Section 308 – Exemptions from licensure.

• (1) In addition to the exemptions from licensure in Section 58-1-307, the following persons may engage in acts included within the definition of the practice of nursing, subject to the stated circumstances and limitations, without being licensed under this chapter:
  • (a) friends, family members, foster parents, or legal guardians of a patient performing gratuitous nursing care for the patient;
  • (b) persons providing care in a medical emergency;
  • (c) persons engaged in the practice of religious tenets of a church or religious denomination; and
  • (d) after July 1, 2000, a person licensed to practice nursing by a jurisdiction that has joined the Nurse Licensure Compact – Revised to the extent permitted by Section 58-31e-102.

• (2) Notwithstanding Subsection (1)(d), the division may, in accordance with Section 58-31e-102, limit or revoke practice privileges in this state of a person licensed to practice nursing by a jurisdiction that has joined the Nurse Licensing Compact.

Amended by Chapter 136, 2019 General Session