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...nal license to practice as a registered nurse or as a licensed practical nurse issued pursuant to section 4723.09 of the Revised Code. The board of nursing may charge a fee in excess of the traditional license fee for issuance of a multistate license. The board shall not pass along to a traditional license applicant or holder any costs associated with entering into or administering the "Nurse Licensure Compact" under...

...The Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators, in providing an opportunity to comment on a proposed rule as set forth in article VIII.g. of the "Nurse Licensure Compact" entered into under section 4723.11 of the Revised Code, shall provide the opportunity to comment orally via teleconference.

...ity for the provision of services by, a nurse holding a multistate license to practice registered or licensed practical nursing issued pursuant to section 4723.11 of the Revised Code shall do both of the following if the nurse's home state, as defined in that section, is not Ohio: (1) Report to the board of nursing the number of nurses holding multistate licenses who are employed by, or providing services for, the ...

...nal license to practice as a registered nurse or as a licensed practical nurse issued pursuant to section 4723.09 of the Revised Code meets the educational requirements of that section; (2) Whether a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse holding a license to practice issued pursuant to section 4723.09 of the Revised Code has completed the continuing education required for renewal as described in section 4723...

...The board of nursing may accept grant money from the national council of state boards of nursing to assist in the implementation of sections 4723.11 and 4723.111 of the Revised Code.

...ce professional nursing as a registered nurse issued by the state nurses board or the board of nursing education and nurse registration under former provisions of this chapter or by the nurses' examining committee of the state medical board as provided in former sections 1295-01 to 1295-20 and 1347 et seq. of the General Code shall remain valid and shall confer the same privileges and impose the same responsibilities...

... or surgery or any of its branches by a nurse are prohibited. (B) Division (A) of this section does not prohibit a certified registered nurse anesthetist, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner from practicing within the nurse's scope of practice in accordance with section 4723.43 of the Revised Code. (C) Notwithstanding division (B) of this section, nothing in this chap...

...the practice of nursing as a registered nurse, advanced practice registered nurse, or licensed practical nurse may render the professional services of a registered, advanced practice registered, or licensed practical nurse within this state through a corporation formed under division (B) of section 1701.03 of the Revised Code, a limited liability company formed under former Chapter 1705. of the Revised Code as that c...

...) of this section, a licensed practical nurse may perform intravenous therapy on an adult patient only at the direction of one of the following: (1) A physician, physician assistant, dentist, optometrist, or podiatrist who is authorized to practice in this state and, except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, is present and readily available at the facility where the intravenous therapy procedure is per...

...(A) A licensed practical nurse may perform on any person any of the intravenous therapy procedures specified in division (B) of this section if both of the following apply: (1) The licensed practical nurse acts at the direction of a registered nurse or a physician, physician assistant, dentist, optometrist, or podiatrist who is authorized to practice in this state and the registered nurse, physician, physician assi...

...nse to practice nursing as a registered nurse is subject to renewal in odd-numbered years. An application for renewal of the license is due on the fifteenth day of September of the renewal year. A late application may be submitted before the license lapses. If a license is not renewed or classified as inactive, the license lapses on the first day of November of the renewal year. (b) An active license to practice nur...

....07 of the Revised Code and that assist nurses in recognizing the signs of domestic violence and its relationship to child abuse. Nurses are not required to take the courses.

...(A) Upon request of the holder of a nursing license, dialysis technician certificate, medication aide certificate, or community health worker certificate issued under this chapter, the presentment of proper identification as prescribed in rules adopted by the board of nursing, and payment of the fee authorized under section 4723.08 of the Revised Code, the board of nursing shall provide to the requestor a replacement...

...re; (20) In the case of a registered nurse, engaging in activities that exceed the practice of nursing as a registered nurse; (21) In the case of a licensed practical nurse, engaging in activities that exceed the practice of nursing as a licensed practical nurse; (22) In the case of a dialysis technician, engaging in activities that exceed those permitted under section 4723.72 of the Revised Code; (23) Ai...

...(A) As used in this section, with regard to offenses committed in Ohio, "aggravated murder," "murder," "voluntary manslaughter," "felonious assault," "kidnapping," "rape," "sexual battery," "gross sexual imposition," "aggravated arson," "aggravated robbery," and "aggravated burglary" mean such offenses as defined in Title XXIX of the Revised Code; with regard to offenses committed in other jurisdictions, the terms me...

...(A) As used in this section, "practice deficiency" means any activity that does not meet acceptable and prevailing standards of safe and effective nursing care or dialysis care. (B) The board of nursing may abstain from taking disciplinary action under section 4723.28 of the Revised Code against the holder of a license or certificate issued under this chapter who has a practice deficiency that has been identified by...

