alent of grammar- 
 school course. 
 
 Applicants to be 
 twenty-two years 
 old and of good 
 moral character.
 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
 
 2 9 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Montana 
 
 
 shall have obtained 
 
 
 (Continued'). 
 
 
 in a reputable gen- 
 
 
 
 
 eral hospital one 
 
 
 
 
 year's additional 
 
 
 
 
 training in subjects 
 
 
 
 
 not adequately 
 
 
 
 
 taught in their 
 
 
 
 
 training-school, ex- 
 
 
 
 
 amination to cover 
 
 
 
 
 these additional 
 
 
 
 
 subjects. 
 
 
 Nebraska. 
 
 Nurses possessing 
 
 Theoretic and prac- 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 
 necessary qualifica- 
 
 tical nursing, anat- 
 
 twenty-one years of 
 
 
 tions and graduated 
 
 omy and physiol- 
 
 age, of good moral 
 
 
 before January i, 
 
 ogy, materia med- 
 
 character, educa- 
 
 
 1911; or who have 
 
 ica, practical and 
 
 tion equivalent to 
 
 
 taken six months 
 
 surgical nursing, 
 
 requirements for 
 
 
 or more in hospital 
 
 and in mental and 
 
 high-school en- 
 
 
 or training-school 
 
 nervous diseases. 
 
 trance, graduated 
 
 
 in good standing 
 
 Graduates from 
 
 from a training- 
 
 
 and have been nurs- 
 
 training - schools 
 
 school connected 
 
 
 ing for twelve 
 
 connected with gen- 
 
 with a general hos- 
 
 
 months, application 
 
 eral hospitals or 
 
 pital or sanitarium 
 
 
 to be made before 
 
 sanitariums giving 
 
 giving two or three 
 
 
 September i, 1910. 
 
 a two or more 
 
 years' course. 
 
 
 
 years' course; from 
 
 
 
 
 training - schools 
 
 
 
 
 connected with spe- 
 
 
 
 
 cial hospitals who 
 
 
 
 
 obtain six months' 
 
 
 
 
 additional training 
 
 
 
 
 in an approved gen- 
 
 
 
 
 eral hospital or 
 
 
 
 
 training obtained 
 
 
 
 
 in two or more hos- 
 
 
 
 
 pitals; two years' 
 
 
 
 
 actual experience 
 
 
 
 
 in nursing in this 
 
 
 
 
 state and to be 
 
 
 
 
 recommended in 
 
 
 
 
 writing by four 
 
 
 
 
 reputable physi- 
 
 
 
 
 cians, provided ap- 
 
 
 
 
 plication be made 
 
 
 
 
 before January i, 
 
 
 
 
 1910. 
 
 
 New Hamp- 
 
 Regent, upon rec- 
 
 Engaged in actual 
 
 Resident of state, 
 
 shire. 
 
 ommendation of 
 
 practice for three 
 
 over twenty-one 
 
 
 Nurse Board, may 
 
 years just prior to 
 
 years old, of good 
 
 
 waive examination 
 
 passage of the act. 
 
 moral character, 
 
 
 of any graduate in 
 
 Examination to be 
 
 diploma from train- 
 
 
 good standing, and 
 
 in practical nursing 
 
 ing - school con-
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 New Hamp- 
 
 of pupils in train- 
 
 and limit for regis- 
 
 nected with hospi- 
 
 shire 
 
 ing who shall grad- 
 
 tration in this way 
 
 tal, giving at least 
 
 (Continued). 
 
 uate hereafter and 
 
 three years from 
 
 two years in the 
 
 
 who apply in writ- 
 
 passage of act. 
 
 hospital and regis- 
 
 
 ing within three 
 
 
 tered by the Regent 
 
 
 years from the pas- 
 
 
 of the State Boards 
 
 
 sage of the act. 
 
 
 of Medical Exam- 
 
 
 
 
 iners as maintain- 
 
 
 
 
 ing proper stand- 
 
 
 
 
 ards. 
 
 New Jersey. 
 
 Nurse residents of 
 
 To begin when law 
 
 Applicants to be 
 
 
 state, who apply 
 
 goes into effect, and 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 within two years, 
 
 to cover anatomy, 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 graduates of train- 
 
 physiology, bacte- 
 
 character, a gram- 
 
 
 ing-schools giving 
 
 riology, materia 
 
 mar-school certifi- 
 
 
 two years' course in 
 
 medica, dietetics, 
 
 cate, and one year of 
 
 
 public or private 
 
 hygiene, medical, 
 
 high-school or their 
 
 
 general hospital; 
 
 surgical, and ob- 
 
 equivalent and 
 
 
 also nurses in train- 
 
 stetric nursing, 
 
 graduate of training- 
 
 
 ing at time of pas- 
 
 children's diseases, 
 
 school connected 
 
 
 sage of law, possess- 
 
 and contagion. Ap- 
 
 with public or pri- 
 
 
 ing above qualifi- 
 
 plicant to have be- 
 
 vate general hospi- 
 
 
 cations, and who 
 
 tween 60 and 70 per 
 
 tal which treats 
 
 
 graduate after- 
 
 cent, in each sub- 
 
 twenty-five patients 
 
 
 ward. 
 
 ject. 
 
 daily, or its equiva- 
 
 
 
 
 lent, as determined 
 
 
 
 
 by Board; references 
 
 
 
 
 from one practicing 
 
 
 
 
 physician and two 
 
 
 
 
 nurses; also photo- 
 
 
 
 
 graph and affidavit. 
 
 New York. 
 
 Nurses who gradu- 
 
 Regents, with advice 
 
 Applicant must be 
 
 
 ated before or are 
 
 of Board of Exam- 
 
 resident of state, 
 
 
 in training at time 
 
 iners, shall make 
 
 over twenty-one 
 
 
 of passage of the 
 
 rules for the exam- 
 
 years of age, of 
 
 
 act and shall grad- 
 
 ination of nurses; 
 
 good moral charac- 
 
 
 uate hereafter; also 
 
 also grant a certif- 
 
 ter, holding diploma 
 
 
 such as are engaged 
 
 icate to nurse of 
 
 from training-school 
 
 
 in nursing, who 
 
 good moral charac- 
 
 connected with hos- 
 
 
 have had three 
 
 ter, who has been 
 
 pital or sanitarium 
 
 
 years' experience in 
 
 engaged in nursing 
 
 giving two years' 
 
 
 a general hospital 
 
 for three years next 
 
 course, and which is 
 
 
 prior to the passage 
 
 prior to the passage 
 
 registered by the 
 
 
 of this act and who 
 
 of the act, provided 
 
 Regents of the State 
 
 
 apply within three 
 
 application be 
 
 of New York. 
 
 
 years after the pas- 
 
 made within three 
 
 
 
 sage of this act. 
 
 years from the pas- 
 
 
 
 
 sage of this act. 
 
 
 North Caro- 
 
 Furnish evidence of 
 
 Examined in anat- 
 
 Applicant must be of 
 
 lina. 
 
 competency en- 
 
 omy, physiology, 
 
 good moral char- 
 
 
 tirely satisfactory 
 
 materia medica, in 
 
 acter, over twenty- 
 
 
 to Board. 
 
 medical, surgical, 
 
 one years old, have
 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 North Caro- 
 lina 
 (Continued). 
 
 Oklahoma. 
 
 Oregon. 
 
 Provided nurses ap- 
 ply before July i, 
 1912. 
 
 obstetric and prac- 
 tical nursing, in- 
 valid cookery, and 
 household hygiene. 
 License granted if 
 competent. 
 
 Applicant to be 
 twenty-one years 
 of age, good moral 
 character, one year 
 of high-school or its 
 equivalent,graduate 
 of training-school 
 connected with gen- 
 eral hospital where a 
 two years' residence 
 training with sys- 
 tematic course of 
 instruction is given. 
 Examination to be 
 in surgical, medical, 
 obstetric nursing 
 (genito-urinary for 
 male nurses), anat- 
 omy, physiology, 
 materia medica, hy- 
 giene, and dietetics. 
 Graduates from 
 training-schools con- 
 nected with special 
 hospitals giving two 
 years' course, who 
 are to be examined 
 in subjects not ade- 
 quately taught in 
 their training- 
 
 schools. ' 
 
 Subjects are anat- 
 omy, physiology, 
 medicine, obstet- 
 rics, gynecology, 
 surgery, nursing, 
 dietetics, and home 
 sanitation. All ap- 
 plicants after July 
 
 equivalent of high- 
 school education, 
 graduate of training- 
 school connected 
 with general hospi- 
 tal or sanitarium 
 where three years' 
 training with sys- 
 tematic course of 
 instruction is given. 
 
 Applicants to be 
 twenty-one years 
 old, of good moral 
 character, and grad- 
 uates from training- 
 schools connected 
 with general hospi- 
 tals approved by 
 Board, where a sys- 
 tematic course, cov- 
 ering two years, is 
 given.
 
 3 2 
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Pennsyl- 
 
 Provided nurses ap- 
 
 All nurses after June 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 vania. 
 
 ply before June i, 
 
 1912. 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 1912. 
 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 
 
 character, graduate 
 
 
 
 
 of training-school 
 
 
 
 
 which gives two 
 
 
 
 
 years' course in sur- 
 
 
 
 
 gical and medical 
 
 
 
 
 nursing, or appli- 
 
 
 
 
 cant to have re- 
 
 
 
 
 ceived this instruc- 
 
 
 
 
 tion in different 
 
 
 
 
 hospitals, covering 
 
 
 
 
 two years, and been 
 
 
 
 
 graduated. 
 
 Rhode 
 
 Before January i, 
 
 After January i, 
 
 Applicants to be 
 
 Island. 
 
 1913: Graduates 
 
 1913: Graduates 
 
 residents of state or 
 
 
 from approved 
 
 from approved 
 
 graduates of ap- 
 
 
 training - schools 
 
 training - schools 
 
 proved training - 
 
 
 connected with gen- 
 
 connected with gen- 
 
 schools, of good 
 
 
 eral, private, or 
 
 eral hospital giving 
 
 moral character, 
 
 
 special hospital 
 
 three years' train- 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 giving two years' 
 
 ing and a system- 
 
 old, and possess 
 
 
 training; or gradu- 
 
 atic course of in- 
 
 preliminary educa- 
 
 
 ates from approved 
 
 struction; or gradu- 
 
 tion required. Ap- 
 
 
 training - schools 
 
 ates from approved 
 
 plications to be 
 
 
 that prior to 1904 
 
 training - schools 
 
 made in writing, 
 
 
 gave fifteen months 
 
 connected with pri- 
 
 stating their quali- 
 
 
 training. 
 
 vate or special hos- 
 
 fications. 
 
 
 
 pitals giving two 
 
 
 
 
 years' training and 
 
 
 
 
 instruction supple- 
 
 
 
 
 mented by one 
 
 
 
 
 year's approved 
 
 
 
 
 training. 
 
 
 South 
 
 Nurses graduated 
 
 All nurses after Jan- 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 Carolina. 
 
 prior to and who 
 
 uary i, 1911. Prior 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 apply before Jan- 
 
 to this date nurses 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 uary i, 1911; also 
 
 graduating from 
 
 character, has equiv- 
 
 
 nurses graduating 
 
 special hospitals, 
 
 alent of common 
 
 
 from training- 
 
 who are examined 
 
 school education, 
 
 
 schools connected 
 
 in subjects not ade- 
 
 and graduate from 
 
 
 with special hospi- 
 
 quately taught in 
 
 training-school con- 
 
 
 tals, approved by 
 
 their schools. 
 
 nected with general 
 
 
 Board, who obtain 
 
 
 hospital giving two 
 
 
 six months addi- 
 
 
 years' training and 
 
 
 tional training in a 
 
 
 systematic course of 
 
 
 general hospital. 
 
 
 instruction. 
 
 Tennessee. 
 
 All who have prac- 
 
 All nurses after June 
 
 Applicant to be of 
 
 
 tised continuously 
 
 i, 1911. 
 
 good moral charac- 
 
 
 for five years and 
 
 
 ter, of legal age, 
 
 
 are morally, men- 
 
 
 graduate of repu-
 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
 
 33 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Tennessee 
 (Contimted) . 
 
 Texas. 
 
 Vermont. 
 
 tally, and physically 
 fitted, provided ap- 
 plication be made 
 prior to June i, 
 191 1 ; also applies to 
 senior pupils in 
 training at time of 
 passage of law. 
 
 Those nursing at 
 time of passage of 
 act, of good moral 
 character, gradu- 
 ated prior to April, 
 1909, from train- 
 ing - schools con- 
 nected with hospi- 
 tals or sanitariums 
 giving two years' 
 general training, or, 
 prior to 1901, hav- 
 ing given eighteen 
 months' general 
 training and who 
 maintain proper 
 standards, provided 
 they register prior 
 to January i, 1912; 
 also nurses in train- 
 ing in wards of a 
 general hospital or 
 sanitarium and in 
 this state who grad- 
 uate hereafter; also 
 nurses who have 
 served in the army 
 or navy of the 
 United States and 
 been honorably dis- 
 charged. 
 
 Resident nurses who 
 hold diplomas from 
 accredited schools, 
 provided they grad- 
 uated prior to Jan- 
 uary i, 1911. 
 
 Examination in prac- 
 tical nursing, surgi- 
 cal nursing, obstet- 
 ric nursing, ma- 
 teria medica, anat- 
 omy, physiology, 
 hygiene, dietetics, 
 and gynecology. 
 
 Examinations to be 
 partly in writing 
 and in English and 
 partly practical, and 
 shall include the 
 principles of nurs- 
 ing. Credit to be 
 given for examina- 
 tions in special 
 branches. 
 
 table training-school 
 giving two years' 
 training. 
 
 Applications to be 
 made upon blanks 
 furnished by Board 
 and signed and 
 sworn to by appli- 
 cant. All must be 
 residents of state, 
 twenty-one years 
 old, of good moral 
 character, and grad- 
 uate of training- 
 school giving a two 
 years' course.
 
 34 
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Virginia. 
 
 Those who gradu- 
 
 Determined by 
 
 Applicant to be over 
 
 
 ated from the train- 
 
 Board; is to decide 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 ing-school of a gen- 
 
 fitness of applicant 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 eral hospital of 
 
 to practice. 
 
 character, has suffi- 
 
 
 good standing prior 
 
 
 cient preliminary 
 
 
 to January i, 1904; 
 
 
 education, gradu- 
 
 
 those engaged in 
 
 
 ated from training- 
 
 
 practice of profes- 
 
 
 school of a general 
 
 
 sional nursing when 
 
 
 hospital of good 
 
 
 act was passed, 
 
 
 standing, where at 
 
 
 provided applica- 
 
 
 least two years' 
 
 
 tion be made with- 
 
 
 training in the hos- 
 
 
 in twelve months 
 
 
 pital and system- 
 
 
 after passage of 
 
 
 atic courses of in- 
 
 
 the act. 
 
 
 struction are given. 
 
 Washington. 
 
 Nurses possessing 
 
 Examination to be 
 
 Applicant to be over 
 
 
 necessary qualifi- 
 
 in surgical nurs- 
 
 twenty-one years of 
 
 
 cations and who 
 
 ing, contagion, 
 
 age, of good moral 
 
 
 apply within three 
 
 materia medica, 
 
 character, free 
 
 
 years from the pas- 
 
 dietetics, medical 
 
 from habits liable 
 
 
 sage of this act. 
 
 nursing, obstetrics, 
 
 to interfere with 
 
 
 
 gynecology, anat- 
 
 her services as a 
 
 
 
 omy, physiology, 
 
 nurse, to hold di- 
 
 
 
 and hygiene. 
 
 ploma from train- 
 
 
 
 
 ing - school of a 
 
 
 
 
 reputable hospital 
 
 
 
 
 giving not less than 
 
 
 
 
 two years' training 
 
 
 
 
 in a general hospi- 
 
 
 
 
 tal or instruction 
 
 
 
 
 equivalent, all to be 
 
 
 
 
 determined by 
 
 
 
 
 Board. Certificates 
 
 
 
 
 to be renewed at 
 
 
 
 
 the end of five 
 
 
 
 
 years, nurse to give 
 
 
 
 
 at least three 
 
 
 
 
 months' notice of 
 
 
 
 
 expiration by regis- 
 
 
 
 
 tered letter. 
 
 West Vir- 
 
 Those possessing 
 
 Nurses having been 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 ginia. 
 
 necessary qualifi- 
 
 continuously and 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 cations and have 
 
 successfully nurs- 
 
 of age, of good moral 
 
 
 been nursing for 
 
 ing for five years 
 
 character, received 
 
 
 ten years (three 
 
 and maintain 
 
 the equivalent of a 
 
 
 registered physi- 
 
 proper standards; 
 
 high-school educa- 
 
 
 cians to certify to 
 
 applications to be 
 
 tion, and graduated 
 
 
 these facts) ; gradu- 
 
 made before Janu- 
 
 from a training- 
 
 
 ates of training- 
 
 ary i, 1908. Grad- 
 
 school connected 
 
 
 schools connected 
 
 uates of training- 
 
 with a general hos- 
 
 
 with special hospi- 
 
 schools connected 
 
 pital where two 
 
 
 tals giving two 
 
 with special hospi- 
 
 years' training is
 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
 
 35 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 West Virginia 
 
 years' course and 
 
 tals giving two 
 
 given in the hospi- 
 
 (Continued). 
 
 who shall obtain 
 
 years' course who 
 
 tal with a system- 
 
 
 one year's addi- 
 
 apply prior to June 
 
 atic course of in- 
 
 
 tional training in 
 
 i, 1907, and are ex- 
 
 struction. 
 
 
 an approved gen- 
 
 amined in the sub- 
 
 
 
 eral hospital; ap- 
 
 jects not adequate- 
 
 
 
 plications to be 
 
 ly taught in their 
 
 
 
 made before June 
 
 schools. 
 
 
 
 i, 1907. 
 
 
 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 Application to be 
 
 Applicants to be 
 
 Applicants to be 
 
 
 made prior to Sep- 
 
 examined by num- 
 
 residents of state, 
 
 
 tember i, 1914, and 
 
 bers, not names; ap- 
 
 over twenty-one 
 
 
 applicant to have 
 
 plicants who have 
 
 years old, and of 
 
 
 graduated before 
 
 nursed for three 
 
 good moral charac- 
 
 
 that date from rep- 
 
 years, provided ap- 
 
 ter. A statement, 
 
 
 utable training - 
 
 plication be made 
 
 on blanks furnished, 
 
 
 school connected 
 
 prior to September 
 
 giving name, place 
 
 
 with general or spe- 
 cial hospital giving 
 
 i, 1914; applicants 
 who apply on or 
 
 of birth, and present 
 residence. 
 
 
 two years' training. 
 
 after September i, 
 
 
 
 
 1914, and have 
 
 
 
 
 graduated from a 
 
 
 
 
 reputable training- 
 
 
 
 
 school connected 
 
 
 
 
 with general hospi- 
 
 
 
 
 tal giving system- 
 
 
 
 
 atic course covering 
 
 
 
 
 three or more years; 
 
 
 
 
 also graduates from 
 
 
 
 
 training - schools 
 
 
 
 
 connected with spe- 
 
 
 
 
 cial hospital giving 
 
 
 
 
 two years' training 
 
 
 
 
 with one year's ad- 
 
 
 
 
 ditional training in 
 
 
 
 
 general hospital in 
 
 
 
 
 subjects not ade- 
 
 
 
 
 quately taught in 
 
 
 
 
 special hospital. 
 
 
 Wyoming. 
 
 Before July i, 1910: 
 
 On or after July i, 
 
 Applicant to be 
 
 
 Graduates from 
 
 1910: Graduates 
 
 twenty-one years 
 
 
 training - schools 
 
 from training- 
 
 old, of good moral 
 
 
 connected with 
 
 schools connected 
 
 character, and pos- 
 
 
 general hospitals, 
 
 with general hos- 
 
 sess qualifications 
 
 
 registered by 
 
 pitals, registered by 
 
 prescribed by Board. 
 
 
 Board, course to 
 
 the Board, giving a 
 
 Schools to be regis- 
 
 
 be at least two 
 
 two years' course; 
 
 tered. 
 
 
 years and main- 
 
 graduates from 
 
 
 
 tain proper educa- 
 
 training - schools 
 
 
 
 tional standards; 
 
 connected with 
 
 
 
 those graduated on 
 
 special hospitals 
 
 
 
 or before January 
 
 giving two years' 

 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Without Examination. 
 
 With Examination. 
 
 Common to Both. 
 
 Wyoming 
 (Continued) . 
 
 i, 1897, from train- 
 ing-schools con- 
 nected with general 
 hospitals giving 
 one year's training 
 and who have 
 nursed for five 
 years; those in 
 training-schools to 
 be registered by 
 Board, and con- 
 nected with general 
 hospitals which 
 now give two years' 
 training, provided 
 they graduate. 
 
 training, with one 
 year's additional 
 training in subjects 
 not adequately 
 taught in their 
 schools. 
 
 FEES AND THEIR DISPOSITION 
 
 State. 
 
 Fee. 
 
 Disposition. 
 
 Alabama. 
 
 $2.50 
 
 Paid to County probate judges for filing certificate 
 
 
 
 of training-school. 
 
 Arkansas. 
 
 S-oo 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; each member re- 
 
 
 
 ceives $5.00 for each day actually spent in 
 
 
 
 work of Board; secretary to receive compensa- 
 
 
 
 tion fixed by Board not to exceed $300.00 a 
 
 
 
 year; funds to be deposited with State Treas- 
 
 
 
 urer quarterly and drawn upon warrants of State 
 
 
 
 Auditor, issued upon requisition, sealed and 
 
 
 
 signed by President and Secretary of Board. 
 
 California. 
 
 IO.OO 
 
 State Board of Health to control funds, to deposit 
 
 
 
 same with State Treasurer, and report to con- 
 
 
 
 troller every month; to be used for necessary 
 
 
 
 expenses to carry out provisions of act; claims 
 
 
 
 against fund to be audited by Health Board and 
 
 
 
 Board of Control and paid by State Treas- 
 
 
 
 urer upon warrants drawn by State Controller. 
 
 Colorado. 
 
 10.00 
 
 Fees and fines to defray expenses of Board, paid to 
 
 
 
 treasurer, who deposits same every month with 
 
 
 
 State Treasurer, to be placed in State Board of 
 
 
 
 Nurse Examiners' Fund; paid out by vouchers 
 
 
 
 signed by president and secretary of Board upon 
 
 
 
 warrants drawn by Auditor of State. 
 
 Connecticut. 
 
 S-oo 
 
 To defray expenses; secretary's salary not to ex- 
 
 
 
 ceed $100.00 a year; funds paid out upon ap- 
 
 
 
 proval of president of Board; secretary to give 
 
 
 
 bond for $500.00; annual report to be made to 
 
 
 
 Comptroller.
 
 FEES AND THEIR DISPOSITION 
 
 37 
 
 State. 
 
 Fee. 
 
 Disposition. 
 
 Delaware. 
 
 District of 
 Columbia. 
 
 Florida. 
 
 Georgia. 
 
 Idaho. 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 Indiana. 
 
 Iowa. 
 
 Kansas. 
 
 $S-oo 
 
 5.00 
 
 S-oo 
 
 S-oo 
 
 10.00 
 
 2.00 (for issu- 
 ance of new 
 duplicate 
 certificate). 
 
 10.00 
 
 Under waiver: 
 5.00 
 
 Residents of 
 state: 5.00 
 Outsiders: 
 
 10.00 
 
 Examination 
 passed: i.oo 
 S-oo 
 
 Secretary's salary not to exceed $50.00 per annum, 
 with traveling and other expenses incurred in 
 discharge of her duties; others to receive $5.00 
 for each day actually spent in Board's duties, 
 with incidental expenses. 
 
 To defray expenses; surplus retained as a special 
 fund for Board; from balance at end of year 
 secretary to receive $100.00 and other members 
 $5.00 for each day actually spent in work of 
 Board; funds to be paid out upon order of 
 Board. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; secretary to receive 
 not more than $100.00 a year, with traveling 
 and other necessary expenses; other members 
 to receive $5.00 a day actually spent in Board 
 work, with other necessary expenses; treasurer 
 of Board sole custodian of funds. 
 
 Secretary's salary not to exceed $100.00 a year 
 and incidental expenses; other members to re- 
 ceive $5.00 a day and expenses for each day of 
 actual service; all payments to be approved by 
 president of Board. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; salary of secretary 
 to be fixed by Board and not exceed $500.00 a 
 year, with traveling and other official expenses; 
 other members to get $4.00 a day while actually 
 engaged in Board work, with other necessary 
 expenses. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; secretary's salary 
 to be fixed by Board; each member to receive 
 $10.00 a day or fraction thereof when actually 
 engaged in work of Board, with other necessary 
 expenses. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; secretary to receive 
 not more than $500.00 a year, with traveling and 
 incidental expenses; other members $5.00 a day 
 for each day actually spent in work of Board; 
 excess to be held as fund for Board. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; secretary to receive 
 his expenses for services which cannot be per- 
 formed at Capitol; other members to receive 
 same per diem allowed State Board of Medical 
 Examiners; expenses to be itemized, verified and 
 audited, and paid by warrant. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; members to receive 
 $5.00 a day of actual Board work, with other 
 necessary expenses; secretary to receive extra 
 compensation amounting to $100.00 a year, 
 payable quarterly. Secretary to be custodian 
 of funds of Board.
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Fee. 
 
 Disposition. 
 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Louisiana. 
 
 Maryland. 
 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 $10.00 
 
 i.oo (renewal 
 fee). 
 
 S-oo 
 
 5-00 
 
 Michigan. 
 
 Minnesota. 
 
 Mississippi. 
 
 S-oo 
 
 5.00 for grad- 
 uate nurses. 
 
 2.50 for non- 
 graduates. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; funds to be deposited 
 with State Treasurer in special fund; secretary 
 to receive between $100.00 and $500.00 a year; 
 other members to receive $5.00 a day, with other 
 necessary expenses actually incurred in dis- 
 charge of duties. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; treasurer to be 
 custodian of funds; members to receive $10.00 
 a day, with other necessary expenses actually 
 incurred in discharge of duties; secretary to 
 receive a salary to be fixed by Board. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; secretary to receive 
 not more than $100,00 a year, with incidental 
 expenses; other members $5.00 for each day 
 actually engaged in Board work, with traveling 
 and incidental expenses; excess to be held as a 
 fund for Board. 
 
 Fees to be paid each month by secretary of Board 
 into treasury of Commonwealth. Secretary's 
 salary determined by Governor and Council; 
 other members to receive $5.00 for each day ac- 
 tually spent in Board's duties, with traveling ex- 
 penses not to exceed 3 cents a mile. All ex- 
 penses to be approved by Board and paid by 
 Commonwealth only from fees paid over by 
 Board. 
 
 Fees collected to be deposited quarterly with State 
 Treasurer and credited to general fund of state, 
 and a receipt for same shall be filed by secretary 
 of Board in office of the Auditor-General. All 
 members of the Board shall receive $5.00 for 
 each day actually spent in Board's work, with 
 incidental expenses, and in addition to this the 
 secretary is to receive $100.00 a year, payable 
 quarterly. Expense statements to be approved 
 by Board and sent to State Auditor, who shall 
 draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for 
 the amounts. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; each member re- 
 ceives $5.00 for each day actually spent in work 
 of Board and 10 cents a mile; at end of year all 
 in excess of $250.00 shall be paid to State Treas- 
 urer to be kept for the future maintenance of 
 Board, to be disbursed upon warrants signed 
 by president and treasurer. 
 
 Paid to State Treasurer; drawn by warrant of 
 State Auditor upon written requisition of 
 president of Board. Members to receive $5.00 
 for each day actually spent in Board duties, 
 with other necessary expenses.
 
 FEES AND THEIR DISPOSITION 
 
 39 
 
 State. 
 
 Fee. 
 
 Disposition. 
 
 Missouri. 
 
 $ S-oo 
 
 Montana. 
 
 Nebraska. 
 
 New Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 New Jersey. 
 
 New York. 
 
 North Caro- 
 lina. 
 Oklahoma. 
 
 Oregon. 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 10.00 
 
 25.00 (train- 
 ing - school 
 registration 
 fee). 
 
 S-oo 
 
 S-oo 
 
 5-oo 
 
 S-oo 
 
 5.00 
 
 Paid quarterly to State Treasurer as a fund for the 
 use of the Board, to be paid by Auditor's war- 
 rant issued upon requisition signed by president 
 and secretary of Board and bearing the seal of 
 the Board. Members to receive $5.00 for 
 each day actually spent in work of Board and 
 incidental expenses; the secretary to receive 
 extra compensation not to exceed $300.00 a 
 year. The treasurer is to give bond in the sum 
 of $1000.00, approved by the Board. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; secretary's salary 
 to be fixed by Board; other members to receive 
 $10.00 a day, which shall be in full for ex- 
 penses; treasurer to be custodian of funds. 
 
 Each member to receive $5.00 a day of actual 
 service, 10 cents a mile and incidental expenses; 
 expenses in no case to exceed fees collected; 
 surplus to be paid into the general fund of the 
 state. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; surplus retained as 
 special fund for Board; members to receive 
 $5.00 a day, with incidental expenses; Regent 
 held responsible for receipts and expenditures 
 and to report to Governor annually. 
 
 Ta defray expenses of Board; funds deposited 
 with State Treasurer; members to receive $5.00 
 a day, with other necessary expenses; secretary's 
 salary to be fixed by Board and not to exceed 
 $100.00 a year. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; report of receipts and 
 expenditures to be made to State Comptroller; 
 any balance to be paid to State Treasurer. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; secretary's salary 
 not to exceed $100.00 a year and expenses; 
 other members $4.00 a day of actual service 
 with expenses; surplus to be held by State 
 Treasurer for expenses of Board. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; secretary's salary 
 to be fixed by Board and shall be between 
 $100.00 and $500.00 a year; other members 
 to receive $4.00 a day, with other necessary 
 expenses. 
 
 Secretary's salary not to exceed $100.00 a year; 
 all members to receive $5.00 for each day actu- 
 ally spent in work of Board, with incidental ex- 
 penses. All money in excess of $1000.00 is to be 
 paid into the State treasury.
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Fee. 
 
 Disposition. 
 
 Rhode Island. 
 
 South Caro- 
 lina. 
 
 Tennessee. 
 Texas. 
 
 Vermont. 
 
 Virginia. 
 
 Washington. 
 
 S-oo 
 5.00 
 
 S-oo 
 
 S-oo 
 
 S-oo 
 
 i.oo (renewal 
 fee). 
 
 West Virginia. 
 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 Wyoming. 
 
 S-oo 
 
 Treasurer shall deposit funds with State Treasurer 
 at least every three months; paid out by order 
 of State Auditor upon State Treasurer; secre- 
 tary's salary to be fixed by Board; other mem- 
 bers to receive $2.00 a day, with other necessary 
 expenses. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; fees to be paid to 
 treasurer; paid out on vouchers issued and 
 signed by president and secretary upon war- 
 rants drawn by president. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; fees to be paid an- 
 nually into State treasury; each member to 
 receive $4.00 a day for actual service, with 
 other necessary expenses (mileage not to exceed 
 3 cents a mile each way) ; total sum paid to one 
 member in one year shall not exceed $100.00. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; secretary to receive 
 not more than $100.00 a year; other members 
 $1.00 for each day actually engaged in work of 
 Board; surplus to be held by treasurer as a 
 special fund to meet expenses. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; money to be turned 
 over to State Treasurer every month, with state- 
 ment showing sources from which money is 
 derived; each member to receive $5.00 a day of 
 actual service, with other necessary expenses; 
 secretary and treasurer to receive not over 
 $100.00 a year, amount to be determined by 
 Board; expenses to be paid by State Treasurer 
 upon warrants drawn by State Auditor, who 
 issues these upon presentation of vouchers 
 approved by majority of Board. 
 
 To defray expenses of Board; secretary's salary 
 not to exceed $100.00; other members $4.00 for 
 each day actually spent in Board work; surplus 
 held by treasurer as fund for Board. 
 
 To defray expenses of Committee; each member 
 to receive $5.00 a day of actual service, with 
 other necessary expenses; days are not to exceed 
 fifteen in one year; expense accounts are to be 
 audited by secretary of State Health Board. 
 
 Each member to receive $5.00 for each day of ac- 
 tual service, with incidental expenses; money to 
 be paid to State Treasurer to be kept in " Nurses 
 Fund" and subject to warrant of State Auditor 
 upon written requisition, signed by president, 
 vice-president, and attested by secretary with 
 seal attached.
 
 EXEMPTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 
 
 Acts exempt persons nursing for hire, provided they do not trans- 
 gress the provisions of the law. 
 
 EXEMPTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 
 
 Arkansas 
 
 California 
 
 Florida 
 
 Idaho 
 
 Illinois 
 
 Kansas 
 
 Kentucky 
 
 Louisiana 
 
 Michigan 
 
 Minnesota 
 
 Mississippi 
 
 Missouri 
 
 Montana 
 
 Nebraska 
 
 New Hampshire 
 
 New Jersey 
 
 North Carolina 
 
 Oklahoma 
 
 Oregon 
 
 Pennsylvania 
 
 Rhode Island 
 
 South Carolina 
 
 Tennessee 
 
 Texas 
 
 Vermont 
 
 Virginia 
 
 Washington 
 
 West Virginia 
 
 Wisconsin 
 
 Wyoming 
 
 Colorado 
 
 Connecticut 
 
 Delaware: Non-resident nurse may 
 
 be called into state by licensed 
 
 physician. 
 
 District of Columbia 
 Georgia 
 Indiana 
 Iowa 
 Maryland 
 Massachusetts 
 
 Montana 
 
 New Hampshi 
 
 New York I Acts do not confer right to practice medicine or to undertake 
 
 Pennsylvania f treatment or cure of disease. 
 
 Washington 
 
 Wyoming 
 
 Arkansas 1 Does not apply to registered nurses from other states visit- 
 
 Rhose Island > ing with patients, or who are called to attend cases in the 
 South Carolina j state. 
 
 Pennsylvania: Board has no power to fix prices or control compensation of the 
 
 registered nurses. 
 Washington: Act does not authorize person to practice surgery or midwifery. 
 
 Acts exempt persons nursing for hire or 
 otherwise, provided they do not transgress 
 the provisions of the law. 
 
 lire
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 VIOLATIONS 
 
 State. 
 
 Nature of 
 Crime. 
 
 Fine. 
 
 Imprisonment. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 Arkansas. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 Not less than $25.00 
 
 
 Nurses must notify 
 
 California. 
 
 Colorado. 
 Connecti- 
 
 meanor. 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 nor more than 
 
 $250.00 
 
 First offense: $10.00 
 to $100.00. 
 Second offense: 
 $50.00 to $500.00. 
 Not more than 
 $300.00. 
 Not more than 
 
 
 public when not 
 registered; other 
 persons must have 
 no public record 
 of unregistered 
 nurses without so 
 specifying. 
 
 cut. 
 Delaware. 
 
 District of 
 Columbia. 
 Florida. 
 
 Georgia. 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 Misde- 
 
 $100.00. 
 
 Not more than 
 
 $500.00. 
 
 Not more than 
 $200.00. 
 Not more than 
 $500.00. 
 
 Sixty days. 
 
 For making a wilful 
 false representa- 
 tion to Board. 
 
 Provided for in the 
 
 Idaho. 
 Illinois. 
 
 meanor. 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 First offense: $10.00 
 to $100.00. 
 Second offense: 
 $100.00 to $500.00 
 First offense: Not 
 
 
 Penal Code of 
 state. 
 
 Subject to prosecu- 
 
 Indiana. 
 
 meanor. 
 Misde- 
 
 more than $100.00. 
 Subsequent offenses: 
 Not more than 
 
 $200.00. 
 
 Not more than 
 
 
 tion in any court 
 of competent ju- 
 risdiction upon 
 complaint, infor- 
 mation, or indict- 
 ment. 
 For false represen- 
 
 Iowa. 
 Kansas. 
 
 meanor. 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 Misde- 
 
 $200.00. 
 First offense: $25.00 
 to $50.00. 
 Subsequent offenses: 
 $50.00 to $100.00. 
 Not more than 
 $100.00. 
 $50.00 to $200.00. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 tation to Board. 
 Duty of county 
 
 
 meanor. 
 
 
 
 prosecutors to 
 prosecute viola- 
 tions of this act.
 
 VIOLATIONS 
 
 43 
 
 State. 
 
 Nature of 
 Crime. 
 
 Fine. 
 
 Imprisonment. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 $5.00 to $15.00. 
 
 
 Each day of viola- 
 
 
 meanor. 
 
 Not more than 
 
 
 tion is a separate 
 
 
 
 $500.00. 
 
 
 offense. 
 
 
 
 
 
 For false represen- 
 
 
 
 
 
 tation to Board. 
 
 Louisiana. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 $50.00 to $100.00. 
 
 Ten to ninety 
 
 Or both fine and 
 
 
 meanor. 
 
 
 days in 
 
 imprisonment. 
 
 
 
 
 parish jail. 
 
 Duty of respective 
 
 
 
 
 
 district attorneys 
 
 
 
 
 
 to prosecute viola- 
 
 
 
 
 
 tions. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Proceedings are 
 
 
 
 
 
 tried by judge 
 
 
 
 
 
 without interven- 
 
 
 
 
 
 tion of jury. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fines to be divided 
 
 
 
 
 
 equally between 
 
 
 
 
 
 school fund of 
 
 
 
 
 
 parish where 
 
 
 
 
 
 offense occurs and 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nurse Board. 
 
 Maryland. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 Not more than 
 
 
 
 
 meanor. 
 
 $500.00. 
 
 
 
 Massachu- 
 
 
 For practising or at- 
 
 
 Board to hives tigate 
 
 setts. 
 
 
 tempting to do so: 
 
 
 complaints of vio- 
 
 
 
 Not more than 
 
 
 lation and report 
 
 
 
 $100.00. 
 
 
 to proper prose- 
 
 
 
 
 
 cuting officers. 
 
 
 
 For false represen- 
 
 Three months. 
 
 Either or both fine 
 
 
 
 tation: $100.00 to 
 
 
 and imprisonment 
 
 
 
 $500.00. 
 
 
 may be inflicted 
 
 
 
 
 
 for false represen- 
 
 
 
 
 
 tation. 
 
 Michigan. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 Not more than 
 
 Imprisonment 
 
 Either or both fine 
 
 
 meanor. 
 
 $200.00. 
 
 in county jail 
 
 and imprisonment 
 
 
 
 
 for ninety 
 
 may be inflicted. 
 
 
 
 
 days. 
 
 
 Minnesota. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 $10.00 to $100.00. 
 
 
 
 
 meanor. 
 
 
 
 
 Mississippi. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 $25.00 to $100.00. 
 
 Five to ninety 
 
 Or both fine and 
 
 
 meanor. 
 
 
 days in 
 
 imprisonment. 
 
 
 
 
 county jail. 
 
 
 Missouri. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 $50.00 to $500.00. 
 
 
 
 
 meanor. 
 
 
 
 
 Montana. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 First offense: $10.00 
 
 
 
 
 meanor. 
 
 to $100.00. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Subsequent offenses: 
 
 
 
 
 
 $200.00 to $500.00. 
 
 
 
 Nebraska. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 $10.00 to $100.00. 
 
 
 
 
 meanor. 
 
 

 
 44 
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Nature of 
 Crime. 
 
 Fine. 
 
 Imprisonment. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 New 
 Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 New Jer- 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 Not less than $50.0x5. 
 False representa- 
 tion: $100.00 to 
 $500.00. 
 $50.00 to $200.00. 
 
 
 Duty of respective 
 
 sey. 
 New York. 
 
 meanor. 
 Misde- 
 
 
 
 prosecutors of 
 pleas of counties 
 to prosecute vio- 
 lations. 
 When complaint is 
 
 North Car- 
 olina. 
 Oklahoma. 
 
 Oregon. 
 
 meanor. 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 $50.00. 
 
 First offense: $10.00 
 to $100.00. 
 Subsequent offenses: 
 $100.00 to $500.00. 
 $100.00 to $200.00. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 made by State 
 Nurses' Associa- 
 tion fines shall be 
 paid to that body; 
 excess of expenses 
 to go to State 
 Treasurer. 
 Or both fine and 
 imprisonment. 
 
 For false represen- 
 
 Pennsyl- 
 
 Misde- 
 
 $50.00 to $200.00. 
 
 
 tion to Board. 
 Nurse is disquali- 
 
 vania. 
 Rhode 
 
 meanor. 
 
 $100.00 to $500.00. 
 
 
 fied for registra- 
 tion for five years. 
 For false represen- 
 
 Island. 
 
 
 $50.00 to $200.00. 
 
 
 tation to Board. 
 For violating any 
 
 South Car- 
 olina. 
 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 Misde- 
 
 Not exceeding 
 $200.00. 
 
 $25.00 to $250.00. 
 
 Not exceeding 
 three months. 
 
 provisions of act. 
 Unlawful for any, 
 except Rhode 
 Island registered 
 nurses, to wear 
 their pin or badge 
 or its imitation. 
 Or both fine and 
 imprisonment, in 
 the discretion of 
 court. 
 Unlawful for drug 
 
 
 meanor. 
 
 
 
 store, doctor, or 
 other person to 
 keep public list 
 without noting 
 those who are not 
 licensed.
 
 VIOLATIONS 
 
 45 
 
 State. 
 
 Nature of 
 Crime. 
 
 Fine. 
 
 Imprisonment. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 Texas. 
 Vermont. 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 Not over $300.00. 
 $100.00 to $500.00. 
 
 Three months. 
 
 Or both fine and im- 
 
 
 
 Not more than 
 
 
 prisonment. 
 For attempting to 
 
 Virginia. 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 $100.00. 
 
 First offense: $50.00 
 to $200.00. 
 Second offense: 
 $100.00 to $500.00. 
 $500.00 to $1000.00. 
 
 
 or practising as 
 registered, or us- 
 ing abbreviations 
 R. N. 
 Board to investigate 
 complaints and re- 
 port to proper au- 
 thorities. 
 
 For false represen- 
 
 Washing- 
 ton. 
 West Vir- 
 ginia. 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 Wyoming. 
 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 Misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 Not more than 
 $500.00. 
 $10.00 to $50.00. 
 
 First offense: $10.00 
 to $200.00. 
 Subsequent offenses: 
 $100.00 to $500.00. 
 $100.00 to $200.00 
 
 
 tation. 
 For false represen- 
 
 
 
 
 
 tation.
 
 4 6 
 
 State. 
 
 Notice. 
 
 Vote of Board. 
 
 Causes and Results. 
 
 Arkansas. 
 California. 
 
 Thirty days by 
 personal ser- 
 vice or regis- 
 tered mail. 
 
 Majority of en- 
 tire Board. 
 
 For gross incompetence, dis- 
 honesty, habitual intemperance, 
 or any act derogatory to morals 
 or standing of nursing profes- 
 sion. No evidence received 
 except under oath, which presi- 
 dent and secretary are empow- 
 ered to administer. 
 Name to be stricken from roll, 
 and certificate to be recalled 
 and cancelled. 
 Lists to be furnished Boards of 
 other states upon request. 
 For dishonesty, intemperance, 
 
 Colorado. 
 Connecti- 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Unanimous. 
 
 immorality, unprofessional con- 
 duct, or any habit rendering 
 nurse unfit or unsafe to care for 
 sick. 
 After a full and fair investigation 
 of charges. 
 Revoked for gross incompetency, 
 dishonesty, habitual intemper- 
 ance, or any act derogatory to 
 the morals or standing of the 
 profession. 
 Give full and fair hearing. 
 Conviction of felony or any crime 
 
 cut. 
 Delaware. 
 
 District of 
 Columbia. 
 
 Florida. 
 Georgia. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Majority vote of 
 whole Board. 
 Majority. 
 
 Majority vote of 
 whole Board. 
 
 in the practice of the profession. 
 For sufficient cause. 
 Give full and fair hearing. 
 Found guilty of fraud or any act 
 derogatory to morals and stand- 
 ing of profession. 
 Give a hearing. 
 For sufficient cause after full and 
 fair hearing. 
 For sufficient cause. No evidence 
 
 Idaho. 
 
 Thirty days and 
 in writing. 
 
 Unanimous. 
 
 to be received that is not under 
 oath. 
 For dishonesty, gross incompe- 
 tency, habits rendering nurse 
 unfit to care for patient, conduct 
 derogatory to morals or stand- 
 ing of profession, wilful fraud in 
 getting certificate. 
 May be represented by counsel. 
 Name to be stricken from roll, 
 notice of which shall be sent to 
 county clerk, where certificate is 
 recorded, and shall be noted 
 upon record of certificate.
 
 REVOCATION 
 
 47 
 
 State. 
 
 Notice. 
 
 Vote of Board. 
 
 Causes and Results. 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 Thirty days and 
 
 Unanimous. 
 
 For gross incompetency or reck- 
 
 
 in writing. 
 
 
 lessness in discharge of duty or 
 
 
 
 
 dishonest practises. Notice of 
 
 
 
 
 cancellation to be given county 
 
 
 
 
 clerk, who shall note same on 
 
 
 
 
 certificate. Board may rein- 
 
 
 
 
 state nurse after six months 
 
 
 
 
 upon satisfactory evidence of 
 
 
 
 
 reasons and payment of fee of 
 
 
 
 
 $5.00. 
 
 Indiana. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Majority. 
 
 Revoked for gross incompetency, 
 
 
 
 
 dishonesty, habitual intemper- 
 
 
 
 
 ance, or any other act derogatory 
 
 
 
 
 to the morals or standing of the 
 
 
 
 
 profession. 
 
 
 
 
 Give full and fair hearing. 
 
 
 
 
 Name stricken from roll; clerk of 
 
 
 
 
 circuit court of county where 
 
 
 
 
 offender resides notified. 
 
 Iowa. 
 
 Twenty days. 
 
 Unanimous. 
 
 False representation, unprofes- 
 
 
 
 
 sional conduct, and persistent 
 
 
 
 
 violation of the rules of the 
 
 
 
 
 State Board of Health. 
 
 
 
 
 Give a hearing. 
 
 Kansas. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Majority vote 
 
 For gross incompetency, viola- 
 
 
 
 of whole 
 
 tion of law, or anything deroga- 
 
 
 
 Board. 
 
 tory to profession; charges to 
 
 
 
 
 be in writing. 
 
 
 
 
 Lists to be furnished Boards of 
 
 
 
 
 other states upon request. 
 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 
 Certificate or diploma fraudu- 
 
 
 
 
 lently obtained, conviction of 
 
 
 
 
 crime, inebriety, drug habit, dis- 
 
 
 
 
 honesty, gross incompetency, or 
 
 
 
 
 any act derogative to morals or 
 
 
 
 
 standing of profession. May be 
 
 
 
 
 heard in person or by counsel. 
 
