NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 524

SENATE BILL 211

AN ACT PERTAINING TO THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO INSTRUCT PERSONS STUDYING TO BECOME REGISTERED NURSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or any rule or regulation of the North Carolina Board of Nursing, where an instructor is otherwise unavailable, any registered nurse who is a graduate of a diploma school of nursing and who has been teaching nurses for five years or more and who is otherwise qualified shall be entitled to be an instructor on the floors of an educational unit in nursing and shall also be entitled to be an assistant instructor in the classrooms of an educational unit in nursing; provided that the North Carolina Board of Nursing may require such instructors to attend annual nursing workshops. On occasions when sickness or leave of absence of B.S. Degree nurses makes it impossible for her to teach, the R.N. Nurse can act as classroom instructor. For the purposes of this Act, "unavailable" shall mean that an educational unit in nursing has been unable,' after a bona fide continuing effort, to employ sufficient registered nurses with H.B.S. or M.S. Degrees to act as instructors on all floors and in all classrooms of the unit at all times when persons are studying nursing and taking training to be registered nurses.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1969.