Margaret A. Walsh

 

 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Board of Nursing

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Nursing has received a Petition for Declaratory Statement filed by Margaret M. Walsh, on July 15, 2013.The Petitioner seeks a Declaratory Statement from the Board with regard to Section 464.012(4)(c) (5), and seeks the agency's opinion as it applies to the petitioner. The petitioner is seeking the Board’s interpretation as to whether a CNS  may diagnose human responses to actual or potential behavioral health problems, implement therapeutic interventions without entering into a supervisor relationship or a protocol with a physician and not be subject to discipline for acts performed within the scope of practice of her CNS certification. The board will address this at the next available board meeting.

Except for good cause shown, motions for leave to intervene must be filed within 21 days after the publication of this notice. A copy of the Petition for Declaratory Statement may be obtained by contacting: Joe R. Baker, Jr., Executive Director, Board of Nursing, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C02, Tallahassee, Florida 32399, [e-mail], or by telephone at [phone]