 
 
 
 President and secretary have 
 
 
 
 
 authority to administer the 
 
 
 
 
 oath. 
 
 
 
 
 Appeal may be made to State 
 
 
 
 
 Nurses' Association, whose deci- 
 
 
 
 
 sion by a majority vote is final. 
 
 Louisiana. 
 
 
 
 Conviction of a crime or immoral 
 
 
 
 
 conduct. 
 
 
 
 
 Board to institute proceedings 
 
 
 
 
 before any competent court. 
 
 Maryland. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Majority. 
 
 For sufficient cause. 
 
 
 
 
 Give a full and fair hearing. 
 
 Massachu- 
 
 
 Majority. 
 
 Guilty of felony or any crime or 
 
 setts. 
 
 
 
 misdemeanor in practice of pro- 
 
 
 
 
 fession. Registration cancelled.
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Notice. 
 
 Vote of Board. 
 
 Causes and Results. 
 
 Michigan. 
 
 Thirty days' no- 
 
 Majority vote 
 
 For gross incompetency, violation 
 
 
 tice and certi- 
 
 of whole 
 
 of act, dishonesty, habitual in- 
 
 
 fied copy of 
 
 Board. 
 
 temperance, or any act deroga- 
 
 
 charges to be 
 
 
 tory to the morals or standing 
 
 
 personally 
 
 
 of the profession. List of these 
 
 
 served. 
 
 
 to be given Boards of other 
 
 
 
 
 states upon request. 
 
 Minnesota. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Majority. 
 
 For sufficient cause. 
 
 
 
 
 Give a hearing. 
 
 Mississippi. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Majority of full 
 
 For incompetency, dishonesty, 
 
 
 
 Board. 
 
 immorality, or unprofessional 
 
 
 
 
 conduct. 
 
 
 
 
 Full and fair investigation. Nurse 
 
 
 
 
 to be heard personally or repre- 
 
 
 
 
 sented by counsel. Witnesses 
 
 
 
 
 to be sworn by president or 
 
 
 
 
 secretary of Board. Name to 
 
 
 
 
 be stricken from roll and Secre- 
 
 
 
 
 tary of State to be notified. 
 
 Missouri. 
 
 Thirty days' no- 
 
 Majority vote 
 
 For sufficient cause; Board is 
 
 
 tice and certi- 
 
 of whole 
 
 authorized to furnish list to 
 
 
 fied charges to 
 
 Board. 
 
 Boards of other states upon 
 
 
 be personally 
 
 
 request. 
 
 
 served. 
 
 
 
 Montana. 
 
 Thirty days and 
 
 Governor upon 
 
 Hearing before full Board. 
 
 
 in writing. 
 
 recommenda- 
 
 Charges to be made by licensed 
 
 
 
 tion of Board 
 
 physician or registered nurse. 
 
 
 
 revokes. 
 
 For dishonesty, gross incompe- 
 
 
 
 
 tency, habit rendering nurse un- 
 
 
 
 
 fit, acts derogatory to profes- 
 
 
 
 
 sion, or wilful fraud or misrepre- 
 
 
 
 
 sentation in securing certificate. 
 
 
 
 
 Nurse may appear in person or be 
 
 
 
 
 represented by counsel. 
 
 
 
 
 Name to be stricken from roll. 
 
 
 
 
 County clerk, where certificate is 
 
 
 
 
 recorded, to be notified, who shall 
 
 
 
 
 note revocation upon records. 
 
 Nebraska. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Majority. 
 
 For sufficient cause. 
 
 
 
 
 Give full and fair hearing. 
 
 New Hamp- 
 
 Fourteen days. 
 
 Regent may 
 
 For sufficient cause. 
 
 shire. 
 
 
 revoke. 
 
 Give a hearing. 
 
 New Jer- 
 
 Thirty days by 
 
 Unanimous. 
 
 For dishonesty, gross incompe- 
 
 sey. 
 
 copy of com- 
 
 
 tency, habit rendering nurse 
 
 
 plaints. 
 
 
 unfit, conduct derogatory to 
 
 
 
 
 morals or standing of profes- 
 
 
 
 
 sion, or wilful fraud or misrepre- 
 
 
 
 
 sentation in procuring certificate. 
 
 
 
 
 May appear in person or be rep- 
 
 
 
 
 resented by counsel. 
 
 
 
 
 Any who attempt to practice as 
 
 
 
 
 registered are subject to penal- 
 
 
 
 
 ties under violation.
 
 REVOCATION 
 
 49 
 
 State. 
 
 Notice. 
 
 Vote of Board. 
 
 Causes and Results. 
 
 New York. 
 
 
 
 For sufficient cause. 
 
 North 
 Carolina. 
 
 Twenty days. 
 
 Majority. 
 
 For gross incompetency, dishon- 
 esty, habitual intemperance, or 
 
 
 
 
 any other act derogatory to 
 
 
 
 
 morals or standing of profes- 
 
 
 
 
 sion. 
 
 
 
 
 Give a full and fair hearing. 
 
 
 
 
 License to be surrendered. 
 
 Oklahoma. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Majority of 
 
 For sufficient cause. 
 
 
 
 whole Board. 
 
 Give a full and fair hearing. 
 
 Oregon. 
 
 Thirty days and 
 
 Unanimous. 
 
 For dishonesty, gross imcompe- 
 
 
 in writing. 
 
 
 tency, habit rendering nurse un- 
 
 
 
 
 fit, conduct derogatory to morals 
 
 
 
 
 or standing of profession or wil- 
 
 
 
 
 ful fraud or misrepresentation 
 
 
 
 
 in securing certificate. 
 
 
 
 
 Name to be stricken from roll and 
 
 
 
 
 certificate cancelled. 
 
 
 
 
 County clerk, where certificate is 
 
 
 
 
 recorded, to be notified, who 
 
 
 
 
 shall note revocation upon 
 
 
 
 
 records. 
 
 Pennsyl- 
 
 Thirty days and 
 
 Unanimous. 
 
 For sufficient cause. Name to be 
 
 vania. 
 
 a copy of 
 
 
 stricken from roll of registered 
 
 
 charges. 
 
 
 nurses. 
 
 
 
 
 Give full and fair hearing. 
 
 Rhode Is- 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 
 For gross incompetency, dishon- 
 
 land. 
 
 
 
 esty, habitual intemperance, or 
 
 
 
 
 any habit or act derogatory to 
 
 
 
 
 profession. 
 
 
 
 
 Nurse shall be entitled to be 
 
 
 
 
 present and be heard. 
 
 
 
 
 Certificate to be surrendered to 
 
 
 
 
 Board and name to be stricken 
 
 
 
 
 from roll. 
 
 South 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Majority of 
 
 For sufficient cause, of which 
 
 Carolina. 
 
 
 whole Board. 
 
 Board shall be judge. 
 
 
 
 
 Give full and fair hearing. 
 
 
 
 
 Counsel may appear for either 
 
 
 
 
 party. 
 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Thirty days, by 
 
 
 For drunkenness, drug habit, 
 
 
 mail or per- 
 
 
 neglect of patient, felony, in- 
 
 
 sonally de- 
 
 
 competency, or immorality. 
 
 
 livered. 
 
 
 Hearing to be given. 
 
 
 
 
 Correct record of hearing to be 
 
 
 
 
 kept.
 
 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 State. 
 
 Notice. 
 
 Vote of Board. 
 
 Causes and Results. 
 
 Texas. 
 
 Thirty days and 
 
 Unanimous. 
 
 Revoked for gross incompetency, 
 
 
 in writing. 
 
 
 dishonesty, habitual intemper- 
 
 
 
 
 ance, or any other act deroga- 
 
 
 
 
 tory to morals or standing of 
 
 
 
 
 profession. 
 
 
 
 
 Given a hearing. 
 
 
 
 
 Appeal from decision of Board 
 
 
 
 
 can be taken to district of the 
 
 
 
 
 county where any member of 
 
 
 
 
 Board resides. 
 
 Vermont. 
 
 
 Majority. 
 
 Give a hearing. 
 
 
 
 
 For being guilty of a crime or mis- 
 
 
 
 
 demeanor. 
 
 
 
 
 Certificate to be cancelled. 
 
 Virginia. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Unanimous. 
 
 Revoked for gross incompetency, 
 
 
 
 
 dishonesty, habitual in temper- 
 
 
 
 
 ance, or any other act derogatory 
 
 
 
 
 to morals or standing of nursing. 
 
 
 
 
 Give a full and fair hearing. 
 
 
 
 
 Name to be stricken from roll. 
 
 Washington 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Majority of 
 
 Certificate obtained by fraud, and 
 
 
 
 whole Board. 
 
 any act derogatory to morals 
 
 
 
 
 or standing of profession. 
 
 
 
 
 Give a full and fair hearing. 
 
 
 
 
 Certificate cancelled. 
 
 West Vir- 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Majority. 
 
 For sufficient cause. 
 
 ginia. 
 
 
 
 Give a hearing. 
 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 Not less than 
 
 
 For unprofessional or dishonor- 
 
 
 five days and 
 
 
 able conduct, obtaining certifi- 
 
 
 in writing. 
 
 
 cate through fraud, or gross 
 
 
 
 
 incompetency. 
 
 
 
 
 Give a hearing. 
 
 Wyoming. 
 
 Thirty days. 
 
 Unanimous. 
 
 For dishonesty, gross incompe- 
 
 
 
 
 tency, a habit rendering a nurse 
 
 
 
 
 unsafe to be entrusted with or 
 
 
 
 
 unfit for the care of the sick, 
 
 
 
 
 conduct derogatory to the 
 
 
 
 
 morals or standing of the pro- 
 
 
 
 
 fession of nursing, or any wilful 
 
 
 
 
 fraud or misrepresentation 
 practised in procuring a certifi- 
 
 
 
 
 cate. Given a hearing with 
 
 
 
 
 counsel. Name taken from the 
 
 
 
 
 roll, and county clerk of county 
 
 
 
 
 where certificate is recorded 
 
 
 
 
 notified.
 
 COMPULSORY LAWS 
 
 RECIPROCITY 
 
 Arkansas 
 
 California Foreign countries included. 
 
 Florida 
 
 Idaho 
 
 Illinois Higher standards, too; requires ap- 
 proval of Attorney-General. 
 
 Kansas 
 
 Kentucky Foreign country included. 
 
 Louisiana Requires certificate of examination. 
 
 Minnesota 
 
 Mississippi 
 
 Missouri 
 
 Montana 
 
 Nebraska 
 
 New Hampshire 
 
 New Jersey To states that give same privileges 
 to it. 
 
 North Carolina 
 
 Oklahoma 
 
 Oregon 
 
 Rhode Island 
 
 Texas 
 
 Vermont 
 
 Virginia 
 
 Washington 
 
 Wisconsin 
 
 Wyoming 
 
 Colorado 
 
 Delaware 
 
 District of Columbia 
 
 Indiana Can take measures to prevent unjust 
 exclusion of its registered nurses by other 
 states. 
 
 Iowa 
 
 Alabama 
 
 Connecticut 
 
 Georgia 
 
 Maryland 
 
 Massachusetts 
 
 New York 
 
 Pennsylvania 
 
 South Carolina 
 
 Tennessee 
 
 West Virginia 
 
 ^ With those states that, at least, 
 maintain equal standards. 
 
 Board can establish rules and 
 regulations for recognition of 
 those states that, at least, 
 maintain equal standards. 
 
 No provision in laws of these states. 
 
 Arkansas 
 
 Kansas 
 
 Kentucky 
 
 Mississippi 
 
 Montana 
 
 Oklahoma 
 
 Tennessee 
 
 Texas 
 
 Virginia 
 
 Wyoming 
 
 COMPULSORY LAWS 
 
 These laws make it unlawful either to assume title, indicate 
 to be, or practice as trained, graduate, or registered nurse, 
 without a li cense from the controlling Board.
 
 52 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 COMPULSORY LAWS (Continued) 
 
 Delawa 'e These laws make it unlawful either to assume title, indicate to be' 
 
 > or practice as trained or graduate, in addition to registered nurse 
 r , without a license from the controlling Board. 
 
 RECORDING CERTIFICATES 
 
 Arkansas: With Clerk of County where nurse resides. 
 
 Idaho: With Clerk of County where nurse resides. 
 
 Illinois: Within ninety days; with Clerk of County where nurse resided when ap- 
 plication was made. 
 
 Indiana: With Clerk of Circuit Court of any County. 
 
 Kansas: With Clerk of County where nurse resided when application was made; 
 affidavit of identity necessary. 
 
 Kentucky: With Clerk of County where nurse resided when application was made. 
 
 Louisiana: With Clerk of County where nurse resides. 
 
 Michigan: With Clerk of County where nurse resides. 
 
 Missouri: With Clerk of County where nurse resides; in St. Louis with Recorder 
 of Deeds and with an affidavit of identity; for non-resident of state: with Clerk of 
 county where training-school is located and with Recorder of Deeds in St. Louis. 
 
 Montana: Within thirty days; with Clerk of County where nurse resides, or in 
 which nurse removes; no fee to be required. 
 
 New Jersey: Within sixty days; with Clerk of County where nurse resided when 
 application was made. 
 
 New York: With Clerk of County where nurse resides; to be recorded every three 
 years after January, 1906. 
 
 North Carolina: By Clerk of Superior Court, who grants certificate upon presenta- 
 tion of license from Nurse Board. 
 
 Oregon: Within thirty days; with Clerk of County where nurse resided when ap- 
 plication was made. 
 
 Tennessee: With Clerk of County Court of County where nurse resides. 
 
 Vermont: Within sixty days; in office of Secretary of State; affidavit of identity 
 necessary. 
 
 Wisconsin: Within thirty days; with Clerk of County where nurse resided when 
 application was made. 
 
 Wyoming: Within ninety days; with Clerk of County where nurse resided when 
 application was made. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
 
 Alabama: Before a training-school can issue diplomas, its president and three 
 lecturers or instructors, who shall be practising physicians, shall file a statement 
 of their course with State Health Officer. If approved, a certificate shall be 
 issued to the institution, which must be filed with the Probate Judge of the 
 County where the institution is located. 
 
 California: Defines an accredited training-school for nurses as one attached to, or 
 operated in connection with, one or more hospitals giving a general training and 
 a systematic, theoretical, and practical course covering three years. 
 
 Connecticut: Applicant aggrieved by decision of the Nurse Board may within 
 thirty days appeal to a Board composed of one member from the Connecticut 
 Medical Society, one member from the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Society, 
 and one member from the Connecticut Eclectic Medical Society. This Board 
 of appeal may affirm, modify, or reverse the decision appealed from, and its 
 decision shall be final and binding upon all parties. First Board, appointed by 
 Governor, is to hold office until the societies shall appoint their successors. 
 
 1 Owing to Amendment, law is not now compulsory.
 
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 Florida: Board shall be sole judge of credentials of any nurse admitted to regis- 
 tration. 
 
 Illinois: An appeal from certain rulings of Board may be made to Circuit Court. 
 Registered nurses are exempt from jury duty. Applications under the old law 
 are to be recognized by the Board appointed under the new law. 
 
 Kansas: Defines trained nurse as one who has a diploma from a chartered training- 
 school and is entitled to registration. 
 
 Kentucky: Board may refuse to issue a certificate for same reasons given for revo- 
 cation. In case of refusal, suspension, or revocation an appeal may be made to 
 the State Nurses' Association, whose decision by a majority vote is final. 
 
 Michigan : Registered nurses shall furnish a certificate of good health from a regis- 
 tered physician, showing that he or she is free from tuberculosis or any specific 
 or infectious disease; said certificate to be renewed semi-annually. Board has 
 power to appoint a registered nurse training-school inspector, who has had five 
 years' experience, three years of which were spent as superintendent of a recog- 
 nized training-school. 
 
 Mississippi: Non-graduates are registered as licensed attendants. Nurses registered 
 in other states may practice in special cases without being required to register. 
 
 Montana: An appeal from decision of Board can be made to State Nurses' Associa- 
 tion, whose decision by majority vote is final. 
 
 North Carolina: State Nurses' Association makes out the certificate form. 
 
 Oklahoma: Training-schools shall give the systematic instruction required by the 
 Board. 
 
 Oregon: Board to be sole judges of credentials of nurse to be registered without 
 examination. 
 
 Rhode Island: Pin or badge to be adopted for registered nurses to wear. Define 
 "approved" to mean approved by Board. 
 
 South Carolina: Beginning of Section 2 makes law compulsory, but second proviso 
 negatives this. Revoked nurse may appeal to Circuit Court of County in which 
 she resides and to Supreme Court. 
 
 Wisconsin: Nurse whose certificate was revoked for gross incompetency may have it 
 regranted after one year at the discretion of the Board of Health. Defines 
 training-school as one connected with a general hospital requiring a systematic 
 course of instruction covering three or more years. First two years shall be spent 
 in training-school or hospital, and not more than three months of the senior year 
 shall be devoted to outside nursing. Instruction shall be both theoretical and 
 practical in following branches: Nursing, ethics, anatomy, physiology, hygiene, 
 dietetics, materia medica, elementary urinalysis, medical, surgical, gynecologic, 
 and obstetric nursing, including care of infants, theoretical, and practical, if 
 possible, in contagious diseases and care of sick children.
 
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 ALABAMA 
 
 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 SECTION i. That any incorporated educational institution or society engaged 
 in teaching and training its pupils in the science and art of nursing the sick, and 
 which shall give hospital practice and training at a hospital maintaining not less 
 than twenty beds, and shall have such course of instruction as may be approved 
 by the State Health Officer may, upon obtaining and filing the certificate of ap- 
 proval of said State Health Officer, and recording the same as provided in Section 
 2 thereof, issue to the student pursuing said course of instruction on hospital train- 
 ing, certificate of proficiency and diplomas and may confer the degree of graduate 
 nurse. 
 
 SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, that before such institution or society shall issue 
 diplomas or certificates of proficiency or confer such degree, the president of such 
 institution or society and three lecturers or instructors thereof, who shall be prac- 
 tising physicians, shall file with the State Health Officer a verified statement, 
 containing a list of the lecturers and instructors, the subjects taught, and the 
 nature and amount of hospital training received at said institution or society, and 
 if said State Health Officer shall approve such verified statement, he shall issue to 
 such institution a certificate to the effect that he has examined such verified state- 
 ment and approved the same, which said certificate shall be recorded by the probate 
 judge of the county where said institution or society is located, upon the payment 
 of a fee of $2.50. 
 
 ARKANSAS 
 
 Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: 
 
 SECTION i. That a Board to be known as The Board of Nurse Examiners for 
 Arkansas is hereby created and established. Said Board shall be composed of six 
 (6) members, to be appointed by the Governor of the State as hereinafter provided, 
 four (4) of whom shall be graduate, trained nurses, and two (2) of whom shall be 
 physicians. 
 
 Within thirty (30) days after the taking effect of this Act, the Arkansas Graduate 
 Nurses' Association shall, through its President and Secretary, submit to the 
 Governor a list containing the names of six (6) physicians of good standing in this 
 State, and the names of twelve (12) graduate, trained nurses. Each nurse, whose 
 name shall thus be submitted, shall be at least twenty-three (23) years of age, of 
 good moral character, a graduate from a training-school connected with a general 
 hospital or sanitarium of good standing where not less than a two (2) years' course 
 is given in the wards, and shall have had not less than three (3) years' actual prac- 
 tice in the profession. 
 
 From the list so submitted, the Governor shall, within thirty (30) days after 
 the receipt thereof, appoint one (i) physician and two (2) nurses to hold offices on 
 the said Board for two (2) years from May i, 1913, and one (i) physician and two (2) 
 nurses to hold offices on said Board for four (4) years from May i, 1913. There- 
 after, every second year, and during the month of April just prior to the expira- 
 tion of the respective terms of office, the Governor shall appoint as successors 
 
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 thereto one (i) physician and two (2) nurses to hold offices on said Board for four 
 (4) years, said appointments to be made from lists, submitted by the said Arkansas 
 Graduate Nurses' Association, of not less than three nominations for each office, 
 provided, that the nurses whose names shall hereafter be placed in nomination by the 
 said Association shall be registered and licensed under the provisions of this Act, 
 and shall in all other respects fulfil the requirements herein set forth. 
 
 SEC. 2. Vacancies occurring on said Board shall be filled for the unexpired 
 terms by appointments to be made by the Governor from like nominations to be 
 furnished him by the said Association, provided, that if said nominations are not 
 submitted within thirty (30) days after the vacancy occurs the Governor may ap- 
 point as a successor to such office on said Board such person, fulfilling the above 
 requirements, as to him seems best. 
 
 SEC. 3. The members of the said Board shall, before entering upon the duties of 
 said office, take the oath prescribed by the Constitution for State Officers, and shall 
 file the same in the office of the Secretary of State, who shall thereupon issue to such 
 person so appointed a certificate of such appointment. 
 
 SEC. 4. The members of the Board shall, within thirty (30) days after their 
 appointment, organize by electing one of their number as President of the Board, 
 and another as Secretary, who shall also be the Treasurer of said Board. The 
 officers so elected shall hold offices for a period of one (i) year, or until their suc- 
 cessors are elected and have qualified. The election of officers thereafter shall be 
 held annually in the month of May, and in case of a vacancy in either of said offices 
 the Board shall, within forty (40) days after the vacancy occurs, elect one of its 
 members to fill said office till the next regular election, provided, that in case no such 
 election be held within the time stated the Governor shall appoint a member of 
 said Board to such office for the unexpired term. 
 
 SEC. 5. The Secretary shall certify to the Governor after each election the 
 names of the offices elected, and shall also notify the Governor in case of a vacancy 
 on said Board or in the office of President. In case of a vacancy in the office of 
 Secretary the President shall certify the fact to the Governor, and in like manner 
 shall certify to the Governor the name of the person chosen by the Board to fill 
 said office, if one be so chosen. 
 
 SEC. 6. The Secretary shall keep a record of the minutes of the meetings of 
 said Board, and a record of the names of all persons making application for regis- 
 tration under the provisions of this Act, together with the action of the Board 
 thereon. The Secretary shall also keep a roll of the names of all nurses who have 
 been registered and licensed by said Board to practice the profession under this 
 Act. Said records shall at all reasonable times be open for public inspection. 
 
 SEC. 7. All fees for the examination, registration, and licensing of nurses here- 
 under shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Board, who shall issue receipts therefor, 
 and the same shall be deposited by said Treasurer quarterly in the treasury of the 
 State, and there credited to and designated for the use of the said Board of Nurse 
 Examiners for Arkansas. The Secretary shall make a good and sufficient bond 
 unto the State of Arkansas for the faithful performance of such duties as may be 
 required of him or her as Secretary and Treasurer of said Board, in a sum and with 
 such security as the Board shall deem proper. 
 
 SEC. 8. The compensation of the members of said Board shall be at the rate of 
 five ($5.00) dollars per day, for each day actually engaged in attending meetings 
 of said Board, provided, that the Secretary may receive such extra compensation 
 for services rendered as the Board shall deem reasonable, which amount, however, 
 shall not exceed the sum of three hundred ($300.00) dollars per annum. 
 
 SEC. 9. All salaries of members and officers of said Board, and all other ex- 
 penses, proper and necessary in the opinion of the Board to the discharge of its 
 duties under and to enforce this Act, shall be paid out of such funds as shall be 
 deposited by said Secretary and Treasurer of the Board in the treasury of the State 
 for the use of said Board, upon warrants of the Auditor of the State, issued upon the
 
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 requisition of the President, and attested by the Secretary under the seal of said 
 Board, provided, that no salary or expense of said Board shall ever be paid out of any 
 fund or funds of the State. 
 
 SEC. 10. During the month of April each year the President and Secretary 
 shall file with the Governor a complete report of the actions of the Board, and shall 
 likewise, annually, in the month of April, file in the office of the Secretary of 
 State a certified list of the names of all persons who have been registered and licensed 
 to practice the profession under the provisions of this Act. The treasurer shall 
 also during the month of April each year file with the Governor and the office of 
 the Secretary of State a certified statement of the receipts and disbursements for 
 the year. 
 
 SEC. ii. The Board is authorized to make suitable By-Laws for carrying out 
 its duties under the provisions of this Act, to fix the time for holding its regular 
 meetings for the examination of applicants, to have an official seal, which shall 
 bear the words, "The Board of Nurse Examiners for Arkansas." 
 
 SEC. 12. The certificate of the Secretary of said Board under said seal shall 
 be accepted in the courts of the State as the best evidence as to the minutes of said 
 Board, and shall likewise be accepted in the courts of this State as the best evidence 
 as to the registration or non-registration of any person under the requirements of 
 this Act. 
 
 SEC. 13. It shall be the duty of the Board to meet regularly once in every six 
 months, for the purpose of examining applicants, and special meetings for examina- 
 tions shall be called by the Secretary upon the written request of three members of 
 said Board. Four members shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of said 
 Board. Notice of the meetings for the purpose of examining applicants shall be 
 given at least thirty (30) days prior thereto by publication in a daily newspaper of 
 general circulation in the State, and in a Nurses' Journal. The Secretary shall, not 
 less than ten days prior to the date of said meetings, also mail a written or printed 
 notice of such meetings to each applicant whose name shall have been properly filed 
 with said Secretary, and no applicant shall be examined, or issued a certificate or 
 license, unless said applicant's name shall have been filed with said Secretary not 
 less than fifteen (15) days before the date of said examination. 
 
 SEC. 14. The Board shall have power to revoke any certificate, or license, issued 
 in accordance with this Act, upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire 
 Board, for gross incompetence, dishonesty, habitual intemperance, or any other act 
 derogatory to the morals or standing of the nursing profession, provided, that before 
 any certificate, or license, shall be revoked, the holder thereof shall be given at least 
 thirty (30) days notice in writing of the charge or charges against him or her, and 
 of the time and place of the hearing and determining of such charge or charges, at 
 which time and place he or she shall be allowed to be heard with witnesses. Said 
 notice may be given by personal service, or by registered mail, in which latter case, 
 the signed return receipt card shall be accepted as evidence of service. The Presi- 
 dent and Secretary of the Board are authorized to administer oaths to persons giving 
 testimony at such hearings, and no evidence shall be received at such hearings except 
 it be under oath. 
 
 SEC. 15. Upon the revocation of any certificate, or license, by the Board, as 
 outlined in the preceding section, the Secretary shall strike the name of such person 
 from the records of said Board, and shall note the revocation, together with the 
 time of and the cause for same, upon the record. The Board is authorized to recall 
 and cancel the certificate, or license, of any person whose name shall have thus 
 been stricken from the records of the Board, and may employ such means for secur- 
 ing the return of the same as the circumstances warrant. The Secretary is author- 
 ized to furnish certified copies of the records of the Board as to the registration or 
 non-registration, or the cancellation of the certificate, or license, of any person, to 
 the Secretary of a similar Board in another State, upon the written request for the 
 same.
 
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 SEC. 1 6. All persons desiring to practice professional nursing in this State 
 shall make application to said Board in the manner provided by this Act and the 
 By-Laws or rules of said Board, and shall deposit with the Secretary at the tune 
 of making application for registration the sum of five ($5.00) dollars, as an exami- 
 nation fee, which shall in no case be returned, whether the examination be passed 
 or not, but in case the applicant passes the examination to the satisfaction of the 
 Board then no further fee will be charged for registration. 
 
 SEC. 17. Before any person, except those herein specifically excepted, shall 
 be given a certificate, or license, to practice professional nursing in this State, such 
 person shall be required to undergo an examination to be given by said Board 
 touching applicant's qualifications as a graduate nurse, and shall pass the same to 
 the satisafction of the majority of said Board. The examination to be given such 
 applicants by said Board shall be of such character as to determine the fitness of 
 said applicant to practice professional nursing as contemplated in this Act, and 
 shall be upon the following subjects: Practical nursing, surgical nursing, obstetrical 
 nursing, hygiene, contagion, diet cooking, materia medica, anatomy, physiology, 
 gynecology, care of children and urinary analysis, genito-urinary being also given 
 to male nurses. If the result of the examination be satisfactory to a majority of 
 the Board, the President and Secretary shall sign and issue to such applicant a 
 certificate to that effect, which said certificate shall license the holder thereof to 
 practice professional nursing in this State as a registered nurse. If the applicant 
 fails to pass the examination, he or she may take a second examination at the next 
 regular meeting of the Board without being required to pay an additional fee, but 
 in no case shall more than two examinations be given an applicant upon the pay- 
 ment of one fee. 
 
 SEC. 18. After May i, 1914, all applicants, except the undergraduate nurses 
 now in training hereinafter mentioned, shall be required to be at least nineteen 
 (19) years of age, and shall possess a literary education equivalent to the course 
 given in the eighth grade of the public schools of the State. 
 
 SEC. 19. All graduate nurses who are engaged in nursing at the time of the 
 passage of this Act, or who have been so engaged within five years prior thereto and 
 who shall show to the satisfaction of the Board that he or she is of good moral 
 character, and was graduated from a training-school connected with a hospital or 
 sanitarium giving a two years' general training course, and who in other respects 
 meets the requirements of this Act, shall be entitled to be registered and given a 
 certificate, or license, without examination, provided, that written application to be 
 so registered and licensed be filed by such person with the Secretary of said Board 
 within ninety (90) days after the organization of the Board, said application to be 
 accompanied by an affidavit, setting out applicant's preparatory training and ex- 
 perience, and a deposit of five ($5.00) dollars as a registration fee. 
 
 SEC. 20. Any registered nurse from any other State, where the laws with ref- 
 erence to professional nursing are up to the standard set out in this Act, who shall 
 show to the satisfaction of the Board that he or she is registered in such other 
 State and a graduate from a hospital training-school where the standard of training 
 and instruction shall meet the requirements prescribed by said Board, who shall 
 otherwise be qualified under the provisions of this Act, and any nurse who shall 
 have served in the Army or Navy of the United States, and shall have been 
 honorably discharged therefrom, shall be entitled to be registered without 
 examination upon the payment of the registration fee herein mentioned, appli- 
 cation having been made in the manner prescribed by the rules or By-Laws of 
 said Board. 
 
 SEC. 21. All undergraduate nurses who are now in training in the wards of 
 a general hospital or sanitarium of this State where a two years' course of system- 
 atic instruction is given, and shall hereafter graduate therefrom, and shall possess 
 the other qualifications prescribed in this Act, shall be entitled to be registered 
 and licensed without examination, provided, that they shall make application to
 
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 said Board, in the manner herein outlined for graduate nurses, within ninety (90) 
 days after their graduation. 
 
 SEC. 22. Every person receiving a certificate, or license, from said Board shall 
 have such certificate, or license, recorded in the office of the County Clerk of the 
 county in which such person resides, and shall pay to such clerk the sum of fifty 
 cents for recording the same. 
 
 SEC. 23. Any person who shall have complied with the provisions of this Act, 
 and shall have received a certificate, or license, from said Board, shall be styled 
 and known as a registered nurse, and shall be entitled to append the letters "R. 
 N." to his or her name. No other person shall assume or use such title, or use the 
 abbreviation "R. N.," or any other letters to indicate that he or she is a trained, 
 graduate, or registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 24. When any person shall append the letters "R. N." to his or her 
 name, or shall use other letters, figures, or signs to indicate that he or she is a 
 trained, graduate, or registered nurse, it shall be prima facia evidence of practicing 
 the profession as a trained, graduate, or registered nurse within the meaning of 
 this Act. 
 
 SEC. 25. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice professional nursing 
 in this State, as a trained, graduate, or registered nurse, without first complying 
 with the provisions of this Act and receiving from said Board of Nurse Examiners 
 for Arkansas the certificate, or license, herein provided for. 
 
 SEC. 26. It shall be unlawful for any person, not having the certificate, or 
 license, in this Act mentioned, to advertise to the public as a nurse, or to allow his 
 or her name to be placed on a public record or list in a drug store, or in the office 
 of a physician, or elsewhere, as a nurse, unless such advertisement, or list, or record, 
 shall also state that such nurse, or persons, are not registered. 
 
 SEC. 27. It shall be unlawful for any drug store proprietor, physician, or other 
 person to publicly keep a record or list of the names of nurses, not registered and 
 licensed as herein provided, unless such list or record shall also state- that such 
 nurses or persons are "not registered." 
 
 SEC. 28. The violation of any of the provisions of section 26, 27 or 28 of this 
 Act shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and any person found guilty thereof shall be 
 punished by a fine of not less than $25.00 nor more than $250.00, for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 29. This. Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to or prevent the 
 gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, or to any person 
 nursing the sick for hire who does not in any way advertise, assume, charge, or 
 claim to be a registered, graduate, or trained nurse, or to registered nurses, residents 
 of other States, who visit this State as companions or nurses for residents of other 
 States, temporarily sojourning here, or to registered nurses from other States called 
 to attend cases in this State by physicians of this State. 
 
 SEC. 30. In the opinion of the General Assembly an emergency exists. There- 
 fore, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 CALIFORNIA 
 
 The people of the State of California do enact as follows: 
 
 SECTION i. Within thirty days after this act takes effect the State Board of 
 Health shall establish and maintain a department of examination and registration 
 of graduate nurses, as hereinafter provided. The State Board of Health shall appoint 
 a director, whose salary shall be fixed by the Board, and said director shall have 
 been graduated from an accredited training-school for nurses, as defined in this 
 Act, and shall be duly registered under the provisions of this Act. Said director 
 shall perform all duties required by this Act, and such other duties as may be re- 
 quired by the State Board of Health, in order to carry out the objects and purposes 
 of this Act. Lists of accredited training-schools for nurses and a register of the
 
 FULL TEXT OF LAWS 59 
 
 names of all nurses duly registered under this Act shall be prepared and kept by the 
 department. An annual report shall be prepared and filed before January first of 
 each year. 
 
 SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said Board to meet regularly once in every six 
 months for the purpose of holding examinations under the provisions of this Act. 
 Public notice of such meetings shall be given by publishing the same at least two 
 weeks prior to the date of each meeting in two papers of general circulation, and 
 in one nursing journal. Upon filing application for examination each applicant 
 shall pay an examination fee of ten dollars, which shall in no case be returned to 
 the applicant. No further fee shall be required for registration. At such meetings 
 it shall be the duty of the Board to examine all such applicants for registration 
 under this Act and to issue to each duly qualified applicant who shall have com- 
 plied with the requisite provisions of this Act and who shall have passed a satis- 
 factory examination, a certificate provided for in this act. 
 
 SEC. 3. All applicants for registration shall be registered without examination; 
 provided, they make application prior to July i, 1914, and have graduated before 
 said date from a reputable training-school connected with a general hospital. 
 
 SEC. 4. On and after July i, 1914, no person shall be eligible for examina- 
 tion or for registration as a registered nurse who shall not furnish satisfactory 
 evidence of having been graduated from an accredited training-school for nurses. 
 An accredited training-school for nurses within the meaning of this Act is hereby 
 defined to be a school for the training of nurses attached to or operated in connec- 
 tion with a hospital or hospitals giving a general training and a systematic, theo- 
 retical and practical course of instruction covering a period of at least three years. 
 All applicants for examination must furnish satisfactory evidence of good moral 
 character, and of having complied with the provisions of this Act relative to quali- 
 fying. 
 
 SEC. 5. A nurse who has received his or her certificate according to the pro- 
 visions of this Act, shall be styled and known as a registered nurse, and shall be 
 entitled to place the initials "R. N." after his or her name. 
 
 SEC. 6. This Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous 
 nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, or to any person nursing 
 the sick for hire who does not in any way assume to be, or practice as a registered 
 nurse. 
 
 SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful for any person not holding a certificate of regis- 
 tration issued by the State Board of Health to use the title "registered nurse" or the 
 letters "R. N.," in connection with, or following his or her name, or to impersonate 
 in any manner, or pretend to be, a "registered nurse." 
 
 SEC. 8. The Board, upon written application, and upon the receipt of ten 
 dollars as registration fee, shall issue a certificate of registration without examina- 
 tion to any applicant who has been duly registered as a registered nurse under the 
 laws of another state or foreign country having requirements equivalent to those 
 provided for by this act. 
 
 SEC. 9. The Board shall have the power to revoke any certificate of registra- 
 tion for dishonesty, intemperance, immorality, unprofessional conduct, or any 
 habit rendering a nurse unfit or unsafe to care for the sick, after a full and fair 
 investigation of the charges preferred against the accused. 
 
 SEC. 10. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be fined not less than ten dollars 
 nor more than one hundred dollars for the first offense and not less than fifty dollars 
 nor more than five hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 
 
 SEC. ii. Within ten days after the beginning of each month the secretary of 
 the State Board of Health shall report to the controller the amount and source of 
 all collections made under the provisions of this Act, and at the same time all such 
 amounts shall be paid into the State treasury, and shall be placed to the credit of 
 the special fund to be known as the fund for examination and registration of nurses.
 
 60 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 All amounts paid into this fund shall be held subject to the order of the State Board 
 of Health, to be used only for the purpose of meeting necessary expenses in the 
 performance of the special duties imposed by this Act. Claims against the fund 
 shall be audited by the State Board of Health and by the Board of Control, and shall 
 be paid by the State Treasurer upon warrants drawn by the State Controller. 
 
 COLORADO 
 
 AN ACT RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING 
 
 Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: 
 
 SECTION i . That within sixty days after the taking effect of this Act, the Gover- 
 nor of the State shall appoint a State Board of Nurse Examiners, to be composed 
 of five members. Each of the members of said Board so appointed by the Gover- 
 nor shall be a trained nurse of at least twenty-three (23) years of age, of good moral 
 character, who is a graduate from a training-school, connected with a general hos- 
 pital or sanitarium of good standing, where a three years' training with a systematic 
 course of instruction is given in the wards; one of the members of said Board shall 
 be designated by the Governor to hold office for one year, one for two years, one for 
 three years, one for four years, and one for five years, and thereafter upon the 
 expiration of the term of office of the person so appointed, the Governor shall 
 appoint a successor to each person to hold office for five years, each of whom shall 
 be a registered nurse under the provisions of this Act, and shall fulfil the require- 
 ments in this section set forth. 
 
 SEC. 2. That the members of said Board shall, as soon as organized, annually 
 in the month of April, elect from their members a president and a secretary, who 
 shall also be the treasurer. Three members of this Board shall constitute a quorum, 
 and special meetings of said Board shall be called by the secretary upon the written 
 request of any two members. The Board is authorized to make suh by-laws and 
 rules as shall be necessary to govern its proceedings and to carry into effect the pur- 
 pose of this Act. The secretary shall be required to keep a record of all the meetings 
 of said Board, including a register of the names of all nurses duly registered under 
 this Act, which shall at all reasonable times be open to public scrutiny, and said 
 Board shall cause the prosecution of all persons violating any of the provisions 
 of this Act, and may incur necessary expenses on that behalf. That the president 
 and secretary shall make a biennial report to the Governor on the second Monday 
 of December, immediately preceding the convening of the Legislature, together with 
 a statement of the receipts and disbursements of said Board. 
 
 SEC. 3. That after April, 1907, it shall be the duty of said Board to meet regu- 
 larly once in every six (6) months, notice of which meeting shall be given to the 
 public press and in one nursing journal one month previous to the meeting. At 
 every regular meeting, namely, every six months, it shall be the duty of the Board 
 to examine all applicants for registration under this Act. Upon filing application 
 for examination, each applicant shall pay an examination fee of ten ($10.00) dollars, 
 which shall in no case be returned to the applicant, whether the examination be passed 
 or not, but in case the applicant pass the examination, then no further fee shall be re- 
 quired for registration. The examination shall be of such a character as to determine 
 tie fitness of the applicant to practice professional nursing as contemplated by this 
 Act. If the result of the examination shall be satisfactory to a majority of the 
 Board, the Board shall sign and issue a certificate to the applicant to that effect, 
 which certificate shall be attested by the secretary; whereupon, the person named 
 in the certificate shall be duly qualified to practice professional nursing in this 
 state. Any registered nurse from any other state, where the laws with reference to 
 professional nursing are up to the standard of the laws of the state of Colorado, who 
 shall show to the satisfaction of the Board that he or she is a trained, graduate
 
 FULL TEXT OF LAWS 6 1 
 
 nurse of a hospital or sanitarium, the standard of instruction and training of which 
 shall meet the requirements of the rules prescribed by the said Board, and who 
 shall be otherwise properly qualified, may receive a certificate and be registered as 
 a nurse of this state, without examination. 
 
 SEC. 4. That all nurses who are engaged in nursing at the time of the passage 
 of this Act, and who shall show to the satisfaction of said Board that they are of 
 good moral character and were graduated prior to April, 1906, from a training- 
 school connected with a hospital or sanitarium, giving two years' general training, 
 or prior to the year 1901, having given eighteen months' general training, and 
 who maintain in other respects proper standards, shall be entitled to registration 
 without examination. All persons who are in training in the wards of a general 
 hospital or sanitarium in this State, where a two years' training with a systematic 
 course of instruction is given at the time of the passage of this Act, and shall grad- 
 uate hereafter, and possess the above qualifications, shall be entitled to registration 
 without examination, provided such application be made to this Board before 
 April, 1909. All nurses who have served in the army or navy of the United States, 
 and have been honorably discharged, shall be entitled to be registered without 
 examination. It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person to practice nursing as a 
 trained, graduate, or registered nurse without a certificate from the State Board of 
 Nurse Examiners. A nurse who has received his or her certificate according to the 
 provisions of this Act shall be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse." No 
 other person shall assume such title nor use the abbreviation "R. N.," or any other 
 letters to indicate that he or she is a trained, graduate, or registered nurse. The 
 Board in each instance shall require a registration fee of ten (10) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 5. That State Board of Nurse Examiners shall have the power to revoke 
 any certificate issued in accordance with this Act by unanimous vote of said Board 
 for gross incompetence, dishonesty, habitual intemperance, or any act derogatory 
 to the morals or standing of the profession of nursing, as may be determined by the 
 Board; but before any certificate shall be revoked the holder thereof shall be entitled 
 to at least thirty days' notice in writing of the charge against him or her, and of 
 the time and place of hearing and determining of such charges, at which time and 
 place he or she shall be entitled to be heard. Upon the revocation of any certifi- 
 cate, it shall be the duty of the secretary of the Board to strike the name of the 
 holder thereof from the roll of registered nurses. 
 
 SEC. 6. All fees received by the State Board of Nurse Examiners, and all fines 
 collected under this Act, shall be paid to the treasurer of said Board, who shall, at 
 the end of each and every month, deposit the same with the State Treasurer, and 
 the said State Treasurer shall place said money so received in a special fund, to be 
 known as the fund of the State Board of Nurse Examiners, and shall pay the same 
 out on vouchers issued and signed by the president and secretary of said Board, 
 upon warrants drawn by the Auditor of the State therefor. All moneys so received 
 and placed in said fund may be used by the State Board of Nurse Examiners in 
 defraying its expenses in carrying out the provisions of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 7. This Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous nurs- 
 ing of the sick by friends or members of the family, or to any person nursing the 
 sick for hire who does not in any way assume the practice as a trained, graduate, or 
 registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 8. That any person violating the provisions of this Act, or who shall make 
 any false representations to said Board in applying for a certificate, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be punished by a fine of not more than 
 three hundred ($300.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 9. In the opinion of the General Assembly an emergency exists; therefore, 
 this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
 
 62 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 CONNECTICUT 
 
 AN ACT REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF PROFESSIONAL NUKSING OF THE SICK 
 
 Be It Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly Con- 
 vened: 
 
 SECTION i. From and after July i, 1905, there shall be a Board of Examination 
 and Registration of Nurses, composed of five members, appointed by the Governor, 
 and all vacancies in said Board shall be filled by the Governor in like manner. 
 The members of said Board shall be residents of the state of Connecticut and shall 
 be practical nurses, each of whom shall be a graduate of a training-school for nurses 
 which gives a two years' course in a general hospital, and shall have had at least 
 eight years' experience in professional nursing of the sick. Each member shall be 
 appointed for a term of three years from the date when appointment shall take effect, 
 except those first appointed, who shall serve as follows: one for one year, two for 
 two years, and two for three years from the date their appointments take effect, 
 respectively, and except a person appointed to fill a vacancy, who shall be appointed 
 for the unexpired term. 
 
 SEC. 2. Said Board shall, at the first meeting thereof, and at the annual meet- 
 ing which shall be held on the first Wednesday in June, 1906, and on the first Wednes- 
 day in June in each year thereafter, elect from its own number a president and a 
 secretary, who shall also be treasurer. Said Board may adopt a seal, and may adopt 
 such by-laws, rules, and regulations for the transaction of the business of the Board 
 and the government and management of its affairs, not inconsistent with the 
 laws of this state and of the United States, as it may deem expedient. Three mem- 
 bers of said Board shall constitute a quorum, and special meetings shall be called 
 upon request of any two members. On request of said Board the comptroller shall 
 provide a suitable room in the Capitol for its meetings. 
 
 SEC. 3. The members of said Board shall receive their actual necessary ex- 
 penses incurred in the discharge of their duties, and the secretary shall receive a 
 salary to be fixed by the Board, not to exceed one hundred dollars per year. Said 
 expenses and said salary shall be paid out of the receipts of said Board as hereinaf- 
 ter specified. 
 
 SEC. 4. At a meeting of said Board to be held within sixty days after the ap- 
 pointment of the members thereof, and at the annual meeting in each year there- 
 after, and at such special meetings as said Board may deem necessary to hold for 
 that purpose, notice of each of which meetings shall be given by publication in 
 such newspapers as the Board may determine at least one month previous to such 
 meetings, said Board shall examine all applicants for registration under the pro- 
 visions of this Act to determine their qualifications for the efficient nursing of the 
 sick, and shall decide upon the qualifications of every such applicant and give notice 
 of such decision within three months from the date of such examination. Any 
 person twenty-one years of age or over, and of good moral character, who shall show 
 to the satisfaction of the Board that he or she is a graduate of a training-school 
 for nurses which gives a two years' course in a public or private hospital where 
 medical, surgical, and obstetrical cases are received and treated, or has had such 
 experience as said Board shall find to be equivalent thereto, shall be eligible for 
 such examination upon payment of a fee of five dollars, to be deposited upon the 
 filing of the application for examination. Said examination shall include the 
 subjects of elementary anatomy and physiology, medical, surgical, and obstetrical 
 nursing, dietetics, and home sanitation. If such applicant shall pass said exami- 
 nation to the satisfaction of the Board, said Board shall issue a certificate of 
 registration to said applicant. 
 