...In addition to the powers conferred upon the board of nursing by Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the board may subpoena witnesses and require their attendance, require the testimony of witnesses and require the production by witnesses of books, papers, public records, and other documentary evidence, and examine them as it may require in relation to any matter which it has authority to investigate, inquire into, o...

...s under the supervision of a registered nurse serving for the program as a faculty member or teaching assistant. (B) The rendering of medical assistance to a licensed physician, licensed dentist, or licensed podiatrist by a person under the direction, supervision, and control of such licensed physician, dentist, or podiatrist; (C) The activities of persons employed as nursing aides, attendants, orderlies, or othe...

...A registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, dialysis technician, community health worker, or medication aide who in good faith makes a report under this chapter or any other provision of the Revised Code regarding a violation of this chapter or any other provision of the Revised Code, or participates in any investigation, administrative proceeding, or judicial proceeding resulting from the report, has the full pro...

...he provision of services by, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, nurses holding multistate licenses to practice registered or licensed practical nursing issued pursuant to section 4723.11 of the Revised Code, dialysis technicians, medication aides, or certified community health workers and that knows or has reason to believe that a current or former employee or person providing services under a contract who...

... professional association of registered nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, dialysis technicians, community health workers, or medication aides that sponsors a committee or program to provide peer assistance to individuals with substance abuse problems, no representative or agent of such a committee or program, and no member of the board of nursing shall be liable to any person for...

...his chapter to practice as a registered nurse, including as an advanced practice registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, dialysis technician, community health worker, or medication aide. (B) The board of nursing shall establish the safe haven program to monitor applicants and practitioners who are or may be impaired, but against whom the board has abstained from taking disciplinary action. The program is to be ...

...(A) To be qualified to contract with the board of nursing to conduct the safe haven program, an organization must meet all of the following requirements: (1) Operate in this state as a professionals health program; (2) Be organized as a not-for-profit entity and exempt from federal income taxation under subsection 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; (3) Contract with or employ to serve as the organization's...

...(A) A certified nurse-midwife, certified nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist may determine and pronounce an individual's death. (B)(1) A registered nurse who is not described in division (A) of this section may determine and pronounce an individual's death, but only if the individual's respiratory and circulatory functions are not being artificially sustained and, at the time the determination and pron...

...(A) Through the attorney general or an appropriate prosecuting attorney, the board of nursing may apply to an appropriate court for an order enjoining the unauthorized practice of nursing or any other violation of this chapter. On the filing of a verified petition, the court shall conduct a hearing on the petition and give the same preference to the proceeding as is given all proceedings under Chapter 119. of the Rev...

...The board of education of each school district wherein the provisions of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code do not apply and the governing board of each educational service center may adopt a resolution ordering reasonable reductions in the number of nonteaching employees for any of the reasons for which the board of education or governing board may make reductions in teaching employees, as set forth in division (B) of...

...(A) The superintendent of each school district shall assign teachers to positions based on the best interests of the students enrolled in the district. In assigning, reassigning, or transferring a teacher, whether voluntary or involuntary on the part of the teacher, the superintendent shall not use seniority or continuing contract status as the primary factor in determining the teacher's assignment. (B) Notwithsta...

...If an entire school district or that part of a school district which comprises the territory in which a school is situated is transferred to any other district, or if a new school district is created, the teachers in such districts or schools employed on continuing contracts immediately prior to such transfer, or creation shall, subject to section 3311.83, 3319.17, or 3319.171 of the Revised Code, have continui...

...If an entire school district or that part of a school district which comprises the territory in which a school is situated is transferred to any other district, or if a new school district is created, the nonteaching school employees in such district or school immediately prior to such transfer or creation shall have civil service status in the newly created district, or in the district to which the territory is tran...

...(A) Whenever an employee of a board of education, other than an employee who is a license holder to whom section 3319.52 of the Revised Code applies, is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony, a violation of section 2907.04 or 2907.06 or of division (A) or (B) of section 2907.07 of the Revised Code, an offense of violence, theft offense, or drug abuse offense that is not a minor misdemeanor, or a violation of an o...

... as a teacher or instructor in a public school to whom he is related as father, brother, mother, or sister, or acts in any matter in which he is pecuniarily interested, such contract, or such act in such matter, is void. This section does not apply where a director or a member of such board, being a shareholder of a corporation but not being an officer or director thereof, owns not in excess of five per cent of the ...

