Conn. Gen. Stat. § 20-86b

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.

Section 20-86b - Scope of practice

Nurse-midwives shall practice within a health care system or birth center and have clinical relationships with obstetrician-gynecologists that provide for consultation, collaborative management or referral, as indicated by the health status of the patient. Nurse-midwifery care shall be consistent with the standards of care established by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education. Each nurse-midwife shall provide each patient with information regarding, or referral to, other providers and services upon request of the patient or when the care required by the patient is not within the midwife's scope of practice. Each nurse-midwife shall sign the birth certificate of each infant delivered by the nurse-midwife. If an infant is born alive and then dies within the twenty-four-hour period after birth, the nurse-midwife may make the actual determination and pronouncement of death provided:

(1) The death is an anticipated death;

(2) the nurse-midwife attests to such pronouncement on the certificate of death; and

(3) the nurse-midwife or a physician licensed pursuant to chapter 370 certifies the certificate of death not later than twenty-four hours after such pronouncement. In a case of fetal death, as described in section 7-60, the nurse-midwife who delivered the fetus may make the actual determination of fetal death and certify the date of delivery and that the fetus was born dead.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 20-86b

(P.A. 83-441, S. 2, 10; P.A. 89-389, S. 8, 22; P.A. 93-381 , S. 9 , 39 ; P.A. 95-257 , S. 12 , 21 , 58 ; P.A. 04-221 , S. 28 ; P.A. 05-272 , S. 19 ; P.A. 06-195 , S. 37 ; P.A. 07-79 , S. 4 ; P.A. 16-66 , S. 16 .)

Amended by P.A. 23-0147,S. 4 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2023 Regular Session, eff. 1/1/2024.

Amended by P.A. 16-0066, S. 16 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2016 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2016.