 SEC. 5. Any person twenty-one years of age or over, and of good moral charac- 
 ter, applying for registration within two years from the passage of this Act, and
 
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 who shall, by affidavit or otherwise, show to the satisfaction of the Board that he 
 or she is a graduate of a training-school for nurses which gives a two years' course 
 in a public or private hospital where medical, surgical, and obstetrical cases are 
 received and treated, or that he or she was, at the passage of this Act, a student in 
 such training-school for nurses and afterward was graduated therefrom, or has 
 had such other experience as said Board shall find to be equivalent thereto, shall 
 be eligible for registration without examination, upon payment of a fee of five dol- 
 lars. Any applicant aggrieved by the decision of the Board on such application or on 
 examination may appeal therefrom to a Board to be composed of one member 
 from each of the following state medical societies: The Connecticut Medical Society, 
 The Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Society, and the Connecticut Eclectic 
 Medical Association. Such appeal shall be in writing, and shall be filed with said 
 Board of Examination and Registration of Nurses within thirty days after the an- 
 nouncement of the decision complained of, which Board shall forthwith transmit 
 the same to said Board of appeal. Said Board of appeal shall hear and determine 
 such appeal with all reasonable dispatch, may affirm, modify, or reverse the decision 
 appealed from, and shall certify its action to said Board of Examination and Regis- 
 tration of Nurses, which Board shall take such action as may be necessary to carry 
 out the decision of the Board of appeal, which decision shall be final and binding on 
 all parties. The members of said Board of appeal shall be appointed, in the first 
 instance, by the Governor, before August i, 1907, such appointees to hold office 
 from the date of their appointment until the said societies shall respectively appoint 
 the members of the said Board of appeal. The time within which any person may 
 apply for registration under the provisions of Section 5 of said chapter as amended by 
 Section 2 of this Act is hereby extended for the period of sixty days from and after 
 the passage of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 6. Said Board may cancel the registration of any person who has been 
 convicted of any felony, or of any crime or misdemeanor in the practice of the 
 profession of nursing. 
 
 SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful, after two years from the passage of this Act, for 
 any person to practice professional nursing in this state as a registered nurse with- 
 out having a certificate of registration. A nurse who has received such certificate 
 shall be styled and known as a " Registered Nurse," and no other person shall assume 
 such title, or use the abbreviation "R. N.," or any other words, letters, or figures to 
 indicate that the person using the same is such a registered nurse. Every person 
 who shall violate any provision of this act, or who shall wilfully make false represen- 
 tation to said Board in applying for a certificate of registration, shall be fined not 
 more than one hundred dollars ; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be held to 
 apply to the acts of any person nursing the sick who does not represent himself or 
 herself to be a registered nurse. The Board shall cause to be presented to the proper 
 prosecuting officer evidence of any violation of the provisions of this Act and may in- 
 cur any necessary expenses in the performance of this duty, said expenses to be paid 
 out of the receipts of said Board. 
 
 SEC. 8. All fees collected by said Board under the provisions of this Act shall 
 be paid to the secretary of the Board, and said secretary shall pay from the moneys 
 so received, upon approval of the president, the salary of said secretary and the 
 necessary expenses of the members as provided in Section 3 of this Act, also for 
 books, stationery, and other necessary expenses of the Board; provided, that said 
 Board shall create or incur no expense exceeding the sum received from time to 
 time as fees under the provisions of this Act. The secretary shall, before taking 
 office, give to the state a bond, with surety, conditioned for the faithful performance 
 of the duties of said office, in the penal sum of not less than five hundred dollars; 
 and shall also keep an account of all moneys received and expended as aforesaid, 
 and shall render a detailed statement thereof to the comptroller on or before July 
 i in each year. The secretary shall also submit to the Governor, on or before 
 July i hi each year, a general statement of the work of the Board for the year pre-
 
 64 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 ceding, including therein a statement of the number of applicants received during 
 the year, the number approved, and the number rejected. 
 SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect from its passage. 
 
 DELAWARE 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in 
 General Assembly met: 
 
 SECTION i. That from and after the passage of this Act the Delaware State 
 Association of Graduate Nurses shall nominate for examiners ten of its members 
 who have not had less than three years' experience in their profession and four regu- 
 lar licensed physicians, two from each of the two leading schools of medicine. These 
 nominations shall be submitted to the Governor of the State, who shall, from the 
 said number, appoint within thirty days a Board of Examiners, to be composed of 
 two regular licensed physicians, one from each of the two leading schools of medi- 
 cine, and three nurses who have had at least three years active practice. One 
 of the members of this Board shall be designated by the Governor to hold office 
 for one year, two for two years, and two for three years; and hereafter, upon the 
 expiration of the term of office of the person or persons so appointed, the Governor 
 shall appoint a successor or successors to each person or persons, to hold office for 
 three years, from a list of five nominations to be submitted to him annually by the 
 Delaware State Association of Graduate Nurses. All vacancies occuring on this 
 Board shall be filled by the Governor in the same manner from a list of nominations 
 furnished him, or from a list of six to be furnished upon his request for additional 
 names. 
 
 SEC. 2. That the members of this State Board of Examiners shall, as soon as 
 organized, and annually thereafter in the month of June, elect from their members 
 a president, and a secretary who shall be the treasurer. Three members of this 
 Board shall constitute a quorum, and special meetings of the Board shall be called 
 by the secretary upon written request of any two members. The said Board of 
 Examiners is authorized to frame such By-Laws as may be necessary to govern 
 its proceedings. The secretary shall be required to keep a record of all meetings 
 of the Board, including a register of the names of all nurses duly registered under 
 this Act, which shall at all reasonable times be opened to public scrutiny, and the 
 Board shall cause the prosecution of all persons violating any of the provisions of 
 this Act, and may incur necessary expenses on this behalf. The secretary shall 
 receive a salary to be fixed by the Board, not to exceed fifty dollars per annum, 
 also traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of his or her official 
 duties. 'The other members of the Board shall receive five dollars for each day 
 actually engaged in this service, and all legitimate and necessary expenses. Said 
 expenses and salaries shall be paid from fees received by the Board under the pro- 
 visions of this Act, and no part of salaries or other expenses of the Board shall be 
 paid out of the State Treasury. All moneys received in excess of the said allowance, 
 and other expenses provided for, shall be held by the treasurer for meeting the 
 expenses of the said Board and the cost of annual reports for the Board. 
 
 SEC. 3. That after June i, A. D. 1911, it shall be the duty of said Board 
 of Examiners to meet not less frequently than once in every year, notice of which 
 meeting shall be given in the public press and in one Nursing Journal one month 
 previous to the meeting. At this meeting it shall be their duty to examine all 
 applicants for registration, under this Act, to determine their fitness and ability 
 to give efficient care of the sick. Upon filing application for examination and regis- 
 tration, each applicant shall deposit a fee of five dollars. 
 
 SEC. 4. That the apph'cant shall furnish satisfactory evidence that he or she
 
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 is twenty-one years of age, is of good moral character, and has graduated from a 
 training-school connected with a general hospital where three years of training 
 with a systematic course of instruction is given in the hospital, and after June i, 
 A. D. 191 1, that he or she has received the equivalent of a high-school education, 
 or shall pass an examination in collateral subjects satisfactory to said Board. 
 
 SEC. 5. That all nurses graduating before June i, A. D. 1911, possessing the 
 above qualifications, shall be permitted to register without examination upon 
 payment of registration fee. Nurses who shall show to the satisfaction of the Board 
 of Examiners that they are graduates of training-schools connected with a general 
 hospital or sanatorium, giving two years training prior to the year 1898, shall be 
 entilted to registration without examination, provided such application be made 
 before June i, A. D. 1911. Graduates of training-schools in connection with special 
 hospitals, giving a two years' course, who shall obtain one year's additional training 
 in an approved general hospital, shall be eligible for registration without examina- 
 tion before June i, A. D. 1911, or said graduates shall be eligible for registration 
 prior to said date upon passing a special examination before the Board of Examiners 
 in subjects not adequately taught in the training-schools from which they have 
 graduated. And it shall be unlawful, after the passage of this Act, for any person 
 to practice nursing as a graduate, trained, professional, or registered nurse without 
 a certificate of said Board of Examiners. A nurse who has received his or her cer- 
 tificate according to the provisions of this Act shall be styled and known as a 
 "Registered Nurse." No other person shall assume such title, or use the abbrevia- 
 tion R. N. or any other letters or figures to indicate that he or she is a registered 
 nurse. A nurse registered in any State or country, having the same qualifications 
 or higher ones than required in this State, can on the payment of #5.00 with the 
 approval of State Board of Examiners be a registered nurse in the State of Delaware. 
 
 SEC. 6. That this Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous 
 nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, and also it shall not apply 
 to any person nursing the sick for hire, but who does not in any way assume to be 
 a graduate, trained, professional, or Registered Nurse. 
 
 SEC. 7. That any person violating any of the provisions of this Act, or who 
 shall wilfully make any false representation to the Board of Examiners in applying 
 for a certificate, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be punished 
 by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 8. That the State Board of Examiners of Graduate Nurses may revoke 
 any certificate for sufficient cause, but before this is done the holder of said certifi- 
 cate shall have thirty days' notice, and after a full and fair hearing of the charges 
 made, by a majority vote of the whole Board, the certificate may be revoked. 
 
 SEC. 9. That all Acts or parts of Acts, in so far as the same are inconsistent 
 with the provisions hereof, be, and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 AN ACT TO DEFINE THE TERM OF "REGISTERED NURSE," AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE 
 REGISTRATION OF NURSES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
 America in Congress assembled, That from and after the expiration of the ninety 
 days immediately following the passage of this Act no person shall, in the District 
 of Columbia, in any manner whatsoever, represent herself to be a registered nurse, 
 or allow herself to be so represented, unless she has been and is registered by the 
 Nurses' Examining Board in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 2. That upon the taking effect of this Act the Graduate Nurses' Associa- 
 tion of the District of Columbia shall nominate ten of its members who have had
 
 66 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 not less than five years' experience in the profession. These nominations shall be 
 submitted to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who shall, from said 
 nominations, appoint, within thirty days after said nominations are submitted 
 to them, a Nurses' Examining Board, to be composed of five members. All appoint- 
 ments shall be made so that the term of one member shall expire on the thirtieth 
 day of June of each year, and upon the expiration of the term of office of any 
 examiner the said Commissioners shall likewise fill the vacancy for a term of five 
 years from a list of three nominees submitted to them each year by the Graduate 
 Nurses' Association of the District of Columbia. An unexpired term shall be filled 
 by said Commissioners from three additional names furnished by the Graduate 
 Nurses' Association upon request of said Commissioners. No member of said 
 Board shall enter upon the discharge of her duties until she has taken oath to faith- 
 fully and impartially perform the same; and the said Commissioners may remove 
 any member of said Board for neglect of duty or for any just cause. 
 
 SEC. 3. That the Nurses' Examining Board shall meet in the District of Colum- 
 bia within ten days after their appointment and organize the Board, and annually 
 thereafter shall meet in the month of April and shall elect from its members a 
 
 E-esident, and also a secretary who shall be treasurer. It shall frame all such by- 
 ws as it shall deem necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, 
 and may amend such rules from time to time at discretion of said Board. The 
 secretary shall be required to keep a record of all meetings of the Board, and also 
 a register of the names of all nurses duly registered under this Act, and to furnish 
 a certificate of registration to all such nurses. The said Board shall hold examina- 
 tions not less frequently than once a year, and the notice of each examination 
 shall be given in one daily newspaper published in Washington City and in one 
 Nursing Journal at least thirty days prior to the examination. 
 
 SEC. 4. That every nurse desiring to style herself "a registered nurse" in the 
 District of Columbia shall make application to the nurses' examining board for 
 registration, and at the tune of making such application shall pay to the treasurer 
 of said Board five dollars. Said applicant must furnish satisfactory evidence that she 
 is over twenty-three years of age, of good moral character, and free from habits 
 liable to interfere with her services as a nurse, and, further, that she holds a diploma 
 from a training-school for nurses which has been registered by the Nurses' Examin- 
 ing Board of the District of Columbia: Provided, however, That no training-school 
 shall be registered which does not maintain proper educational standards, and give 
 not less than two years' training in a general hospital, or instruction of the same 
 kind, and, to at least the same extent as that given in the general hospital, all of 
 which shall be determined by the Nurses' Examining Board. 
 
 SEC. 5. That any person possessing the qualifications required in Section 4 
 of this Act, who has been engaged hi nursing in the District of Columbia five years 
 after graduation immediately preceding the passage of this Act, or shall have 
 graduated from any training-school in the District of Columbia within the five 
 years immediately preceding the passage of this Act, shall be entitled to regis- 
 tration without examination upon payment of the registration fee. And, further, 
 that any person who has been engaged in nursing in the District of Columbia for 
 four years immediately preceding the passage of this Act and shall have spent, in ad- 
 dition, one year in a hospital or sanatorium, shall be permitted to register after pass- 
 ing a practical examination: Provided, That such certificates shall not declare that 
 the persons holding them have fulfilled all the requirements expressed in Section 4. 
 SEC. 6. That the registration of any person as a nurse in the District of Colum- 
 bia may be revoked and the certificate of such person cancelled if she should be 
 found to have obtained the same by fraud, or be found guilty by the Nurses' Exam- 
 ining Board of any act derogatory to the standing and morals of the profession of 
 nursing. But before any certificate shall be revoked the holder thereof shall be 
 entitled to thirty days' notice of the charges against her, and after a full and fair 
 hearing the certificate can be revoked by a majority vote of the whole Board.
 
 FULL TEXT OF LAWS 67 
 
 SEC. 7. That all expenses incident to the execution of the provisions of this 
 Act shall be paid from the fees collected from applicants for registration as nurses, 
 and if any balance remains on hand on the thirtieth day of June of any year the 
 secretary and treasurer of the nurses' examining board shall receive of such balance 
 the sum of one hundred dollars, and each other member of the said Board shall 
 receive five dollars for each day actually spent in the discharge of official duties. 
 All moneys shall be paid to the treasurer of the board and shall be paid out under 
 the orders of the board. 
 
 SEC. 8. That any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by 
 a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the workhouse for 
 a period not exceeding sixty days. 
 
 SEC. 9. That the nurses' examining board shall have power to register, in 
 like manner, without examination, any person who has been registered as a profes- 
 sional nurse in another State or Territory under laws which in the opinion of said 
 board maintains a standard substantially equivalent to that provided for by this 
 Act. This Act, however, shall not include such nurses as have been registered, 
 by other States, without examination, unless investigation of training and qualifica- 
 tion of such nurse prove satisfactory to the examining board. This Act does 
 include, on the same basis, the certificates of nurses from States prevented by law, 
 or any good reason, from entering into reciprocal relation with the District of 
 Columbia. 
 
 SEC. 10. That nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent any person from 
 nursing any other person in the District of Columbia either gratuitously or for hire, 
 provided that such person so nursing shall not represent herself as being a registered 
 nurse. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing any person to prac- 
 tice medicine or surgery, or midwifery, in said District otherwise than in accord- 
 ance with an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery, 
 to license physicians and surgeons, and to punish persons violating the provisions 
 thereof," approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. 
 
 SEC. ii. That the word "she" and the derivatives thereof, wherever they occur 
 in this Act, shall be construed so as to include the word "he" and derivatives. 
 
 FLORIDA 
 
 SECTION i. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: That upon 
 the taking effect of this Act, the Governor of the State shall appoint, within sixty 
 days, a Board of Examiners to be composed of five (5) nurses. One of the members 
 of this Board shall be designated by the Governor to hold office one year, one for 
 two years, one for three years, and two for four years, and hereafter, upon the 
 expiration of the term of office of the person so appointed, the Governor shall 
 appoint a successor to each person, to hold office for four years. 
 
 SEC. 2. That the members of this State Board of Examiners shall as soon or- 
 ganized, and annually thereafter in the month of June, elect from their members a 
 President and a Secretary, who shall be the Treasurer. Three members of this 
 Board shall constitute a quorum, and special meetings of the Board shall be called 
 by the Secretary upon written request of any two members. The said Board of 
 Examiners is authorized to frame such by-laws as may be necessary to govern its 
 proceedings. The Secretary shall be required to keep a record of all meetings of 
 the Board, including a register of the names of all the nurses duly registered under 
 this Act, which shall at all reasonable times be open to public scrutiny, and the 
 Board shall cause the prosecution of all persons violating any of the provisions of 
 this Act, and may incur necessary expenses on this behalf. The Secretary shall 
 receive a salary to be fixed by the Board, not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) 
 per annum, also traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of her official 
 duties. The other members of the Board shall receive five dollars ($5 .00) for each day
 
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 actually engaged in this service, and all legitimate and necessary expenses. Said 
 expenses and salaries shall be paid from fees received by the Board under the pro- 
 vision of this Act, and no part of salaries or other expenses of the Board shall be 
 paid out of the State Treasury. All money received in excess of the said allowance 
 and other expenses provided for, shall be held by the Treasurer for meeting the 
 expenses of the said Board and the cost of annual reports of the Board. 
 
 SEC. 3. That after June i, 1916, it shall be the duty of said Board of Exam- 
 iners to meet not less frequently than once in every year, notice of which meeting 
 shall be given the public press and in one nursing journal one month previous to 
 the meeting. At this meeting it shall be their duty to examine all applicants for 
 registration under this Act, to determine their fitness and ability to give efficient 
 care of the sick. Upon filing application for examination and registration, each ap- 
 plicant shall deposit a fee of five dollars ($5.00). 
 
 SEC. 4. That the applicant shall furnish satisfactory evidence that he or she is 
 twenty-two (22) years of age, is of good moral character, has received the equiv- 
 alent of a grammar school education, and has graduated from a training-school 
 giving a systematic course in medical, surgical, and obstetrical nursing, presided 
 over by a Graduated Nurse, covering a period of not less than two years; or has re- 
 ceived two years' training in some reputable hospital now established in any of the 
 counties of this State; and who has received a certificate from the Superintendent 
 or Physician in charge of said hospital, which certificate shall be approved by the 
 Medical Association of the County in which such hospital is located; or has gradu- 
 ated from a training-school in connection with a Hospital in good standing supplying 
 a systematic two years' training corresponding to the above standards, which training 
 may be obtained in two or more Hospitals. 
 
 SEC. 5. That all nurses graduating before June i, 1016, possessing the above 
 qualifications, shall be permitted to register without examination upon payment of 
 registration fee. Nurses who shall show to the satisfaction of the Board of Exam- 
 iners that they are graduates of training-schools connected with a general hospital 
 or sanitarium giving two years' training, or prior to the year 1897 having given one 
 year's training, and who maintain in other respects proper standards, and are en- 
 gaged in professional nursing at the date of the passage of this Act, or have been 
 engaged in nursing five years (5) after graduation, prior to the passage of this Act, 
 also those who are in training at the tune of the passage of this Act, and shall 
 graduate hereafter, and possess the above qualifications, shall be entitled to regis- 
 tration without examination, provided such application be made before June i, 1916. 
 
 Graduates of training-schools in connection with special hospitals, giving a two 
 years' course, who shall obtain one year's additional training in an approved general 
 hospital, shall be eligible for registration without examination before June i, 
 1916; or said graduate shall be eligible for registration prior to said date upon pass- 
 ing a special examination before the Board of Examiners, in subjects not ade- 
 quately taught in the training-schools from which they have been graduated. 
 
 SEC. 6. And it shall be unlawful after the expiration of that time for any per- 
 son to practice professional nursing as a registered nurse without a certificate in 
 this State. A nurse who has received his or her certificate according to the provision 
 of this Act shall be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse." No other person 
 shall assume such title or use the abbreviation R. N., or any other letter or figures 
 to indicate that he or she is a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 7. That this Act shall not be construed to effect or apply to the gratuitous 
 nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, and also it shall not apply 
 to any person nursing the sick for hire, but who does not in any way assume to be a 
 registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 8. That any person violating any of the provisions of this Act, or who shall 
 wilfully make any false representation to the Board of Examiners in applying for a 
 certificate, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be punished by a 
 fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
 
 FULL TEXT OF LAWS 69 
 
 SEC. g. That the State Board of Examiners of Graduate Nurses may revoke 
 any certificate for sufficient cause, but before this is done the holder of said certificate 
 shall have thirty days' notice, and after full and fair hearing of the charge made by 
 a majority vote of the whole Board the certificate can be revoked. 
 
 SEC. 10. The Board, upon written application, and upon the receipt of five 
 dollars ($5.00) as registration fee, may issue a certificate, without examination, to 
 those who shall have been registered as registered nurses, under the law of another 
 State having the requirements equivalent to those of Florida; Provided, That the 
 Board shall be sole judge of credentials of any nurse to registration. Board shall 
 be sole judge of credentials of any nurse admitted to registration without exami- 
 nation. 
 
 SEC. ii. That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage and ap- 
 proval by the Governor. 
 
 GEORGIA 
 
 To be entitled an Act to regulate the practice of Professional Nursing in the 
 State of Georgia, and to that end to create the Board of Examiners of Nurses for 
 Georgia; and to require registration by those desiring to practice in the State as 
 registered nurses, and to provide penalties for the breach of the requirements of 
 this Act, and for other purposes. 
 
 SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That the Board of 
 Examiners of Nurses for Georgia is hereby created. It shall be composed of five 
 persons to be selected and appointed in the following manner: 
 
 The Georgia State Association Graduate Nurses will, within thirty (30) days 
 after this Act takes effect, nominate to the Governor of this State ten (10) of its 
 members, none of whom is in any way connected with any training-school for 
 nurses. The said nurses must have had at least three years of active practice in 
 their profession immediately preceding their appointment. From this number the 
 Governor shall, within thirty (30) days thereafter, appoint for places on the said 
 Board one nurse, who shall hold office for one year from said date of appointment; 
 and two who shall hold office for two (2) years from said date; and two (2) who shall 
 hold office for three (3) years from said date. All of the said appointments shall 
 have the same date, provided no two of the nurses, so appointed, shall have grad- 
 uated from the same training-school. 
 
 Upon the expiration of the term of office of any member of said Board, the Gov- 
 ernor of this State shall appoint a successor to fill the said term of office, who shall 
 hold office for three years from the date of the expiration of the said term of office. 
 
 The said appointment shall be made from a list of five (5) members of the said 
 Association, to be furnished to him by the said Association. 
 
 All vacancies occurring in this Board shall be filled by the Governor for the 
 unexpired term from like nominations furnished to him by the said Association 
 within thirty (30) days after the vacancy occurs: Provided, That if the said Asso- 
 ciation fails to make the nominations herein required within the time herein spec- 
 ified, the Governor shall make such appointments by nominating such members 
 of the nursing profession thereto, as may seem to him to be proper. 
 
 SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the members of this State Board of Exam- 
 iners shall, within thirty (30) days after appointment, organize by the election of one 
 of its members to be the President of the said Board, and another to be the Secre- 
 tary and Treasurer, who shall hold office for a period of one year and until their 
 respective successors are elected and have qualified; said officers shall be elected 
 by said Board annually, and in case of a vacancy in either of said offices the Board 
 shall, within forty (40) days after the vacancy occurs, elect one of its number to 
 fill said office, and in the event there is no such election within the time named, the 
 Governor shall appoint a member of said Board to fill the vacancy. 
 
 The Secretary is required to certify to the Governor the names of the officers 
 so elected, and in the case of a vacancy this shall likewise be certified by the Sec-
 
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 retary to him, and in the event of a vacancy in the office of Secretary, the President 
 of the Board shall certify the same to him, and shall certify to him the name of the 
 person chosen to fill the vacancy in the event such vacancy is filled by the Board. 
 
 SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That three (3) members of said Board of Exam- 
 iners shall constitute a quorum, but no action of said Board shall be valid unless 
 authorized by the affirmative vote of three (3) members thereof. 
 
 The Secretary of the Board is directed to keep a record of the minutes of the 
 meetings of said Board and a record of the names of all persons applying for regis- 
 tration hereunder, and of the action of the Board thereon; and a register of all 
 nurses who have complied with the requirements of this Act, all of which said 
 records shall, at all reasonable times, be open to the public inspection. 
 
 Said Board is authorized to have and use an official seal which shall bear the 
 words: "State Board of Examiners of Nurses for Georgia." The certificate of the 
 Secretary of said Board under the seal thereof, as to the action or non-action of the 
 Board, shall be accepted in evidence, in the Courts of this State, as the best evi- 
 dence of the minutes of the said Board, and likewise the certificate of the said 
 Secretary, under the said seal, as to the registration or non-registration of any 
 person, shall be accepted as the best evidence as to the registration or non-regis- 
 tration of the said person under the requirements of this Act. The Secretary will 
 issue to all nurses admitted to registration hereunder, a certificate under the seal 
 of said Board, showing that fact. 
 
 SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said Board to meet 
 for the purpose of examining applicants for registration, at least once in each year, 
 and oftener, should it be deemed necessary by said Board. Notice of said meeting 
 shall be given, of the time and place of said meeting, by written notice posted, 
 postage prepaid, to last known address of each applicant. At least ten (10) days 
 before the time of said meeting, and by publication in a daily paper of general 
 circulation, at Atlanta, and in a Nurses Journal, if there be one published in Georgia. 
 
 The said notices shall be published at the same rates charged for Sheriff's 
 advertisements. Said notice shall be inserted at least once, and the first insertion 
 shall be made at least two weeks prior to the said meeting. Provided: The Sec- 
 retary of said Board shall issue a temporary permit to each applicant for regis- 
 tration, which permit will authorize said applicant to do nursing as a registered 
 nurse, until the next meeting of the Board. 
 
 SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That all persons making application for regis- 
 tration under this Act, shall deposit with the Secretary of the said Board at the 
 time of making such application, the sum of Five ($5.00) Dollars as an examination 
 fee. 
 
 SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That each applicant for registration, must be at 
 least twenty-one (21) years of age, of good moral character, a graduate from a regu- 
 lar chartered training-school for nurses, connected with a general hospital or sanato- 
 rium (in which medical, surgical, gynecological, and obstetrical cases are treated), 
 where three (3) years of training with a systematic course of instruction on the 
 above-mentioned class of cases is given in the hospital or sanatorium; or must have 
 graduated from a training-school hi connection with a hospital of good standing, 
 supplying a three years' training corresponding to the above standard, which 
 training may be obtained in two or more hospitals. All qualifications of the appli- 
 cant shall be determined by the said Board, which is empowered to prescribe such 
 examination for the applicants as will best test their fitness and ability to give 
 efficient care to the sick. All applicants at the same examination shall be sub- 
 jected to the same kind of examination. 
 
 SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That all nurses graduating on or before June 
 first, 1909, from such training-schools as are referred to in the preceding Section, 
 shall be by that fact entitled to registration without examination upon paying 
 the application fee of Five ($5.00) Dollars as provided in this Act, and submitting 
 sufficient evidence of good moral 'character. Nurses who shall show to the satis-
 
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 faction of the said Board that they are graduates of training-schools connected 
 with a hospital or sanatorium, giving two years' systematic course of instruction, 
 or, if they graduated before or during the year 1897, from such a school giving one 
 year's training, and who are in good moral and professional standing, and are 
 engaged in the practice of the profession of nursing at the passage of this Act, 
 also all nurses in training at the time of the passage of this Act, and shall graduate 
 hereafter and possess the qualifications herein specified, shall, upon payment of 
 the application fee, be entitled to registration without examination, provided 
 application is made for such registration on or before June first, 1909. 
 
 SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That after the expiration of six months from the 
 passage of this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to practice pro- 
 fessional nursing as a Registered Nurse in this State, without certificate from the 
 said Board, and any person violating any of the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction therefor shall be punished in accordance 
 with Section 1039 of the Penal Code of the State of Georgia. 
 
 Each nurse who registers in accordance with the provisions hereof, shall be 
 styled and known as a "Registered Nurse," and no other Nurse shall assume or use 
 such title, or use the abbreviation, "R. N." or any other letters, words, or figures 
 to indicate that he or she is a Registered Nurse, and a violation hereof shall be 
 deemed a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished accordingly. 
 
 SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall not be construed to affect 
 or apply to gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, and 
 it shall not apply to any person nursing for hire, who does not, in any way, assume 
 to be a registered nurse, and who does not use the title Registered Nurse, or the 
 letters "R. N.," or other letters, words, or figures, for the purpose of representing 
 that he or she is a Registered Nurse within the meaning of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That the said Board may revoke any Certificate 
 issued by it for sufficient cause, to be adjudged by it; but no such certificate shall 
 be revoked without a hearing, notice of the time and place of which shall be given 
 to the holder of the certificate by the Secretary at least thirty (30) days before 
 the day set for said hearing, which notice shall plainly set forth charges against 
 the holder of said certificate, and the trial shall be only upon the grounds so speci- 
 fied. Said notice shall be mailed to the said person so accused, at his or her last- 
 known address, postage prepaid, or the same shall be delivered personally to the 
 person so accused. 
 
 The presiding officer of said Board is authorized and empowered to administer 
 oaths to all witnesses giving evidence at such hearing, and no evidence shall be 
 received at such a hearing if the same is not under oath. 
 
 SEC. ii. Be it further enacted, That out of the funds of the said Board accruing 
 from the application fees as herein provided, the Secretary of the said Board shall 
 be paid a salary to be fixed by the Board at a sum not exceeding One Hundred 
 ($100.00) Dollars per year, and all necessary expenses, and the members of said 
 Board shall be entitled out of said funds, to receive Five ($5.00) Dollars per day 
 for each day actually engaged in the service of the said Board, and all necessary 
 expenses; all payments out of said funds shall be first approved by the presiding 
 officer of the said Board. 
 
 SEC. 12. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herein 
 be, and they are hereby repealed. 
 
 IDAHO 
 
 Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho: 
 
 SECTION i. Upon taking effect of this Act, the Governor shall appoint, within 
 sixty (60) days, a State Board of Examination and Registration of Graduate 
 Nurses, whose duty it shall be to enforce the provisions of this Act. 
 
 The Idaho State Association of Graduate Nurses shall nominate four (4) nurses
 
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 and two (2) physicians, from which list the Governor of Idaho shall appoint an 
 Examining Board of two (2) nurses and one (i) physician. The nurses appointed 
 on this Board shall have been graduated from reputable training-schools for nurses 
 for a period of at least five (5) years, and, with the exception of those appointed as 
 members of the first Board, shall have been registered under the provisions of this 
 Act. The physicians appointed on this Board shall have been graduated for a 
 period of at least five (5) years at the time of appointment. The members of this 
 Board must be actual residents of this State and engaged in professional work. 
 
 The members of this Board shall be appointed to hold office as follows: 
 
 One for one (i) year; one for two (2) years; one for three (3) years, each member 
 holding office from time of appointment until a successor is chosen by the Governor. 
 
 All appointments shall be made so that the term of office shall expire on the first 
 day of March of each year, and, upon the expiration of the term of office, the Gover- 
 nor shall likewise fill the vacancy for a term of three (3) years from the list of six (6) 
 names submitted to him each year by the Idaho State Association of Graduate 
 Nurses. An unexpired term of an examiner caused by death, resignation, or other- 
 wise shall be filled in the same manner as an original appointment is made. 
 
 SEC. 2. The members of the Board shall meet in the city of Boise, as soon as 
 organized, and shall elect from their number a President, who shall act as inspector 
 of training-schools for nurses, and a Secretary, who shall act also as Treasurer. 
 Two (2) members shall constitute a quorum, and special meetings of the Board 
 shall be called by the Secretary upon the written request of any two (2) members. 
 
 The Board shall adopt a seal, which shall be placed in the care of the Secretary. 
 The Secretary shall be required to keep a record of all meetings of the Board, includ- 
 ing a register of the names of all nurses and training-schools for nurses registered 
 under this Act. Said register shall, at all reasonable times, be open to public scru- 
 tiny, and the Board shall cause the prosecution of all persons violating any of the 
 provisions of this Act, and may incur necessary expense on this behalf. 
 
 The inspector shall annually inspect all training-schools for nurses existing in 
 the State of Idaho, and shall register such schools as fulfil the requirements desig- 
 nated by the Examining Board. 
 
 The Board shall provide a schedule of the subjects upon which applicants shall 
 be examined to qualify for the requirements of this Act. 
 
 The salary of the Secretary shall be fixed by the Board, and shall not exceed 
 five hundred dollars ($500.00) per annum, said salary not covering traveling 
 expenses and other expenses incurred in discharge of official duties. The other 
 members of the Board shall receive four ($4.00) dollars each per day for each day 
 actually engaged in attendance upon meetings of the Board, and in going to and 
 coming from their place of meeting, and inspection of training-schools for nurses, 
 and all legitimate and necessary expenses incurred in attending such meetings. 
 All expenses of the Board, including such salary and compensation, shall be paid 
 from the fees received by the Board. A report of all receipts and expenditures shall 
 be made to the Governor by December 15 of each year. 
 
 SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Board to meet in the city of Boise for the 
 purpose of holding examinations not less frequently than once every year, and at 
 such times as they may determine; the Board shall also, at least once a year, arrange 
 for an examination in some convenient place in the northern part of the State. The 
 Board shall, from time to time, adopt rules for the examination of applicants for 
 registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Notice of the meetings of the Board shall be given to the public press and to at 
 least one journal devoted to the interest of professional nursing, and by mail to 
 every applicant and to every reputable training-school in Idaho, at least thirty 
 (30) days prior to the meeting. At such meetings it shall be the duty of the Board 
 to examine all such applicants for registration under this Act as are required to be 
 examined, and to issue to each duly qualified applicant who shall have complied 
 with the pertinent provisions of this Act the certificate provided for in this Act.
 
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 Any person to whom a certificate of registration shall be issued shall, within 
 thirty (30) days thereafter, cause the same to be recorded with the county clerk 
 of the county in which such person resided at the time of application. Such persons 
 shall be prepared, whenever requested, to exhibit such certificate of registration 
 or a certified copy thereof. Registered nurses changing residence in the State must 
 present a certificate of registration or a certified copy thereof to the county clerk 
 within thirty (30) days of the time of establishing new residence. 
 
 All applicants for registration shall furnish satisfactory evidence that he or she 
 is twenty-one (21) years of age, of good moral character, and has been graduated 
 from a training-school for nurses connected with a general hospital approved by 
 the Board, where a systematic course of at least two (2) years' instruction is given. 
 
 SEC. 4. On compliance with the pertinent provisions of this Act, nurses other- 
 wise qualified shall be entitled, upon the payment of ten dollars ($10.00), to 
 registration as follows: 
 
 First. Without examination, provided they make application prior to July i, 
 1911. 
 
 (a) Nurses who shall have been graduated before said date and after January i, 
 1890, from a reputable training-school connected with a general or special hospital, 
 who, at the time of graduation, shall have received a course of at least two (2) years 
 in such training-school. 
 
 (b) Nurses who shall have been graduated on or prior to January i, 1897, from 
 a reputable training-school connected with a general hospital, who, at the time of 
 graduation, shall have received a course of one (i) year's training in such training- 
 school and who, at the time of application, shall have been engaged in nursing for 
 fi ye (s) years since their graduation. 
 
 (c) Nurses now in training in a reputable training-school connected with a 
 general hospital, which now gives a course of at least two (2) years' training, and who 
 shall graduate thereform. 
 
 Second. Nurses who shall make application on or after January i, 1914, and 
 who, at the time of application, shall have graduated from a reputable training-school 
 connected with a general hospital requiring a systematic course of at least three (3) 
 years' training. 
 
 Third. Nurses who shall make application on or after January i, 1914, and 
 who, at the time of application, shall have been graduated from a reputable training- 
 school connected with a special hospital requiring a systematic course of at least 
 two (2) years' training, and who at the time of application shall have obtained, in a 
 reputable general hospital one (i) year's additional training in subjects not ade- 
 quately taught in the training-school from which they were graduated, and shall 
 pass an examination to determine their fitness and ability to give efficient care to 
 the sick. 
 
 SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person to practice, or attempt 
 to practice, in this State as a registered nurse without a certificate from the Board. 
 Any person who has received such a certificate shall be styled and known as a regis- 
 tered nurse, and shall be entitled to append the letters "R. N." to the name of 
 such person. No other person shall assume or use such title or the abbreviation 
 "R. N.," or any other words, letters, or figures, to indicate that such person is a 
 registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 6. This Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous 
 nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, nor to any person nursing 
 the sick for hire, who does not in any way assume or pretend to be a registered nurse, 
 and this Act shall not be construed to interfere in any way with members of religious 
 communities or orders, which have charge of hospitals, or take care of the sick in 
 their own home, provided such members do not in any way assume to be registered 
 nurses. 
 
 SEC. 7. The Board, upon written application, and upon the receipt of Ten 
 Dollars ($10.00) as registration fee, may issue a certificate, without examination, to
 
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 those who shall have been registered as registered nurses under the law of another 
 State having the requirements equivalent to those of Idaho; Provided, That the 
 Board shall be sole judge of credentials of any nurse admitted to registration with- 
 out examination. 
 
 SEC. 8. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be fined for the offense in a sum not 
 less than Ten Dollars ($10.00), nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), 
 for the first offense, and not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than 
 Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each subsequent offense. 
 
 Any person who shall wilfully make any false representation to the Board in 
 applying for a license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall 
 be fined in a sum not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), nor more than Two 
 Hundred Dollars ($200.00). All certificates issued by the Board shall be signed by 
 all the members thereof .and shall be attested by the President and Secretary. 
 
 SEC. 9. The Board may revoke any certificate by unanimous vote for dis- 
 honesty, gross incompetency, a habit rendering a nurse unsafe to be entrusted 
 with, or unfit for, the care of the sick, conduct derogatory to the morals or standing 
 of the profession of nursing, any wilful fraud or misrepresentation practiced in 
 procuring such certificates, provided the holder of such certificate shall have been 
 given at least thirty (30) days' notice, in writing, of the specific charge against such 
 holder, and of the time and place of hearing the charge by the Board, at which time 
 and place the holder shall be entitled to be heard and to be represented by counsel. 
 
 Upon the revocation of any certificate, the same shall be null and void. The 
 holder thereof shall cease to be entitled to any of the privileges conferred by such 
 certificate, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Board to strike the name 
 of the holder thereof from the roll of registered nurses, and to give notice of such rev- 
 ocation to the county clerk in whose office such certificate is recorded, and there- 
 upon such county clerk shall note the fact of such revocation upon the record of 
 such certificate. 
 
 ILLINOIS 
 
 AN ACT entitled, "An Act to provide for the registration of nurses and to repeal a certain 
 Act therein named." 
 
 SECTION i. ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF NURSE EXAMINERS QUALIFICATIONS 
 TERM OF OFFICE VACANCY ON BOARD OATH OF OFFICE. Beit enacted by the People 
 of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That a Board of Examiners 
 to consist of five (5) registered nurses to be known as the Illinois State Board of 
 Nurse Examiners is hereby created, whose duty it shall be to carry out the provisions 
 of this Act as hereinafter specified. The members of the said Board shall within 
 thirty days after this Act shall be in force and effect be appointed by the Governor, 
 by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and at the time of their appoint- 
 ment they must be actual residents of the State of Illinois. They shall be selected 
 from persons engaged in active work appertaining to nursing of the sick, who shall 
 have been graduated for at least a period of five (5) years from a school for nurses 
 in good standing and who, during their course of training, shall have served for two 
 years in a general hospital, and who shall have been registered under the provisions 
 of either this Act or the Act herein repealed. Three members of the Board shall 
 be selected from nurses who have had at least two (2) years' experience in educa- 
 tional work among nurses. The term for which the members of said Board shall 
 hold office shall be three (3) years and until their successors are duly appointed: 
 Provided, however, that the terms of the several members composing the first Board 
 named under this Act, as designated by the Governor, shall expire as follows: One 
 thereof on December 31, 1914, two thereof on December 31, 1915, and two thereof 
 on December 31, 1916. In case of a vacancy occurring on said Board, such vacancy 
 shall be filled by the Governor as herein provided, within thirty days after being
 
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 notified of any such vacancy, and the member so appointed by the Governor to fill 
 a vacancy shall serve for the unexpired portion of the term so vacated. When the 
 Senate is not in session, the Governor may make appointments to fill vacancies, but 
 all such appointments so made, when the Senate is not in session, shall be subject 
 to confirmation by the Senate at its next session, before becoming permanent. 
 Each member before entering upon the duties of the office shall take the oath pre- 
 scribed by the Constitution of this State for State officers. Said oath shall be filed 
 in the office of the Secretary of State. 
 
 SEC. 2. OFFICERS DUTIES COURSE OF INSTRUCTION INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS 
 SEAL REGISTER OF NURSES PROSECUTIONS EXPENSES COMPENSATION. 
 The members of the Board shall, as soon as organized, and annually thereafter, elect 
 from their number a president, secretary, and treasurer. The secretary may also 
 serve as treasurer. The Board shall adopt rules, not inconsistent with the law, to 
 govern its proceedings; the Board may also outline and establish a course of instruc- 
 tion to be followed by accredited schools for nurses, as hereinafter provided, and a 
 system of inspection of such accredited schools for nurses; and the Board may amend 
 or repeal such rules in its discretion. The Board shall adopt a seal, and the secre- 
 tary shall have the care and custody thereof. The secretary shall keep a record of 
 all proceedings of the Board, including a register of the names and addresses of all 
 nurses duly registered under this Act, which register shall be open at all reasonable 
 times to public scrutiny at the office of the Board, the address of which office shall 
 at all times be kept on file at the office of the Secretary of State. The Board shall 
 cause the prosecution of all persons violating any of the provisions of this Act, and 
 to the provisions of any law regulating the expenditures of the Board may incur 
 necessary expenses in that behalf. The secretary of the Board shall receive a salary, 
 to be fixed by the Board, not in excess of the amount now or hereafter authorized 
 by law; each member of the Board shall receive compensation at the rate of ten 
 dollars ($10.00) per day for each day, or a proportionate part thereof for a fraction 
 of a working day of eight hours, during which said member is actually engaged 
 in attendance upon the meetings of the Board, or is otherwise engaged in the dis- 
 charge of duty as a member thereof, and in going to, going and coming from the 
 place of meeting, or the discharge of such duty. All legitimate and necessary ex- 
 penses incurred in attending such meetings and all other necessary and legitimate 
 expenses of said Board shall be defrayed by the Board, subject, however, to the 
 provisions of any law now or hereafter regulating such expenditures. 
 
 SEC. 3. QUORUM RULES FOR EXAMINATION COURSE OF INSTRUCTION , 
 INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS FOR NURSES LIST OF ACCREDITED SCHOOLS FOR NURSES 
 CERTIFICATE AND PUBLICATION OF MODIFICATION OF RULES. Three (3) members 
 of the Board shall constitute a quorum. Special meetings of the Board shall be 
 called by the secretary upon written request of any two (2) members. The Board 
 shall, from tune to time, adopt rules governing the examination of applicants for 
 registration not inconsistent with the provisions of the law, and shall adopt rules 
 providing for and establishing a uniform and reasonable standard of maintenance, 
 instruction, and training to be observed by all schools for nurses which are on, or 
 whose application is pending to be placed on, the list of accredited schools for nurses 
 hereinafter provided for, and also for the inspection by said Board of such schools 
 for nurses. By reference to the compliance or non-compliance by schools for nurses 
 with such rules, and the general standard of efficiency or inefficiency of manage- 
 ment and instruction maintained by the same, the said Board shall, by conducting 
 inspections in accordance with its rules, determine the eligibility of, and designate 
 the schools for nurses, to be placed on, or to be withdrawn from, a list which shall 
 be known as the list of accredited schools for nurses, which list shall at all times be 
 kept on file in the office of the secretary of said Board, where it shall be open to 
 the scrutiny of the public at all reasonable hours, and a copy thereof shall be kept 
 on file at the office of the Secretary of State. Said Board may, from time to time, 
 modify, amend, and repeal said rules, providing no modification of the rules govern-
 
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 ing examinations of candidates for registration shall be made and become effective 
 during the six weeks next preceding the date set for holding any examination herein 
 provided for. The Board shall, immediately upon the election of an officer, file 
 with the Secretary of State a certificate thereof, giving the name and address of 
 said officer, and immediately upon the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule, the 
 Board shall file with the Secretary of State a certificate thereof, setting forth a copy 
 of the rule as adopted, amended, or repealed, and shall also cause a copy of such 
 certificate to be published in the earliest issue practicable of at least one (i) journal 
 devoted to the interests of professional nursing, and mail a copy of said certificate 
 to every accredited school for nurses in Illinois. 
 
 SEC. 4. MEETINGS OF BOARD NOTICE IN PUBLIC PRESS EXAMINATION OF 
 APPLICANTS ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES REGISTRATION IN COUNTY CLERK'S 
 OFFICE REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATE FOR FAILURE TO REGISTER. It shall be the 
 duty of the Board to meet for the purpose of holding examinations not less frequently 
 than twice a year, at times and places to be determined by said Board. Notices 
 stating the time and place for the holding of such meetings shall be published in 
 at least one newspaper of general circulation in each of the cities of Chicago and 
 Springfield, and also in at least one (i) journal devoted to the interests of pro- 
 fessional nursing, at least thirty (30) days, and not more than sixty (60) days, before 
 the date set for holding the meeting; such written notice of said examinations shall 
 also be sent by mail to every person whose application for examination has been 
 approved and is on file, and also to every accredited school for nurses in Illinois, 
 at least thirty (30) days prior to the meeting. At such meetings it shall be the 
 duty of the Board to examine all applicants for registration who present themselves 
 in accordance with the terms of this Act, and shall issue a certificate for registration 
 to each applicant who passes the prescribed examination to the satisfaction of the 
 Board. Each person to whom such certificate shall be issued, or any renewal thereof 
 as hereinafter provided, shall, within ninety (90) days thereafter, cause the same to 
 be presented at the office of the county clerk of the county in which such person 
 resided at the time of filing the application and cause said certificate or any renewal 
 thereof to be registered. The county clerk shall charge twenty-five (25) cents for 
 registering such certificate. Failure, or refusal on the part of any person obtaining 
 a certificate for registration as a nurse, or any renewal thereof, to register the 
 same with the county clerk of the county in which said person resided at the time 
 of application, within ninety (90) days from issue of the same, shall work a revoca- 
 tion of said certificate: Provided, however, that a certificate revoked for failure or 
 refusal of its holder to register the same may be restored upon application to the 
 Board and the payment of a fee of two dollars ($2.00) for the issuance of a 
 new certificate. Each person so registered as a nurse shall be prepared, when re- 
 quested in connection with work as a nurse, to exhibit such certificate of registra- 
 tion or a certified copy thereof. 
 
 SEC. 5. CERTIFICATES. All certificates issued to nurses by the Board shall 
 contain the name and address of the person to whom it is granted, the date of its 
 issuance, shall bear the seal of the Board, shall be signed by all of the members, 
 shall be attested by the president and secretary of the Board, and shall confer 
 authority upon the person to whom it is issued to practice as a registered nurse 
 in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 6. COUNTY CLERK TO KEEP REGISTRATION BOOK. Every county clerk 
 shall keep in a book provided for the purpose a complete list of all the certificates 
 registered by him under the provisions of this Act, together with the date of the 
 issuance and registration of such certificates, and within sixty days after this Act 
 becomes effective, shall prepare in duplicate, accompanied by his official certificate 
 that it is complete, a list of the names and addresses as the same appear of record 
 in his office, with the date of registration, of all nurses registered in his county 
 under any previous Act, prior to July i, 1913, and annually thereafter, before the 
 first day of March, shall prepare in duplicate, in like manner, a list of all names
 
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 registered under this Act during the preceding calendar year, and forward said lists 
 in duplicate to the Secretary of State, who shall keep one copy thereof on file in his 
 office, and, after certifying the other to be a true copy of a part of the records of 
 his office, shall forward the same to the secretary of the Illinois State Board of 
 Nurse Examiners, to be kept on file in the office of said Board. 
 
