Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 26. NURSES · Article 1. GEORGIA REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE PRACTICE ACT

43-26-2. Legislative intent.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

The purpose of this article is to protect, promote, and preserve the public health, safety, and welfare through legislative regulation and control of registered professional nursing education and practice. This article ensures that any person practicing or offering to practice nursing or using the title registered professional nurse, as defined in this article, within the State of Georgia, shall be licensed as provided in this article.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 43-26-2, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 747, § 1.

For application of this statute in 2021, see Executive Orders 01.22.21.07, 06.30.21.02, 07.22.21.02, 08.19.21.02, and 09.20.21.02.

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