Also on May 13, the state Assembly approved Senate Bill 43 by voice vote.  This bill would allow advanced practice nurse prescribers (APNPs) to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death with respect to completing the death record.  However, the APNP would need to be directly involved with the care of the patient in order to prepare a death record for that individual.  WiHPCA previously decided to support this legislation.

As this legislation passed the state Senate on March 18, the next step is to send the bill to the Governor for his consideration.  Of course, further updates will be provided in this newsletter.