 SEC. 7. QUALIFICATIONS OF APPLICANTS FOR REGISTRATION WRITTEN 
 APPLICATION FEE EXAMINATIONS REGISTRATION OF CERTIFICATES OF OTHER 
 STATES No person, unless previously registered or licensed to act as a registered 
 nurse in this State at the time this Act shall become operative, shall be allowed to 
 act as a registered nurse without first applying for and obtaining a certificate for 
 such purpose from the Illinois State Board of Nurse Examiners. Application shall be 
 made to said Board in writing and shall in every instance be accompanied by the ex- 
 amination fee of ten dollars ($10.00) , together with satisfactory proof that the appli- 
 cant is residing in the State of Illinois, is of good moral character, is at least twenty- 
 two (22) years of age at the time of making the application, is a graduate of and 
 has a diploma from an accredited school for nurses connected with a general hospital 
 requiring a systematic course of at least three (3) years' training, and possesses 
 such other qualifications as may be prescribed from time to time by the rules of 
 said Board : Provided, however, an application may be made by one who under the 
 rules of an accredited school for nurses will be entitled to receive a diploma within 
 three months following the date of filing said application, but no certificate shall 
 be issued to such applicant until he or she has received such diploma, and has 
 satisfactorily passed the prescribed examinations. When such application and the 
 accompanying proof are found satisfactory, the Board shall notify the applicant 
 to appear before it for examination at a time and place to be fixed by the Board. 
 Examination may be made orally and in writing, and shall be of a character to 
 test the qualifications of the applicant to serve as a registered nurse. All examina- 
 tions provided for in this Act shall be conducted by the Board, which shall provide 
 for a fair and wholly impartial method. After any applicant shall have paid a fee 
 of ten dollars ($10.00) on the filing of an application for examination, any subse- 
 quent application of the same person shall be taken without the payment of a fee: 
 Provided, however, the Board, upon written application and upon the payment of 
 ten dollars ($10.00) as a registration fee, may issue a certificate without examina- 
 tion of the applicant who shall have been registered as a registered nurse under the 
 law of another State having requirements which in the opinion of a majority of 
 the members of said Board, subject to the approval of the Attorney-General, 
 are of equal or higher standard than those of the State of Illinois for registration 
 of nurses. 
 
 SEC. 8. WHEN SPECIAL COURSE SUFFICIENT FOR REGISTRATION. Applicants 
 shall also be eligible for examination for registration who, at the time of application, 
 shall have graduated and received a diploma from a school for nurses connected 
 with any hospital of good standing requiring a systematic course of at least two 
 (2) years' training, and who, being of the age herein prescribed or over and of good 
 moral character, shall have either filed application for examination within six (6) 
 months next following the date upon which this Act becomes in force and effect, 
 or, at the time of application, shall have obtained in any hospital of good standing 
 one (i) year's additional training in subjects not adequately taught in the school 
 for nurses from which they graduated, and shall satisfactorily pass an examination 
 to determine their fitness and ability to give efficient care to the sick. 
 
 SEC. 9. UNLAWFUL TO PRACTICE AS REGISTERED NURSE WITHOUT CERTIFI- 
 CATE. It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person to practice or attempt to 
 practice in this State as a registered nurse without a certificate from the Board. 
 Any person who has received such a certificate shall be styled and known as a 
 registered nurse, and shall be entitled to append the letters "R. N." to his or her 
 name. No person shall assume or use, or knowingly allow or permit any other 
 person to use, such abbreviation "R. N.," or any other words, letters, or figures
 
 78 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 after his own name or after the name of any other person for the purpose of indicat- 
 ing that such person is a registered nurse, unless the person after whose name the 
 said letters, abbreviations, or words are so used, is in fact a registered nurse and 
 entitled under the provisions of this law to act as such. 
 
 SEC. 10. PENALTY. Any person who shall practice, or in any way represent 
 himself or herself, or any other person, as a registered nurse in this State without 
 such person holding a certificate duly registered and recorded as provided by this 
 Act, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act, shall be subject to prose- 
 cution in any court of competent jurisdiction upon complaint, information, or in- 
 dictment, and shall, upon conviction, be fined for each offense in any sum not more 
 than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the first offense nor more than two hundred 
 dollars ($200.00) for each subsequent offense. 
 
 Any person who shall wilfully make any false representations to the Board in 
 applying for a certificate shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 shall be fined in a sum not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) . 
 
 SEC. ii. REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATE RENEWAL. Registered nurses' cer- 
 tificates issued in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall remain in full 
 force until revoked for cause, as hereinafter provided. Any certificate so granted 
 may be revoked by unanimous vote of the Illinois State Board of Nurse Examiners 
 for gross incompetency or recklessness in the discharge of duty as a registered nurse, 
 or for dishonest practices on the part of the holder thereof; but before any cer- 
 tificate shall be revoked such holder shall be entitled to at least thirty (30) days' 
 notice in writing of the charge against him or her, together with notice of the time 
 and place of the meeting of the Board for the hearing and determining of such charge, 
 and shall be entitled to a full, fair, and impartial hearing of such charges under 
 rules to be adopted from time to time by the said Board. On the cancellation 
 of such certificate it shall be the duty of the secretary of the Board to give notice 
 of such cancellation to the county clerk of the county in which the certificate has 
 been registered, whereupon said county clerk shall note such cancellation on the 
 registration book in his office. Upon satisfactory evidence of reasons for the 
 reinstatement of a registered nurse whose certificate has been thus revoked, the 
 Board may, six months after the date of such revocation, or any time thereafter, 
 issue a new certificate to the said nurse without examination, upon payment to 
 the board of a fee of five dollars ($5.00). 
 
 SEC. 12. APPEAL TO CIRCUIT COURT FROM CERTAIN RULINGS OF BOARD. Any 
 person whose certificate as a registered nurse shall be revoked, or to whom a renewal 
 of such certificate previously issued shall be denied, or any training-school for nurses 
 whose application to be placed upon the list of accredited training-schools for nurses 
 shall be denied, or whose name is stricken from such list, by ruling of the Board, 
 without the consent of such training-school, may, within thirty (30) days after 
 such action by the Board, file in the circuit court of the county in which such nurse 
 resides, or in which such training-school for nurses is located, a petition against the 
 Illinois State Board of Nurse Examiners, officially, as defendant, alleging therein, 
 under oath, and in brief detail the petitioner's qualifications for and rights to the 
 privileges denied such petitioner by the ruling of the Board, and praying for a 
 reversal of such ruling, upon entry of appearance by, or service of summons upon 
 said Board as hereinafter provided for, the Board shall file an answer as in actions 
 in chancery, but not under oath, in which shall allege by way of defense, the grounds 
 previously held by it as responsible for its adverse ruling against such nurse or 
 training-school. All allegations of the answer shall be deemed to stand denied 
 without further pleading, and upon application of either party thereto the cause 
 shall be advanced and heard without delay. 
 
 Either party to such proceeding shall have the right to a trial by jury, provided 
 a demand therefor be made in writing in the first instance upon the filing of the 
 petition or answer, but either party may thereafterward waive such demand for 
 a jury trial. The burden shall rest upon the petitioner to disprove the grounds
 
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 assigned and specified for the official action of the Board complained of. The 
 court's decision shall be final, but if adverse to the petitioner, it shall not bar a new 
 application to the Board for a renewal of a revoked certificate for registration under 
 the provisions of this Act, nor after the lapse of six (6) months from its rendition 
 in the case of training-schools shall it bar a new application of the petitioner to be 
 placed on the list of accredited schools, nor shall a decision of the court in favor of 
 the petitioner prevent the Board from thereafter taking similar adverse action 
 against the petitioner for sufficient cause which may thereafter accrue or be dis- 
 covered. 
 
 For the purpose of affording the right of such appeals, in any actions instituted 
 hereunder, service of process may be had on said Board by serving a summons 
 upon the president, secretary, or any member of said Board, in the county in which 
 the office of the Board is located or in any county of the State where any one of 
 said persons may be found, for which purpose of service process may issue directed 
 to any county in the State as in the case of summons issued against parties defendant 
 residing in foreign counties. 
 
 SEC. 13. EXEMPTION FROM JURY SERVICE. All registered nurses in this State 
 shall be exempt from service as jurors in any of the courts in this State. 
 
 SEC. 14. To WHOM DOES NOT APPLY. This Act shall not affect or apply to 
 the gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, nor to any 
 person nursing the sick for hire, who does not in any way assume or pretend to be 
 a registered nurse, and this Act shall not interfere in any manner with members 
 of religious communities who have charge of hospitals, or who are engaged in 
 nursing hi hospitals, or take care of the sick in their own homes, provided such 
 members do not in any way assume to be registered nurses. 
 
 SEC. 15. REPEAL OF ACT OF MAY 2, 1907 BOARD TO SUCCEED TO OBLIGA- 
 TIONS, FUNDS, AND BUSINESS OF STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF REGISTERED 
 NURSES. "An Act relating to nurses and providing for their registration," approved 
 May 2, 1907, in force July i, 1907, is hereby repealed: Provided, however, that all ap- 
 plications filed with the State Board of Examiners of Registered Nurses under the pro- 
 visions of said Act shall be recognized by the Illinois State Board of Nurse Exam- 
 iners created hereunder, and shall be treated as though filed under the provisions 
 of this Act; also that said new Board created hereunder shall, upon organizing, 
 succeed to and be chargeable with any outstanding financial obligations or indebted- 
 ness of said Board of Examiners of Registered Nurses created under said Act 
 hereby repealed, and, in like manner, shall succeed to, collect, take over, receive, 
 and account for, all moneys, credits, or appropriations due or hereafter to come 
 due, or which may be in the hands of said old Board at the time of the organi- 
 zation of the new Board hereby created, and shall receive, account for, and 
 handle any moneys so collected or taken over, as well as all other funds hereafter 
 coming into its hands, in the manner now or hereafter provided for by law; and 
 shall also take over the records and equipment of the State Board of Examiners 
 of Registered Nurses and its unfinished business. 
 
 INDIANA 
 
 A Bill for an Act Requiring the Registration of all Trained Nurses, Providing a 
 Board of Registration and Examination, Fixing the Number, Duties, and Qualifications 
 of said Board, and Providing for the Registration of Nurses, Providing Penalties for 
 Violation of said Act. 
 
 SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, 
 That upon the taking effect of this Act the Governor shall appoint, within sixty 
 days, a State Board of Registration and Examination of Nurses, to be composed 
 of five members who have had not less than five years' experience in their pro- 
 fession, exclusive of their training, and who shall not be connected with any hospital. 
 One of these members shall be designated by the Governor to hold office for one
 
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 year, two for two years, and two for three years, and thereafter, upon the expira- 
 tion of the term of office of the person or persons so appointed, the Governor shall 
 appoint successors to such person or persons to hold office for three years. All 
 vacancies occurring on this Board shall be filled by the Governor from persons 
 qualified as above stated. 
 
 SEC. 2. The members of the said State Board of Registration and Examination 
 shall meet in the city of Indianapolis as soon as organized, and annually thereafter 
 in the month of July shall elect from their members a president and also a secre- 
 tary, who shall be the treasurer. Three members shall constitute a quorum, and 
 special meetings of the Board shall be called by the secretary upon the written 
 request of any two members. The State Board of Registration and Examination 
 is authorized to frame such by-laws as may be necessary to govern its actions. The 
 secretary shall be required to keep a record of all meetings of the Board, including 
 a register of the names of all nurses duly registered under this Act; said register 
 shall, at all reasonable times, be open to public scrutiny, and the Board shall cause 
 the prosecution of all persons violating any of the provisions of this Act, and may 
 incur necessary expense on this behalf. The said by-laws shall provide the subjects 
 upon which applicants shall be examined. The secretary shall receive a salary to 
 be fixed by the Board not to exceed five hundred ($500) dollars per annum, also 
 traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties. The 
 other members of the Board shall receive five ($5.00) dollars per day for each day 
 actually engaged at meetings of the Board, and legitimate and necessary expense. 
 Said expenses and salary shall be paid from fees received by the Board under the 
 provisions of this Act, and no part of salaries or other expenses of the Board shall 
 be paid out of the State Treasury. 
 
 SEC. 3. The Clerk of the Circuit Court of any county, upon presentation to 
 him of a certificate from the State Board of Registration and Examination, shall 
 register the date of registration, with the name, residence, and address of the holder 
 thereof, in a book to be kept in his office for this purpose, and marked "Register 
 of Trained Nurses," and shall issue to the applicant a certificate of such registra- 
 tion under the seal of the Circuit Court of the county, for which registration he 
 shall be paid fifty cents by the applicant. 
 
 SEC. 4. That after June i, 1908, it shall be the duty of said Board of Registra- 
 tion and Examination to meet not less frequently than once a year. Notice of 
 each meeting shall be given in one daily newspaper and in one nursing or medical 
 journal, published within the State of Indiana, thirty days prior to said meeting. 
 At these meetings it shall be the duty of said Board of Registration and Examina- 
 tion to examine the diplomas and credentials of all applicants for registration under 
 this Act. Said Board shall also examine such applicants on the branches usually 
 taught in the training-schools for nurses to determine their fitness and ability to 
 give efficient care to the sick. The said Board shall require of each applicant for ex- 
 amination and registration a fee of ten ($10.00) dollars, to be paid upon application. 
 
 SEC. 5. That after June i, 1908, the applicant shall furnish satisfactory evi- 
 dence that he or she is twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, has re- 
 ceived the equivalent of a common school education, and has been graduated from 
 a training-school for nurses connected with a general hospital approved by the 
 Board, where a systematic course of two years' instruction is given (as amended 
 February, 1907). 
 
 SEC. 6. Any resident of the State of Indiana, being over the age of twenty- 
 one years, of good moral character, holding a diploma from a training-school for 
 nurses connected with a general hospital giving a course of at least two years' 
 training or having had seven years' experience, three of which shall have been spent 
 in a general or special hospital and engaged in professional nursing at the date of 
 or prior to the passage of this Act, shall be entitled to registration without examina- 
 tion, provided such application be made before January i, 1906. All nurses in 
 training at the time of the passage of this Act and possessing the above qualifica-
 
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 tions shall be entitled to registration without examination, provided application 
 is made before June i, 1908. Graduates of training-schools in connection with 
 special hospitals giving a two years' course, who shall obtain six months' additional 
 training in a general hospital approved by the State Board of Registration and 
 Examination, shall be eligible for registration without examination before June i, 
 1908; or said graduates shall be eligible for registration prior to said date who have 
 nursed five years prior to the passage of this Act; or upon passing of special exami- 
 nation before the State Board of Registration and Examination in subjects not 
 adequately taught in the training-school from which they have been graduated. 
 
 The by-laws shall provide for the examination and qualifications of nurses 
 who make application before January i, 1906, who have not graduated from a train- 
 ing-school, and who have been engaged in nursing ten years, and who are otherwise 
 eligible, and who shall present required credentials from physicians for whom they 
 have nursed. 
 
 All applicants under this section shall pay to the said Board the sum of five 
 ($5.00) dollars at the time of making application. 
 
 SEC. 7. The State Board of Registration and Examination shall have power 
 after thirty days' notice, upon written charge being preferred and the tune and place 
 of meeting being fixed, and after full and free hearing of the same by a majority 
 vote of the entire Board, to revoke any license issued by said Board for gross 
 incompetency, dishonesty, habitual intemperance, or any other act in the judgment 
 of the Board derogatory to the morals or standing of the profession of nursing. 
 Upon the revocation of the license or certificate the name of the holder thereof 
 shall be striken from the roll of registered nurses in the hands of the secretary of 
 the Board and notice sent of same to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county 
 in which he or she resides, and there shall be no appeal therefrom. 
 
 SEC. 8. Every person who shall have duly received a license and certificate 
 in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be known and styled a "registered 
 nurse," and it shall be unlawful after one year from the passage of this Act for any 
 person to practice or advertise as or assume the title of trained nurse or graduate 
 nurse, or to use the abbreviations of "T. N." or "G. N.," or any other words, letters, 
 or figures to indicate that the person using the same is a trained, registered, or 
 graduate nurse, unless he or she shall first have received a license and certificate 
 in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 9. This Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous 
 nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, and, also, it shall not apply 
 to any person nursing the sick for hire who does not in any way assume to be a 
 registered or graduate nurse. 
 
 SEC. 10. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars 
 and not more than fifty ($50.00) dollars for the first offense, and not less than fifty 
 ($50.00) dollars and not more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars for each subse- 
 quent offense. 
 
 (Supplemental) 
 
 SEC. i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That 
 the State Board of Registration and Examination of Nurses shall have power to 
 make and establish all necessary rules and regulations for the reciprocal recognition 
 of certificates for nurses issued by other States, and to prevent unjust and arbitrary 
 exclusion by other States of registered nurses who have complied with the require- 
 ments of the laws of this State. 
 
 SEC. 2. All nurses who have served as such in the Army or Navy of the United 
 States, and have been honorably discharged, shall be entitled to be registered 
 without examination. 
 
 SEC. 3. Whereas, An emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this 
 Act, the same shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.
 
 82 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 IOWA 
 
 CHAPTER CXXXIX, ACTS OF THE 320 GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 REGISTERED NURSES 
 
 An Act to Provide for the Examination and Regulation of Graduate Nurses. 
 Also to Regulate the Practice of Nursing by Graduate Nurses and to Provide a Penalty 
 for the Violation Thereof. 
 
 SECTION i. It shall be unlawful for any person to profess to be a registered 
 nurse without first obtaining from the State Board of Health a certificate author- 
 izing him or her to practice nursing in this State, except as hereinafter provided. 
 
 SEC. 2. At the annual meeting of the State Board of Health it shall select 
 two physicians from its own membership, and two graduate nurses, residents of 
 this State, actively engaged in the practice of nursing, who, together with the sec- 
 retary of the State Board of Health, shall constitute the examining committee for 
 the year. The examinations provided for in this Act shall be held in the city of 
 Des Moines in July of each year and at such other times and places as the Board 
 of Health shall direct. All applicants for certificate to practice nursing shall have 
 attained the age of twenty-three (23) years and shall be of good moral character. 
 They shall be graduates of training-schools recognized as being in good standing 
 by the State Board of Health of Iowa, and shall have received at least two (2) years' 
 instruction in general hospital practice. After July i, 1910, no training-school shall 
 be accredited by the State Board of Health as a school of recognized standing which 
 is not attached to a general hospital and which does not have a course of study of 
 at least three (3) years. All graduate nurses who are residents of the State and 
 who have been engaged in the practice of nursing prior to the passage of this Act 
 shall be granted a certificate without examination upon the payment of the regis- 
 tration fee of five ($5.00) dollars, and the same rule shall apply to all nurses who 
 graduate from a recognized school prior to July i, 1907. Nurses holding diplomas 
 from hospital training-schools of recognized standing, upon application to the 
 secretary of the State Board of Health, shall be granted a permit to practice until 
 the first examination of the Board following the issuance of said permit. 
 
 SEC. 3. After the passage of this Act, any person who is not exempt from exami- 
 nation by Section Two (2) of this Act and who shall apply for a certificate to prac- 
 tice nursing shall be examined in the following subjects: Elementary Hygiene, 
 Anatomy, Physiology, Materia Medica, Dietetics, and also Practical Nursing, 
 Medical and Surgical Nursing, Obstetrics, Nursing of Children, and the rules and 
 regulations of the State Board of Health relating to infectious diseases and quaran- 
 tine and such other subjects as the Examining Board may require from time to 
 time. Each applicant shall pay the secretary of the State Board of Health a fee 
 of five ($5.00) dollars. If the examination be satisfactory to three members of 
 said committee, it shall so report to the State Board of Health; if the Board find 
 the report and ratings correct, it shall authorize its president and secretary to 
 issue a certificate to the successful candidate, for which such candidate shall pay 
 an additional fee of one ($1.00) dollar. This certificate shall confer upon the 
 holder the right to practice as a registered nurse, and be conclusive evidence thereof. 
 The State Board of Health is empowered to recognize certificates issued to nurses 
 under the laws of other States having substantially similar requirements to those 
 existing in this State; provided, That such States recognize certificates issued by 
 the State of Iowa; then certificates issued by authority of such other States may be 
 deemed sufficient evidence of qualifications of the licentiate without further exami- 
 nation for certificate in this State; the fee for such certificate shall be ten ($10.00) 
 dollars. The holder of such certificate provided for in this Act shall cause the same 
 to be registered in the office of the County Recorder of the county wherein he 
 intends to reside.
 
 FULL TEXT OF LAWS 83 
 
 SEC. 4. No person after January i, 1908, except one holding a certificate 
 under authority of this Act, shall advertise to be or assume the title of registered 
 nurse or use the abbreviation "R. N.," or any other words, letters, or figures to indi- 
 cate that the person using the same is a registered nurse, and it shall be unlawful 
 for any graduate nurse to practice nursing as a graduate or registered nurse in 
 the State of Iowa without first having registered under this Act. 
 
 SEC. 5. This Act shall not apply to any person nursing the sick with or without 
 pay who does not in any way assume to be a registered or graduate nurse. 
 
 SEC. 6. The Board of Health may refuse to grant, or renew, any certificate 
 provided for in this Act, to a person otherwise qualified, who obtained said cer- 
 tificate by false or fraudulant representation, or for immoral or unprofessional or 
 dishonorable conduct, or for wilful or repeated violation of the rules or regulations 
 of the State Board of Health; and the Board may revoke any certificate issued 
 by it, for any such or similar cause; provided, that before the revocation of any 
 certificate issued under the provisions of this Act, the licentiate shall have been 
 afforded an opportunity for a hearing before the Board. At least twenty (20) 
 days prior to the date set for such hearing, the secretary of the State Board of 
 Health shall cause written notice, under registered mail, to be sent to the licen- 
 tiate at his last-known place of residence; said notice shall contain a statement of 
 the charges, and the date and place set for the hearing before the Board. If the 
 party thus notified fails to appear, either in person or by counsel, at the time and 
 place designated in said notice the Board may, after receiving satisfactory evidence 
 of the truth of the charges and the proper issuance of the notice, revoke said cer- 
 tificate. If the licentiate appear, either in person or by counsel, the Board shall 
 proceed with the hearing as herein provided. The Board may receive and consider 
 affidavits and oral statements, and shall cause stenographic report of the oral tes- 
 timony to be taken, which, together with all other papers pertaining thereto, shall 
 be preserved for one (i) year. If five (5) members of the Board present at the 
 hearing are satisfied that the licentiate is guilty of any of the offenses charged, 
 the certificate shall be revoked, for such time as the State Board of Health may 
 determine. 
 
 SEC. 7. Each member of the examining committee, except the secretary, 
 shall receive for his services out of the funds created by the payment of fees by 
 applicants for examination such compensation as is allowed to the members of the 
 State Board of Medical Examiners for like services, and the secretary shall receive 
 his necessary expenses incurred for services which cannot be performed at the 
 Capitol. All printing, postage, and other contingent expenses, necessarily incurred 
 under the provisions of this Act, shall be paid from said fund. All expenses incurred 
 under the provisions of this Act shall be itemized, verified, and audited, and a 
 warrant drawn therefor on the nurses' fund in the same manner as other expenses 
 of the State Board of Health. 
 
 SEC. 8. Any person who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this 
 Act shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a 
 sum not exceeding one hundred ($100.00) dollars or imprisonment in the county 
 jail for not exceeding thirty (30) days. 
 
 KANSAS 
 
 Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: 
 
 SECTION i. That upon taking effect of this Act, the governor shall appoint 
 a Board of Examiners, four of whom shall be graduated nurses appointed from a list 
 of twenty nominated by the Kansas State Association of Nurses, together with the 
 secretary of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, constitute 
 a Board for the examination of trained nurses. Such appointees shall be chosen 
 from the actual residents of this State, and, except the registered physician, from
 
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 nurses who are actively engaged in nursing, and who have graduated from reputable 
 training-schools giving a two years' course of training, who have served in hos- 
 pitals of good standing having a charter and who have had five years' experience hi 
 nursing. The four persons so appointed shall be appointed in two classes as follows: 
 Two shall be appointed to hold office for two years and two shall be appointed to 
 hold office for four years, beginning with the first day of July, 1913, and until 
 their successors are appointed and qualified, and thereafter the governor shall 
 appoint on or before the first day of July in every odd-numbered year persons 
 qualified as aforesaid, in each class, to hold office for four years from the first day 
 of July, next ensuing. Each member of said Board shall take and subscribe the 
 oath prescribed by law for State Officers, which oath shall be filed with the Secre- 
 tary of State. In the event the appointment of the successor is not made on the 
 expiration of the term of any member, such member of said Board shall hold office 
 until such successor is duly appointed and qualified. The Governor shall fill vacan- 
 cies occasioned by death or otherwise, and may remove any member for the con- 
 tinued neglect of duties required by this Act. Vacancies in said Board shall be 
 filled in accordance with the provisions of this Act for the establishment of the 
 original Board, and persons appointed to fill vacancies shall be selected from reg- 
 istered nurses, and shall hold office during the unexpired portion of the term for 
 which their predecessors were appointed. 
 
 SEC. 2. The members of said Board shall meet on the first Tuesday in July, 
 1913, at Topeka, and shall elect a president, vice-president, and secretary from their 
 own number, each of whom shaft hold his or her respective office for two years. 
 The Board shall adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with this Act to 
 govern its proceedings, and shall have a seal, of which the secretary shall have the 
 care and custody. The secretary shall have the power and authority to administer 
 oaths. He or she shall keep a record of all proceedings of the Board, including a 
 register of the names of all the nurses duly registered under this Act, which shall 
 be open at all reasonable times to public scrutiny. Three members shall constitute 
 a quorum for the transaction of business. Said Board shall hold one regular meet- 
 ing in each year and such additional meetings at such times and places as it may 
 determine. Notices of such meetings shall be published hi the official State paper 
 and in the American Journal of Nursing at least thirty days previous to such 
 meeting. The secretary shall give to the State Treasurer a bond for the faithful 
 discharge of his or her duties in the penal sum of one thousand dollars ($1000.00), 
 with one or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the Governor. 
 
 SEC. 3. On or after the first day of July, 1913, all persons engaged in the prac- 
 tice of professional nursing and all who may wish to begin the same in the State, 
 except as hereinafter provided, shall make application to said Board to be registered 
 and to be furnished a certificate of registration. This registration and certificate 
 shall be granted to such applicants as shall give satisfactory proof of being twenty- 
 one years of age, of good moral character, and of having received the equivalent of 
 a common school education. Each applicant shall comply with at least one of the 
 following conditions: Without examination first, the applicant shall be registered 
 and shall receive a certificate of registration without examination, if he or she shall 
 present a diploma issued before July i, 1913, by a training-school connected with 
 a general hospital, state hospital, sanitorium, or special hospital holding a charter, 
 and applicants holding certificate issued by a hospital or sanitorium without a charter 
 prior to July i, 1913, where a two years' course of training is required with a system- 
 atic instruction in lie hospitals, or from one or more general hospitals of good stand- 
 ing, supplying a systematic training corresponding to the above standing, and any 
 applicant holding a certificate, issued prior to 1905, by a general, private, or State 
 hospital or sanitorium, giving a one year's course of training, said applicant having 
 had not less than seven years' practice. Second, that applicant shall be registered 
 and receive a certificate thereof without examination if he or she shall have a di- 
 ploma from a training-school connected with the general hospital, sanitorium, or
 
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 special hospital, giving a two years' training and having a charter. Third, the ap- 
 plicant shall be registered and given a certificate after July i, 1913, who shall pre- 
 sent to the Board a certified copy of or certificate of registration or license from 
 another state of the Union, where the requirement of registration shall be deemed 
 by said Board to be equivalent to those of this Act, upon payment of the usual fee for 
 certificate thereof. Fourth, after July i, 1913, the applicant shall be registered or 
 given a certificate thereof if he or she shall have diploma from a training-school con- 
 nected with a hospital holding a charter requiring a two years' course of training with 
 systematic instruction in a general hospital, State hospital, sanitorium, or special hos- 
 pital in good standing, and upon passing such examination before the Board at such 
 time and place as it may designate and in accordance with the rules prescribed by 
 the Board, which rules shall be furnished from tune to time to any hospital, sani- 
 torium, or special hospital applying therefor. 
 
 SEC. 4. Every applicant for registration shall pay a fee of five dollars ($5.00) 
 upon filing the application. Upon receiving a certificate of registration the person 
 to whom it is issued shall cause a copy thereof to be filed with the county clerk of 
 the county in which such person resided, accompanied with an affidavit of his or 
 her identity as the person to whom the same was issued, and his or her place of 
 residence at the time of examination and registration. The nurse shall be pre- 
 pared whenever requested to show his or her certificate of registration. The county 
 clerk shall charge fifty cents for registering such certificate. 
 
 SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the secretary of said Board to file with the 
 Secretary of State on or before the first days of the months of January, April, July, 
 and October in each year a list of all certificates of registration issued by said 
 Board during the preceding quarterly period, with the names and residences of the 
 persons to whom such certificate has been issued. The members of said Board 
 shall each receive the compensation of five dollars ($5.00) per day for each day 
 actually and necessarily engaged in the performance of the duties of their office, 
 which, together with all other legitimate expenses incurred in the performance of 
 such duties, shall be paid from fees received by the Board under the provisions of 
 this Act, and no part of the expenses of said Board shall at any time be paid out of 
 the State treasury. All moneys in excess of per diem allowance and other expenses 
 shall be held by the secretary of said Board as a special fund for meeting the ex- 
 penses of said Board, and such Board shall submit to the Governor a report of its 
 proceedings, verified by the president and secretary thereof, on or before the isth 
 day of December of each year, together with an account of moneys received and 
 disbursed by them in pursuance of this Act. The secretary shall receive extra 
 compensation at the rate of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per annum, payable 
 quarterly. 
 
 SEC. 6. A trained nurse within the meaning of this Act is one who has a diploma 
 from a chartered training-school, and who, under the terms of this Act, is entitled 
 to receive a certificate of registration. 
 
 SEC. 7. Any person who shall have complied with the provisions of this Act 
 and received a certificate of registration shall be styled and known as a registered 
 nurse, and be entitled to append the letters "R. N." to his or her name. It shall 
 be unlawful for any person who has not complied with the provisions of this Act 
 to hold himself or herself out to the public as a registered nurse, or to append the 
 letters "R. N." to his or her name. 
 
 SEC. 8. Any persons violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 fifty or more than two hundred dollars, and it shall be the duty of the respective 
 prosecutors of the counties of this State to prosecute violations of the provisions of 
 this Act. 
 
 SEC. 9. Any person who shall swear falsely in any affidavit or oral testimony 
 made or given by virtue of the provisions of this Act for the regulations of said 
 Board of Registration shall be deemed guilty of perjury.
 
 86 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 SEC. 10. When any person shall append the letters "R. N.," or shall use any 
 other letter, figures, or sign to indicate that he or she is a registered nurse, it shall 
 be prima facie evidence of practising professional nursing as a registered or trained 
 nurse within the meaning of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 1 1 . This Act shall not apply to the gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends 
 or by members of the family, nor to any person nursing the sick for hire who shall not 
 in any way assume to be a registered nurse or trained nurse; nor shall it be construed 
 to interfere in any manner with religious communities having charge of hospitals 
 or caring for the sick in their own homes. 
 
 SEC. 12. Said Board shall have the power to revoke any certificate issued by 
 said Board in accordance with the provisions of this Act and for the following 
 causes: Gross incompetency, violations of the provisions of this Act, or anything 
 derogatory to the morals or standing of the profession of nursing as may be deter- 
 mined by the Board. Provided, that such revocation shall be made only upon the 
 specific charges in writing under oath, filed with the secretary, and by a majority 
 vote of the whole Board, a certified copy of such charges and thirty days' notice of 
 the hearing of the same having been personally served upon the holder of such cer- 
 tificate. Said Board shall be authorized to furnish a list of the names and addresses 
 of those whose certificates have been revoked to the Board of Examiners of other 
 States upon the written request of such Board. 
 
 SEC. 13. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publica- 
 tion in the official State paper. 
 
 KENTUCKY 
 
 Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 
 
 SECTION i. That within thirty days from the time this Act becomes effective 
 the Governor of the State shall appoint a Board to be known as "State Board of 
 Examiners of Trained Nurses." Said Board shall be composed of five members, 
 who shall be elected from a list of ten names proposed in writing by the Kentucky 
 State Association of Graduate Nurses. At the time of appointment the members 
 of the said Board must be actual residents of this State and engaged in the work of 
 trained nurses. They shall have been graduated for a period of at least five years 
 prior to their appointment from a reputable training-school for nurses, and, with 
 the exception of those appointed as the first members of said Board, shall have been 
 registered under the provisions of this Act. The members of said Board shall hold 
 their respective positions for four years and until their successors are appointed 
 and qualified. Upon the expiration of their terms of office, the Governor shall ap- 
 point a new Board of like number and qualification, but in making such appoint- 
 ments he shall reappoint at least two of the members first appointed by him, such 
 appointments to be made upon similar recommendations. The Governor shall 
 have a right to remove any member of said Board for a continued neglect of duty, and 
 he shall have a right to fill all vacancies occurring in said Board from tune to time 
 in the same manner as original appointments are provided for herein. 
 
 SEC. 2. Said Board of Examiners shall immediately after their appointment, 
 or as soon as practicable thereafter, meet in the city of Frankfort and organize 
 by the election of one of their number as president, who shall also be and act as 
 inspector of training-schools for nurses in this State, and a secretary, who shall act 
 as treasurer. 
 
 Three members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and 
 said Board shall have the right to enact such by-laws as may be necessary for their 
 government, not in conflict with the laws of this State. 
 
 SEC. 3. Said Board shall adopt a seal and the secretary shall keep a record of 
 all the proceedings of said Board, including a register of the names of all nurses 
 and training-schools for nurses registered under this Act. Said register shall at 
 all reasonable times be open to public inspection, and said inspector shall inspect
 
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 all training-schools for nurses existing in the State of Kentucky and shall register 
 such schools as fulfil the requirements of this Act. Said Board shall cause the 
 prosecution of all persons violating the provisions of this Act, and may incur all 
 necessary expenses in so doing. 
 
 SEC. 4. The salary of the secretary shall be fixed by the Board and shall 
 not be less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars 
 per annum. The other members of the Board shall receive five dollars per 
 day for each day actually engaged in attendance upon the meetings of said Board, 
 and the expenses incurred in going to and coming from the place of meetings, and 
 inspection of training-schools for nurses, and all legitimate and necessary expenses 
 incurred in attending such meetings. All expenses of the Board, including all sala- 
 ries and compensation, shall be paid from the fee received by said Board "by the 
 State Treasurer upon monthly itemized statements of salaries and expenses, sub- 
 mitted to the State Auditor, out of said fund exclusively." A report of all receipts 
 and expenditures shall be made to the government on or about December isth of 
 each year after the passage of this Act. All moneys and receipts of such Board shall 
 be kept in a special fund by and for the use of said Board exclusively by the Treasurer 
 of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 
 
 SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Board to meet for the purpose of holding ex- 
 aminations not less than once in each year, at such time and places as they determine, 
 and the Board may adopt rules for its government and examination of applicants 
 for registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Notice of the meet- 
 ings of said Board shall be published in two newspapers of general circulation, and 
 in at least one journal devoted to the interest of professional nursing, and after 
 applications are received, notice by mail to every applicant and to every reputable 
 training-school in this State at least thirty days prior to the meeting. At such 
 meeting it shall be the duty of said Board to examine all applicants for registration 
 under the provisions of this Act, as are required to be examined, and to issue to each 
 duly qualified applicant, who shall have complied with the provisions of this Act and 
 pass such examination, a certificate of registration. Any person to whom a certi- 
 fication of registration shall be issued shall, within thirty days thereafter, cause the 
 same to be recorded with the county clerk of the county hi which such person 
 resides at the tune of application, and such person shall be prepared, whenever re- 
 quested, to exhibit such certificate or a certified copy thereof. Registered nurses 
 changing residence in this State must present certificate of registration to the county 
 clerk of the county of their new residence within thirty days of the tune of establish- 
 ing such new residence. All applicants for registration shall furnish satisfactory 
 evidence that he or she is at least twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, 
 and has been graduated from a school of nurses connected with a special hospital, or 
 infirmary, or general hospital approved by said Board, where a systematic course of 
 at least two years' instruction is given, except hi cases hereinafter provided for, and 
 all persons registered under the provisions of this Act shall pay to the treasurer of 
 said Board a registration fee of ten dollars, which shall accompany the application. 
 "And shall annually thereafter pay to said treasurer a renewal fee of one dollar, 
 all of which shall be covered into the State Treasury." 
 
 SEC. 6. Before any person, except those herein specifically excepted, shall be 
 given a certificate of registration, such person shall be required to undergo an ex- 
 amination of said Board touching his or her qualifications as a trained nurse, and 
 shall pass the same to the satisfaction of the majority of said Board. The examina- 
 tion to be given such applicants by said Board shall be of such character as to de- 
 termine the fitness of the applicant to practice professional nursing, and shall 
 include the following subjects, namely: Practical nursing, surgical nursing, 
 obstetrical nursing, hygiene, contagion, diet cooking, materia medica, anatomy, 
 physiology, gynecology, and all other matters deemed necessary and proper 
 by said Board to be required of to establish the fitness and qualification of the 
 applicant.
 
 88 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 SEC. 7. All graduate nurses, who are honorably engaged in nursing at the time 
 of the passage of this Act, and have been residents of the State of Kentucky for 
 six months prior thereto, and who shall show to the satisfaction of the Board that 
 he or she is of good moral character and was graduated from training-school con- 
 nected with a special hospital or infirmary or a general hospital of good reputation 
 at such school, and who in other respects meets the requirements of this Act, shall 
 be entitled to be registered and given a certificate of registration without examina- 
 tion, provided the written application to be so registered shall be filed by such per- 
 sons with the secretary of the Board on or before August i, 1914, and all persons 
 who have in good faith been honorably engaged in the practice of trained nursing 
 under a diploma received by them prior to the year 1893, after one year's training 
 in a reputable school, shall in like manner be entitled to a certificate of .registration 
 without examination upon the payment of the registration fee of ten dollars. 
 
 All nurses in training at the time of the passage of the Act in a reputable training- 
 school supplying a systematic training, corresponding to the above standard, pro- 
 vided they graduate therefrom, shall, upon receiving a diploma from said school, 
 be entitled in like manner to register without examination. 
 
 SEC. 8. Applicants shall be registered and given a certificate of registration 
 who shall present a certificate of registration from another State, territory, or foreign 
 country, where the requirements for registration shall be deemed by said Board to 
 be equivalent to those provided for in this act, such applicants paying the fee of 
 ten dollars for such certificate. 
 
 SEC. 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice nursing as a trained 
 nurse without having obtained a certificate of registration as herein provided. 
 
 SEC. 10. The said Board of Examiners may refuse to issue a certificate of regis- 
 tration provided for in this Act for any of the following causes: 
 
 1. Presentation to the Board of any license, certificate, or diploma which was 
 illegally or fraudulently obtained, or the practice of fraud or deception in passing 
 examination. 
 
 2. Where a person has been convicted of a crime or misdemeanor where such 
 person has been convicted of such offense. 
 
 3. Chronic or persistent inebriety or addiction to a drug habit, which disqualifies 
 the applicant to practice with safety to the public. 
 
 4. Any act of dishonesty, gross incompetency, or any act derogative to the 
 standing or morals of the nursing profession, or any other grossly unprofessional 
 or dishonorable conduct of a character likely to deceive or defraud the public, and 
 said Board may revoke a certificate for any of the causes for which it may refuse to 
 grant a certificate under the provisions of this Act. 
 
 SEC. ii. In all proceedings for suspension or revocation under this Act, the 
 holder of a certificate shall be furnished with a copy of the charges and shall be 
 given at least thirty days to prepare a defense. He or she shall be heard by said 
 Board in person or by counsel, as he or she may select, and at such hearing, and in all 
 matters arising in the course of their duties, the president and secretary shall have 
 authority to administer the oath, and at such hearing the Board may take oral or 
 written proof for and against the complainants as it may deem will best preserve the 
 facts. 
 
 In case of refusal, suspension, or revocation the applicant or holder may appeal 
 to the Kentucky State Association of Graduate Nurses at the first annual meeting 
 thereafter, whose decision by a majority vote upon such appeal shall be final. 
 
 SEC. 12. This Act shall not be construed to interfere in any way with religious 
 institutions which have charge of hospitals, and as such take care of the sick in their 
 home or institution, and this Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to gratui- 
 'tous nursing of the sick "either gratuitously or for compensation" by a friend or 
 member of the family or to a person nursing the sick who does not in any way assume 
 to be a trained graduate or registered nurse, or hold himself or herself out as dis- 
 charging the duties of a trained graduate or registered nurse.
 
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 SEC. 13. Any person who has received a certificate according to the provisions 
 of this Act shall be styled and known as a registered nurse, and shall be entitled to 
 append the letters "R. N." to his or her name, and no person shall assume or know- 
 ingly permit any other person to use such person to use such abbreviation "R. N.," 
 or any other words or figures after his or her name, or after the name of any other 
 person for the purpose of indicating that such person is a registered nurse, unless 
 registered as required by this Act. 
 
 SEC. 14. Any person who shall practice as a trained nurse, or in any way rep- 
 resent himself or herself as a trained or registered nurse in this State without hold- 
 ing a certificate or registration as herein provided, or who shall violate any of the 
 provisions of this Act, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars 
 nor more than fifteen dollars, and each day such person shall practice or violate 
 any provision of this act shall be deemed a separate offense. 
 
 SEC. 15. Any person who shall wilfully make any false representations to 
 such Board in applying for a certificate of registration shall be guilty of a misde- 
 meanor and upon conviction be fined not more than five hundred dollars. 
 
 SEC. 16. All certificates or registration issued by said Board shall be signed by 
 the president and secretary of said Board, and have the seal affixed. 
 
 SEC. 17. Every person receiving a certificate from said Board shall cause the 
 same to be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such 
 person resides, and shall pay to the clerk the sum of fifty cents for recording the 
 same. 
 
 LOUISIANA 
 
 SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, 
 That upon the taking effect of this Act, the Louisiana State Nurses' Association 
 shall nominate for appointment as examiners ten registered physicians, who shall 
 have had not less than five years' experience in the practice of medicine. The 
 names of the ten physicians so nominated shall be submitted to the Governor of the 
 State, who shall appoint from said number, within sixty days, a Nurses' Board of 
 Examiners, to be composed of five members. One of the members of this Board 
 shall be designated by the Governor to hold office for one year; one for two years; 
 one for three years; one for four years; one for five years, and thereafter, upon the 
 expiration of the term of office of a person so appointed, the Governor shall appoint 
 his successor, to hold office for a full term of five years, from a list of two names sub- 
 mitted to him annually by the State Nurses' Association. All vacancies occurring 
 on the Board shall be filled by the Governor in the same manner from a list of 
 names to be furnished him by the Louisiana State Nurses' Association. 
 
 SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the members of the Nurses' Board of 
 Examiners shall, as soon as organized, and annually thereafter, elect from their 
 members a president and secretary; the secretary shall also be the treasurer of the 
 Board. 
 
 Special meetings of the Board shall be called by the secretary, upon the written 
 request of any two members to the president, who shall order said special meetings 
 called. The said Board of Examiners is authorized to frame such by-laws as may 
 be necessary to govern its proceedings, and adopt a seal, which shall be in the cus- 
 tody of the secretary of the Board. The secretary shall be required to keep a 
 record of all meetings of the Board, including a register of the names of all the 
 nurses duly registered under this Act, in his office at the domicile of the Board, said 
 domicile being in the city of New Orleans; and the Board shall prosecute all persons 
 violating any of the provisions of this Act, and may incur the necessary expenses on 
 this behalf. The secretary shall receive a salary to be fixed by the Board, also 
 traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of his official duties. Each 
 member of the Board shall receive $10.00 for each day actually engaged in this 
 service, and all legitimate and necessary expenses incurred while so engaged. 
 Said expenses and salary shall be paid from fees received by the Board under pro-
 
 90 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 visions of this Act, and no part of salaries or other expenses of the Board shall be 
 paid out of the State Treasury. All money received in excess of the said allowances 
 and other expenses provided for by this Act shall be held by the treasurer to pay 
 the expenses of printing the annual report of the Board. 
 
 SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That after September, 1912, it shall be the duty 
 of the said Board of Examiners to meet twice in each year, at its domicile, notice 
 of which meeting shall be published one time hi each of the daily newspapers of 
 New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, and one time in one nursing journal, 
 published in the United States, at least one month prior to the time of such meeting. 
 At such meetings it shall be the duty of the Board to attend to such matters as may 
 come before it under the provisions of this Act, and after July i, 1915, it shall, at 
 such meetings, examine all applicants for registration, to determine their fitness and 
 ability to give efficient care of the sick. Each applicant shall deposit a fee of 
 $10.00 upon the filing of his or her application for examination and registration. 
 
 SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That each applicant shall furnish satisfactory 
 evidence that he or she is twenty-one years of age, is of good moral character, has 
 received the equivalent of a high-school education, and has graduated from a train- 
 ing-school connected with a general hospital hi good standing, of which standing the 
 Board shall be the exclusive judge; provided, that no hospital or sanitarium giving 
 less than two years' training to nurses shall be considered in good standing. 
 
 SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That all nurses possessing the above qualifica- 
 tions, and who are in training at the time of the passage of the Act, and who shall 
 graduate before July i, 1915, hi the State of Louisiana, shall be permitted to register 
 without examination, upon the payment of the registration fee of $10.00; 
 provided, that all applications for registration be made before July i , 1915. Nurses 
 who have graduated prior to the passage of this Act from recognized training-schools 
 in Louisiana, and nurses who are now practising in the State of Louisiana, who shall 
 show to the satisfaction of the Board of Examiners that they are graduates of train- 
 ing-schools connected with general hospitals or sanitariums giving two years' train- 
 ing, shall be required to register before July i, 1913; such nurses, upon payment of 
 the registration fee of $10.00, shall be entitled to registration without 
 examination. It shall be unlawful, after June 30, 1915, for any person without a 
 certificate of registration to practice as, or profess to be, a registered nurse hi this 
 State. Said Board, however, shall be authorized to waive, at its discretion, said 
 examination, and to issue certificates of registration hi favor of applicants who shall 
 present to the Board certificates of examination from a Board of Examiners of an- 
 other State; provided, the standard of requirements of said Board of Examiners 
 of said other State is satisfactory to the Board of Examiners created under this Act. 
 Any nurse who has received his or her certificate according to any of the provisions 
 of this Act shall be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse." No other person 
 shall assume such title or use of the abbreviation "R. N." or any other letter or 
 figure to indicate that he or she is a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, etc., That the certificates issued hi accordance 
 with Section 5 of this Act shall be recorded hi the office of the clerk of the District 
 Court of the parish hi which he or she resides, who shall make this recordation in a 
 book to be kept for that purpose only, and also certify to such recordation by in- 
 dorsement of the original certificate, which the holder thereof shall transmit or 
 deliver to the State Board of Health; and the clerk recording same shall be entitled 
 to a fee of $1.00. Such certificates transmitted or delivered to the State 
 Board of Health shall entitle the holder to be placed upon the list of registered 
 nurses. Said Board of Health shall preserve such certificates, and the copy thereof, 
 signed by its secretary, shall be received as evidence in the courts of this State; and 
 for such copy a fee of 50 cents shall be paid. Until such recordation is made, 
 the holder of such certificate shall not exercise any of the rights or privileges therein 
 conferred to registered nurses. 
 
 SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall not be construed to affect
 
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 or apply to the gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, 
 and also it shall not apply to any person nursing the sick for hire, but who does not 
 in any way assume to be a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That any person violating any of the provisions 
 of this Act, and who shall wilfully make any false representations to the Nurses' 
 Board of Examiners in applying for a certificate, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
 meanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 $50.00 nor more than $100.00 or by imprisonment in the parish jail for a period 
 of not less than ten or more than ninety days, or by both fine and imprisonment for 
 each offense. It shall be the duty of the respective district attorneys to prosecute 
 violations of the provisions of this Act before any court of competent jurisdiction. 
 The said fine shall be divided equally between the public school fund of the parish in 
 which said offense may have been prosecuted and the Nurses' Board of Examiners. 
 Said Nurses' Board of Examiners, through their proper officers, may cause to issue, 
 in any competent court, a writ of injunction forbidding and enjoining said per- 
 son from further representing himself or herself as a registered nurse in this State, 
 until such person shall have become duly registered as herein provided for under 
 the provisions of this Act, and said injunction shall not be subject to be released 
 upon bond. 
 
 In the same suit in which said injunction may be applied for, the said Nurses' 
 Board of Examiners, through their representative president aforesaid, may sue for, 
 and demand of, the defendant, a penalty not to exceed $100.00 and in addition 
 thereto attorney's fees not to exceed $50.00, besides the costs of courts; judgment 
 for which penalty, attorney's fee, and costs may be rendered in the same judg- 
 ment in which the injunction may be made absolute. That the trial of said pro- 
 ceedings shall be summary and be tried by the judge without intervention of a jury. 
 
 SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That if any person registered under this Act shall 
 be convicted of a crime or be guilty of immoral conduct, the said Board shall have 
 the power to institute proceedings before any competent court for the purpose of 
 having the certificate granted by it to such person revoked; and if it shall be shown 
 that the nurse so registered has been convicted of a crime or be guilty of immoral 
 conduct, the said court shall revoke or suspend for such period as the court may 
 deem proper the registration certificate of such nurse. 
 
 SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That " until July ist, 1013, every nurse who shall 
 be a resident of Louisiana at the time of the passage of this Act and who shall pro- 
 duce satisfactory evidence as to age, moral character, and common education as 
 provided in this Act, who has had one year's training in a recognized school as de- 
 nned in this Act, and who shall further show, by the testimony of five reputable 
 physicians, that he or she has had at least three years of actual experience as a trained 
 nurse, shall be permitted to register as a trained nurse upon passing a satisfactory 
 examination before the Board created by this Act, and said Board shall make pro- 
 vision for the examination of such applicants." 
 
 SEC. ii. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of 
 its passage. 
 
 SEC. 12. Be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws in conflict here- 
 with be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 MARYLAND 
 
 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR STATE REGISTRATION OF NURSES 
 
 SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That upon the 
 taking effect of this Act, the Maryland State Association of Graduate Nurses shall 
 nominate for examiners twelve (12) of its members who have had not less than five 
 years' experience in their profession. These nominations shall be submitted to the 
 Governor of the State, who shall from said number appoint, within sixty days, a
 
 92 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 Board of Examiners, to be composed of five (5) members. One of the members of 
 this Board shall be designated by the Governor to hold office one year, two for two 
 years, and two for three years; and hereafter, upon the expiration of the term of 
 office of the person or persons so appointed, the Governor shall appoint a successor 
 to each person or persons, to hold office for three years, from a list of five nomina- 
 tions submitted to him by the Maryland State Association of Graduate Nurses an- 
 nually. All vacancies occurring on this Board shall be filled by the Governor in 
 the same manner from the list of nominations furnished him, or from a list of five 
 to be furnished upon his request for additional names. 
 
 SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the members of this State Board of 
 Examiners shall, as soon as organized, and annually thereafter in the month of June, 
 elect from their members a president and a secretary, who shall be the treasurer. 
 Three members of this Board shall constitute a quorum, and special meetings of the 
 Board shall be called by the secretary upon written request of any two members. 
 The said Board of Examiners is authorized to frame such by-laws as may be neces- 
 sary to govern its proceedings. The secretary shall be required to keep a record of 
 all meetings of the Board, including a register of the names of all nurses duly regis- 
 tered under this Act, which shall at all reasonable times be open to public scrutiny, 
 and the Board shall cause the prosecution of all persons violating any of the pro- 
 visions of this Act, and may incur necessary expenses on this behalf. The secretary 
 shall receive a salary to be fixed by the Board, not to exceed one hundred ($100.00) 
 dollars per annum, also traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of 
 her official duties. The other members of the Board shall receive five ($5.00) dollars 
 for each day actually engaged in this service, and all legitimate and necessary expenses. 
 Said expenses and salaries shall be paid from fees received by the Board under 
 the provision of this Act, and no part of salaries or other expenses of the Board shall 
 be paid out of the State treasury. All money received in excess of the said allow- 
 ance, and other expenses provided for, shall be held by the treasurer for meeting the 
 expenses of the said Board and the cost of annual reports of the Board. 
 
 SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That after June i, 1906, it shall be the duty 
 of said Board of Examiners to meet not less frequently than once in every year, 
 notice of which meeting shall be given in the public press and in one nursing journal 
 one month previous to the meeting. At this meeting it shall be their duty to exam- 
 ine all applicants for registration under this Act, to determine their fitness and abil- 
 ity to give efficient care of the sick. Upon filing application for examination and 
 registration, each applicant shall deposit a fee of five ($5.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the applicant shall furnish satisfactory 
 evidence that he or she is twenty-three (23) years of age, is of good moral character, 
 has received the equivalent of a high-school education, and has graduated from a 
 training-school connected with a general hospital where three years of training 
 with a systematic course of instruction is given in the hospital, or has graduated 
 from a training-school in connection with a hospital of good standing supplying a 
 systematic three years' training corresponding to the above standards, which 
 training may be obtained in two or more hospitals. 
 
 SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all nurses graduating before June i , 1906, 
 possessing the above qualifications shall be permitted to register without examination 
 upon payment of registration fee. Nurses who shall show to the satisfaction of the 
 Board of Examiners that they are graduates of training-schools connected with a 
 general hospital or sanitarium giving two years' training, or prior to the year 1897 
 having given one year's training, and who maintain in other respects proper stand- 
 ards, and are engaged in professional nursing at the date of the passage of this Act, 
 or have been engaged in nursing five years after graduation, prior to the passage 
 of this Act, also those who are in training at the time of the passage of this Act, and 
 shall graduate hereafter, and possess the above qualifications, shall be entitled to 
 registration without examination, provided such application be made before June i, 
 1906.
 
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 Graduates of training-schools in connection with special hospitals, giving a two 
 years' course, who shall obtain one year's additional training in an approved general 
 hospital, shall be eligible for registration without examination before June i, 1906; 
 or said graduates shall be eligible for registration prior to said date upon passing a 
 special examination before the Board of Examiners in subjects not adequately taught 
 in the training-schools from which they have been graduated. 
 
 And it shall be unlawful after the expiration of that time for any person to prac- 
 tice professional nursing as a registered nurse without a certificate in this State. 
 A nurse who has received his or her certificate according to the provisions of this 
 Act shall be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse." No other person shall 
 assume such title or use the abbreviation R. N., or any other letter or figures to 
 indicate that he or she is a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall not be construed to affect 
 or apply to the gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, 
 and also it shall not apply to any person nursing the sick for hire, but does not in any 
 way assume to be a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That any person violating any of the pro- 
 visions of this Act, or who shall wilfully make any false representation to the 
 Board of Examiners in applying for a certificate, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and upon conviction be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred ($500.00) 
 dollars. 
 
 SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the State Board of Examiners of Graduate 
 Nurses may revoke any certificate for sufficient cause, but before this is done the 
 holder of said certificate shall have thirty days' notice, and after a full and fair 
 hearing of the charges made, by a majority vote of the whole Board, the certificate 
 can be revoked. 
 
 SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date 
 of its passage. 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF NURSES 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, 
 and by the authority of the same, as follows: 
 
 SECTION i. Within sixty days after the passage of this Act, the Governor, with 
 the advice and consent of the Council, shall appoint a Board of Registration in Nurs- 
 ing to be constituted as follows: three members of said Board shall be nurses holding 
 diplomas from different training-schools for nurses, giving at least a two years' 
 course in the theory and practice of nursing in a hospital, and who shall have had 
 eight years' experience in nursing the sick; one member shall be a physician who is a 
 superintendent of a hospital having a training-school for nurses, and the remaining 
 member shall be the secretary of the State Board of Registration in Medicine. 
 Said Board shall be appointed as follows: one member for one year, one for two 
 years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years, from the first 
 day of October, nineteen hundred and ten, and until their respective successors are 
 appointed; and thereafter the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council, 
 shall, before the first day of October in each year, appoint in the manner aforesaid 
 one person qualified as aforesaid to hold office for five years from the first day of 
 October next ensuing. Vacancies in said Board shall be filled in accordance with 
 the provisions of this Act for the appointment of the original Board, and a person 
 appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office during the unexpired term of the member 
 whose place he or she fills. Any member of said Board may be removed from office 
 for cause by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council. 
 
 SEC. 2. The members of said Board shall meet at the office of the State Board of 
 Registration in Medicine on the second Tuesday of October, nineteen hundred
 
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 and ten, and annually thereafter, and shall immediately proceed to organize by 
 electing a chairman who shall hold office for the term of one year. The secretary of 
 the State Board of Registration in Medicine shall be secretary of the Board 
 of Registration in Nursing, and shall receive as compensation therefor such sums 
 as may be determined by the Governor and Council, to be paid from fees received 
 hereunder. The said Board shall hold four regular meetings in each year one on the 
 second Tuesday of January, one on the second Tuesday of April, one on the second 
 Tuesday of July, and one on the second Tuesday of October, at the office of the State 
 Board of Registration in Medicine, and additional meetings at such times and 
 places as it may determine. 
 
 SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of said Board, immediately upon its organization, 
 to notify all persons engaged in the practice of nursing the sick in this Common- 
 wealth of the times, places, and subjects of the examinations for registration, by 
 publication in one or more newspapers in each county. Application for registration 
 shall be made upon blanks to be furnished by the Board, and shall be signed and 
 sworn to by the applicants. Each applicant for registration who shall furnish 
 satisfactory proof that he or she is at least twenty-one years of age, and of good moral 
 character, shall, upon payment of a fee of five dollars, be examined by the 
 said Board; and upon such examination, if the applicant shall be found qualified, he 
 or she shall be registered, with a right to use the title Registered Nurse, and shall 
 receive a certificate thereof from the Board signed by the chairman and secretary. 
 An applicant who fails to pass an examination satisfactory to the Board, and is 
 therefore refused registration, shall be entitled, within one year after such refusal, 
 to a re-examination at a meeting of the Board called for the examination of appli- 
 cants, without the payment of an additional fee. Said Board, after hearing, may, 
 by vote of a majority of its members, revoke any certificate issued by it, and cancel 
 the registration of any nurse who has been guilty of any felony or of any crime or 
 misdemeanor in practice of his or her profession. All fees received by the Board 
 shall once in each month be paid by its secretary into the treasury of the Common- 
 wealth. 
 
 SEC. 4. Examinations shall be in part in writing in the English language and 
 in part in practical work, and shall include tie principles and methods of nursing. 
 Due credit shall be given for examinations in special branches. 
 
 SEC. 5. Any resident of this Commonwealth who shall make application for 
 registration within one year from the passage of this Act, and who shall show to the 
 satisfaction of the Board, by affidavit or otherwise, that he or she has actually 
 engaged for five years next prior to the date of application in nursing the sick in a 
 competent manner, or to have had such experience in hospital or training-school 
 as in the opinion of the Board to justify registration, shall be registered without 
 examination on the payment of a fee of five dollars. 
 
 SEC. 6. The Board shall have power to register in like manner, without 
 examination, any person who has been registered as a professional nurse in another 
 State under lawstwhich, in the opinion of the Board, maintain a standard substantially 
 similar to that of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 7. Each member of the Board, except the secretary, shall receive five 
 dollars for every day actually spent in the performance of his or her duties, 
 and the necessary traveling expenses actually expended in attending the meetings 
 of the Board, not exceeding three cents a mile each way. Such compensation and 
 the incidental and traveling expenses shall be approved by the Board and paid by 
 the Commonwealth only from the fees paid over by the Board. 
 
 SEC. 8. The Board shall investigate all complaints of the violations of the 
 provisions of this Act, and report the same to the proper prosecuting officers. 
 
 SEC. 9. The Board shall keep a record of the names of all persons registered 
 hereunder, and of all money received and disbursed by it, and a duplicate thereof 
 shall be open to inspection in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. 
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 the Governor of the condition of professional nursing in this Commonwealth, of all 
 its official acts during the preceding year, and of its receipts and disbursements. 
 
 SEC. 10. Whoever, not being lawfully authorized to practice as a registered 
 nurse within this Commonwealth, does practice or does attempt to practice as a 
 registered nurse, or does use the abbreviation R. N., or any other words, letters, 
 or figures to indicate that the person using the same is such a registered nurse, shall 
 for each offense be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. 
 Whoever becomes registered, or attempts to become registered, or whoever practices 
 or attempts to practice, as a registered nurse under a false or assumed name, shall 
 for each offense be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars 
 nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for three months, or 
 by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 SEC. 1 1 . The provisions of this Act shall not be held to apply to gratuitous nurs- 
 ing of the sick by friends, or members of the family, or to the acts of any person 
 nursing the sick for hire who does not assume to be a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 12. The Board may make such rules and regulations with reference to 
 procedure hereunder as they may deem wise; not, however, inconsistent with the 
 terms hereof, or the laws of the Commonwealth. 
 
 SEC. 13. For the purpose of the appointment of said Board and of the regis- 
 tration of persons by it hereunder, this Act shall take effect upon its passage, and 
 shall take full effect on the first day of October hi the year nineteen hundred and 
 ten. 
 
 MICHIGAN 
 
 The People of the State of Michigan enact: 
 
 SECTION i. The governor shall appoint, by and with the advice of the senate, 
 four residents, either male or female, three of whom shall be graduated nurses, and 
 one who shall be a registered physician of this state, who shall with the secretary of 
 the state board of health constitute a board of registration of nurses. Such 
 appointees shall be chosen from the actual residents of this state and, except the 
 registered physician, from nurses who have graduated from reputable training- 
 schools, giving at least a two years' course of training, served in hospitals of good 
 standing, and who have had five years' experience in nursing. In the event that 
 the appointment of a successor is not made upon the expiration of the term of any 
 member, such member of said Board shall hold office until a successor is duly ap- 
 pointed. The governor shall fill vacancies occasioned by death or otherwise and 
 may remove any member for the continued neglect of duties required by this act. 
 Vacancies in said board shall be filled in accordance with the provisions of this 
 act for the establishment of the original board, and persons appointed to fill vacan- 
 cies shall hold office during the unexpired portion of the term for which their prede- 
 cessors were appointed. The four persons so appointed shall be appointed hi two 
 classes, as follows: Two shall be appointed to hold office for three years and two shall 
 be appointed to hold office for six years, beginning with the first day of August, 
 nineteen hundred and nine, and until their successors are appointed, and there- 
 after the governor shall appoint on or before the first day of August of each third 
 year persons qualified as aforesaid in each class to hold office for six years from the 
 first day of August next ensuing. Within the meaning of this act, a state registered 
 nurse is defined as one who, for hire or reward, nurses, attends, and ministers to the 
 sick or afflicted under the supervision and direction of a legally registered practi- 
 tioner, and who has qualified for such calling or profession, except as hereinafter pro- 
 vided in section three, article four of this act, through a regular course of instruc- 
 tion and practice hi a recognized training-school for nurses connected with a hospi- 
 tal, sanitarium, or state institution for the consumptive, insane, or feeble-minded, 
 and compliance with the further provisions of this act. 
 
 SEC. 2. The members of said board shall meet on the first Wednesday of 
 November, nineteen hundred and nine r at Lansing, and shall elect a president,
 
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 vice-president, and secretary from their own number, each of whom shall hold his 
 or her respective office for two years. This board shall adopt rules and regu- 
 lations not inconsistent with this act to govern its proceedings, and shall adopt 
 a seal of which the secretary shall have the care and custody. The secretary shall 
 keep a record of all proceedings of the board, including a register of the names of all 
 nurses duly registered under this act, which shall be open at all reasonable times 
 to public scrutiny. No less than three members shall constitute a quorum of said 
 board for the transaction of business. Said board shall hold one regular meeting 
 in each year, and such additional meetings at such times and places as it may de- 
 termine. Notices of such meetings shall be published in two newspapers of general 
 circulation in the state and in one nursing journal at least thirty days previous to 
 such meeting. The secretary shall give to the state treasurer a bond in the penal 
 sum of one thousand dollars, with one or more sufficient sureties to be approved by 
 the governor for the faithful discharge of his or her duties. 
 
 SEC. 3. On and after the first day of December, nineteen hundred and nine, 
 all men and women engaged in the practice of professional nursing, and all who 
 may wish to begin the same in the state, except as hereinafter provided, shall 
 make application to said board to be registered and to be furnished a certificate 
 of such registration. This registration and certificate shall be granted to such 
 applicants as shall give satisfactory proofs of being twenty-one years of age, of 
 good moral character, and of having received the equivalent of a grammar school 
 education. Each applicant shall comply with at least one of the following condi- 
 tions: 
 
 Without examination: 
 
 First. The applicant shall be registered and shall receive a certificate of regis- 
 tration without examination, if he or she shall present a diploma issued before 
 December first, nineteen hundred and twelve, by a training-school connected with 
 a general hospital, state hospital, sanitarium, or special hospital, where a two 
 years' course of training is required with systematic instruction hi the hospitals, 
 or from one or more general hospitals of good standing, supplying a systematic 
 training corresponding to the above standard. 
 
 Second. The applicant shall be registered and given a certificate of registration 
 without examination, if he or she shall have a diploma from a training-school con- 
 nected with the general hospital, sanitarium, or special hospital giving a two years' 
 training; or prior to the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, if he or she has re- 
 ceived one year's training in any of the aforesaid institutions under conditions satis- 
 factory to the board and who is engaged in professional nursing at the date of the 
 passage of this act, or has been engaged in professional nursing for five years after 
 graduation prior to the passage of this act; Provided, Such application shall be 
 made before December first, nineteen hundred and eleven. 
 
 Third. The applicant shall be registered and given a certificate of registration 
 after December first, nineteen hundred and ten, who shall present a certified copy 
 of or certificate of registration or license from another state of the Union where the 
 requirements for registration shall be deemed by said board to be equivalent to those 
 of this act, upon the payment of the usual fee for certificate. 
 
 With examination: 
 
 Fourth. Any applicant who has pursued as a business the vocation of nursing 
 for a period of not less than five years prior to the passage of this act, and who 
 presents to the board a certificate stating that he or she is competent to give efficient 
 care to the sick under the direction of a competent physician, said certificate to be 
 signed by one registered physician and two registered nurses, shall be entitled to 
 take such examination before the board as may be deemed necessary to determine 
 his or her fitness to give efficient nursing care to the sick, such application to be filed 
 within the two years immediately following the passage of this act. 
 
 Fifth. After December first, nineteen hundred and twelve, the applicant shall 
 be registered and given a certificate of registration if he or she shall have a
 
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 diploma from a training-school connected with a hospital requiring a two years' 
 course of training with systematic instruction in a general hospital, state hospital, 
 sanitarium, or special hospital in good standing, and upon passing such an exami- 
 nation before the board at such time and place as it may designate and in accord- 
 ance with the rules prescribed by the board, which rules shall be furnished from 
 time to time to any hospital, sanitarium, or special hospital applying therefor. 
 
 SEC. 4. Every applicant for registration under this act shall pay a fee of ten 
 dollars upon filing his or her application. Upon the issuance of a certificate 
 of registration each nurse shall cause a copy thereof to be filed with the county 
 clerk of the county in which said applicant resides, with an affidavit of his or her 
 identity as the person to whom the same was issued, and his or her place of residence 
 at the time of examination and registration. He or she shall be prepared, whenever 
 requested, to show his or her certificate of registration. The county clerk shall 
 charge fifty cents for registering such license.. 
 
 SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the secretary of said board to file with the 
 secretary of state at least quarterly a list of all certificates of registration issued by 
 said board, with the names and residences of the persons to whom such certificates 
 have been issued. 
 
 SEC. 6. All moneys received by said board shall be paid to the state treasurer 
 quarterly, and shall be credited to the general fund of the state, and a receipt for 
 the same shall be filed by the secretary of said board in the office of the auditor- 
 general. The incidental and the traveling expenses of said board shall be paid 
 from such fund only. The compensation of all members of the board shall be at the 
 rate of five dollars a day, together with all legitimate expenses, which shall be 
 paid from the aforesaid fund, for each day actually engaged in attending meetings 
 of said board, and in no case shall any more be paid than was actually expended. 
 The secretary shall receive extra compensation at the rate of one hundred 
 dollars per annum, payable quarterly. A statement of the incidental and traveling 
 expenses of the members of the board shall be approved by said board and sent to 
 the auditor-general of the state, who shall draw his warrant upon the state treasurer 
 for the amounts due as in case of other bills and accounts under the provisions of 
 law: Provided, That the amount so paid shall not exceed the amount received by the 
 state treasurer from said board in fees, as herein specified, and as much of said re- 
 ceipts as may be necessary is hereby appropriated for the compensation and expenses 
 of said board as aforesaid. 
 
 SEC. 7. Any person who shall have complied with the provisions of this act 
 and received a certificate of registration shall be styled and known as a "Registered 
 Nurse," and be entitled to append the letters "R. N." to his or her name. 
 
 SEC. 8. Any person properly registered under the provisions of this act shall, 
 before entering any service in that capacity, furnish a certificate of good health from 
 a properly registered physician, showing that he or she is free from tuberculosis or 
 any specific or infectious disease, said certificate to be renewed semi-annually. 
 The Michigan state board of registration of nurses is hereby authorized to employ 
 or appoint a registered nurse who has had not less than five years' experience hi 
 nursing since graduation, three years of which have been spent as superintendent of 
 a training-school approved by said board, who may also be one of the members of 
 said board, to act as a visitor and inspector of training-schools for nurses, to the end 
 that the rules and regulations adopted by said board may be promoted and upheld 
 throughout the state. Such visitor and inspector shall act under the direction of 
 the Michigan state board of registration of nurses. The compensation of such 
 visitor and inspector shall be determined by said board, and shall be paid only from 
 funds collected in the registration of nurses and in a similar way in which the inci- 
 dental and traveling expenses of the members of the board are now paid, as pro- 
 vided for in Section six of said act. 
 
 SEC. 9. Any person who shall, after the passage of this act, practice professional 
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 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment in 
 the county jail for a period of not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and 
 imprisonment for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 10. When any person shall append the letters "R. N.," or shall use any 
 other letters, figures, or sign to indicate that he or she is a registered nurse, it shall 
 be prima facie evidence of practicing professional nursing as a registered nurse within 
 the meaning of this act. 
 
 SEC. 1 1 . This act shall not apply to the gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends 
 or by members of the family, nor to any person nursing the sick for hire, but who 
 shall not in any way assume to be a registered nurse. It shall not be construed to 
 interfere in any way with religious communities having charge of hospitals or those 
 who care for the sick in their own homes. 
 
 SEC. 12. Said board shall have the power to revoke any certificate issued by 
 said board in accordance with the provisions of this act and for the following causes: 
 Gross incompetency, violations of the provisions of this act, dishonesty, habitual 
 intemperance, or any act derogatory to the morals or standing of the profession of 
 nursing, as may be determined by the board: Provided, That such revocation shall 
 only be made upon specific charges in writing, under oath, filed with the secretary, 
 and by a majority vote of the whole board, a certified copy of such charges and thirty 
 days' notice of the hearing of the same having been personally served upon the holder 
 of such certificate. Said board shall be authorized to furnish a list of the names and 
 addresses of those whose certificates have been revoked to the board of examiners 
 of other States upon the written request of such board. 
 
 SEC. 13. All acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 MINNESOTA 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: 
 
 SECTION i. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice professional nursing 
 as a registered nurse in this state unless such person shall have first obtained a cer- 
 tificate of registration as provided in this Act. 
 
 SEC. 2. A Board of Examiners, to consist of five persons, one of whom shall 
 be a regularly licensed physician, is hereby created to carry out the purposes and 
 enforce the provisions of this Act. Said Board shall be appointed by the Governor, 
 and the other appointments shall be made from nurses engaged in active work, 
 who have been graduated for at least a period of five years from reputable training- 
 schools, and whose course of training is not less than three (3) years' duration in 
 actual hospital service; provided, that there shall always be two of said members 
 on said Board selected from nurses who have had at least two (2) years' experience 
 in educational work among nurses, or who have had two (2) or more years' experi- 
 ence in the instruction of nurses in training-schools; "and provided further, that 
 after the appointment of the first Board the nurses appointed on each succeeding 
 Board shall be appointed from the nurses registered under this Act." 
 
 SEC. 3. Each member of said Board shall serve for a term of five years and 
 until his or her successors are appointed and qualified, except in the case of the first 
 Board, whose members shall hold office as follows: one member shall be appointed 
 to hold office one (i) year; one for two (2) years; one for three (3) years; one for 
 four (4) years, and one for five (5) years. Each member of said Board shall give a 
 bond in the sum of one thousand ($1000.00) dollars, with securities to be approved 
 by the Secretary of State, conditioned for the faithful performance of his or her 
 duties, and shall take the oath provided by law for public officers. Vacancies upon 
 said Board caused by death, resignation, or expiration of the term of any member 
 thereof shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. 
 
 SEC. 4. Said Board shall elect from its members a President, a Secretary, and a
 
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 Treasurer, and shall have its headquarters at St. Paul, Minnesota; shall have a 
 common seal, and the Secretary and President shall have power to administer oaths. 
 
 SEC. 5. Each member of said Board shall receive a compensation of five ($5.00) 
 dollars per day for each day of actual service and ten (10) cents per mile for each 
 mile actually traveled in attending the meetings of the Board, which compensation 
 shall be paid out of any moneys in the hands of the Treasurer of said Board; pro- 
 vided that said compensation and mileage shall in no event be paid out of the State 
 Treasury. 
 
 SEC. 6. Any money in the hands of the treasurer, at the end of any year, in 
 excess of two hundred and fifty ($250.00) dollars shall be paid over by said Board 
 to the State Treasurer, to be kept by him for the future maintenance of the Board and 
 to be disbursed by him upon warrants signed by the President and Treasurer of 
 said Board. 
 
 SEC. 7. Said Board shall hold public examinations at least once in each year 
 at St. Paul, Minnesota, and at such times as it may determine, and notice of the 
 time and place of such examinations shall be given by a publication thereof at least 
 ten (10) days before such examination in a daily newspaper published at the Capital 
 of the State, and said Board may give such other notice as it deems advisable. 
 Any person desiring to obtain a certificate of registration under this Act shall make 
 application to said Board therefor, and shall pay to the treasurer of said Board an 
 examination fee of five ($5.00) dollars, and shall present himself or herself at the 
 next regular meeting of said Board for examination of applicants, and upon said 
 Board being satisfied that the applicant is (i) of the age of twenty-one years or over, 
 (2) of good moral character, (3) has received an education equivalent to that re- 
 quired for admission into high-schools of this State, and (4) had graduated from a 
 training-school connected with a general hospital, where three years of training, with 
 a systematic course of instruction is given in the hospital, or has graduated from a 
 training-school in connection with a hospital of good standing supplying a system- 
 atic three years' training corresponding to the above standards, which training 
 may be obtained in two or more hospitals, said Board shall proceed to examine said 
 applicant in both theoretical and practical nursing, and upon such applicant passing 
 said examination to the satisfaction of said Board, said Board shall enter said ap- 
 plicant's name in the register, hereinafter provided for, and shall issue to said person 
 a certificate of registration authorizing said person to practice the profession of 
 nursing as a "Registered Nurse." 
 
 SEC. 8. All nurses graduating prior to January i, 1910, possessing the above 
 qualifications shall be permitted to register without examination upon payment of 
 the registration fee. Nurses who shall show to the satisfaction of the Board of 
 Examiners that they are graduates of training-schools connected with a general 
 hospital or sanitarium giving two years' training, or prior to the year 1897 having 
 given one year's training, and who maintain in other respects proper standards, and 
 are engaged in professional nursing at the date of the passage of this Act, or have 
 been engaged in nursing five years after graduation, prior to the passage of this Act, 
 also those who are in training at the time of the passage of this Act, and shall gradu- 
 ate hereafter, and possess the above qualifications, shall be entitled to registration 
 without examination, provided such application be made before January i, 1910. 
 
 SEC. 9. Graduates of training-schools in connection with special hospitals, 
 giving a two years' course, who shall obtain one year's additional training in an 
 approved general hospital, shall be eligible for registration without examination 
 before January i, 1910, or said graduates shall be eligible for registration prior to 
 said date upon passing a special examination before the Board of Examiners in sub- 
 jects not adequately taught in the training-schools from which they have been 
 graduated. 
 
 SEC. 10. Any applicant who has pursued as a business the vocation of nursing 
 for a period of not less than five years prior to the passage of this Act, and who 
 presents to the Board a certificate testifying that he or she is competent to give
 
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 efficient care to the sick, said certificate to be signed by one licensed physician and 
 two registered nurses, shall be entitled to take a practical examination for state 
 registration only during the two years immediately following the passage of this 
 Act. 
 
 SEC. n. The Board of Examiners may issue license without examination, upon 
 the payment of five ($5.00) dollars registration fee, to applicants who have been 
 registered in other States having equal requirements. 
 
 SEC. 12. This Act shall not be construed to apply to the gratuitous nursing of 
 the sick by friends or members of the family, and also it shall not apply to any person 
 nursing the sick for hire but who does not in any way assume to be a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 13. Said Board shall keep a register, in which shall be entered names of all 
 persons to whom certificates are issued under this Act, and said register shall at 
 all times be open to public inspection. 
 
 SEC. 14. A person who has received his or her certificate according to the pro- 
 visions of this Act shall be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse." No other 
 person shall assume such title or use the abbreviation "R. N.," or any other letters 
 or figures to indicate that he or she is a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 15. Said Board of Examiners may revoke any certificate for sufficient 
 cause, but before this is done the holder of said certificate shall have thirty (30) 
 days' notice, and after a full and fair hearing of the charges made, by a majority 
 vote of the whole Board, the certificate may be revoked. 
 
 SEC. 1 6. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act, or who shall 
 wilfully make any false representations to the Board of Examiners in applying for a 
 certificate shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished 
 by a fine of not more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars and not less than ten 
 ($10.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 17. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 MISSISSIPPI 
 
 An Act to regulate the practice of professional nursing in the State of Mississippi, to 
 create a Board of Nurses' Examiners, to require, the examination and registration 
 of those desiring to practice in this State as registered nurses, or licensed attendants, 
 and to provide for the punishment of offenders against this Act. 
 SECTION i. Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Mississippi, That a 
 Board of Nurses' Examiners for Mississippi is hereby created, to consist of five 
 members who shall be appointed by the Governor, four of whom shall be graduate 
 nurses and one of whom shall be a physician. 
 
 SEC. 2. That within thirty days after the passage of this Act, the Graduate 
 Nurses' Association of Mississippi shall, through its executive committee, submit 
 to the Governor a list containing the names of two physicians who must be regularly 
 licensed and of good standing in their profession, together with the names of eight 
 graduate nurses who shall have practised not less than two years exclusive of training, 
 and the Governor shall appoint the members of the Board from said list. 
 
 SEC. 3. That each member of said Board shall serve for a term of five years and 
 until his or her successor is appointed and qualified, except in cases of the first Board, 
 whose members shall hold office as follows: One member shall be appointed to hold 
 office for one year; one member for two years; one member for three years; one 
 member for four years, and one for five years. 
 
 SEC. 4. That vacancies occurring in said Board by reason of expiration of term 
 of office, resignation, death, or otherwise shall be filled by appointment by the 
 Governor from a list of names of three physicians and eight registered graduate 
 nurses, all with qualifications as hereinbefore provided to be furnished him by the 
 executive committee of said association. 
 
 SEC. 5. That the members of said Board shall, as soon as organized, and an- 
 nually thereafter, in the month of November elect from their number, a president
 
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 and a secretary, the latter of whom shall also be the tFtfasurer. Three members of 
 this Board shall constitute a quorum. Special meetings of said Board shall be 
 called by the secretary-treasurer upon the written request of any two members. 
 
 SEC. 6. That said Board is authorized to make such by-laws and rules as shall 
 be necessary to govern its proceedings and to carry into effect the purpose of this 
 Act. The secretary-treasurer shall be required to keep a record of all meetings of 
 said Board, including a register of names of all nurses duly registered under this 
 Act, which shall at all reasonable times be opened to public inspection. Said Board 
 shall cause the prosecution of all persons violating any of the provisions of this Act 
 and may incur necessary expenses in that behalf. 
 
 SEC. 7. That the president and secretary- treasurer shall make a biennial re- 
 port to the Governor on the first Monday in January immediately preceding the 
 convening of the legislature, together with the statement of the receipts and dis- 
 bursements of said Board. 
 
 SEC. 8. That said Board shall adopt a seal, which shall include the words 
 "Nurses Board of Examination and Registration of Mississippi," and the imprint 
 thereof shall be placed on all certificates and warrants issued by it and upon all 
 records sent up on appeal from its decision. 
 
 SEC. 9. That it shall be the duty of the- secretary-treasurer of said Board to 
 file with the Secretary of State, at least quarterly, a list of certificates of registration 
 issued by said Board, with the names and residences of the persons to whom such 
 certificates have been issued. 
 
 SEC. 10. That each member of said Board before entering upon the discharge 
 of his or her duties shall take the oath required by law for public officers, and the 
 president and secretary-treasurer shall give a bond in the sum of one thousand 
 ($1000.00) dollars conditional for the faithful performance of his or her duties. 
 
 SEC. 1 1 . That it shall be the duty of the said Board to meet on the first Monday 
 of January and July of each year. Notice of each meeting shall be given to the 
 public press and hi one nurses' journal one month previous to the meeting, but said 
 Board may give such other notice as it may deem advisable. At said meeting it 
 shall be the duty of the Board to examine all applicants for registration under this 
 Act. 
 
 SEC. 12. That any person desiring to obtain a certificate of registration under 
 this Act shall make application to said Board therefor, first paying to the treasurer 
 an examination fee of five ($5.00) dollars, and shall present himself or herself at such 
 regular meeting of said Board for examination of applicants. 
 
 SEC. 13. That said Board being satisfied that said applicant is of the age of 
 eighteen years, of good moral character, has received an education equivalent to a 
 good common school education, has graduated from a training-school in connection 
 with a general hospital or sanitarium, with two years of continuous residence train- 
 ing where a systematic course of instruction is given, shall proceed to examine said 
 applicant in both theoretical and practical nursing, anatomy, physiology, bacteri- 
 ology, materia medica, dietetics, and hygiene. 
 
 SEC. 14. That upon said applicant passing said examination to the satisfaction 
 of said Board, the latter shall cause to be entered the name of the applicant in the 
 register for that purpose. It shall also be caused to issue to said persons a certifi- 
 cate of registration authorizing said person to practice the profession of nursing as a 
 registered nurse. Nurses who are not graduates as herein provided, who have been 
 practicing nursing before this Act takes effect, may apply, first paying an examina- 
 tion fee of two dollars ($2.50) fifty cents to the State Board for an examination, and 
 if the Board finds thereupon the applicant competent to practice nursing, said Board 
 may issue to the said applicant a certificate authorizing him or her to practice as a 
 licensed attendant, but not as a registered nurse. A nurse registered and licensed 
 according to the laws of the State of her residence may practice her profession in this 
 State in special cases without being registered as herein provided. All the provisions 
 of this Act not inconsistent with this section shall apply to licensed attendants.
 
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 SEC. 15. That fees received by said Board of Examiners herein specified from 
 examinations and otherwise shall be paid to the State Treasurer, and shall be kept 
 in a fund to be known as the "Nurses' Fund," and shall be subject at all times to the 
 warrant of the State Auditor drawn upon written requisition of the president of said 
 Board and attested by the secretary-treasurer of said Board for the payment of any 
 authorized expense made by said Board, but in no event shall said Board expend a 
 sum in excess of the amount received by the State Treasurer from said Board. No 
 requisition shall be made by said president and secretary-treasurer until the item 
 or items for which same is drawn shall have been first approved by said Board. 
 
 SEC. 1 6. That each member of said Board shall receive five ($5.00) dollars for 
 each day or part of day while actually engaged in the performance of the duties of 
 the office, together with traveling and all other legitimate and necessary expenses 
 incurred while so engaged. 
 
 SEC. 17. That all printing, postage, and other contingent expenses necessarily 
 incurred under the provisions of this Act shall be paid from the said nurses' fund, aU 
 subject, however, to the provisions of Section 15 of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 1 8. That the headquarters of said Board shall be in the State Capitol in a 
 room to be assigned for its use by the keeper of said Capitol. 
 
 SEC. 19. That the meetings of said Board for the purpose of examining appli- 
 cants shall be held in the city of Jackson or in any other convenient place. 
 
 SEC. 20. That all persons possessing the qualifications enumerated in Section 
 13 of this Act, and who are nurses in training at the time of the passage of this Act, 
 and who shall graduate on or before two years in the State of Mississippi, shall be 
 permitted to register without examination upon the payment of the registration fee 
 of five ($5.00) dollars, provided that all applications for the registration shall be 
 made before the expiration of said two years. 
 
 SEC. 21. That nurses who have graduated prior to the passage of this Act 
 from recognized training-schools in Mississippi, and nurses who are not practicing 
 in the State of Mississippi, who shall show to the satisfaction of the Board of 
 Examiners that they are graduates of training-schools connected with general 
 hospitals or sanitariums giving two years' training shall be required to register with- 
 in one year from the passage of this Act. And such nurses upon payment of the 
 registration fee of five ($5.0x3) dollars shall be entitled to registration without exami- 
 nation. 
 
 SEC. 22. That said Board shall be authorized to waive, at its discretion, said 
 examination, and to issue certificates of registration in favor of applicants who shall 
 present to the Board certificates of examination from the Board of Examiners 
 from another State, together with the registration fee of five ($5.00) dollars, provided 
 the standard of requirements from such other State are equivalent to the require- 
 ments set forth in this Act. 
 
 SEC. 23. That any nurse who has received his or her certificate according to 
 any of the provisions of this Act shall be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse." 
 No other person shall assume such title or use the abbreviation "R. N.," or any 
 letter or figure to indicate that he or she is a registered, trained, or graduate nurse. 
 
 Sec. 24. That it shall be unlawful for any person to practice the profession of 
 nursing as a registered nurse in the State within the' meaning of this Act, unless 
 such person shall at first have obtained a certificate of registration as provided in 
 this Act. But this Act shall not be construed to apply to the gratuitous nursing 
 of the sick by friends or members of the family, and also it shall not apply to any 
 persons nursing the sick for hire, but who do not hi any way assume to be registered 
 graduate nurses. 
 
 SEC. 25. That the Board of Examiners shall have power to revoke any certif- 
 icate of registration for incompetency, dishonesty, intemperance, immorality, or 
 unprofessional conduct after a full and fair investigation of the charges preferred 
 against the accused. Thirty days prior to such a hearing a copy of the charges, 
 which charges must be specified in writing and under oath, shall be furnished to the
 
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 accused, who shall, at the same time, be furnished with written notice of the time and 
 place where such charges will be heard and determined. The place of such hearing 
 may be fixed by said Board at any point within the State. At such hearing all 
 witnesses shall be sworn either by the president or secretary-treasurer, and the 
 accused shall be entitled to be heard and represented by counsel. No revocation 
 shall be made except upon a majority vote of the full Board. Upon the revocation 
 of any certificate the same shall be null and void. The holder thereof shall cease 
 to be entitled to any of the privileges conferred by such certificate, and it shall be 
 the duty of the secretary-treasurer of the Board to strike the name of the holder 
 thereof from the roll of registered nurses and to give notice of such revocation to the 
 Secretary of State. 
 
 SEC. 26. That any person violating any of the provisions of this Act, or who 
 shall wilfully make any false representations to said Board of Examiners in applying 
 for a certificate, or who shall refuse to surrender a certificate of registration which 
 has been revoked as set out in this Act, or shall use the title of registered nurse, or 
 append the letters "R. N. " or any other letters, words, or figures to indicate that the 
 person using the name is a registered or graduate nurse, unless such person shall be 
 lawfully entitled so to do, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- 
 tion thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars 
 and not more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 
 jail for a period of not less than five days and not more than ninety days or by both 
 such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 SEC. 27. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 SEC. 28. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pas- 
 sage. 
 
 MISSOURI 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 Entitled ' 'An act to provide for the examination, regulation, and registration of 
 nurses, and providing for the appointment of a board of examiners to examine 
 applicants for registration as nurses, and to provide for the punishment of offend- 
 ers against this act." 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: 
 
 SECTION i. Upon the taking effect of this act, the governor shall appoint a 
 board of examination and registration of nurses to consist of five members. 
 The majority of such appointees shall be chosen from those actually engaged in 
 nursing and who have graduated from reputable training-schools, giving not less 
 than two years' course of training, who have had at least five years' experience in 
 nursing and caring for the sick and afflicted, including one year's teaching in a train- 
 ing-school for nurses. The members of the board herein created shall be appointed 
 as follows: One shall be appointed to hold office for one year, two for two years, and 
 two for three years, beginning on the first day of December, the present year, and 
 until their successors are appointed, and thereafter the governor shall appoint, on or 
 before the first day of November of each year, persons qualified as aforesaid in each 
 class, to hold office for three years, from the first day of December next ensuing. 
 Each member of said board shall hold office until a successor is duly appointed. 
 Vacancies upon said board caused by death, resignation, or expiration from any 
 cause, of the term of any member thereof, shall be filled by appointment from the 
 same class of persons to which the deceased or retiring member belonged, and a 
 person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office during the unexpired term of the 
 member whose office is thus filled. The governor may remove any member of the 
 board for cause, or the continued neglect of duties required by this act. The 
 members of said board shall, before entering on the discharge of their duties, make 
 and file with the secretary of state the constitutional oath of office, and it shall
 
 104 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 have power to hear testimony in all matters relating to the duties imposed upon it 
 by law. The members of said board shall meet on the second Wednesday of Decem- 
 ber, nineteen hundred nine, at Jefferson City, and shall elect a president and a 
 secretary, who shall also act as treasurer, from their number, each of whom shall 
 hold his or her respective office for one year, and the president shall have power 
 to administer oaths. The board shall make rules and regulations, not inconsistent 
 with this act and the general law, to govern its proceedings, and also adopt its seal, 
 and the secretary shall have the care and custody thereof; and the secretary shall 
 keep a record of all proceedings of the board, including a register of the names of all 
 nurses registered under this act, which shall be open at all reasonable times to 
 public inspection. The treasurer, before entering upon the discharge of his or her 
 duties, shall give bond in the sum of one thousand ($1000.00) dollars, with a sur- 
 ety or sureties, to be approved by the board. Said board shall hold one regular 
 meeting in each year, and such additional meetings at such time and places as it 
 may determine. Notice of such meetings shall be published in two newspapers of 
 general circulation through the state and in one nurses' journal at least thirty days 
 previous to such meeting. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for 
 the transaction of business. Said board shall make an annual report of its pro- 
 ceedings to the governor, on or before the thirty-first day of December of each 
 year. 
 
 SEC. 2. Every applicant for registration as a registered nurse must be at least 
 twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, and a resident or graduate nurse 
 of this state, except as hereinafter provided. Every applicant, in addition to fur- 
 nishing satisfactory proof of his or her compliance with the above qualifications, 
 must also have acquired a general education substantially equivalent to that ob- 
 tained by the completion of a common or grammar school course of study. 
 
 SEC. 3. On and after the first Wednesday of December, nineteen hundred 
 nine, all persons engaged in the practice of professional nursing, and all who may 
 wish to begin the same in this state as a registered nurse under the provisions of 
 this law, except as hereinafter provided, shall make application to said board to be 
 registered to practice professional nursing and caring for the sick and afflicted. This 
 registration shall be granted to such applicants who possess the qualifications re- 
 quired by Section 2 of this article, and who shall comply with at least one of the 
 following conditions: ist: Any applicant shall be registered to practice nursing 
 without examination who shall present a diploma issued before December first, 
 nineteen hundred twelve, by a training-school connected with a general hospital, 
 where two or more years' course of training is required with systematic instruc- 
 tion in the hospital or from one or more general hospitals of good standing sup- 
 plying a systematic training corresponding to the above standard; 2nd: Any 
 applicant shall be registered to practice nursing without examination who, prior 
 to eighteen hundred ninety-five, received one year's training in a general hospital, 
 sanitarium, or special hospital under conditions satisfactory to the board of examina- 
 tion and registration of nurses, and who is actually engaged in professional nursing at 
 the date of the passage of this act, or who has been engaged in professional nurs- 
 ing for five years prior to the passage of this act: Provided, such application shall be 
 made under oath before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred eleven; 3rd: After 
 nineteen hundred twelve the applicant shall be registered to practice nursing if he 
 or she shall have a diploma from a training-school connected with a hospital requir- 
 ing a course of two or more years of training with systematic instructions in a gen- 
 eral hospital, sanitarium, or special hospital, or from one or more hospitals in good 
 standing supplying a systematic training equivalent to the foregoing, and upon 
 passing such an examination before the board as may be deemed necessary to deter- 
 mine his or her fitness and ability to give efficient care of the sick; 4th: Any appli- 
 cant shall be registered to practice nursing who shall present a certified copy or 
 certificate of registration from another state of the Union where the requirements for 
 the registration shall be deemed by said board to be equivalent to those of this act.
 
