HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 63B
   
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Senate House
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12          Representative Ambler offered the following:
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14          Amendment (with title amendment)
15          Remove line(s) 2266-2277, and insert:
16          Section 47. Section 1004.085, Florida Statutes, is created
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18          1004.085 Informed consent standardization project.--Every
19    public school, college, and university that offers degrees in
20    medicine, nursing, and allied health shall work with the Agency
21    for Health Care Administration to develop bilingual, multimedia
22    methods for communicating the risks of treatment options for
23    medical procedures. Such materials shall be provided to patients
24    and their families in an effort to educate them and to obtain
25    the informed consent to prescribe a treatment procedure. The
26    agency shall develop a list of treatment procedures based on
27    significance of risk and frequency of performance.
28          Section 48. Section 1005.07, Florida Statutes, is created
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30          1005.07 Patient safety instructional requirements.--Every
31    nonpublic school, college, and university that offers degrees in
32    medicine, nursing, and allied health shall include in the
33    curricula applicable to such degrees material on patient safety,
34    including patient safety improvement. Materials shall include,
35    but need not be limited to, effective communication and
36    teamwork; epidemiology of patient injuries and medical errors;
37    vigilance, attention, and fatigue; checklists and inspections;
38    automation and technological and computer support; psychological
39    factors in human error; and reporting systems.
40          Section 49. Section 1005.075, Florida Statutes, is created
41    to read:
42          1005.075 Informed consent standardization project.--Every
43    nonpublic school, college, and university that offers degrees in
44    medicine, nursing, and allied health shall work with the Agency
45    for Health Care Administration to develop bilingual, multimedia
46    methods for communicating the risks of treatment options for
47    medical procedures. Such materials shall be provided to patients
48    and their families in an effort to educate them and to obtain
49    the informed consent to prescribe a treatment procedure. The
50    agency shall develop a list of treatment procedures based on
51    significance of risk and frequency of performance.
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55          Remove line(s) 188-190, and insert:
56          universities; creating s. 1004.085, F.S.; requiring certain
57    public schools to assist the Agency for Health Care
58    Administration in the development of information to be provided
59    to patients and their families on risks of treatment options to
60    assist in receiving informed consent; creating s. 1005.07, F.S.;
61    requiring patient safety instruction for certain students in
62    nonpublic schools, colleges, and universities; creating s.
63    1005.075, F.S.; requiring certain nonpublic schools to assist
64    the Agency for Health Care Administration in the development of
65    information to be provided to patients and their families on
66    risks of treatment options to assist in receiving informed
67    consent; requiring the