..., the state board shall cease licensing school psychologists. The state board shall coordinate with the state board of psychology to transition to licensure under Chapter 4732. of the Revised Code any school psychologists licensed under rules adopted in accordance with sections 3301.07 and 3319.22 of the Revised Code. (3) Except as provided in division (I) of this section, the state board shall adopt rules establi...

...nseling, as determined necessary by the school district or school, to ensure that program participants receive needed professional development. (3) Measures of appropriate progression through the program. The teacher evaluation system adopted under section 3319.111 of the Revised Code may be used to assess an individual participating in the teacher residency program. (B) No individual who is teaching career-tech...

... section 3319.30 of the Revised Code, a school district or educational service center may contract with a provider licensed under Chapter 4753. of the Revised Code for speech and language services or for audiology services. The contracted services shall be retained only after the district or service center has demonstrated to the department of education and workforce that attempts to obtain the services of a speech a...

... work: (1) For an unlimited number of school days if the license holder has a post-secondary degree in either education or a subject area directly related to the subject of the class the license holder will teach; (2) For one full semester, subject to the approval of the employing school district board of education, if the license holder has a post-secondary degree in a subject area that is not directly related t...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code or any rule adopted by the state board of education to the contrary, the state board shall issue a resident educator license under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code to each person who is assigned to teach in this state as a participant in the teach for America program and who satisfies the following conditions for the duration of the program: (1) Holds a...

...oyed under the provisional license by a school district; community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code; or an entity contracted by such a district or school to provide internet- or computer-based instruction or distance learning programs to students. (c) The district or school certif...

...cants for either license to have a high school diploma or a certificate of high school equivalence as awarded under section 3301.80 of the Revised Code or as recognized as the equivalent of such certificate under division (C) of that section. (C) Except as provided in division (H) of this section, the state board shall issue an initial career-technical workforce development educator license to an applicant upon re...

...cense, upon the request of an employing school district to a qualified applicant who meets all of the following requirements: (1) Is deemed to be of good moral character; (2) Is an out-of-state applicant and the holder of a valid out-of-state teaching license who has completed a baccalaureate degree, an approved teacher preparation program, and the examination prescribed by the state in which the licensure is hel...

...education permit may be employed by any school district and shall not be limited to employment solely by the district that recommended and employed that individual at the time of the initial issuance of the individual's permit. (B) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 3319.226 of the Revised Code, an individual who holds an adult education permit issued by the state board of education may be assigned...

...(c) The superintendent of the employing school district has made an informal recommendation of appointment for the individual to a position as a career-technical educator. (2) Each employing district or school shall assign a mentor to any teacher it employs to teach under this division. A license issued under this section shall be renewable only once to enable the license holder to apply for a professional career...

...o develop a training program to educate school counselors about building and construction trades career pathways. A training program developed under this section shall be completed at a building and construction trades training facility and include information about both of the following: (1) The pay and benefits available to people who work in the building and construction trades; (2) Job opportunities and ...

...A valid educator license for teaching social studies in the applicable grade shall be considered sufficient to teach the additional American history and American government content adopted under division (A)(1)(b) of section 3301.079 of the Revised Code.

...of community service education for high school credit under division (C) of section 3313.605 of the Revised Code. In addition, the department shall provide technical assistance to school districts providing community service instructional programs for teachers.

...The state board of education shall adopt standards for attaining a license for teaching students with visual disabilities that require the licensee to demonstrate competency in reading and writing braille. The standards for demonstrating competency shall be developed with reference to those adopted for transcribers by the national library service for the blind and print disabled, library of congress.

...(A) All new educator licenses issued for grades pre-kindergarten through eight shall require the applicant to attain a passing score on a rigorous examination of principles of scientifically research-based reading instruction that is aligned with the reading competencies adopted by the department of education and workforce under section 3301.077 of the Revised Code. (B) The state board shall adopt rules in accorda...

...r shall provide technical assistance to school districts wishing to establish such programs.

... division (B) or (E) of this section, a school district shall require an individual to hold a valid educator license in computer science, or have a license endorsement in computer technology and a passing score on a content examination in the area of computer science, to teach computer science courses. (B) A school district may employ an individual, for the purpose of teaching computer science courses, who holds a...

...he effective date of this section, each school district shall provide professional development or continuing education in positive behavior intervention and supports, as part of the school-wide implementation of the positive behavior intervention and supports framework required under section 3319.46 of the Revised Code, to all of the following: (1) Any of the district's teachers who teach in buildings that serve stu...

...s section, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, a school district shall require an individual to have an educator license validation in financial literacy to provide financial literacy instruction under division (C)(9) of section 3313.603 of the Revised Code. (B) To obtain a license validation in financial literacy, an individual shall hold a valid educator license issued under section 3319.22 or 3319.26 of t...