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 SEC. 4. Every applicant for registration under this act shall pay a fee of five 
 ($5.00) dollars upon filing his or her application. Upon the issuance of a certificate 
 to practice nursing, each nurse, if a resident of this state, shall cause a copy thereof 
 to be filed with the county clerk of the county in which said applicant resides, and, 
 if in the city of St. Louis, with the recorder of deeds, with an affidavit of his or her 
 identity as the person to whom the same was issued and his or her place of residence 
 at the tune of examination and registration. If the applicant be a non-resident of 
 this state, then such certificate and affidavit shall be filed with the county clerk of 
 the county in which is located the training-school which issued his or her diploma, 
 and with the recorder of deeds of the city of St. Louis if such training-school is hi 
 the city of St. Louis. 
 
 SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the secretary of said board to file with the 
 secretary of state, at least once each year, a list of all certificates issued by said 
 Board, with the names and residences of the persons to whom such certificates have 
 been issued. 
 
 SEC. 6. All fees received by the state board for the examination and registra- 
 tion of nurses shall be paid to the treasurer of the board, who shall issue receipts 
 therefor, and shall be paid by said treasurer quarterly into the state treasury, and 
 shall be credited to a fund which is hereby appropriated for the use of said state 
 board for the examination and registration of nurses. The compensation of the 
 members of said board shall be at the rate of five ($5.00) dollars for each day actually 
 engaged in attending meetings of said board. The secretary may receive extra 
 compensation according to services rendered, the sum, however, not to exceed 
 three hundred ($300.00) dollars a year. Such compensation and expenses of mem- 
 bers and officers of said board, and all expenses proper and necessary in the opinion 
 of said Board to the discharge of its duties under and to enforce this act, shall be 
 paid out of such fund, upon the warrant of the auditor of the state issued upon a 
 requisition, signed by the president and attested by the secretary of said board under 
 the seal of said board; Provided, that no expense of this board shall ever be paid 
 out of any other fund of the state either by deficiency bill or otherwise. 
 
 SEC. 7. Any person who shall have complied with the provisions of this act 
 and received a certificate to practice nursing shall be styled and known as a "regis- 
 tered nurse," and be entitled to append the letters "R. N." to his or her name. 
 
 SEC. 8. Any person who shall practice professional nursing as a registered 
 nurse without first complying with the provisions of this act shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine 
 of not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars 
 for each offense, and the board shall proceed against all such persons. Prosecu- 
 tions under this act shall be begun and carried on in the same manner as other 
 prosecutions for misdemeanor in this state. 
 
 SEC. 9. When any person shall append the letters "R. N.," or shall use any 
 other letters, figures, or signs to indicate that he or she is a registered nurse, it shall 
 be prima facie evidence of practicing professional nursing as a registered nurse within 
 the meaning of this act. 
 
 SEC. 10. This act shall not apply to the gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends 
 or by members of the family, nor by any person nursing for hire, but who shall not 
 in any way assume to be a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. ii. Said board shall have the power to revoke for sufficient cause any 
 certificate issued by said board; provided, that such revocation shall only be made 
 upon specificjcharges, made in writing and under oath, and filed with the secretary, 
 and by a majority vote of the whole board, a certified copy of such charges and 
 thirty days' notice of the hearing of the same having been personally served upon 
 the holder of such certificate. Said board shall be authorized to furnish a list of 
 the names and addresses to those whose certificates have been revoked to the board 
 of examiners of other states upon the written request of such board.
 
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 MONTANA 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: 
 
 Certificates Issued 
 
 SECTION i. The Governor of the State of Montana shall have the power, and 
 it shall be his duty, to issue a license or certificate for registration to any person 
 practicing the profession of nursing the sick, upon the recommendation of the Board 
 of Examiners of Nursing, said Board to be appointed as hereinafter provided for. 
 
 Appointment of Board 
 
 SEC. 2. The Governor of the State of Montana shall, within ninety days after 
 the passage and approval of this Act, designate and appoint five persons who shall 
 constitute the Board of examination for nurses. Said Board shall consist of five 
 members, and shall be appointed by the Governor from the membership of the 
 Montana State Association of Graduated Nurses; the first Board shall hold office 
 during the following terms: One member for the period of one year; two members 
 for the period of two years; two members for the period of three years, and the 
 members and the terms thereof to be designated by the Governor. 
 
 Requirements of Board Members 
 
 SEC. 3. Subsequent to the organization of State Board of Examination of 
 Nurses, the Governor of the State of Montana shall fill all vacancies and shall per- 
 petuate said Board by the appointment of members thereof, which members for 
 appointment shall be selected from persons who are registered nurses under the 
 provisions of this Act, and who shall be actual residents of the State of Montana 
 for a period of at least one year immediately preceding the date of appointment, and 
 who have been actively engaged in the profession of nursing for five years prior to 
 such appointment, and there shall be at all times at least two members of said Board 
 who shall have had at least two years' experience in educational work among 
 nurses, or who have had two or more years' experience in the instruction of nurses in 
 training-schools. 
 
 The terms for which said members shall be appointed shall be for three years, 
 except those first appointed and those to fill unexpired terms. 
 
 Officers, Duties, and Remuneration of Board 
 
 SEC. 4. The members of the Board shall, immediately after their appointment, 
 meet at the city of Helena for the purpose of organizing said Board, and shall elect 
 one of their number president, and shall also elect one of their number secretary, who 
 shall also act as treasurer of the Board. The Board shall adopt a seal, which shall 
 remain in the custody of the secretary; the secretary shall keep the records and 
 minutes of all meetings of the Board, and shall record in a suitable book the names 
 of all nurses and training-schools registered under this Act. The president and 
 secretary of said Board shall hold office for the period of one year, and until their 
 successors are appointed and qualified. The salary of the secretary shall be settled 
 and fixed by the Board. The other members of the Board shall receive ten ($10.00) 
 dollars per day while actually engaged in attendance upon meetings of said Board. 
 This shall be in full for their expenses, same to be paid from the funds in the hands 
 of the treasurer of the Board; no charge or expense of any kind shall ever become a 
 charge against the State treasury. 
 
 The president shall act as inspector of training-schools for nurses.
 
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 Board Provides Schedule for Examination 
 
 SEC. 5. Said Board shall provide a schedule of the subjects upon which appli- 
 cants shall be examined to qualify for registration under this Act, which subjects 
 shall include elementary anatomy, physiology, medicine, obstetrics, gynecology, 
 surgery, dietetics, home sanitation, and nursing. 
 
 Inspecting and Registering of Training-schools 
 
 SEC. 6. The president acting as inspector of training-schools shall inspect all 
 training-schools for nurses in the State of Montana, and shall report to the Board and 
 the Governor such training-schools as shall provide courses of instruction in the 
 subjects required by the Board. The secretary shall enter in the registrator kept 
 for this purpose the names of all nurses which are entitled to registration under the 
 provisions of this Act. The schools so registered shall be required to pay to the 
 secretary of the Board a fee of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars upon registration. 
 
 Notice of Board Meetings 
 
 SEC. 7. The Board shall adopt rules which may be changed from time to tune 
 for the examination of applicants for registration under this Act, and the Board 
 shall meet not less than once each year for the purpose of conducting examinations 
 for applicants for registration. The time and place of meeting of said Board shall 
 be advertised in the public press, and notice shall be sent to each training-school 
 registered under this Act, to each regularly organized association of nurses within 
 the State, to at least one journal of nursing, and notice shall be mailed to each person 
 who has made application for examination under the provisions of this Act, at least 
 thirty days prior to said meeting; at such meeting it shall be the duty of the Board 
 to examine all persons who are applicants for registration under this Act, and to 
 recommend to the Governor each duly qualified applicant who shall have success- 
 fully passed said examination. 
 
 Recording of Certificate 
 
 SEC. 8. Every person to whom a certificate of registration shall have been issued 
 shall, within thirty days thereafter, cause the same to be recorded in the office of 
 the county clerk of the county in which such person resides, and all such persons 
 shall, when changing the county of their residence within the State, cause said 
 certificate to be recorded in the office of the county clerk within thirty days after 
 acquiring residence in said new county, and it is further provided that no county 
 clerk of this State shall demand or receive any fee or compensation for filing, record- 
 ing, making certified copy of nurse's certificate, or affixing seal to certificate. 
 
 Registration Fee Requirements of Applicants 
 
 SEC. 9. All applicants for registration under the provisions of this Act shall 
 furnish satisfactory evidence that he or she is at least twenty-two years of age, of 
 good moral character, and has been graduated from the training-school of nurses 
 connected with a general hospital approved by the Board, where a systematic course 
 of at least two years' instruction is given, except in the cases hereinafter provided 
 for, and all persons registered under the provisions of this Act shall pay to the 
 secretary of said Board a registration fee of ten ($10.00) dollars. 
 
 Requirements for Non-Graduates 
 
 SEC. 10. Any person of the required age who has pursued as a business the voca- 
 tion of nursing for a period of not less than five years prior to the passage of this
 
 108 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 Act, and who presents to the Board a certificate that he or she is a competent per- 
 son to give efficient care to the sick, said certificate being signed by one licensed 
 physician in the active practice of the profession of medicine, and two registered 
 nurses provided for by this Act, may register after taking and passing an examina- 
 tion given by said Board at any time within two years following the passage of this 
 Act. 
 
 Eligible Without Examination and Reciprocity 
 
 Any person who shall have graduated prior to July i, 1917, and after January i, 
 1890, from a reputable training-school for nurses connected with a general hospital 
 which now gives a course of at least two years' training, and who shall graduate 
 therefrom, shall be entitled to registration under the provisions of this Act upon 
 payment of the fee therefor without examination. And any person who shall have 
 graduated from a training-school approved by the Board, connected with a special 
 hospital requiring a systematic course of at least two years' training, and who at the 
 time of application shall have obtained in a reputable general hospital one year's 
 additional training in subjects not adequately taught in the training-school from 
 which they were graduated, and who shall pass an examination by the Board in those 
 additional subjects not adequately taught in the training-school from which they 
 were graduated, shall be entitled to registration on the payment of the regular fee 
 without examination. 
 
 The Governor may issue a certificate to any person registered under the law 
 of any State having the requirements equivalent to those of Montana, the Board 
 and the Governor to be the sole judges thereof. 
 
 Dissatisfaction of Applicants Settled by State Association 
 
 SEC. ii. Any person who makes application to the Board for examination for 
 registration, having the required qualifications as hereinafter provided for, and who 
 shall not pass said examination, or any person registered in any other State who shall 
 be refused registration by the Board without examination as provided for in this 
 Act, may appeal to the Montana State Association of Graduated Nurses at the 
 first annual meeting thereafter, and shall abide by the majority vote of said associa- 
 tion after a full hearing thereon. 
 
 Examination for All Applicants After 1917 
 
 SEC. 12. On and after July i, 1917, all applicants for certificates of registration 
 under the provision of this Act shall pass the examination required by the Board 
 before receiving a certificate of registration. 
 
 Compulsory Registration 
 
 SEC. 13. It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person to practice nursing as a 
 trained, graduate, or registered nurse without a certificate as herein provided for. 
 
 Fine for Offense 
 
 Any person who shall assume a title indicating that said person is a registered 
 nurse, or who shall hold himself or herself out to be a registered nurse, and who shall 
 not be registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for the first offense not less 
 than then ($10.00) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars and for 
 each subsequent offense not less than two hundred ($200.00) dollars nor more than 
 five hundred ($500.00) dollars.
 
 FULL TEXT OF LAWS IOQ 
 
 Not Applicable to Gratuitous Nursing 
 
 SEC. 14. This Act shall not be construed as conferring any authority to practice 
 medicine, or undertake the treatment of disease, in violation of the Medical Practice 
 Act of the State of Montana, or to affect or apply to the gratuitous nursing of the 
 sick by friends or members of the family, nor to any person nursing the sick for hire 
 who does not in any way assume or pretend to have special training in the profes- 
 sion of nursing, and who also does not pretend to be a registered nurse. 
 
 Revocation of Certificates 
 
 SEC. 15. The Governor may, upon recommendation by the Board, revoke any 
 certificate previously issued to the holder thereof, after a hearing by the full Board 
 on charges made by any licensed physician in the active practice of his profession, 
 or upon charges made by the registered nurse charging dishonesty, gross incompe- 
 tence, a habit rendering a nurse unsafe or unfit to care for the sick, or conduct or 
 act derogatory to the morals or standing of the profession of nursing, or any wilful 
 fraud or misrepresentation practised in securing such certificate. 
 
 The person so charged under this Section shall be given at least thirty days' 
 notice in writing of the specific charge against him or her, and of the time and place 
 of hearing said charge by the Board, at which time and place such person shall be 
 entitled to appear and to be represented by counsel. Upon the revocation of any 
 certificate heretofore issued, the same shall be null and void, and the secretary 
 shall take the name of the holder thereof from the roll of the registered nurses, and 
 shall give notice to each county clerk within the State where said certificate may 
 have been registered of the revocation thereof, and it shall be the duty of such county 
 clerk to note upon such record the fact that such certificate has been revoked and 
 the date of revocation. 
 
 SEC. 1 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage 
 and approval. 
 
 SEC. 17. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 NEBRASKA 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: 
 
 SECTION i. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice professional nursing 
 as a Registered Nurse in this State unless such person shall have first obtained a 
 certificate of registration as provided in this Act. 
 
 SEC. 2. The State Board of Health shall have power, not inconsistent with the 
 provisions of this Act, to make all reasonable rules and regulations necessary to the 
 performance of its duties under the provisions hereof. The said State Board of 
 Health, among other rules, shall prescribe what evidence shall be necessary to 
 establish the good moral character of a person making application for a certificate 
 to become a professional nurse. The said State Board of Health, hi addition to 
 other rules, shall also make provision governing the duties of the secretaries pro- 
 vided for in this Act. It shall also be the duty of the State Board of Health to see 
 that the provisions of this Act are strictly enforced, to issue certificates, as herein- 
 after provided, and to cause to be prosecuted all violations of this Act. Said Board 
 of Health shall, within thirty days after the taking effect of this Act, appoint three 
 secretaries for the purpose of assisting the said State Board of Health hi carrying 
 out and in enforcing provisions of this Act. Said secretaries shall be appointed 
 from nurses engaged in active work, who have been graduated for at least a period 
 of one year from reputable training-schools requiring a course of training of not less 
 than one or more years' duration in actual hospital service. And provided further, 
 that after the first appointment the nurses appointed on each succeeding term shall 
 be appointed from nurses registered under this Act.
 
 110 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 SEC. 3. Each of said secretaries shall serve for a term of three years and until 
 his or her successor is appointed and qualified, except in the case of those first ap- 
 pointed, who shall hold office as follows: One shall be appointed to hold office for one 
 year, one for two years, and one for three years. 
 
 SEC. 4. Said secretaries shall have the power, and it shall be their duty, to 
 assist and advise the State Board of Health in the performance of its duties as 
 prescribed by this Act. To that end they shall organize by the election of one of 
 their number as president, another as secretary, and another as vice-president and 
 treasurer, and shall have their headquarters at the State Capitol, shall have a common 
 seal, and the secretary and the president shall have the power to administer oaths. 
 
 SEC. 5. Each secretary shall receive compensation of five ($5.00) dollars per 
 day for each day of actual service and ten (10) cents per mile for each mile actually 
 traveled in attending the meetings of said secretaries, which compensation, with the 
 necessary expenses of said secretaries, shall in no case exceed the amount which has 
 been collected as fees from applicants for registration. And the secretary shall 
 annually, on or before the second Monday in October, make a report to the Governor 
 of the work of said Board, together with the amount of fees collected. And the 
 amount paid out for salary and expenses of secretary as provided by law and the 
 balance of such fees shall be paid into the State treasury for the benefit of the Gen- 
 eral Fund. 
 
 SEC. 6. Said secretaries shall hold public examinations at least twice hi each 
 year at Lincoln, Nebraska, and at such tunes and places as the State Board of 
 Health deem advisable, and notice of the time and place of such examinations shall 
 be given to three daily papers, at least ten days before such examination, and to two 
 nursing journals, and said secretaries may give such other notice as they deem ad- 
 visable. Any person desiring to obtain a certificate of registration under this Act 
 shall make application to said secretaries therefor and shall pay their said treasurer 
 an examination fee of ten ($10.00) dollars, and shall present himself or herself at 
 the next regular meeting of said secretaries for examination of applicants, and upon 
 said secretaries being satisfied that the applicant is (i) of the age of twenty-one 
 years or over, (2) of good moral character, (3) has received an education equivalent 
 to that required for admission into high-schools of this State, and (4) has graduated 
 from a training-school connected with a general hospital, sanitarium, or sanatorium, 
 where two or three years of training with a systematic course of instruction is given 
 in the hospital, or has graduated from a training-school in connection with a hospital, 
 sanitarium, or sanatorium of good standing, supplying a systematic training of two 
 or more years corresponding to the above standards, providing graduates of train- 
 ing-schools in connection with special hospitals, giving a two years' course, who shall 
 obtain six months or more additional training in an approved general hospital, shall 
 be eligible to examination in the following subjects: Theoretical and practical nurs- 
 ing, physiology and anatomy, materia medica, practical and surgical nursing in 
 mental and nervous diseases, and upon such applicant passing said examination to 
 the satisfaction of said secretaries, they shall enter said applicant's name in the 
 register hereinafter provided for, and shall issue to said person a certificate of regis- 
 tration authorizing said person to practice the profession of nursing as a " registered 
 nurse." 
 
 SEC. 7. All nurses graduating prior to January ist, 1911, possessing the above 
 qualifications, or who have taken a regular course of instruction of six months or 
 more in some regular hospital or nurses' training-school in good standing, and have 
 had at least twelve months of actual practice in nursing in addition thereto, may 
 register without examination prior to September ist, 1910. Nurses that have had 
 two years of actual practice in nursing in this State and are recommended in writing 
 by four reputable physicians and have passed the examination provided for in 
 Section 6-of this Act mayregister by paying the regular fee on or before January ist, 
 1910, provided this section shall not apply to any applicant who fails to satisfy 
 the Board of Secretaries that the applicant is of good moral character.
 
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 SEC. 8. The State Board of Health is empowered to recognize certificates 
 issued to nurses under the laws of other States having substantially similar require- 
 ments to those existing in this State; provided, that such States recognize certificates 
 issued by the State of Nebraska, then certificates issued by authority of such other 
 States may be deemed sufficient evidence of qualifications of the licentiate without 
 further examination for certificate in this State; the fee for such certificate shall be 
 ten ($10.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 9. This Act shall not be construed to apply to the gratuitous nursing of 
 the sick by friends or members of the family, and also it shall not apply to any 
 person nursing the sick for hire, but who does not hi any way assume to be a regis- 
 tered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 10. Said secretaries shall keep a register in which shall be entered names 
 of all persons to whom certificates are issued under this Act, and said register shall 
 be at all times open to public inspection. 
 
 SEC. ii. A person who has received his or her certificate according to the pro- 
 visions of this Act, shall be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse." No other 
 person shall assume such title or use the abbreviation " R. N.," or any other letters or 
 figures to indicate that he or she is a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 12. Said secretaries may revoke any certificate for sufficient cause, but 
 before this is done the holder of said certificate shall have thirty (30) days' notice, 
 and after a full and fair hearing of the charges made, by a majority vote of said 
 secretaries the certificates may be revoked. 
 
 SEC. 13. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act, or who shall 
 wilfully make any false representation to the said secretaries in applying for a 
 certificate, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished 
 by a fine of not more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars nor less than ten ($10.00) 
 dollars, provided that nothing hi this Act contained shall be construed to apply to 
 members of religious societies gratuitously nursing. 
 
 SEC. 14. Whereas an emergency exists this Act shall be in effect and full force 
 on and after its passage. 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE 
 
 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR STATE REGISTRATION OF NURSES 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: 
 
 SECTION i. Any resident of the State of New Hampshire, being over twenty- 
 one years of age and of good moral character, holding a diploma from a training- 
 school for nurses connected with a hospital giving a course of at least two years in 
 the hospital and registered by the Regent of the State Boards of Medical Examiners 
 as maintaining in this and other respects proper standards, all of which shall be 
 determined by the said Regent, and who shall have received from the said Regent 
 a certificate of his or her qualification to practice as a registered nurse, shall be 
 styled and known as a registered nurse, and no other person shall assume such 
 title, or use the abbreviation R. N., or any other words, letters, or figures to in- 
 dicate that the person using the same is such a registered nurse. 
 
 Nothing contained in this Act shall be considered as conferring any authority 
 to practice medicine or undertake the treatment or cure of disease in violation of the 
 medical practice Acts of the State of New Hampshire. 
 
 Any person from other States registered by the said Regent as maintaining 
 standards not lower than those provided by this chapter, who shall show to the 
 satisfaction of the said Regent that he or she is properly and duly registered for the 
 practice of professional nursing in such States, upon the payment of the usual fees 
 for certificate provided by this Act, shall be entitled to a license to practice profes- 
 sional nursing in this State without an examination. 
 
 SEC. 2. Upon the taking effect of this Act, the Graduate Nurses' Association
 
 112 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 of New Hampshire shall nominate for examiners ten of their members who have had 
 not less than five years' experience in their profession, and at each annual meeting 
 of said association thereafter two other candidates. The Regent of the State 
 Boards of Medical Examiners shall appoint a board of five examiners from such list. 
 One member of said Board shall be appointed for one year, one for two years, one 
 for three years, one for four years, and one for five years. Upon the expiration of 
 the term of office of the examiner, the said Regent shall likewise fill the vacancy for 
 a term of five years and until his or her successor is chosen. An unexpired term of 
 an examiner, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by the 
 Regent in the same manner as an original appointment is made. This Board of 
 Examiners shall also act as inspectors of training-schools. 
 
 The said Regent, with the advice of the Board of Examiners above provided for, 
 shall make all necessary rules for the examination of nurses applying for certifica- 
 tion under this Act. Each person so applying for certification, or for examination 
 and certification, shall be charged a fee of five ($5.00) dollars, which shall be used 
 to meet the actual expenses of the Regent and Board of Examiners. From the 
 fees provided by this Act, the Regent shall pay all proper expenses incurred by its 
 provisions, and any surplus at the end of any year shall be retained by said Regent 
 as a special fund for meeting expenses which may be incurred in any subsequent year. 
 The members of the Examining Board shall be paid by the Regent the sum of five 
 ($5.00) dollars for each day actually engaged in the service, and all their legitimate 
 and necessary expenses. Said fees and expenses shall be paid from fees received 
 under the provisions of this Act, and no part of the same shall be paid out of the 
 state treasury. The said Regent shall report annually to the Governor the receipts 
 and expenditures under the provisions of this Act, and shall be held accountable 
 therefor. 
 
 The said Regent may revoke any such certificate granted by him for sufficient 
 cause after notice in writing to the holder thereof and a fair hearing thereon. Such 
 notice shall be given by the Regent to the party complained of at least fourteen (14) 
 days before the day of hearing and shall contain a statement of the grounds upon 
 which the complaint is based. The hearings upon such complaints shall in all cases 
 be conducted in private, except upon the special request of the party complained of. 
 No person shall thereafter practice as a registered nurse under any such revoked 
 certificate. 
 
 SEC. 3. The Regent of the State Boards of Medical Examiners may, upon the 
 recommendation of said Board of Examiners above provided for, waive the exami- 
 nation of any graduate in good standing holding a diploma from a training-school 
 connected with a hospital giving a training of not less than two years, and of such 
 persons now in training at the time of the passage of this Act in a hospital giving a 
 two years' course and shall hereafter be graduated who shall apply in writing for 
 such certificate within three years after the passage of this Act, and shall also 
 grant a certificate to any nurse of good moral character who has been engaged in 
 the actual practice of nursing for not less than three years next prior to the passage 
 of this Act who shall satisfactorily pass an examination in practical nursing within 
 three years hereafter. 
 
 SEC. 4. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect or apply to the gratui- 
 tous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, and also it shall not 
 apply to any person nursing the sick for hire, but who does not in any way assume to 
 be a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 5. Any violation of this Act shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine 
 of not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars. Any person who shall wilfully make any false 
 representation in applying for a license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
 conviction be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars nor 
 more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect upon its passage.
 
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 NEW JERSEY 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the Slate of New Jersey: 
 
 SECTION i . Within thirty (30) days after the approval of this Act the-Governor 
 shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint five (5) persons to 
 be known as the State Board of Examiners of Nurses. Each member of said Board 
 shall be a resident of this State and a graduate of a training-school for nurses con- 
 nected with an incorporated general or private hospital requiring not less than two 
 (2) years' training in the hospital with a systematic course of instruction in medical, 
 surgical, and obstetrical nursing, and children's diseases, and shall have been engaged 
 in nursing for not less than five (5) years after graduation. One member of said 
 Board first appointed shall hold office for one (i) year, two for two (2) years, and 
 two for three (3) years, or until their successors are appointed, and annually there- 
 after from the date of expiration of the term of office of an examiner, the Governor 
 shall fill the vacancy for a term of three (3) years with nurses possessing the above 
 specified qualifications. Said appointees shall, within thirty (30) days after the 
 receipt of their commissions, take, subscribe, and file in the office of the Secretary 
 of State the oath or affirmation prescribed by law. An unexpired term of an 
 examiner caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by the Governor 
 in the same manner as an original appointment is made. 
 
 SEC. 2. The board of examiners shall elect a president and secretary-treasurer 
 from its members; it shall have a common seal; it shall make and adopt all necessary 
 rules not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States, whereby 
 to perform the duties and transact the business required under the provisions of this 
 Act. 
 
 SEC. 3. Said board shall hold meetings for examinations at the capital of this 
 State on the third (3d) Tuesday in June of each year, and at such other times as the 
 board may deem expedient. The first meeting of said board shall take place the first 
 June after the passage of this Act, and at such other tunes as the board may deem 
 expedient. Said board shall keep an official record of all its meetings and an official 
 register of all applications for registration under the provisions of this Act to deter- 
 mine the qualifications of the applicant to practice as a "Registered Nurse," in this 
 State. Said register shall show name, age, nativity, last and permanent place of 
 residence, and photograph of each applicant; the time he or she has spent in obtaining 
 a competent grammar and high-school education as hereinafter provided, and in 
 study in training-schools for nurses connected with hospitals, holding diploma 
 thereof, and names and location of all such schools or examining boards which have 
 granted said applicant any degree or certificate of registration of State examination; 
 said register shall also show whether said applicant was examined, registered, or 
 rejected under this Act, and said register shall be prima facie evidence of all matters 
 therein contained. 
 
 SEC. 4. The members of said board shall receive five ($5.00) dollars per day 
 and their actual necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties, and 
 the secretary-treasurer shall receive an additional salary to be fixed by the board, 
 not to exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars per year. Said expenses and said 
 salary shall be paid out of the receipts of said board as hereinafter provided, and 
 if any surplus remain, the same shall be held by the State Treasurer for expenses 
 of the board. 
 
 SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the board to meet within sixty (60) days after 
 their appointment and once in every year thereafter, and such other times as the 
 board may deem expedient, for the purposes of holding examinations. Notice 
 of such meetings shall be given to the public press and to at least one journal 
 devoted to the interests of the nursing profession and by mail to every applicant 
 and to every training-school in New Jersey, at least thirty (30) days prior to the 
 meetings. At such meetings it shall be the duty of the board to examine all such 
 applicants for registration under this Act as are required to be examined, and to
 
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 issue to each duly qualified applicant, who shall have complied with the pertinent 
 provisions of this Act, the certificate of registration provided for in this Act. Any 
 person to whom a certificate of registration shall be issued shall, within sixty (60) 
 days thereafter and upon the payment of a fee of fifty (50) cents, cause the same to 
 be recorded with the county clerk of the county in which such person resided at 
 the tune of application. Such person shall be prepared whenever requested to ex- 
 hibit such certificate of registration or a certified copy thereof. Any applicant 
 for registration who is at least twenty-one (21) years of age, of good moral char- 
 acter, having a grammar-school certificate and one year of an approved high-school 
 or their equivalent, who shall show to the satisfaction of the board that he or she 
 is a graduate of a training-school for nurses, which gives a course of not less than 
 two (2) years in a public or private general hospital having capacity and beds 
 for daily treatment of twenty-five (25) patients, where medical, surgical, and ob- 
 stetric cases and children are treated, or its equivalent as determined by the board 
 of examiners, shall be eligible for such examination upon the payment of a fee of 
 five ($5.00) dollars, references from one practicing physician or surgeon and one 
 registered nurse, and photograph of applicant to be deposited upon the riling of the 
 application for examination at least fifteen (15) days prior to the date of examina- 
 tion. The application shall be accompanied by an affidavit. Said examination 
 shall include such subjects as elementary anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, ma- 
 teria medica, dietetics, hygiene, medical, surgical, and obstetrical nursing, children's 
 diseases, and contagion. If such applicant shall pass such examination with a gen- 
 eral average of seventy per centum (70%) and at least sixty per centum (60%) in 
 each subject, the board shall issue a certificate of registration to said applicant. 
 Any person who receives such certificate shall be known as a registered nurse, and 
 shall be entitled to append the letters R. N. to the name of such person. Ap- 
 plicants who fail to pass said examination may be re-examined at any subsequent 
 examination without additional fee. 
 
 SEC. 6. Any person who is at least twenty-one (21) years of age, of good moral 
 character, and a resident of the State, applying for registration within two (2) years 
 of the passage of this Act, and who shall by affidavit or otherwise show to the 
 satisfaction of the board that he or she is a graduate of a training-school for nurses 
 which gives a course of not less than two (2) years in a public or private general 
 hospital where medical, surgical, and obstetrical cases and children's diseases are 
 treated, or that he or she was at the time of the passage of this Act a student hi 
 such training-school for nurses, and afterward was graduated therefrom, shall be 
 eligible for registration without examination upon the payment of a fee of five 
 ($5.00) dollars, the application to be accompanied by references and photograph of 
 applicant. 
 
 SEC. 7. The board of examiners, upon written application, together with such 
 references and proof of identification as the board may by rule prescribe, may issue 
 a certificate without examination to any person who shall have been registered as a 
 registered nurse under the law of any other State, the requirements of which for 
 securing such registration were at the time of issuance thereof equivalent to the 
 requirements prescribed by this Act, and which gives the same privilege to registered 
 nurses of this State. 
 
 SEC. 8. All fees collected by said board of examiners shall be paid to the sec- 
 retary-treasurer, and said secretary-treasurer shall pay from the moneys so received, 
 upon the approval of the president, the salary of said secretary-treasurer and neces- 
 sary expenses of the members as provided in Section 4 of this Act, also for books, 
 certificates, stationary, and other necessary expenses of the board, provided that said 
 board shall not create nor incur expenses exceeding the sum received as fees under 
 the provisions of this Act. The secretary-treasurer shall, before taking office, give 
 to the State a bond with surety, conditioned for the faithful performance of the 
 duties of said office in the penal sum of not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, 
 and shall keep an account of all moneys received and expended as aforesaid, and
 
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 shall render a detailed statement thereof to the comptroller or or before June first 
 (ist) in each year. The secretary- treasurer shall also submit to the Governor on or 
 before June first (ist) in each year a general statement of the work of the board, 
 including therein a statement of the number of applicants received, approved, and 
 rejected during the year. 
 
 SEC. 9. This Act shall not apply to persons nursing gratuitously or for hire, 
 provided they do not assume to be registered nurses or to use the abbreviation 
 R. N. 
 
 SEC. 10. The board of examiners may by unanimous vote revoke a certificate 
 for the following reasons: dishonesty, gross incompetency, a habit rendering a 
 nurse unsafe to be entrusted with or unfit for the care of the sick, conduct derogatory 
 to the morals or standing of the profession of nursing, or any wilful fraud or mis- 
 representation practised in procuring such' certificate. In complaints for violating 
 the provisions of this Act the accused shall be furnished with a copy of the complaint 
 thirty (30) days prior to a hearing before the board in person or by an attorney; and 
 any person, after such revocation of certificate, who shall attempt to practice as a 
 registered nurse or use the abbreviation R. N. shall be subject to the penalties 
 hereinafter provided. 
 
 SEC. ii. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty 
 ($50.00) dollars nor more than two hundred ($200.00) dollars for each offense, and 
 it shall be the duty of the respective prosecutors of the pleas of the counties of this 
 State to prosecute violations of the provisions of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 12. All Acts or parts of Acts, general or special, now existing, not in 
 accordance with the provisions of this Act or inconsistent therewith, are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 SEC. 13. This Act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 Public Health Law, ch. 45 of the consolidated laws, New York 
 
 ARTICLE 12 REGISTRATION OF NURSES 
 
 SEC. 250. Who may practice as registered nurses. Any resident of the State of 
 New York, being over the age of 21 years and of good moral character, 
 holding a diploma from a training-school for nurses connected with a hospital or 
 sanitarium giving a course of at least two years, and registered by the Regents of 
 the University of the State of New York as maintaining in this and other respects 
 proper standards, all of which shall be determined by the said Regents, and who 
 shall have received from the said Regents a certificate of his or her qualifications to 
 practice as a registered nurse, shall be styled and known as a registered nurse, and 
 no other person shall assume such title, or use the abbreviation R. N. or any other 
 words, letters, or figures to indicate that the person using the same is such a registered 
 nurse. Before beginning to practice nursing every such registered nurse shall 
 cause such certificate to be recorded in the county clerk's office of the county of 
 his or her residence, with an affidavit of his or her identity as the person to whom 
 the same was so issued and of his or her place of residence within such county. In 
 every 36th month from the month of January, 1906, every registered nurse shall 
 again cause his or her certificate to be recorded in the said county clerk's office, with 
 an affidavit of his or her identity as the person to whom the same was issued and 
 of his or her place of residence at the time of such registration. Nothing contained 
 in this article shall be considered as conferring any authority to practice medicine 
 or to undertake the treatment or cure of disease in violation of Article 8 of this 
 chapter.
 
 Il6 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 SEC. 251. Board of examiners; examination; fees. The board of examiners 
 of nurses appointed pursuant to laws of 1903, chapter 293, is continued. The New 
 York State Nurses' Association at each annual meeting shall nominate for examiners 
 two of their members who have had not less than five years' experience in their 
 profession. Upon the expiration of the term of office of any examiner now in office 
 the Regents of the University of the State of New York shall from the candidates 
 so nominated fill the vacancy for a term of five years and until his or her successor is 
 chosen. An unexpired term of an examiner, caused by death, resignation, or other- 
 wise, shall be filled by the Regents in the same manner as an original appointment 
 is made. The said Regents, with the advice of the board of examiners above 
 provided for, shall make rules for the examination of nurses applying for certifica- 
 tion under this article, and shall charge for examination and for certification a fee 
 of $5.00 to meet the actual expenses, and shall report annually their 
 receipts and expenditures under the provisions of this article to the State Comp- 
 troller, and pay the balance of receipts over expenditures to the State Treasurer. 
 The said Regents may revoke any such certificate for sufficient cause after written 
 notice to the holder thereof and hearing thereon. No person shall thereafter prac- 
 tice as a registered nurse under any such revoked certificate. 
 
 SEC. 252. Waiver of examinations. The Regents of the University of the State 
 of New York may, upon the recommendation of said board of examiners, waive the 
 examination of any persons possessing the qualifications mentioned in Section 250, 
 who shall have been graduated before, or who were in training on the 24th day of 
 April, 1903, and shall thereafter be graduated. 
 
 SEC. 253. Violations of this Article. Any violation of this article shall be a 
 misdemeanor. When any prosecution under this article is made on the complaint 
 of the New York State Nurses' Association, the certificate of incorporation of which 
 was filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State on the second day of 
 April, 1902, the fines collected shall be paid to said association, and any excess in 
 the amount of fines so paid over the expenses incurred by said association in enforc- 
 ing the provisions of this article shall be paid at the end of each year to the Treasurer 
 of the State of New York. 
 
 NORTH CAROLINA 
 
 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: 
 
 SECTION i. That any nurse who may present to the clerk of the Superior Court 
 of any county in the State on or before December 31, 1903, a diploma from a repu- 
 table training-school for nurses, conducted in connection with a general hospital, 
 public or private, in which medical, surgical, and obstetrical cases are treated, or in 
 connection with one of the three State Hospitals for the insane, or who shall exhibit 
 a certificate of attendance upon such training-school for a period of not less than two 
 years, or who shall present a certificate, signed by three registered physicians, stat- 
 ing that he or she has pursued as a business the vocation of a trained nurse for not 
 less than two years, and is, in their judgment, competent to practice the same, shall 
 be entitled to registration without examination, and shall be registered by the clerk 
 of the court in the manner hereinafter provided. 
 
 SEC. 2. That on and after January i, 1904, registration as a trained nurse shall 
 be made by the clerk of the court solely upon the presentation to him a license from 
 the State Board of Examiners of Nurses as created and provided by this Act. 
 
 SEC. 3. That there shall be established a Board of Examiners of Nurses com- 
 posed of five members, two physicians and three registered nurses, to be elected 
 by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and the North Carolina State 
 Nurses' Association, respectively, to be known by the title of "The Board of Ex- 
 aminers of Trained Nurses of North Carolina." Their terms of office shall be three 
 years. Three members, one of whom shall be a physician, shall constitute a quorum, 
 and a majority of those present shall have a deciding vote. They shall each receive
 
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 as compensation for his or her services when engaged in the work of the Board 
 four dollars a day and actual traveling and hotel expenses, the same to be 
 paid out of money received for license issued, and in no case to be charged upon the 
 treasury of the State. 
 
 SEC. 4. That the said Board of Examiners is authorized to elect such officers 
 and frame such by-laws as may be necessary, and upon the occurrence of a vacancy 
 is empowered to fill such vacancy for the unexpired term. 
 
 SEC. 5. That after January i, 1904, it shall be the duty of said Board of Ex- 
 aminers to meet not less frequently than once in every year, notice of which meeting 
 shall be given in the public press. At such meetings, it shall be their duty to examine 
 all applicants for license as registered nurse, of good moral character, who can prove 
 to the Board that he or she is more than twenty-one years of age, has received the 
 equivalent of a high-school education, and has graduated from a training-school 
 connected with a general hospital or sanitarium, where three years of training, with 
 a systematic course of instruction, is given in the hospital. 
 
 Examinations will be held in the elements of anatomy, physiology, materia 
 medica, in medical, surgical, obstetrical, and practical nursing, invalid cookery, and 
 household hygiene, and, if on such examination they be found competent, to grant 
 each applicant a license, authorizing him or her to register as hereinafter provided, 
 and to use the title "Registered Nurse," signified by the letters "R. N." 
 
 The said Board of Examiners may, in its discretion, issue license without ex- 
 amination to such applicants as shall furnish evidence of competency entirely 
 satisfactory to them. Each applicant, before receiving license, shall pay a fee of 
 five dollars, which shall be used for defraying the expenses of the Board. 
 
 SEC. 6. That the Clerk of the Superior Court of any county, upon presenta- 
 tion to him of a license from the said Board of Examiners, shall register the date of 
 registration with the same and residence of the holder thereof in a book to be kept 
 in his own office for this purpose and marked "Register of Trained Nurses," and 
 shall issue to the applicant a certificate of such registration under the seal of the 
 Superior Court of the county, upon the form furnished him as hereinafter provided, 
 for which registration he shall be paid fifty cents by the applicant. 
 
 SEC. 7. That it shall be the duty of the North Carolina State Nurses' Associa- 
 tion to prescribe a proper form of the certificate required by this Act, and to fur- 
 nish the same in sufficient quantity, suitably bound in a book and labeled " Register 
 of Trained Nurses," to the clerk of the court of each county in the State. 
 
 SEC. 8. The said Board of Examiners shall have power after twenty days' 
 notice of the charges preferred and the time and place of meeting, and after a full 
 and fair hearing on the same, by a majority vote of the whole Board, to revoke 
 any license issued by them for gross incompetency, dishonesty, habitual intemper- 
 ance, or any other act hi the judgment of the Board derogatory to the morals or 
 standing of the profession of nursing. Upon the revocation of a license or certifi- 
 cate the name of the holder thereof shall be stricken from the roll of registered nurses 
 in the hands of the Secretary of the Board, and upon notification of such action by 
 said Secretary by the Clerk of the Court from his register. 
 
 SEC. 9. That any person procuring license under this Act by false representa- 
 tion, or who shall refuse to surrender a license which has been revoked in the manner 
 prescribed in Section 8, or who shall use the title "Registered Nurse" or "R. N." 
 without first having obtained license to do so, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 upon conviction shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not 
 exceeding thirty days. 
 
 SEC. 10. That nothing in this Act shall hi any manner whatever curtail or 
 abridge the right and privilege of any person to pursue the vocation of a nurse, 
 whether trained or untrained, registered or not registered. 
 
 SEC. ii. That this Act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
 
 Il8 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 OKLAHOMA 
 
 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: 
 
 SECTION i. That upon the taking effect of this Act, the Oklahoma State 
 Association of Graduate Nurses shall nominate for examiners twelve (12) of its 
 members who have had not less than five years' experience in their profession and 
 who shall be residents of the State of Oklahoma. These nominations shall be sub- 
 mitted to the Governor of the State, who shall from said number appoint within 
 sixty days a Board of Examiners to be composed of five (5) members; one of these 
 shaU be designated to hold office for one year, two for two years, and two for 
 three years, and hereafter, upon the expiration of the term of office of the person or 
 persons so appointed, the Governor shall appoint a successor to each person or 
 persons to hold office for three years from a list of nominations submitted to him by 
 the Oklahoma State Association of Graduate Nurses annually. All vacancies 
 occurring on the Board shall be filled by the Governor in the same manner from a 
 list of five to be furnished upon his request for additional names. 
 
 SEC. 2. That the members of the State Board of Examiners shall, as soon as 
 organized, and annually thereafter, in the month of June, elect from their members 
 a President and a Secretary, who shall be the Treasurer. Three members of this 
 Board shall constitute a quorum, and special meetings of the Board shall be called 
 by the Secretary upon written request of any two members. The said Board of 
 Examiners is authorized to frame such by-laws as may be necessary to govern pro- 
 ceedings. The Secretary shall be required to keep a record of all meetings of the 
 Board, including a register of the names of all nurses duly registered under this Act, 
 and may incur necessary expense in this behalf. The Secretary shall receive a salary, 
 to be fixed by the Board, not to exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars per annum, also 
 traveling and other expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of her official 
 duties. The other members of the Board shall receive four ($4.00) dollars for each 
 day actually engaged in this service, and all legitimate and necessary expenses. 
 Said expenses and salaries shall be paid from fees received by the Board under the 
 provisions of this Act, and no part of salaries or other expenses of the Board shall 
 be paid out of the State Treasury. All money received in excess of the said allow- 
 ance and other expenses provided for shall be held by the Treasurer for meeting the 
 expenses of the said Board and the annual report of the Board. 
 
 SEC. 3. That after January i, 1912, it shall be the duty of the said Board of 
 Examiners to meet at some convenient point within the State not less frequently 
 than once a year, notice of which meeting shall be given to the public press and in 
 one nursing journal one month previous to the meeting. At this meeting it shall 
 be their duty to examine all applicants for registration under this Act, surgical, 
 medical, obstetrical nursing (genito-urinary for male nurses instead of obstetrics), 
 anatomy, physiology, materia medica, hygiene, and dietetics, to determine their 
 fitness and ability to give efficient care to the sick. Upon filing application for 
 examination and registration each applicant shall deposit a fee of five ($5.00) 
 dollars. 
 
 SEC. 4. The applicant shall furnish satisfactory evidence that he or she is 
 twenty-one years of age, is of good moral character, has received not less than one 
 year of high-school training, or its equivalent, has graduated from a training-school 
 connected with a general hospital where two years of continuous residence training 
 with a systematic course of instruction is given, and shall have passed a successful 
 examination before this Board. 
 
 SEC. 5. That training-schools shall be required to give such systematic training 
 as will meet the requirements of the State Board of Examiners. 
 
 SEC. 6. Any registered nurse from any other State, where the laws with refer- 
 ence to professional nursing are up to the standard of the laws of the State of 
 Oklahoma, who shall show to the satisfaction of the Board that he or she is a trained 
 graduate nurse of a hospital or sanitarium, the standard of instruction and training
 
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 of which shall meet the requirements of the rules prescribed by the State Board, and 
 who shall be otherwise properly qualified, may receive a certificate and be registered 
 as a nurse of this State, without examination, upon the payment of a registration 
 fee of ten ($10.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person to practice nursing as a 
 trained, graduate, or registered nurse without a certificate from the State Board of 
 Nurse Examiners. A nurse who has received his or her certificate according to the 
 provisions of this Act shall be styled and known as a registered nurse. No other 
 person shall assume such title, nor use the abbreviation "R. N." or any other letters 
 or characters, to indicate that he or she is a trained, graduate, or registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 8. That this Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous 
 nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family; and also it shall not apply to 
 any person nursing the sick for hire, but who does not in any way assume to be a 
 graduate or registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 9. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act, or who shall 
 wilfully make any false representations to the Board of Examiners in applying for 
 certificate shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 SEC. 10. That the State Board of Examiners of Graduate Nurses may revoke 
 any certificate for sufficient cause; but before this is done the holder of said certif- 
 icate shall have thirty days' notice, and after a full and fair hearing of the charge 
 by a majority vote of the whole Board can the certificate be revoked. 
 
 OREGON 
 
 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon: 
 
 SECTION i. The Governor of the State of Oregon shall appoint, within sixty 
 (60) days after the passage of this Act a State Board of Examination and Registra- 
 tion of Graduate Nurses, composed of three (3) nurses, whose duty it shall be to 
 enforce the provisions of this Act. This Board shall be composed of three (3) 
 members who shall be selected from a list of five (5) names suggested by the Oregon 
 State Association of Graduate Nurses. At the time of appointment, the members 
 of said Board must be actual residents of the State and engaged in nursing work or 
 work pertaining to nursing. They shall have been graduated for a period of at least 
 fi ye (s) years from a reputable training-school for nurses, and, with the exception 
 of those appointed as the first members of the Board, shall have been registered 
 under the provisions of this Act. The members of this Board shall be appointed 
 to hold office as follows: One for one year, one for two years, one for three years, 
 each member holding office from time of appointment until a successor is chosen by 
 the Governor. All appointments shall be made so that the term of office shall ex- 
 pire on the first day of April, one, two, or three years from 191 1 as the term of 
 appointment shall be, and, upon the expiration of the term of office, the Governor 
 shall likewise fill the vacancy for a term of three (3) years from the date of expira- 
 tion of term of office from the list of five (5) names submitted to him each year by 
 the Oregon State Association of Graduate Nurses. An unexpired term of an ex- 
 aminer, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled in the same manner 
 as an original appointment is made. 
 
