Bill > HB962

This bill allows registered nurses in Louisiana to prepare, mix, and reconstitute medications for immediate administration when following the orders of an authorized prescriber, which means a doctor or other healthcare professional legally allowed to prescribe drugs. This provision, enacted as R.S. 37:930.1, clarifies and expands the authority of nurses in administering intravenous (IV) therapy medications by enabling them to perform these preparatory steps themselves, rather than relying on others, for medications that need to be mixed or reconstituted before being given to a patient.