 SEC. 2. The members of the Board shall meet in the City of Portland as soon 
 as organized, and shall elect from their number a president, who shall act as Inspec- 
 tor of Training Schools for Nurses, and secretary, who shall also act as treasurer. 
 Two (2) members shall constitute a quorum, and special meetings of the Board shall 
 be called by the secretary upon the written request of any two members. The 
 Board shall adopt a seal, which shall be placed in the care of the secretary. The 
 secretary shall be required to keep a recoM of all meetings of the Board, including a 
 register of the names of all the nurses and training-schools for nurses registered under 
 this Act. Said register shall, at all reasonable times, be open to public scrutiny,
 
 120 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 and the Board shall cause the prosecution of all persons violating any of the pro- 
 visions of this Act, and may incur necessary expense on this behalf. The inspector 
 shall inspect all training-schools for nurses existing in the State of Oregon, and shall 
 register such schools as fulfil the requirements of this Act. The Board shall pro- 
 vide a schedule of the subjects upon which applicants shall be examined to qualify 
 for the requirements of this Act. The salary of the secretary shall be fixed by the 
 Board, and shall not be less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars nor more than five 
 hundred ($500.00) dollars per annum. The other members of the Board shall receive 
 four ($4.00) dollars per day for each day actually engaged in attendance upon meet- 
 ings of the Board, and in going to and coming from their place of meeting, and 
 inspection of training-school for nurses, and all legitimate and necessary expenses 
 incurred in attending such meetings. All the expenses of the Board, including such 
 salary and compensation, shall be paid from the fees received by the Board. A 
 report of all receipts and expenditures shall be made to the Governor by December 
 iSth of each year, but all moneys and receipts shall be kept in a special fund by and 
 for the use of said Board exclusively. 
 
 SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Board to meet for the purpose of holding 
 examinations not less frequently than once every year, and at such times and places 
 as they may determine. The Board shall, from time to time, adopt rule's for the 
 examination of applicants for registration in accordance with the provisions of this 
 Act. Said examination shall include the subjects of elementary anatomy, physiol- 
 ogy, medicine, obstetrics, gynecology, surgery, and of nursing, dietetics, and home 
 sanitation. Notice of the meetings of the Board shall be given to the public press 
 and to at least one journal devoted to the interest of professional nursing, and by 
 mail to every applicant and to every reputable training-school in Oregon at least 
 thirty (30) days prior to the meeting. At such meetings it shall be the duty of the 
 Board to examine all such applicants for registration under this Act, as are required 
 to be examined, and to issue to each duly qualified applicant, who shall have com- 
 plied with the pertinent provisions of this Act, the certificate provided for hi this Act. 
 Any person to whom a certificate of registration shall be issued shall, within thirty 
 (30) days thereafter, cause the same to be recorded with the county clerk of the 
 county in which such person resided at the time of application. Such persons shall 
 be prepared whenever requested to exhibit such certificate of registration, or a 
 certified copy thereof, to the county clerk within thirty (30) days of the time of 
 establishing new residence. All applicants for registration shall furnish satisfactory 
 evidence that he or she is twenty-one (21) years of age, of good moral character, 
 and has been graduated from a training-school for nurses, connected with a gen- 
 eral hospital approved by the Board, where a systematic course of at least two (2) 
 years' instruction is given. 
 
 SEC. 4. On compliance with the pertinent provisions of this Act, nurses other- 
 wise qualified shall be entitled, upon the payment of ten ($10.00) dollars, to regis- 
 tration as follows: 
 
 1. Without examination, provided they make application prior to July i, 1913. 
 
 (a) Nurses who have been graduated before said date and after January i, 1890, 
 from a reputable training-school connected with a general hospital, who at the time 
 of the graduation shall have received a course of at least two (2) years in such train- 
 ing-school; 
 
 (b) Nurses now hi training in a reputable training-school connected with a 
 general hospital, which now gives a course of at least two (2) years' training and 
 who shall graduate therefrom. 
 
 2. Nurses who shall make application on or before July i, 1913, and who, at 
 the time of application, shall have graduated from a reputable training-school 
 connected with a general hospital requiring a systematic course of at least two (2) 
 or more years' training. 
 
 3. Nurses who shall make application on or before January i, 1914, and who, at 
 the time of application, shall have been graduated from a reputable training-school
 
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 connected with a special hospital requiring a systematic course of at least two (2) 
 years' training, and who at the time of application shall have obtained, in a repu- 
 table general hospital, one year's additional training in subjects not adequately 
 taught in the training-school from which they were graduated, and shall pass an 
 examination to determine their fitness and ability to give efficient care to the sick. 
 
 4. On and after July i, 1913, all applicants for certificates of registration under 
 the provisions of this Act shall pass the examination as required by the Board be- 
 fore receiving the certificate of registration, providing the applicants fulfil all other 
 requirements specified herein. 
 
 SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person to practice, or attempt 
 to practice, in this State, as a registered nurse, without a certificate from the Board. 
 Any person who has received such a certificate shall be styled and known as a 
 registered nurse, and shall be entitled to append the letters "R. N." to the name 
 of such person. No other person shall assume to use such title, or the abbreviation 
 "R. N.," or any other words, letters, or figures to indicate that such person is a 
 registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 6. This Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous 
 nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, nor to any person nursing 
 the sick for hire, who does not in any way assume or pretend to be a registered 
 nurse, and this Act shall not be construed to interfere in any way with members of 
 religious communities or orders which have charge of hospitals, or take care of the 
 sick hi their own homes, provided such members do not in any way assume to be 
 registered nurses. 
 
 SEC. 7. The Board, upon written application, and upon the receipt of ten 
 ($10.00) dollars as registration fee, may issue a certificate without examination to 
 those who shall have been registered as registered nurses, under the law of another 
 State having the requirements equivalent to those of Oregon; provided, that the 
 Board shall be sole judge of credentials of any nurse admitted to registration with- 
 out examination. 
 
 SEC. 8. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be fined for the offense not less than 
 ten ($10.00) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars for the first offense, 
 and not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500.00) 
 dollars for each subsequent offense. Any person who shall wilfully make any false 
 representation to the Board in applying for a license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and, upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred ($100.00) 
 dollars nor more than two hundred ($200.00) dollars. All certificates issued by 
 the Board shall be signed by all the members thereof, and shall be attested by the 
 president and secretary. 
 
 SEC. 9. The Board may revoke any certificate by unanimous vote for dishon- 
 esty, gross incompetence, a habit rendering a nurse unsafe to be entrusted with or 
 unfit for the care of the sick, conduct derogatory to the morals or standing of the 
 profession of nursing, any wilful fraud or misrepresentation practised in procuring 
 such certificates, provided the holder of such certificate shall have been given at 
 least thirty (30) days' notice in writing of the specific charge against such holder, 
 and of the time and place of hearing the charge by the Board, at which time and 
 place the holder shall be entitled to be heard and to be represented by counsel. 
 Upon the revocation of any certificate the same shall be null and void. The holder 
 thereof shall cease to be entitled to any of the privileges conferred by such certifi- 
 cate, and it shall be the duty of the secretary of the Board to strike the name of 
 the holder thereof from the roll of registered nurses, to secure and cancel the cer- 
 tificate, and to give notice of such revocation to the county clerk in whose office 
 such certificate is recorded, and thereupon such county clerk shall note the fact 
 of such revocation upon the record of such certificate.
 
 122 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 PENNSYLVANIA 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for Stale registration of nurses, to establish a State Board of Examiners in 
 connection therewith, and to provide penalties for the violation of certain provisions 
 regarding such registration in the State of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Whereas, The safety of the public is endangered by insufficiently trained and 
 incompetent nurses, in the absence of a law for the registration of those possessing 
 the proper qualifications; now, therefore, 
 
 SECTION i. Be it enacted, etc., That within sixty days after the passage of this 
 act, the Governor shall appoint a State Board of Examiners for Registration of 
 Nurses, composed of five members: three of said members shall be physicians, two 
 of whom shall be connected in an official capacity with public hospitals where nurses' 
 training-schools are maintained, and all of whom shall have practised their profession 
 in the State of Pennsylvania for at least five years immediately preceding the time 
 of their appointment; and the remaining two members shall be nurses, graduated 
 from training-schools connected with hospitals where practical and theoretic 
 instruction is given in general surgical and medical nursing, and who shall have been 
 engaged in nursing for at least five years since graduation. 
 
 SEC. 2. The Governor shall appoint the original members of said board, one 
 for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for 
 five years; and upon the expiration of the term of office of any member, the Gover- 
 nor shall likewise appoint persons, with the above specified qualifications, to fill the 
 vacancy for a term of five years and until a successor is chosen. The unexpired 
 term of any member, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by 
 the Governor in the same manner as an original appointment. The Governor may 
 remove any member for neglect of duty, incompetence, or dishonorable or unpro- 
 fessional conduct. 
 
 SEC. 3. The said board as soon as appointed, and annually thereafter, on a 
 date to be fixed by the by-laws, shall meet for organization, and shall also hold other 
 meetings by call of the secretary, upon written request of two members, or under 
 such circumstances as may be prescribed by the by-laws. Three members shall 
 always constitute a quorum. At such organization meeting the board shall 
 elect from its members a president and a secretary; the secretary shall act as 
 treasurer. 
 
 The said officers shall be elected for a term of one year and until their successors 
 are duly chosen, and all vacancies arising in said offices shall be filled by the board, 
 in like manner, for the unexpired term. The board shall adopt a seal, and shall 
 establish by-laws and regulations for its own government and for the execution of 
 the provisions of this act. The secretary shall keep a record of all proceedings of 
 the board, and also a register of all nurses registered under this act. which register 
 shall at all reasonable times be open for public inspection. 
 
 SEC. 4. The secretary, immediately upon the registration of every nurse, shall 
 file in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, under the seal of the said 
 Board of Examiners, an exact counterpart of the certificate issued to the holder 
 thereof, and said counterparts shall be filed and indexed in the office of the Secretary 
 of the Commonwealth, and kept by him for public inspection and information. 
 If the secretary of the board neglect to file said counterpart, as aforesaid, for more 
 than twenty days from the date of issue of the corresponding certificate, unless pre- 
 vented therefrom by sickness or other unavoidable inability, the said secretary shall 
 be held guilty of a breach of duty, and shall forfeit his or her membership and his 
 or her offices in the said Board of Examiners. 
 
 SEC. 5. The secretary of the board shall receive a salary not to exceed one
 
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 hundred dollars ($100.00) a year. All members of the board shall receive five dollars 
 ($5.00) a day for each day actually engaged in the transaction of official business, 
 together with all actual expenses incurred, as aforesaid. All expenditures of the 
 said board shall be paid from the fees received thereby under the provisions of this 
 act, and said expenditures shall hi no case be paid from the State Treasury. The 
 treasurer of the Board shall give bond, in such sum as may be fixed by the by-laws, 
 which bond shall be subject to the approval of the State Treasurer. The said 
 treasurer shall pay the necessary and current expenses of the board, and may retain 
 in the treasury a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1000.00) to defray the 
 ordinary expenditures; but all moneys exceeding the said sum of one thousand 
 dollars ($1000.00) shall be paid by the treasurer of the board to the State Treasury. 
 The said board shall have no power to fix prices, or in any way control the compen- 
 sation received by the registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 6. As soon as appointed, in the year 1909, and subsequently at least once 
 every year, at a time and place to be prescribed by said by-laws, the said board shall 
 meet for the purpose of examining applicants for registration under the provisions 
 of this act. Notice of such meetings shall be given in the public press and in one 
 or more nursing journals, at least one month prior to each meeting, hi a manner to 
 be prescribed by said by-laws. At said meetings the board shall examine all ap- 
 plicants for registration, to determine their qualifications for the efficient nursing 
 of the sick; said examination to be conducted in accordance with provisions of this 
 act and with the by-laws and regulations of the board. Any applicant who shall 
 pass said examination to the satisfaction of the board shall receive therefrom a cer- 
 tificate of registration, signed by the president and secretary of the board, or by at 
 least three members thereof. 
 
 SEC. 7. No application for registration shall be considered unless accompanied 
 by a fee of five dollars ($5.00). Every applicant to be eligible for examination must 
 furnish evidence, satisfactory to the board, that he or she is twenty-one years of 
 age or over, is of good moral character, and has graduated from a training-school for 
 nurses which gives at least a two years' course of instruction, or has received in- 
 struction in different training-schools or hospitals for periods of tune amounting to 
 at least a two years' course, as aforesaid, and then graduated, and that such appli- 
 cant, during said period of at least two years, has received practical and theoretic 
 training in surgical and medical nursing. 
 
 SEC. 8. Any person, with the above qualifications regarding age and character, 
 applying for registration before June i, 1912, who shall show to the satisfaction of 
 the Board that he or she has graduated from a reputable hospital or sanitarium or 
 training-school, where a systematic course of practical instruction in nursing has 
 been given, or that he or she was, at the passage of this Act, a student in such an 
 institution, and afterward graduated therefrom, shall be entitled to registration 
 without examination upon payment of the fee of five dollars ($5.00). 
 
 SEC. 9. Every nurse who shall receive a certificate of registration, under the pro- 
 visions of this act, shall be entitled to be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse," 
 and it shall be unlawful for any other person to use said title, or any equivalent 
 thereof. But this act shall not be construed so as to affect hi any way the right 
 of any person to nurse gratuitously or for hire, the purpose of this legislation being 
 to secure the registration to those nurses only who are properly qualified therefor. 
 Nor shall anything herein contained be considered as conferring any authority to 
 practice medicine, or to undertake the treatment and cure of disease in violation 
 of the laws of the Commonwealth. 
 
 SEC. 10. After one year from the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for 
 any person, without said certificate of registration, to profess to be a registered 
 nurse, or assume said title, or to use the abbreviation R. N., or any other letters 
 or figures indicative of his or her being a registered nurse. Every person who shall 
 violate any of the provisions of this section, or who shall wilfully make false repre- 
 sentations to the said Board in applying for registration as aforesaid, shall be guilty
 
 124 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of 
 not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) for 
 each offense, and shall be disqualified for applying for registration for the period of 
 five years from the commission of the offense. The said board may institute and 
 assist in any prosecutions under the provisions of this Act, and may use the funds 
 in the treasury of the board in connection with such proceedings. 
 
 SEC. n. The said board may revoke any certificate of registration for suffi- 
 cient cause, in accordance with the by-laws and regulations of the board, and the 
 secretary shall cause the name of the holder of such certificate to be stricken from 
 the roll of registered nurses in his or her own possession and in that of the Secretary 
 of the Commonwealth. But such revocation shall only be by unanimous vote of the 
 members of the board, after a full and fair hearing before the board, upon the 
 question of revocation, and after thirty days' notice of the time and place of said 
 hearing, and a copy of the charges preferred have been given to the holder of the 
 certificate. 
 
 STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS 
 
 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR STATE REGISTRATION OF NTJRSES 
 
 // is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: 
 
 SECTION i. There shall be a board of examiners of trained nurses, consisting 
 of five members, three of whom shall be graduate nurses and two physicians. 
 One of the physicians shall be connected with some approved hospital in this State 
 maintaining a training-school for nurses. At the January session of the General 
 Assembly, A. D. 1912, the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall 
 appoint said five members of said board to hold office, as designated by him, until 
 the first day of February in the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth years after their 
 respective appointments. At the January session of the General Assembly, A. D. 
 1913, and at each January session thereafter, the governor shall so appoint one 
 member of said board to hold office until the first day of February in the fifth year 
 after the appointment. Any vacancy which may occur or exist in said board while 
 the senate is in session shall be so filled by the governor for the remainder of the 
 term, and any vacancy which may occur in said board while the senate is not in 
 session shall be filled by the governor until the next session thereof, when he shall 
 so appoint some person to fill such vacancy for the remainder of the term. 
 
 SEC. 2. The members of said board shall, within thirty days after their appoint- 
 ment in 1912 and annually in the month of February thereafter, elect from their 
 number a president and a secretary, who shall also be the treasurer of the board. 
 The president shall certify all bills audited by the board. The secretary shall 
 keep a record of all proceedings of the board, a register, in form to be prescribed 
 by the board, of all nurses registered under this act, which shall be opened at all 
 reasonable times to public inspection; issue certificates of registration to all nurses 
 duly registered and have the custody of the seal of the board. The secretary shall 
 receive a salary to be fixed by the board, which shall not exceed one hundred 
 dollars per annum. The treasurer shall receive all moneys payable to the Board 
 and shall pay over the same to the general treasurer at least once in three 
 months. 
 
 SEC. 3. Said board may adopt by-laws not inconsistent with this act to govern 
 its proceedings, and rules and regulations for the examination of applicants for 
 registration, and shall cause the same to be printed for distribution to similar 
 boards, state association of nurses, and to such applicants. It shall meet at least 
 twice in each year to examine such applicants, and shall give notice of such meetings 
 by publication in at least two newspapers and in at least one journal devoted to in- 
 terest of professional nursing. Special meetings shall be called at any time by the
 
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 secretary upon the request of two members of the board. Three members thereof 
 shall constitute a quorum at all meetings. Said board shall cause the prosecution 
 of all persons violating any of the provisions of this act, and may incur necessary 
 expenses in so doing. It may adopt a design for a pin or badge, having thereon the 
 letters R. N., to be worn by registered nurses, and it shall be unlawful for any 
 other person to wear such pin or badge or a colorable imitation thereof. Said 
 Board shall have an office in the state house; shall adopt a seal, of which its secre- 
 tary shall be the custodian, and which shall be impressed upon all certificates issued 
 to registered nurses, and shall adopt a form of certificate of registration to be 
 issued to nurses. It shall determine what hospitals and what training-schools for 
 nurses furnish a course of instruction sufficient to qualify their pupils for registra- 
 tion under this act without examination, and shall approve such as in its opinion 
 furnish such instruction. The members of said board, excepting the secretary, 
 shall each receive the sum of two dollars for every day employed in the work 
 of the board, and all members shall be paid their necessary traveling and other 
 expenses while so employed. The state auditor shall draw his orders upon the gen- 
 eral treasurer for the payment of all bills authorized to be incurred by said Board 
 out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the receipt 
 of proper vouchers therefor duly certified by its president. 
 
 SEC. 4. Persons desiring to become registered nurses shall make application in 
 writing to said board for examination and registration, stating their qualifications 
 and the training-school which they attended and the length of their course of tram- 
 ing. Said board shall examine all of such applicants as are required by this act 
 to pass an examination, in the elements of anatomy and physiology, materia medica, 
 in medical, surgical, obstetrical, and practical nursing, invalid cookery, and house- 
 hold hygiene, and shall require of those not obliged to pass such examinations evi- 
 dence satisfactory to it of their possession of the qualifications specified herein. 
 If the result of such examination, or evidence produced, is satisfactory to a majority 
 of said board, the applicant, upon order of said board and payment of a fee of five 
 dollars, shall be registered as herein provided, and shall receive a certificate of 
 such registration signed by the president and secretary, and shall be entitled to 
 practice professional nursing in this state. 
 
 SEC. 5. Applicants for examination and registration must be residents of this 
 state, or practising their profession in this state, or graduates of approved training- 
 schools in this state or registered in another state which has substantially like 
 requirements for registration as this state, of good moral character, at least twenty- 
 one years of age, and must have received such preliminary education as may be 
 determined by said board. Of such applicants, the following shall be entitled to 
 registration without examination upon application made before January first, 
 1913: 
 
 1. All graduates of approved training-schools connected with any general, 
 private, or special hospital in which at least two years of training is required. 
 
 2. All graduates of approved training-schools connected with any general, pri- 
 vate, or special hospital in which previous to 1904 at least fifteen months of training 
 was required. 
 
 After January first an examination shall be required of every person desiring to 
 practice as a registered nurse, and applicants for examination and registration shall 
 be either: 
 
 1. Graduates of approved training-schools, connected with general hospitals in 
 which at least three years of training in systematic courses of instruction is required, 
 or, 
 
 2. Graduates of approved training-schools, connected with private or special 
 hospitals in which at least two years of such training and instruction is required 
 and who have received one year of additional training in one or more other hospitals, 
 or an equivalent of nine months of training in an approved general hospital and three 
 months in an approved special hospital.
 
 126 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 SEC. 6. "Approved," as used in this act, shall mean approved by said 
 board. 
 
 SEC. 7. Any person who is the holder of a certificate in accordance with the 
 provisions of this act shall be known as a registered nurse, and it shall be unlawful 
 after January i, 1913, for any person not holding such a certificate to practice 
 professional nursing of the sick for compensation as a registered nurse, or to adver- 
 tise as, or assume the title of, registered nurse, or to use the letters as R. N., 
 or any words or letters to indicate or cause the public to believe that the person 
 using the same is a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 8. Said board may revoke the certificate and annul the registration of any 
 nurse for gross incompetency, dishonesty, habitual intemperance, or any habit or 
 act derogatory to the morals or standing of the profession of nursing. Before taking 
 such action it shall give at least thirty days' notice to the holder of such certificate 
 of the charges against such nurse and of the time and place at which it will consider 
 and act upon the same, at which said nurse shall be entitled to be present and to be 
 heard. Upon the revocation of any certificate the holder thereof shall surrender 
 the same to the board, and the secretary shall strike the name of the holder from 
 the register of nurses. 
 
 SEC. 9. This act shall not be construed to affect or apply to or to prevent the 
 gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, or to any per- 
 sons nursing the sick for hire, who does not in any way advertise, assume, or claim 
 to be a registered nurse, or to registered or graduated nurses, residents of other 
 states, who visit this state as companions or nurses for residents of other states 
 temporarily sojourning here, or who are called to attend cases in this state by resi- 
 dent registered physicians. 
 
 SEC. 10. Any person who shall wilfully make any false representation to said 
 board in applying for registration, or during examination by said board, shall upon 
 conviction thereof be fined not less than one hundred dollars or more than five 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 SEC. 1 1 . Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall upon con- 
 viction thereof be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 SEC. 12. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, 
 and this act shall take effect upon its passage. 
 
 SOUTH CAROLINA 
 
 SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: 
 That the State Board of Medical Examiners of this State at their regular annual 
 meetings hereafter, and at such special meetings as the said Board may deem proper 
 and necessary for such purpose, shall, in addition to their present duties, examine 
 all applicants for registration under the provisions of this Act, for the purpose of 
 determining their qualifications and fitness to give efficient care to the sick, and shall 
 award a certificate, duly attested by the secretary of said Board and signed by the 
 chairman thereof, to all applicants who pass in a satisfactory manner the examina- 
 tion required by the said Board and who are registered as herein required. That 
 each applicant for examination under this Act shall forward with his or her appli- 
 cation a fee of Two ($2.00) Dollars, which shall be deposited with the treasurer of 
 said Board and used as now prescribed by law. 
 
 SEC. 2. That on and after January i, 1911, it shall be unlawful for any person 
 to practice or pursue the calling of a professional nurse in this State for compensation, 
 unless such person shall have furnished to the said State Board of Medical Exam- 
 iners satisfactory evidence, of such nature and in such form and manner as said 
 Board shall require, that he or she is twenty-one years of age, of good moral charac- 
 ter, has received the equivalent of a common school education, and has graduated
 
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 from a training-school connected with a general hospital, where at least two years 
 of continuous residence training with a systematic course of instruction is given, 
 and has passed a satisfactory examination before said Board and registered as 
 hereinafter required by the provisions of this Act: Provided, That this Section shall 
 not be construed to apply to those who may be registered prior to January i, 1911, 
 in accordance with the provisions of this Act applicable to such persons as herein- 
 after declared in Sections 3 and 4: Provided, further, That this Section shall not ap- 
 ply, at any time, to the gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the 
 family thereof, nor to those persons nursing the sick for hire who do not in any way 
 claim or assume to be, or hold themselves out as, registered nurses. Provided, 
 further, That nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to prevent a professional 
 nurse, who does not hold such a certificate from said Board and who resides in 
 another State, from accompanying and attending a person traveling in or through 
 this State, or sojourning therein for his or her health, or any non-resident nurse 
 without such certificate from serving any person in this State in case of necessity or 
 emergency, where such nurse is authorized and empowered to practice his or her 
 profession under the law of the State in which he or she resides, and if there be no 
 such law when such nurse has received the training required in this Act as a pre- 
 requisite to examination and registration by said Board of Examiners after January 
 i, 1911. 
 
 SEC. 3. That all nurses heretofore graduated, or hereafter graduated before 
 January i, 1911, from such general hospital, and otherwise possessing the qualifi- 
 cations prescribed in this Act, shall be permitted to register and receive a certifi- 
 cate without an examination upon application duly made and upon payment of 
 the prescribed fee, provided that such application be made before January i, 
 1911. 
 
 SEC. 4. That all nurses graduating from training-schools in connection with 
 special hospitals whose standing and reputation shall be approved by the said 
 Board, giving a two years' course, who shall obtain six months' additional training 
 in general hospital, shall be entitled to registration and a certificate without exami- 
 nation before January i, 1911, upon payment of required fee; and all nurses gradu- 
 ating from such special hospitals shall be entitled to registration and a certificate 
 prior to said date, upon passing a special examination before the Board of Examin- 
 ers in subjects not adequately taught in the training-school from which they are 
 graduated, upon payment of the required fee. 
 
 SEC. 5. That a nurse who has received his or her certificate according to the 
 provisions of this Act shall be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse," and no 
 other person without a certificate from the said Board of Examiners shall assume 
 such a title or use the abbreviation "R. N.," or any other letters, figures, or charac- 
 ters to indicate that he or she is a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 6. That said Board of Examiners shall prescribe and have printed appli- 
 cation blanks and such other forms as may be necessary to carry out the provisions 
 of this Act, which shall be furnished to any applicant upon request and free of charge. 
 Said Board shall also keep a register, in which shall be entered the full name, age, 
 residence, source of training, and date of registration of every person to whom a 
 certificate is issued under the provisions of this Act, and said register shall be at all 
 times open to public inspection, and be prima facie evidence of all matters therein 
 contained. It shall also be the duty of the Board to keep the application of each 
 applicant, together with any additional evidence which shall be required by the 
 Board to be offered in support of the qualifications of said applicant, which shall 
 also be open to public inspection. 
 
 SEC. 7. The said Board of Examiners may revoke any certificate issued under 
 this Act for sufficient cause, of which the Board shall be the judges; but before this 
 is done the holder of said certificate shall have thirty days' notice, and such action 
 shall only be taken after a full and fair hearing of the charge, in which counsel 
 may appear for either or both sides, and only by a majority vote of the whole
 
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 Board : Provided, That from such judgment of revocation of license the person feel- 
 ing himself or herself aggrieved shall have the right to appeal to the Circuit Court of 
 the County in which he or she resides, and to the Supreme Court. 
 
 SEC. 8. That any person violating any of the provisions of this Act, or who shall 
 wilfully make any false representations to the Board of Examiners in applying 
 for a certificate, or otherwise violating the provisions hereof, shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine not exceeding 
 Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars or imprisonment not exceeding three (3) months, 
 or both in the discretion of the court. 
 
 SEC. 9. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent herewith be and the same 
 are hereby repealed. 
 
 TENNESSEE 
 
 AN ACT to regulate the practice of trained nursing in this State, to define offenses against 
 the Act, and to prescribe and fix the punishment for such offenses. 
 
 SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee: 
 That every person who shall comply with the provisions of this Act, to obtain and 
 have recorded as herein prescribed, the certificate authorizing such person to prac- 
 tice the profession of a trained nurse in this State, shall be a registered nurse within 
 the meaning of this Act, and entitled to all its privileges and charged with all of the 
 duties herein imposed upon such nurse. 
 
 SEC. 2. Be it further enacted: That within thirty (30) days from the passage of 
 this Act the Governor of the State shall appoint a board known as "State Board of 
 Examiners of Nurses," which Board shall consist of five graduate nurses, one of 
 whom shall reside in West Tennessee, one in Middle Tennessee, and one in East 
 Tennessee, and the Governor shall not appoint as a member of such Board a nurse 
 who has not the endorsement of the society of Trained Nurses to which such nurse 
 belongs. State Board of Examiners of Nurses shall within sixty (60) days after it is 
 appointed meet in the City of Nashville and organize by the selection of one of 
 their number as chairman and another as secretary. The members of this Board 
 shall hold their respective positions as such for five years and until their successors 
 are appointed. 
 
 Upon the expiration of their terms of office, it will be the duty of the Governor 
 to appoint a new Board of like number and qualification, but, in making such ap- 
 pointment, he shall reappoint at least two of the then members of the said Board, it 
 being the intention of this Act that after the first appointment of the said Board 
 there shall always be on the said Board experienced members thereof, and that the 
 membership of said Board shall no.t be often changed. 
 
 SEC. 3. Be it further enacted: That it shall be the duty of every person in the 
 State desiring to practice the profession of a trained nurse in this State, within sixty 
 (60) days from the organization of the State Board of Examiners of Nurses, to ob- 
 tain from the said Board a certificate as required in the next section, and to have the 
 same recorded by the clerk of the county court of the county in which said nurses 
 shall reside. 
 
 SEC. 4. Be it further enacted : That it shall be the duty of the State Board of 
 Examiners of Nurses, upon its being made satisfactorily to appear to it that an appli- 
 cant is a person of good moral character, of legal age, and is the holder of a diploma 
 from a training-school of nurses, in good standing, connected with a hospital or 
 sanitarium in this State, which gives at least a two years' course, or training-school 
 of like standing outside of this State, which diploma is in all respects regular, to 
 certify that fact to the clerk of the county court of the residence of the applicant, 
 who shall thereupon receive and record the same and issue to the said applicant a 
 license, as follows:
 
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 State of Tennessee 
 County 
 
 To Whom it May Concern: Greeting. 
 
 Whereas of has presented to me a 
 
 certificate issued to by the State Board of Examiners of 
 
 Nurses, showing that she (or he) has complied with all of the requirements of the 
 law entitling applicants to such Board to their certificate, and demanded that the 
 same be recorded as the law requires. This certifies that the same is so recorded in 
 
 the book kept by me for that purpose, and that the said 
 
 is authorized to practice within this State the profession of a registered nurse. 
 
 Witness my hand and official seal at office in this 
 
 day of 19 .... 
 
 Clerk of County Court of County, Tennessee. 
 
 For issuing this license, recording the same, and doing all the other duties re- 
 quired of him under this Act, the said clerk is entitled to demand and receive of 
 the licensee the sum of fifty cents. 
 
 The said clerk shall keep, in a well-bound book, a copy of the license issued 
 to each applicant, and shall, in another book, keep a record of the certificates upon 
 which the said license is issued, and shall also preserve the certificate as one of the 
 records of his office. 
 
 SEC. 5. Be it further enacted: That non-residents of the State may procure 
 a certificate, and have the same recorded, and procure a license from the County 
 Court for the County in which they desire to practice the profession of trained nurs- 
 ing, by producing satisfactory evidence to the State Board of Examiners of Nurses 
 that they, or such applicant, is of lawful age, of good moral character, and that he or 
 she is the holder of a diploma from a recognized training-school for the training of 
 nurses, whose course of training and study is as full and thorough as are such schools 
 in this State, whose diplomas entitle the applicant to be considered by the State 
 Board competent of holding a diploma of course from such an one of the training- 
 schools of the State. 
 
 The license to be issued to such holders of certificates is to be in like form as for 
 a resident holder, and will authorize the licensee to practice in this State. 
 
 SEC. 6. Be it further enacted: That vacancies shall be filled in the said Board 
 by the remaining members of the Board, and the members appointed to fill vacancies 
 will hold only until the expiration of the term of the member who is thus succeeded. 
 Vacancies will occur by death, removal from the State, or resignation. 
 
 SEC. 7. Be it further enaectd : That the Secretary of the Board is directed to keep 
 a record of the proceedings of said Board, and also a record of the names of persons 
 applying for registration hereunder, and of the action of the Board thereon; and 
 also a register of all nurses who have become entitled to certificates under this Act, 
 all of which said records shall at all reasonable times be open to public inspection. 
 The said Record of Registry of Applicants who have applied to and been examined 
 by the Board shall show the full name, age, color, and sex of the applicant, where 
 born, whether married or single, place of residence, and post-office address; where 
 trained or graduated, and when, and the names and residences and post-office 
 addresses of two persons in nowise related to the applicant, who bear testimony to 
 the applicant's good moral character. It shall also contain or make proper refer- 
 ence to the record required to be kept by Section 13 hereof, whenever any such 
 record shall be made with respect to any nurse. 
 
 Said Board is authorized to have and to use an official seal, which shall bear the 
 words "State Board of Examiners of Nurses for Tennessee." 
 
 The certificate of the Secretary of said Board, under the seal thereof, counter- 
 signed or attested by the President, as to the action or non-action of the Board, 
 
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 130 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 shall be accepted as evidence in the courts of this State as the best evidence of the 
 Minutes of the said Board; and likewise the certificate of the said Secretary, under 
 the said seal, so countersigned, as to the registration or non-registration of any per- 
 son, shall be accepted as the best evidence as to the registration or non-registration 
 of the said person under the requirements of this Act. The Secretary shall issue to 
 all nurses admitted to registration here under a certificate, under the seal of said 
 Board, and countersigned by the President, showing that fact. 
 
 SEC. 8. Be it further enacted : That it shall be the duty of said Board to meet 
 for the purpose of examining applicants for registration at least once in each year, 
 in every one of the grand divisions of the State, and oftener, should it be deemed 
 necessary by said Board. 
 
 Notice shall be given of the time and place of said meetings by written notice 
 posted, postage prepaid, to last known address of each applicant, at least ten days 
 before the time of said meeting, and by one publication in a daily paper of general 
 circulation published at Knoxville, Memphis, and Nashville, Tennessee. Said 
 notice shall be published at least two weeks prior to said meeting. 
 
 SEC. 9. Be it further enacted: That all persons making application for registra- 
 tion under this Act shall deposit with the secretary of the said Board, at the tune of 
 making such application, the sum of Five ($5.0x3) Dollars. From this fund the 
 expenses of the said Board will be paid. 
 
 SEC. 10. Be it further enacted: That all nurses who have practised the profession 
 of nursing actively and continuously for five (5) years, and can show, to the satis- 
 faction of the Board their ability morally, mentally, and physically to continue 
 nursing, will be granted a license provided they make application before June ist, 
 1911; and 
 
 Be it further enacted : That this shall apply to all senior pupils now in the Training- 
 Schools of the State for Nurses. 
 
 SEC. 11. Be it further enacted: That this Act shall not be construed to affect or 
 apply to gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, and it 
 shall not apply to any person nursing for hire, who does not in any way assume 
 to be a registered nurse, and who does not use the title Registered Nurse, or the 
 letters "R. N.," or other letters, words, or figures for the purpose of representing 
 that he or she is a registered nurse within the meaning of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 12. Be it further enacted : That after the expiration of six months from the 
 passage of this Act it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to practice pro- 
 fessional nursing as a trained, graduate, or registered nurse in this State without a 
 certificate from the said Board; and it shall also be unlawful for any unlicensed 
 person or persons, without the certificate in this Act mentioned, to advertise to the 
 public as nurse, or for any drug store proprietor, physician, or other person to ad- 
 vertise or publicly keep a record or list of names, not licensed as herein provided, 
 unless such advertisement, list, or record also state that such nurse or person or 
 persons is "Not Licensed"; and a violation of this Section of this Act shall be a 
 misdemeanor, and subject the person guilty thereof to indictment or presentment, 
 and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than Twenty-Five ($25.00) Dollars 
 nor more than Two Hundred and Fifty ($250.00) Dollars. 
 
 Every nurse who registers and is licensed in accordance with the provisions 
 hereof shall be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse," and no other nurse shall 
 assume or use such title or use the abbreviation " R. N., " or any other letters, words, 
 or figures to indicate that he or she is a registered nurse, and a violation hereof 
 shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be punished as herein- 
 before in this Section provided. 
 
 SEC. 13. And be it further enacted: That any certificate issued by said Board 
 may be revoked by it at any time for drunkenness, or drug addiction, or neglect of 
 patient, or the commission of any act which is a felony under the laws in force in this 
 State, or incompetency or immorality; but no such license or certificate shall be 
 revoked without a hearing, notice of the time and place of which shall be given to
 
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 the holder of the certificate by the secretary at least thirty (30) days before the day 
 set for the hearing, which notice shall plainly set forth the charges against the 
 holder of said certificate, and the trial shall be only upon the grounds so specified. 
 Said notice shall be mailed to the said person so accused, at his or her last known ad- 
 dress, postage prepaid, or the same shall be delivered personally to the person so 
 accused. 
 
 A true and correct record of the hearing and decision in every hearing to de- 
 termine whether a license shall be revoked shall be kept, showing the charge or 
 charges, the date of the notice, how served, and the date and place of hearing, 
 whether the license to be tried appeared, and the decision of the Board. 
 
 SEC. 14. Be it further enacted: That this Act take effect from and after its 
 passage, the public welfare requiring it. 
 
 TEXAS 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: 
 
 SECTION i. That a Board to be known as the Board of Nurse Examiners for 
 the State of Texas is hereby established. Said Board shall be composed of five 
 registered nurses, who shall be trained nurses of at least twenty-three (23) years of 
 age, of good moral character, and graduates of a training-school connected with a 
 general hospital or sanitarium of good standing, presided over by a graduate nurse, 
 where a two years' training with a systematic course of instruction is given in the 
 wards. Two members of said Board must be nurses who have had at least two years' 
 experience in educational work among nurses. Said Board shall be appointed by 
 the Governor of this State within sixty (60) days after this Act shall go into effect, and 
 biennially thereafter within sixty days after his inauguration, and the term of office 
 shall be two years, or until their successors shall be appointed and qualified. Vacan- 
 cies occurring in the Board shall be filled by the Governor. 
 
 SEC. 2. That the members of the said Board shall, as soon as organized, an- 
 nually in the month of April, elect from their members a president and secretary, 
 who shall also be the treasurer. Three members of this Board shall constitute a 
 quorum, and special meetings of said Board shall be called by the secretary upon the 
 written request of any two members. The Board is authorized to make such by- 
 laws and rules as shall be necessary to govern its proceedings and to carry into effect 
 the purpose of this Act; provided, that said Board shall adopt Roberts' "Rules of 
 Order" to guide it in the transaction of its business. The secretary shall be required 
 to keep a record of all the meetings of said Board, including a register of the names 
 of all nurses registered under this Act, which shall at all reasonable times be open 
 for public scrutiny, and said Board shall cause the prosecution of all persons vio- 
 lating any of the provisions of this Act, and may incur necessary expenses on that 
 behalf; that the president and secretary shall make a biennial report to the Governor 
 on or before the first day of January immediately preceding the convening of the 
 Legislature, together with a statement of the receipts and disbursements of said 
 Board. 
 
 SEC. 3. That after organization it shall be the duty of said Board to meet regu- 
 larly once in every six (6) months, notice of which meeting shall be given to the 
 public press and in one nursing journal one month previous to the meeting. At 
 every regular meeting namely, every six (6) months it shall be the duty of the 
 Board to examine all applicants for registration under this Act. Applicants must 
 be graduated from a chartered training-school, presided over by a graduate nurse. 
 Upon filing application for examination, each applicant shall pay an examination 
 fee of five ($5.00) dollars, which shall be in no case returned to the applicant, whether 
 the examination be passed or not, but in case the applicant passes the examination, 
 then no further fee shall be required for registration. The examination shall be of 
 such a character as to determine the fitness of the applicant to practice professional 
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 132 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 for examinations and shall examine applicants on the following subjects: Practical 
 nursing, surgical nursing, obstetrical nursing, materia medica, anatomy, physiology, 
 hygiene, dietetics, and gynecology. If the result of the examination shall be satis- 
 factory to the majority of the Board, the Board shall sign and issue a certificate to 
 the applicant to that effect, which certificate shall be attested by the secretary, 
 whereupon the person named in the certificate shall be duly qualified to practice 
 professional nursing in this State. Any registered nurse from any other State, where 
 the laws with reference to professional nursing are up to the standard of the laws of 
 the State of Texas, who shall show to the satisfaction of the Board that he or she is a 
 trained graduate nurse of a hospital or sanitarium, the standard of instruction and 
 training of which shall meet the requirements of the rules prescribed by said Board, 
 and who shall be otherwise properly qualified, may receive a certificate and be 
 registered as a nurse of this State without examination. 
 
 SEC. 4. That all nurses who are engaged in nursing at the tune of the passage of 
 this Act, and who shall show to the satisfaction of the said Board that they are of 
 good moral character and were graduated prior to April, 1909, from a training-school 
 connected with a hospital or sanitarium giving two years general training, or, prior 
 to the year 1901, having given eighteen months' general training and who maintains 
 hi other respects proper standards, shall be entitled to registration without examina- 
 tion, provided they register prior to January ist, 1912. All persons who have hereto- 
 fore received registration certificates in compliance with an Act of the Regular 
 Session of the Thirty-first Legislature, being "An Act to define and regulate the 
 practice of professional nursing, to create a Board of Nurse Examiners for the exam- 
 ination and licensing of nurses, and to prescribe their qualifications, to provide 
 for their proper registration and for the revocation of certificates, and to fix 
 suitable penalties for the violation of this Act," shall not be required to obtain new 
 registration certificates, but such certificates heretofore secured under said Act 
 of the Thirty-first Legislature shall be hi all things valid and binding and of full 
 force and effect. All persons who are in training in the wards of a general hospital 
 or sanitarium in this State, where a two years' training with a systematic course 
 of instruction is given at the tune of the passage of this Act, and shall graduate here- 
 after, and possess the above qualifications, shall be entitled to registration without 
 examination. Provided application for registration certificate shall be made to the 
 Board herein provided for, who shall issue proper certificate of registration without 
 examination, it the applicant be found entitled thereto under the provisions of this 
 Act. All nurses who have served in the army or navy of the United States, and have 
 been honorably discharged, shall be entitled to registration without examination. 
 It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person to practice nursing as a registered 
 nurse without a certificate from the State Board of Nurse Examiners. A nurse 
 who has received his or her certificate according to the provisions of this Act shall 
 be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse." No other person shall assume such 
 title or use the abbreviation " R. N., " or any other letters to indicate that he or she 
 is a registered nurse. The Board in each instance shall require a registration fee 
 of five ($5.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 5. The State Board of Nurse Examiners shall have the power to revoke 
 any certificate, issued in accordance with this Act by a unanimous vote of said Board, 
 for gross incompetency, dishonesty, habitual intemperance, or any act derogatory 
 to the morals or standing of the profession of nursing, as may be determined by the 
 Board, but before any certificate shall be revoked the holder thereof shall be entitled 
 to at least thirty days' notice in writing of the charge against him or her, and of the 
 time and place of hearing and determining of such charges, at which tune and place 
 he or she shall be entitled to be heard, and in the event said certificate shall be re- 
 voked by said Board, the holder of such certificate shall have right of action within 
 thirty days thereafter in the district court of the county of the residence of any 
 member of the Board, and said certificate shall remain in force until the question 
 is finally decided by the courts. Upon revocation of any certificate it shall be the
 
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 duty of the secretary of the Board to strike the name of the holder thereof from the 
 roll of registered nurses. 
 
 SEC. 6. All fees received by the State Board of Nurse Examiners under this 
 Act shall be paid to the treasurer of said Board, who shall pay the same out on 
 vouchers issued and signed by the president and secretary of said Board upon war- 
 rants drawn by the president of the State Board of Examiners. All money so 
 received and placed in said fund may be used by the State Board of Nurse Exam- 
 iners in defraying its expenses in carrying out the provisions of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 7. This Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous 
 nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, or to any person nursing the 
 sick for hire who does not in any way assume the practice as a trained, graduate, or 
 registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 8. That any person violating the provisions of this Act, or who shall make 
 any false representations to said Board in applying for a certificate, shall be guilty 
 of misdemeanor, and upon conviction be punished by a fine of not more than three 
 hundred ($300.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 9. The crowded condition of the calendar and the near approach of the 
 end of the session creates an emergency and imperative public necessity that the 
 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and 
 the same is hereby suspended, and that this shall take effect and be in force from and 
 after its passage, and it is so enacted. 
 
 VERMONT 
 
 It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: 
 
 SECTION i. A board of registration for nurses is hereby established to consist 
 of three members, to be appointed by the governor within thirty days after the 
 passage of this act. Two members of said board shall be physicians in active prac- 
 tice on the attending staff of any hospital of the state having a training-school for 
 nurses. The third member shall be a graduate nurse holding a diploma from a hos- 
 pital training-school for nurses, giving at least a two years' course in the theory and 
 practice of nursing; he or she shall have had three years' experience in nursing the 
 sick. The members of said board shall be appointed as follows: One for two years, 
 one for four years, and one for six years from the first day of March, 1911, and until 
 their respective successors are appointed; and thereafter the governor shall bien- 
 nially, before the first day of March, appoint one person, qualified as aforesaid, to 
 hold office for six years from the first day of March next ensuing. Vacancies in 
 said board shall be filled for the unexpired term in the manner of the original 
 appointment. Any member of said board may be removed for cause by the 
 governor. 
 
 SEC. 2. The members of said board shall meet the second Tuesday in March, 
 and annually thereafter, and proceed to organize by choosing a president, secretary, 
 and treasurer, who shall hold office for one year, or until their successors are elected. 
 They shall adopt a seal and such by-laws and regulations as are needed for the trans- 
 acting of business, but said board shall not in any way control the prices or com- 
 pensation paid to nurses. The said board shall hold two meetings regularly each 
 year, the time and place to be fixed by the board, and they may hold additional 
 meetings at such times and places as may be deemed necessary. 
 
 SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of said board, immediately upon its organization, 
 to notify all persons engaged in the practice of nursing the sick in the state of the 
 times and places of the examinations for registration, by publishing in one or more 
 newspapers hi the state, and by a written notice to the superintendents of all 
 training-schools and nurses' registry bureaus in the state. 
 
 Application for registration shall be made upon blanks to be furnished by the 
 board and shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant. Any person, a resident 
 of this state, who shall furnish satisfactory evidence that he or she is at least twenty-
 
 134 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 one years of age, of good moral character, and who holds a diploma from a training- 
 school for nurses connected with some hospital requiring at least a two years' course, 
 shall, upon payment of a fee of five dollars, be examined by said board and if 
 found to be qualified shall be registered with the right to use the title of Registered 
 Nurse, and shall receive a certificate thereof from the board signed and sealed by 
 the president and secretary. Within sixty days from date of issue this certificate 
 must be recorded in the office of the secretary of state, with an affidavit of identity 
 and residence of the person to whom granted. 
 
 An applicant who fails to pass an examination satisfactory to the board, and is 
 therefore refused registration, shall be entitled, within one year after such refusal, 
 to a re-examination at a meeting of the board called for the examination of appli- 
 cants, without payment of additional fee. The said board may after a hearing, by a 
 vote of a majority of its members, annul the registration and cancel the certificate 
 of any nurse, without hearing, if such nurse has been found guilty of a crime or 
 misdemeanor. All fees received by the board shall be paid annually into the state 
 treasury. 
 
 SEC. 4. Examinations shall be partly in writing in the English language and 
 partly in practical work, and shall include the principles of nursing. Due credit 
 shall be given for examinations in special branches. 
 
 SEC. 5. The board shall have the power to register in like manner without 
 examination, upon payment of the usual fee, any person who has been registered as 
 a professional nurse in another state under laws which, in the opinion of the board, 
 maintain a standard substantially similar to that of this act, and which extends a 
 similar courtesy to nurses registered in this state. Graduate nurses, residents of 
 this state, who hold diplomas from an accredited nurses' training-school, bearing 
 date not later than January ist, 191 1 , may become registered as herein provided with- 
 out examination upon payment of the usual fee. 
 
 SEC. 6. Each member of the board shall receive four dollars for every day 
 actually spent in the performance of his or her duties; provided, however, that 
 in no event shall the total sum paid to any one member exceed one hundred ($100.00) 
 dollars in any one year, and the necessary traveling expenses actually incurred in 
 attending meetings of the board, not exceeding three cents per mile each way. 
 The said compensation and traveling expenses, together with any incidental expenses 
 necessarily incurred by the board or any member thereof, shall if approved by the 
 board be paid from the treasury of the state, but only from the fees paid into the 
 said treasury by the board. 
 
 SEC. 7. The board shall keep a record of all names of persons registered here- 
 under, and of all money received and disbursed by it, and a duplicate thereof shall 
 be open to inspection in the office of the secretary of state. Said board shall 
 annually, on or before the first day of January, make a report to the governor of the 
 condition of professional nursing in the state, of all its acts during the preceding 
 year, and of its receipts and disbursements. 
 
 SEC. 8. Whoever, not being authorized to practice as a registered nurse within 
 this State, practices or attempts to practice as a Registered Nurse, or uses the ab- 
 breviation R. N. or any other words or letters or figures to indicate that the per- 
 son using the same is a registered nurse, shall for each offense be punished by a fine 
 of not more than one hundred dollars. Whoever becomes registered or attempts 
 to become registered, or whoever practices or attempts, to practice as a registered 
 nurse under a false or assumed name shall for each offense be punished by a fine of 
 not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by im- 
 prisonment for three months, or by both fine and imprisonment. 
 
 SEC. 9. The board shall investigate all complaints of violations of the pro- 
 visions of this act, and report the same to the proper prosecuting officer. 
 
 SEC. 10. This act shall not apply to gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or 
 members of the family, or to the acts of any person nursing the sick for hire who does 
 not assume to be a registered nurse.
 
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 SEC. n. The board may make such rules and regulations with reference to 
 procedure hereunder as it may deem expedient, provided that the same are not 
 inconsistent with this act or with any other law of the state. 
 
 SEC. 12. For the purpose of the appointment of said board and of registration 
 of persons by it hereunder, this act shall take effect upon its passage. 
 
 VIRGINIA 
 
 AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PROFESSIONAL NURSING OF THE SICK IN THE STATE OF 
 
 VIRGINIA 
 
 SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: That within 
 sixty days after the passage of this Act the Governor of this State shall appoint a 
 State Board of Examiners of Graduate Nurses, to be composed of five (5) members, 
 to be selected by the Governor from twelve (12) nominations submitted to him by 
 the Virginia State Association of Graduate Nurses. One of the members of this 
 board shall be designated to hold office one year, one for two years, one for three 
 years, one for four years, one for five years, and thereafter, upon the expiration of 
 the term of office of the person so appointed, the Governor of the State shall appoint 
 a successor to each person whose term of office shall expire to hold office for five years, 
 and the person so appointed shall be selected by the Governor from a list of seven 
 nominations submitted to him by the Virginia State Association of Graduate Nurses. 
 In case appointment of a successor is not made before the expiration of the term of 
 any member, such member shall hold office until a successor is appointed and duly 
 qualified. Any vacancy occurring in membership of the board shall be filled by 
 the Governor of this State for the unexpired term of such membership. 
 
 SEC. 2. The members of the State Board of Examiners of Registered Nurses 
 shall, before entering on the discharge of their duties, make and file with the Secre- 
 tary of the Commonwealth the constitutional oath of office. They shall as soon as 
 organized, and annually thereafter in the month of January, elect from their number 
 a president and a secretary, who shall be the treasurer. The treasurer, before enter- 
 ing upon his or her duties, shall file a bond with the Secretary of the Commonwealth 
 for such sum as shall be required of him or her by said Secretary of Commonwealth. 
 The board shall adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with this act to 
 govern its proceedings, and also a seal, and the secretary shall have the care and 
 custody thereof, and he or she shall keep a record of all proceedings of the board, 
 including a register of the names of all nurses duly registered under this act, which 
 shall be open at all reasonable times to public scrutiny, and the board shall cause the 
 prosecution of all persons violating any of the provisions of this act and may incur 
 necessary expense on that behalf. The secretary of the board may receive a salary, 
 which may be fixed by the board, and which shall not exceed one hundred dollars 
 ($100.00) per annum; heor she shall also receive traveling and other expenses incurred 
 in the performance of his or her official duties. The other members of the Board 
 shall receive the sum of one dollar ($1.00) for each day actually engaged hi this 
 service, and all legitimate and necessary expenses incurred in attending the meetings 
 of said board. Said expenses and salaries shall be paid from the fees received by the 
 board under the provisions of this act, and no part of the salary or other expenses of 
 the board shall be paid out of the State treasury. All money received in excess of 
 the said per diem allowance and other expenses provided for shall be held by the 
 treasurer as a special fund for meeting the expenses of said board and the cost of 
 (annual) reports of the proceedings of said board. 
 
 SEC. 3. Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum. Special 
 meetings of the board shall be called by the secretary upon written request of any 
 two members. The board shall adopt rules and regulations for the examination 
 of applicants for licenses, certificates, or to practice professional nursing of the sick 
 in accordance with the provisions of this act, and may amend, modify, and repeal
 
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 such rules and regulations from time to time. The board shall immediately upon 
 the election of the officers thereof, and upon the adoption of its rules of government, 
 or its rules and regulations for examination of applicants for registration, file with 
 the Secretary of the Commonwealth and publish in at least one journal devoted to 
 the interest of professional nursing and one daily newspaper published in the State 
 of Virginia at least twice, the name and address of each officer, and a copy of such 
 rules and regulations, or the amendment or modification thereof. 
 
 SEC. 4. Provision shall be made by the board hereby constituted for holding 
 examinations at least twice in each year. All examinations shall be made directly 
 by said board or a committee of two (2) members delegated by the board, and due 
 notice of the time and place of holding such examinations as hi the case provided 
 for the publication of the rules and regulations of said board. The examination 
 shall be of such character as to determine the fitness of the applicant to practice 
 professional nursing of the sick. If the result of the examination of any applicant 
 shall be satisfactory to a majority of the board, the secretary shall, upon an order 
 of the board, issue to the applicant a certificate to that effect upon payment to the 
 secretary by the candidate of a fee of five dollars ($5.00), whereupon the person 
 named on the certificate shall be declared duly licensed to practice professional 
 nursing in this State. Any persons from other States who shall show to the satis- 
 faction of the board that he or she is properly and duly registered for the practice of 
 professional nursing in such States, upon payment of usual fees for certificate is 
 entitled to a license to practice professional nursing in this State without an exam- 
 ination. 
 
 SEC. 5. The applicant who desires to practice professional nursing shall fur- 
 nish satisfactory evidence that he or she is more than twenty-one (21) years of age, 
 is of good moral character, has received a sufficient preliminary education as may be 
 determined by the board, and has graduated from a training-school of a general 
 hospital of good standing, as may be determined by the board, and where at least 
 two years' training in the hospital and systematic courses of instruction are given. 
 
 SEC. 6. Any person who shall show to the satisfaction of the board that he or 
 she graduated from a training-school of a general hospital of good standing prior to 
 the first day of January, 1904, or that he or she was engaged in the practice of pro- 
 fessional nursing of the sick on the date of the passage of this act, shall be entitled 
 to a license without passing an examination, provided such application shall be 
 made within twelve months after the passage of this act. 
 
 SEC. 7. All persons who have duly received licenses or certificates in accord- 
 ance with the provisions of this Act shall be known and styled a registered nurse, 
 and it shall be unlawful after one year from the passage of this act for any person to 
 practice professional nursing of the sick as such for compensation without a license 
 or certificate in this State, or to advertise as or assume the title of trained nurse or 
 graduate nurse, or to use the abbreviation of "T. N. " or "G. N.," or any other 
 words, letters, or figures to indicate that the person using the same is a trained, 
 registered, or graduate nurse. 
 
 SEC. 8. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor 
 more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) for the first offense, and not less than one 
 hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each sub- 
 sequent offense. 
 
 SEC. 9. This act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous 
 nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, and also it shall not apply 
 to any person nursing the sick for hire, but who does not in any way assume to be a 
 registered or graduate nurse. 
 
 SEC. 10. Any person who shall wilfully make any false representation to the 
 board of examiners in applying for a license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) 
 nor more than one thousand dollars ($1000.00).
 
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 SEC. ii. The State Board of Examiners of Graduate Nurses shall have the 
 power to revoke any certificate or license issued in accordance with this act, by 
 unanimous vote of said board, for gross incompetency, dishonesty, habitual intem- 
 perance, or any act derogatory to the morals or standing of the profession of nursing, 
 as may be determined by the board, but before any license or certificate shall be 
 revoked the holder thereof shall be entitled to at least thirty days' notice of the 
 charge against him or her, and of the time and place of hearing and determining 
 of such charges, at which time and place he or she shall be entitled to be heard. 
 Upon the revocation of any certificate or license, it shall be the duty of the secretary 
 of the board to strike the name of the holder thereof from the roll of registered nurses. 
 
 SEC. 12. This act shall be in force from its passage. 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: 
 
 SECTION i. That from and after the expiration of the ninety days immediately 
 following the passage of this act, no person shall in the State of Washington, in any 
 manner whatsoever, represent herself to be a registered nurse, or allow herself to be so 
 represented, unless she has been and is registered by the nurses' examining board 
 in accordance with the provisions of this act. 
 
 SEC. 2. That within thirty days after the taking effect of this act the Governor 
 of the State of Washington shall appoint a nurses' examining board to be composed 
 of five graduate nurses, all of whom are eligible for registration according to the 
 provisions of this act, and who have had at least three years' experience in the 
 profession after graduation. All appointments shall be so made that the term of 
 one member shall expire on the thirtieth day of June of each year, and upon the 
 expiration of the term of office of any examiner the Governor shall appoint a regis- 
 tered nurse to fill the vacancy. No member of said board shall enter upon the dis- 
 charge of her duties until she has taken oath to faithfully and impartially perform 
 the same; and the Governor may remove any member of said board for neglect of 
 duty, or for any other just cause. 
 
 SEC. 3. That the nurses' examining board shall meet in the State of Washing- 
 ton within ninety days after their appointment and organize the board, and annually 
 thereafter shall elect from its members a president, secretary, and treasurer. It shall 
 adopt such by-laws as it shall deem necessary for carrying into effect the provisions 
 of this act, and may amend the same from time to time at the discretion of said 
 board. The secretary shall be required to keep a record of all meetings of the 
 board, and also a register of the names of all nurses duly registered under this act, 
 which register shall be open to the public at all reasonable times, and to furnish a 
 certificate of registration to all such nurses, said certificate to be renewed at end of 
 five years upon payment of one dollar to the examining board, at least three 
 months' notice having been given, by registered letter, of expiration of said certifi- 
 cate. The said board shall hold examinations at least once a year, and the notice 
 of such examination shall be given in one daily newspaper published in three first- 
 class cities of the State of Washington, and in a nursing journal published on the 
 Pacific Coast at least thirty days prior to said examination. 
 
 SEC. 4. That every nurse desiring to style herself a registered nurse in the 
 State of Washington shall make application to the nurses' examining board for 
 examination for registration, such examination to consist of questions in surgical 
 nursing, contagious, materia medica, dietetics, medical nursing, obstetrics and 
 gynecology, anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, and at the tune of making such 
 application applicant shall pay to the treasurer of said board five dollars, no 
 portion of said fee to be returned. Said applicant must furnish satisfactory 
 evidence that she is over twenty years of age, of good moral character, and free from 
 habits liable to interfere with her services as a nurse, and further, that she holds a 
 diploma from a training-school for nurses of a reputable hospital: Provided, That
 
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 training-school shall give not less than two years' training in a general hospital, or 
 instruction of same kind and to at least the same extent as that given in the 
 general hospital, all of which shall be determined by the nurses' examining board. 
 
 SEC. 5. That any person possessing the qualifications required in section 4 of 
 this act who is engaged in nursing in the State of Washington at the time of the 
 passage of this act, or shall graduate from a reputable training-school of a general 
 hospital within three years of passage of this act, shall be entitled to registration 
 without examination upon payment of registration fee. 
 
 SEC. 6. That the registration of any person as a nurse in the State of Washing- 
 ton may be revoked and the certificate of such person cancelled if it should be 
 found to have been obtained by fraud, or if she be found guilty by the nurses' 
 examining board of any act derogatory to the standing and morals of the profes- 
 sion of nursing. But before any certificate shall be revoked the holder thereof shall 
 be entitled to thirty days' notice of the charges against her, and after a full and 
 fair hearing the certificate can be revoked by a majority vote of the whole board. 
 
 SEC. 7. Each member of the nurses' examining board shall receive a compen- 
 sation of five dollars per day for each day in which she is actually and neces- 
 sarily in attendance upon the meetings of the board, and in going to and re- 
 turning from the place of meeting, and all necessary expenses incurred in attend- 
 ing such meetings; all such compensation and expenses to be paid by the state 
 treasurer by warrants drawn by the state auditor upon presentation of proper 
 vouchers to be approved by a majority of said Board, as in the case of state officers. 
 The secretary and treasurer of said board shall receive a compensation to be deter- 
 mined by said Board and not to exceed one hundred dollars per annum. All 
 money received or collected by said board or any officer or any member thereof 
 during any month shall be turned over to the state treasurer before the tenth day of 
 the succeeding month, together with a verified statement showing the sources from 
 which such money was derived. 
 
 SEC. 8. That any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 SEC. 9. That the nurses' examining board shall have power to register in 
 like manner, without examination, any person who has been registered as a graduate 
 nurse in another state or territory under laws which in the opinion of said board 
 maintains a standard substantially equivalent to that provided for by this act. 
 
 SEC. 10. That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any person from 
 nursing any other person in the State of Washington either gratuitously or for hire: 
 Provided, That such person so nursing shall not represent herself as being a regis- 
 tered nurse. Nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any person to 
 practice medicine or surgery or midwifery in said state. 
 
 SEC. 1 1 . That the word " she " and the derivatives thereof, wherever they occur 
 in this act, shall be construed so as to include the word "he" and derivatives. 
 
 WEST VIRGINIA 
 
 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS, AND 
 FOR THE EXAMINATION AND REGISTRATION OF NURSES 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: 
 
 SECTION i. Upon the taking effect of this act the governor, within sixty days, 
 shall appoint a board of examiners to be composed of five members, two of whom 
 may be women; one of these members shall be designated by the governor to hold 
 office one year, two for two years, and two for three years; and hereafter, upon the 
 expiration of the term of office of the person or persons so appointed, the governor 
 shall appoint a successor or successors to hold office for three years. All vacancies 
 occurring in the board shall be filled by the governor. 
 
 SEC. 2. And be it further enacted: That the members of this state board of
 
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 examiners shall as soon as organized, and annually thereafter in the month of June, 
 elect from their members a president and a secretary, who shall be the treasurer; 
 three members of this board shall constitute a quorum, and special meetings of the 
 board shall be called by the secretary upon written request of any two members; 
 the said board of examiners is authorized to frame such by-laws as may be neces- 
 sary to govern its proceedings, and said board shall make a biennial report of all its 
 receipts and disbursements to the governor for transmission to the legislature; 
 the secretary shall be required to keep a record of all meetings of the board, includ- 
 ing a register of the names of all nurses duly registered under this Act, which shall 
 at all reasonable times be open to public scrutiny, and the board shall cause the 
 prosecution of all persons violating any of the provisions of this act, and may incur 
 necessary expenses on this behalf; the secretary shall receive a salary, to be fixed 
 by the board, not to exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars per annum, also traveling 
 and other expenses necessarily incurred hi the discharge of her official duties; the 
 other members of the board shall receive four ($4.00) dollars for each day actually 
 engaged in this service, and all legitimate and necessary expenses; said expenses and 
 salaries shall be paid from fees received by the board under the provisions of this 
 act, and no part of salaries or other expenses of the board shall be paid out of the 
 State treasury; all money received in excess of said allowance and other expenses 
 provided for shall be held by the treasurer for meeting the expenses of the said board 
 and the cost of annual report of the board. 
 
 SEC. 3. That after January first, one thousand nine hundred and eight, it shall 
 be the duty of said board of examiners to meet at some convenient point within the 
 state not less frequently than once a year, notice of which meeting shall be given to 
 the public press and in one nursing journal one month previous to the meeting; at 
 this meeting it shall be their duty to examine all applicants for registration under 
 this act, to determine their fitness and ability to give efficient care to the sick. 
 Upon filing application for examination and registration each applicant shall deposit 
 a fee of five ($5.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 4. That the applicant shall furnish satisfactory evidence that he or she is 
 twenty-one (21) years of age, of good moral character, has received the equivalent 
 of a high-school education, and has graduated from a training-school connected with 
 a general hospital where two years of continuous residence training with a system- 
 atic course of instruction is given. 
 
 SEC. 5. That all nurses possessing the above qualifications or furnishing satis- 
 factory evidence that applicant has an equivalent to a high-school education and has 
 been continuously and successfully engaged in general nursing for ten years (these 
 facts certified to by three reputable physicians shall be deemed satisfactory evi- 
 dence) shall be permitted to register before January first, one thousand nine hun- 
 dred and eight, without examination, upon payment of registration fee. And all 
 nurses, having been continuously and successfully engaged in nursing for five years 
 and who maintain the proper standard, shall, upon passing an examination, be 
 entitled to registration; provided such application be made before January first, 
 one thousand nine hundred and eight. Graduates of training-schools in connec- 
 tion with special hospitals giving a two years' course, who shall obtain one year's 
 additional training in an approved general hospital, shall be eligible for registration 
 without examination before June first, one thousand nine hundred and seven; or 
 said graduates from special hospitals shall be eligible for registration prior to said 
 date, upon passing special examination before the board of examiners in subjects 
 not adequately taught in the training-schools from which they have been gradu- 
 ated; and it shall be unlawful after the expiration of that time for any person to 
 practice professional nursing as a registered nurse without a certificate in this state. 
 A nurse who has received his or her certificate according to the provisions of this 
 act shall be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse." No other person shall 
 assume such a title or use the abbreviation "R. N.," or any other letters or figures 
 to indicate that he or she is a registered nurse.
 
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 SEC. 6. That this act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous 
 nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family; and also it shall not apply 
 to any person nursing the sick for hire, but who does not in any way assume to be 
 a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. 7. That any person violating any of the provisions of this act, or who shall 
 wilfully make any false representations to the board of examiners in applying for a 
 certificate, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be punished by a 
 fine of not more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 8. That the state board of examiners of graduate nurses may revoke 
 any certificate for sufficient cause; but before this is done the holder of said certificate 
 shall have thirty days' notice, and after a full and fair hearing of the charge, by a 
 majority vote of the whole board, the certificate can be revoked. 
 
 WISCONSIN 
 
 The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as 
 
 follows: 
 
 SECTION i. There are added to the statutes seven new sections to read: Section 
 i4O9a 5. Any resident of this state, being over twenty-one years of age, of good 
 moral character, who shall make application to the state board of health for regis- 
 tration as a registered nurse, upon compliance with the provisions of this act, shall 
 be entitled to registration as follows: 
 
 First. Without examination, provided the application be made prior to Sep- 
 tember i, 1914, and provided the applicant shall have graduated before said date 
 from a reputable training-school, connected with a general or special hospital, who 
 at the time of graduation shall have received a course of at least two years' training 
 in such training-school. 
 
 Second. If application be made prior to September i, 1914, and the applicant 
 at the time of such application shall have been engaged in the actual practice of 
 nursing for three years, and shall pass an examination to determine the fitness and 
 ability of the applicant to give efficient care to the sick. 
 
 Third. If application be made on or after September i, 1914, and the applicant 
 at the time of application shall have graduated from a reputable training-school, and 
 shall pass an examination to determine the fitness and ability of the applicant to 
 give efficient care to the sick. Such training-school within the meaning of this sub- 
 division must be connected with a general hospital, and from and after September 
 i, 1911, must require an adequate and systematic course of instruction of three 
 or more years. The first two years of such course shall be spent in such training- 
 school or hospital, and not to exceed three months of the senior year shall be 
 devoted to outside nursing. Such instruction shall be both theoretic and prac- 
 tical in the following branches: 
 
 Nursing, ethics, anatomy, physiology, hygiene, dietetics, materia medica, 
 elementary urinalysis, medical, surgical, and gynecological nursing, obstetrical nurs- 
 ing, including the care of infants, and a thorough course of theoretical instruction 
 and, when possible, practical experience in contagious nursing and the nursing of 
 sick children. 
 
 Fourth. If application be made on or after September i, 1914, and the appli- 
 cant at the time of application shall have graduated from a reputable training-school, 
 connected with a special hospital, requiring a systematic course of theoretical and 
 practical training of at least two years, and who at the time of application shall 
 have obtained in a reputable general hospital one year's additional training in the 
 subjects above enumerated in the third subdivision of this section, not adequately 
 taught in said training-school, and shall pass an examination to determine the fit- 
 ness and ability of the applicant to give efficient care to the sick. 
 
 Fifth. Without examination, provided the applicant shall have been registered 
 as a registered nurse, under the laws of another state having requirements deter-
 
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 mined by the state board of health of this state, to be equivalent to the require- 
 ments of this state. 
 
 SEC. i4OQa 6. The state board of health shall, on or before September i, 
 IQII, appoint five graduate nurses, to be known as the committee of examiners 
 of registered nurses. At the tune of their appointment they must be actual 
 residents of the state. They shall be selected from nurses engaged in active work, 
 who shall have been graduated for at least a period of three years from a reputable 
 training-school, and who, during their course of training, shall have served for two 
 years in a general hospital, and who (except those appointed as first members of the 
 committee) shall have been registered under the provisions of this act. Two 
 members of the committee shall be selected from nurses who have had at least two 
 years' experience in educational work among nurses. The members of the commit- 
 tee shall be appointed to hold office as follows: One for one year, two for two years, 
 and two for three years from September i, 1911. Upon the expiration of the term 
 of office of a member, the state board of health shall appoint a successor, whose 
 term of office shall be three years, and shall fill each vacancy for the unexpired term. 
 The board shall have power to remove any member of the committee. Each 
 member of the committee shall hold office until a successor is duly appointed and 
 qualified. 
 
 SEC. i4ooa 7. i. The members of the committee of examiners shall, as soon 
 as organized, and annually thereafter, elect from their number a chairman, who 
 shall preside over the meetings of the committee, and a secretary, who shall keep a 
 record of its proceedings. The committee shall immediately, upon the election of 
 such officers, file with the secretary of the state board of health a certificate 
 thereof, giving the name and address of such officers. Three members of the 
 committee shall constitute a quorum. Special meetings of the committee shall 
 be called by the secretary, upon written request of any two members or upon the 
 request of the secretary of the state board of health. 
 
 2. The committee shall, from time to time, adopt rules not inconsistent with 
 this act to govern its proceedings, also for the examination of applicants for regis- 
 tration, may amend or repeal such rules, may recommend courses of instruction for 
 the guidance of training-schools, subject to the approval of the state board of 
 health. Immediately upon the adoption of any rule or recommendation the 
 committee shall file with the secretary of the state board of health a certificate 
 thereof, setting out therein a copy of such rule or recommendation, or in case of the 
 amendment or repeal of a rule, setting out fully such fact. The secretary of the 
 state board of health shall immediately publish such certificate in at least one 
 journal devoted to the interests of professional nursing. 
 
 3. Each member of the committee shall receive a compensation of five 
 dollars and expenses for each day in which such member is actually engaged in 
 attendance upon the meetings of the committee, but not exceeding in all fifteen 
 days in any one year, to be audited by the secretary of the state board of health 
 and paid out of the fund hereinafter provided for. 
 
 SEC. i4oga 8. It shall be the duty of the committee of examiners to meet 
 for the purpose of holding examinations of applicants for registration, not less 
 frequently than twice every year. Notice of the tune and place of such meetings 
 shall be given to the public press, and to at least one journal devoted to the interests 
 of professional nursing, and by mail to every applicant, and to every known train- 
 ing-school in Wisconsin, at least thirty days prior to the meeting. The com- 
 mittee shall frame its own questions and conduct its own examinations. The writ- 
 ten questions and answers shall be filed with the secretary of the state board of 
 health. The applicants shall be known to the members of the examining com- 
 mittee by numbers, so that no members of the board shall be able to identify the 
 papers of any applicant until they have been graded and the case passed upon, and 
 all questions and answers with a grade attached shall be delivered to the secretary 
 of the state board of health, and by him preserved for at least one year. Before
 
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 any applicant shall be permitted to take such examination she shall pay to the 
 secretary of the state board of health an examination fee of ten dollars. No 
 person shall be granted a license, except as herein provided, to practice nursing until 
 she has passed a satisfactory examination before the examining committee, ap- 
 pointed for the purpose by the state board of health, nor until she has filed with 
 said board a certificate signed by at least three members of the Examining Com- 
 mittee, stating that they have found her qualified to practice. Before the appli- 
 cant is granted a license, she shall also file with the secretary of the state board of 
 health, on blanks furnished by said board, a statement, giving her name, place of 
 birth, and present residence. All written questions for the examination of nurses 
 shall be approved by the executive committee of the state board of health, and 
 the license to practice nursing shall be issued by the secretary of the state board 
 of health and countersigned by the president and secretary of the examining 
 committee. Any person to whom a certificate of registration shall be issued shall, 
 within thirty days thereafter, cause the same to be recorded with the county clerk 
 of the county in which such person presided at the time of the application. The 
 state board of health may revoke the license of any nurse who has been convicted 
 of unprofessional or dishonorable conduct. Said state board of health shall have 
 power to revoke any certificate of registration granted by them if said certificate was 
 obtained through error or fraud, or if the recipient thereof is shown to be grossly 
 incompetent in the practice of nursing; and provided, further, that before any cer- 
 tificate shall be revoked, the holder thereof shall have notice in writing, enumerating 
 the charges against her, and at a specified date named therein, not less than five 
 days after the service of such notice, be given a hearing by said board and have an 
 opportunity to produce testimony in her own behalf and to confront the witnesses 
 testifying in said matter. Any person whose certificate has been revoked for gross 
 incompetency, may, after the expiration of one year, apply to have the same re- 
 granted, and the same shall be regranted her if in the discretion of said board 
 they deem it proper. 
 
 SEC. i4O9a 9. It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person to practice, or 
 attempt to practice, in the state as a registered nurse without a certificate from the 
 state board of health. Any person who has received such certificate shall be styled 
 and known as a "registered nurse," and shall be entitled to append the letters 
 "R. N." to the name of such person. No other person shall assume or use such 
 title, or the abbreviation "R. N.," or any other words, letters, or figures to indicate 
 that such person is a registered nurse. 
 
 SEC. i4OQa 10. This act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gra- 
 tuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, nor to any person 
 nursing the sick for hire who does not in any way assume or pretend to be a registered 
 nurse, and this Act shall not be construed to interfere in any way with members 
 of religious communities or orders which have charge of hospitals or take care of the 
 sick in their own homes, provided such members do not in any way assume to be 
 registered nurses. 
 
 SEC. i4OQa ii. The state board of health shall enforce the provisions of 
 this Act, and cause the prosecution of all persons violating any of the provisions 
 thereof, and may incur necessary expenses in that behalf. The secretary of the 
 state board of health shall keep a register of the names and addresses of all nurses 
 duly registered under this act, which shall be open at all reasbnable times to public 
 inspection. He shall also keep a record of all applications for registration and a 
 detailed account of all moneys received and disbursed. All moneys shall be kept 
 as a special fund to meet the expenses of carrying out and enforcing this act and of 
 prosecuting violations thereof, and all expenses and compensations under this 
 act shall be paid from such fund, and no part thereof shall be paid out of the state 
 treasury. The secretary of the board shall make a semi-annual report of its pro- 
 ceedings under this act to the governor, and such report shall contain a true and 
 itemized account of all moneys received and disbursed under this act. Any person
 
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 violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall 
 upon conviction be fined for each offense in the sum of not less than ten dollars 
 nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and 
 publication. 
 
 WYOMING 
 
 AN ACT TO PROVIDE AND REGULATE THE EXAMINATION AND REGISTRATION OF NURSES 
 AND THE PRACTICE OF NURSING 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming: 
 EXAMINER. 
 
 SECTION i. Upon the taking effect of this Act, the Wyoming State Nurses' 
 Association shall nominate for examiners five of their members, who shall have had 
 not less than three years' experience in their profession, as candidates, and at each 
 annual meeting thereafter shall nominate two other candidates. The Governor 
 shall appoint a Board of three examiners from such list. When the first appoint- 
 ment is made, one member of said Board shall be appointed for one year, one for 
 two years, and one for three years, and thereafter all appointments shall be made 
 for a term of three years, except an appointment for an unexpired term, which shall 
 be made for only such unexpired term. All vacancies in said Board, caused by 
 death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by the Governor, in the same manner 
 as an original appointment and for the time herein mentioned. 
 
 MEET AND ORGANIZE. 
 
 SEC. 2. The members of the said Board of Examiners shall meet and organize 
 as soon as practicable after their appointment, by taking an oath faithfully to dis- 
 charge the duties of their office, which oath shall be filed with the Secretary of State, 
 and by the election of a president, vice-president, and secretary. Said Board of 
 Examiners may, from time to time, adopt such rules and regulations as shall be 
 deemed necessary in the performance of their duties, consistent with the require- 
 ments of this Act. It may adopt a seal, and the secretary shall have the care and 
 custody thereof. The secretary shall keep a record of all the proceedings of the 
 Board of Examiners, including a register of the names and addresses of all nurses 
 duly registered under this Act, which shall be open at all times to public inspection. 
 The Board shall cause the prosecution of any person violating this Act, and may 
 incur necessary expenses in that behalf. Each member of the Board shall receive 
 a compensation of five ($5.00) dollars per day or for each fraction of a day in which 
 each member is actually engaged in the attendance upon the meetings of the Board, 
 and in going to and coming from the place of meeting, and all the legitimate and 
 necessary expenses incurred in attending such meetings; all such compensation and 
 expenses to be paid out of the " Nurses' Fund," by warrants drawn by the State Audi- 
 tor upon there being filed with the State Auditor a certificate to be signed by the 
 president, or vice-president, and secretary of the Board, with the seal of the Board 
 attached, showing the amount itemized to which each member is entitled. 
 
 FEES. 
 
 SEC. 3. The fees received by the Board of Examiners herein specified, from 
 examination or otherwise, shall be paid to the State Treasurer, and shall be kept in 
 a fund known as the "Nurses' Fund," and shall be subject at all times to the warrant 
 of the State Auditor drawn upon written requisition of the president or vice-presi- 
 dent and attested by the secretary of said Board of Examiners, with seal attached, 
 for the payment of any expenses made by said Board. The secretary shall make, 
 on or before January ist of each year, a report to the Governor of the State, con- 
 taining a true and correct account of all moneys received and ordered disbursed by
 
 144 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 the Board. Any expense incurred in making said report and any other necessary 
 expenses of the said Board shall be paid out of the said fund. 
 
 QUORUM. 
 
 SEC. 4. Two members of the Board shall constitute a quorum. Special meet- 
 ings of the Board shall be called by the secretary upon written request of any other 
 member. The Board shall from time to time adopt rules for the examination of 
 applicants for registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and shall 
 from time to tune adopt rules by which to establish a uniform and reasonable 
 standard of instruction and training to be observed by training-schools, and shall 
 determine the reputability of such schools by reference to their compliance with such 
 rules, and in like manner may from time to time amend, modify, and repeal such rules. 
 The Board shall immediately upon the election of an officer file with the Secretary 
 of State a certificate thereof, giving the name and address of such officer, and im- 
 mediately, upon the adoption of any rule, shall file with the Secretary of State a 
 certificate thereof, setting out therein a copy of such rule, or in case of the repeal of 
 a rule setting out fully such fact, and shall immediately publish such certificate in 
 at least one journal devoted to the interests of professional nursing and mail a copy 
 of such certificate to every applicant at the address appearing upon the records of 
 the Board and to every reputable training-school hi the State of Wyoming. 
 
 DUTY OF BOARD. 
 
 SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Board to meet for the purpose of holding 
 examinations once hi every year. Notice of such meetings shall be given to the 
 public press and to at least one journal devoted to the interests of professional 
 nursing and by mail to every applicant, and to every reputable training-school in 
 Wyoming at least thirty days prior to the meeting. At such meetings it shall be 
 the duty of the Board to examine all such applicants for registration under this Act 
 as are required to be examined, and to issue to each duly qualified applicant who 
 shall have complied with the pertinent provisions of this Act the certificate provided 
 for in this Act. Any person to whom a certificate of registration shall be issued shall 
 within ninety (90) days thereafter cause the same to be recorded with the County 
 Clerk of the county in which such person resided at the time of application. Such 
 person shall be prepared whenever requested to exhibit such certificate of registra- 
 tion or a certified copy thereof. 
 
 AGE. 
 
 SEC. 6. Every applicant for registration shall be at least twenty-one (21) 
 years old, of good moral character, and shall possess such further qualifications as 
 may be prescribed from tune to tune by the Board by rule: provided, that no such 
 rule shall be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act relating to those who shall 
 make application prior to July i, 1910. Every applicant shall make such proof of 
 the necessary qualifications as shall satisfy the Board thereof. Every application 
 shall be made in writing in the true name of the applicant, in such form as may from 
 time to tune be prescribed by the Board, and shall state the place of residence of 
 and be signed by the applicant. The fee for acting on an application shall be ten 
 ($10.00) dollars and shall accompany the application, but every subsequent appli- 
 cation of the same person shall be acted on without fee. 
 
 ENTITLED TO REGISTRATION. 
 
 SEC. 7. Upon compliance with the pertinent provisions of this Act, nurses 
 otherwise qualified shall be entitled to registration as follows: First, without ex- 
 amination, provided they make application prior to July i, 1910; (a) nurses who 
 shall have graduated before said date from a training-school which is connected with 
 a general hospital and which shall be registered by the Examining Board, provided,
 
 FULL TEXT OF LAWS 145 
 
 such nurses so applying shall have received a course of at least two years' training 
 in such training-schools, and provided further , That no training-school shall be regis- 
 tered by said Examining Board unless such school maintains proper educational 
 standards, and unless it gives not less than two years' training in a general hospital, 
 or its equivalent; (b) nurses who shall have graduated on or prior to January i , 1 897, 
 from a reputable training-school connected with a general hospital, who at the tune 
 of graduation shall have received a course of one year's training in such training- 
 school, and who at the time of application shall have been engaged in nursing five 
 years since their graduation; (c) nurses now in training in a training-school, regis- 
 tered hereafter by the Examining Board and connected with a general hospital, 
 which now gives a course of at least two years' training; provided, the applicants 
 graduate therefrom. Second, nurses who shall make application on or after July i, 
 1910, and who at the time of application shall have graduated from a training- 
 school, connected with a general hospital, registered by said Examining Board and 
 requiring a systematic course of at least two years' training; provided, such appli- 
 cants shall pass an examination to be prescribed by said Board, to determine their 
 fitness and ability to give efficient care to the sick. Third, nurses who shall make 
 application on or after July i, 1910, and who at the time of application shall have 
 graduated from a reputable training-school connected with a special hospital, 
 requiring a systematic course of at least two years' training, and who at the time of 
 application shall have obtained in a reputable general hospital one (i) year's 
 additional training in subjects not adequately taught in the training-school from 
 which they graduated, and shall pass an examination to determine their fitness and 
 ability to give efficient care to the sick. 
 
 UNLAWFUL. 
 
 SEC. 8. It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person to practice or attempt to 
 practice in this State as a graduate, trained, or registered nurse without a certificate 
 from the Board. Any person who has received such a certificate shall be styled and 
 known as a Registered Nurse, and shall be entitled to append the letters "R. N." 
 to the name of such person. No other persons shall assume or use such title or the 
 abbreviation "R. N." or any other words, letters, or figures to indicate that such 
 person is a Registered, Trained, or Graduate Nurse. 
 
 NOT CONSTRUED. 
 
 SEC. 9. This Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous 
 nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, nor to any person nursing 
 the sick for hire who does not in any way assume or pretend to be a registered 
 or graduate nurse, and this Act shall not be construed to interfere in any way with 
 members of religious communities or orders which have charge of hospitals or take 
 care of the sick in their own homes; provided, such members do not in any way as- 
 sume to be Registered Nurses. 
 
 UPON PAYMENT. 
 
 SEC. 10. The Board, upon written application and upon the payment of ten 
 ($10.00) dollars as a registration fee, may issue a certificate without examination to 
 those who shall have been registered as registered nurses under the law of another 
 State having requirements equivalent to those of Wyoming. 
 
 MISDEMEANOR. 
 
 SEC. n. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be fined for each offense, in a sum not 
 less than ten ($10.00) dollars nor more than two hundred ($200.00) dollars for the 
 first offense, and not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars nor more than five 
 hundred ($500.00) dollars for each subsequent offense. Any person who shall 
 
 10
 
 146 STATE REGISTRATION FOR NURSES 
 
 wilfully make any false representation to the Board in applying for a license shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum not less 
 than one hundred ($100.00) dollars nor more than two hundred ($200.00) dollars. 
 
 ATTESTED BY. 
 
 SEC. 12. All certificates issued by the Board shall be signed by all members 
 thereof, and shall be attested by the president and secretary. 
 
 MAY REVOKE. 
 
 SEC. 13. The Board may revoke any certificate by a unanimous vote for dis- 
 honesty, gross incompetency, a habit rendering a nurse unsafe to be entrusted with 
 or unfit for the care of the sick, conduct derogatory to the morals or standing of the 
 profession of nursing, or any wilful fraud or misrepresentation practised in procuring 
 such certificate; Pro-aided, the holder of such certificate shall have been given at 
 least thirty (30) days' notice in writing of the specific charges against such holder, 
 and of the time and place of hearing the charge by the Board, at which time and 
 place the holder shall be entitled to be heard and to be represented by counsel. 
 Upon the revocation of any certificate the same shall be null and void; the holder 
 thereof shall cease to be entitled to any of the privileges conferred by such certifi- 
 cate, and it shall be the duty of the secretary of the Board to strike the name of the 
 holder thereof from the roll of registered nurses, and to give notice of such revoca- 
 tion to the county clerk in whose office such certificate is recorded, and thereupon 
 such county clerk shall note the fact of such revocation upon the record of such 
 certificate. 
 
 No AUTHORITY. 
 
 SEC. 14. Nothing contained in this Act shall be considered as conferring any 
 authority to practice medicine or undertake the treatment or cure of disease in vio- 
 lation of the laws relating to the-practice of medicine of this State. 
 
 SEC. 15. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGES 
 
 ALABAMA 3, 17, 36, 52, 54 
 
 APPOINTIVE POWER OF BOARDS 3-16 
 
 ARKANSAS 3, 17, 36, 41, 42, 46, 51, 54-58 
 
 BOARD OF NURSE EXAMINERS, STATE STATE, APPOINTIVE POWER, TERM, 
 MEETINGS, NOTICE OF MEETINGS, OFFICERS, DUTIES OF BOARD, MIS- 
 CELLANEOUS 3-16 
 
 CALIFORNIA 4, 17, 36, 41, 42, 46, 51, 52, 58-60 
 
 CAUSES AND RESULTS OF REVOCATION 46-50 
 
 CERTIFICATES, RECORDING 52 
 
 COLORADO 4, 18, 36, 41, 42, 46, 51, 52, 60, 61 
 
 COMMON TO BOTH, REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 17-36 
 
 COMPULSORY LAWS 51, 52 
 
 CONNECTICUT 4, 18, 36, 41, 42, 46, 51, 52, 62-64 
 
 DELAWARE 4, 19, 37, 41, 42, 46, 51, 52, 64, 65 
 
 DISPOSITION OF REGISTRATION FEE 36-40 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 5, 19, 37, 41, 42, 46, 51, 65-67 
 
 DUTIES OF BOARD 3-16 
 
 EXAMINERS, STATE BOARD OF NURSE STATE, APPOINTIVE POWER, TERM, 
 MEETINGS, NOTICE OF MEETINGS, OFFICERS, DUTIES OF BOARD, MISCEL- 
 LANEOUS 3-16 
 
 EXEMPTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 41 
 
 FEE FOR REGISTRATION 36-40 
 
 FEES AND THEIR DISPOSITION 36-40 
 
 FINE FOR VIOLATION . 42-45 
 
 FLORIDA 5, 19, 37, 41, 42, 46, 51, 53, 6*7-69 
 
 FULL TEXT OF LAWS 54-146 
 
 GEORGIA 5, 20, 37, 41, 42, 46, 51, 69-71 
 
 IDAHO 6, 21, 37, 41, 42, 46, 51, 71-74 
 
 ILLINOIS 6, 21, 37, 41, 42, 47, 51, 53, 74-79 
 
 147
 
 148 INDEX 
 
 PAGES 
 
 IMPRISONMENT FOR VIOLATION 42-45 
 
 INDIANA 6, 22, 37, 41, 42, 47, 51, 52, 79-81 
 
 INTRODUCTION i, 2 
 
 IowA 7, 23, 37, 41, 42, 47, 51, 52, 82, 83 
 
 KANSAS...... . 7, 23, 37, 41, 42, 47, 51, 53, 83-86 
 
 KENTUCKY... . 7, 24, 38, 41, 43, 47, 51, 53, 86-89 
 
 LAWS, COMPULSORY 51, 52 
 
 LAWS, FULL TEXT OF 54-146 
 
 LOUISIANA. . . .8, 25, 38, 41, 43, 47, 51, 89-91 
 
 MARYLAND. ... 8, 25, 38, 41, 43, 47, 51, 91-93 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS. . . 8, 26, 38, 41, 43, 47, 51, 93-95 
 
 MEETINGS OF BOARD 3-16 
 
 MICHIGAN . 9, 26, 38, 41, 43, 48, 53, 95-98 
 
 MINNESOTA. ... 9, 27, 38, 41, 43, 48, 51, 98-100 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS 52, 53 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS, STATE BOARD OF NURSE EXAMINERS 3-16 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS VIOLATIONS 42-45 
 
 MISSISSIPPI 9, 27, 38, 41, 43, 48, 51, 53, 100-103 
 
 MISSOURI 10, 28, 39, 41, 43, 48, 51, 103-105 
 
 MONTANA 10, 28, 39, 41, 43, 48, 51, 53, 106-109 
 
 NATURE OF CRIME, VIOLATIONS 42-45 
 
 NEBRASKA 10, 29, 39, 41, 43, 48, 51, 109-111 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE n, 29, 39, 41, 44, 48, 51, in, 112 
 
 NEW JERSEY u, 30, 39, 41, 44, 48, 51, 113-115 
 
 NEW YORK 12, 30, 39, 41, 44, 49, 51, 115, 116 
 
 NORTH CAROLINA 12, 30, 39, 41, 44, 49, 51, 116, 117 
 
 NOTICE FOR REVOCATION 46-50 
 
 NURSE EXAMINERS, STATE BOARD OF STATE, APPOINTIVE POWER, TERM, 
 MEETINGS, NOTICE OF MEETINGS, OFFICERS, DUTIES OF BOARD, MIS- 
 CELLANEOUS 3-16 
 
 OFFICERS OF BOARD 3-16 
 
 OKLAHOMA 12, 31, 39, 41, 44, 49, 51, 53, 118, 119 
 
 OREGON 12, 31, 39, 41, 44, 49, 51, 53, 119-121 
 
 PENNSYLVANIA 13, 32, 39, 41, 44, 49, 51, 122-124 
 
 PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS 124-126 
 
 RECIPROCITY 51 
 
 RECORDING CERTIFICATES 52
 
 INDEX 149 
 
 PAGES 
 
 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS WITHOUT EXAMINATION, WITH EXAMINA- 
 TION, COMMON TO BOTH 17-36 
 
 RESTRICTIONS, EXEMPTIONS AND 41 
 
 REVOCATION STATE, NOTICE, VOTE OF BOARD, CAUSES AND RESULTS .... 46-50 
 
 RHODE ISLAND 13, 32, 40, 41, 44, 49, 51, 53, 124-126 
 
 SOUTH CAROLINA 14, 32, 40, 41, 44, 49, 51, 53, 126-128 
 
 STATE BOARD OF NURSE EXAMINERS STATE, APPOINTIVE POWER, TERM, 
 MEETINGS, NOTICE OF MEETINGS, OFFICERS, DUTIES OF BOARD, MIS- 
 CELLANEOUS 3-16 
 
 TENNESSEE 14, 32, 40, 41, 44, 49, 51, 128-131 
 
 TERM OF BOARD MEMBERS 3-16 
 
 TEXAS . 14, 33, 40, 41, 45, 50, 51, 131-133 
 
 TEXT OF LAWS, FULL 54-146 
 
 VERMONT 15, 33, 40, 41, 45, 50, 51, 133-135 
 
 VIOLATIONS STATE, NATURE OF CRIME, FINE, IMPRISONMENT, MISCEL- 
 LANEOUS 42-45 
 
 VIRGINIA 15, 34, 40, 41, 45, 50, 51, 135-137 
 
 VOTE OF BOARD FOR REVOCATION 46-50 
 
 WASHINGTON 15, 34, 40, 41, 45, 50, 51, 137, 138 
 
 WEST VIRGINIA 16, 34, 40, 41, 45, 50, 51, 138-140 
 
 WISCONSIN 16, 35, 40, 41, 45, 50, 51, 53, 140-143 
 
 WITH EXAMINATION FOR REGISTRATION 17-36 
 
 WITHOUT EXAMINATION FOR REGISTRATION 17-36 
 
 WYOMING 16, 35, 40, 41, 45, 50, 51, 143-146
 
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