SB 1042 (Roth, D-Riverside)

SB 1042 would have required health facilities, as defined in Health and Safety Code section 1250, and clinics, as defined in Health and Safety Code sections 1200 and 1204, to report to the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) information on the number of clinical placements available. All approved nursing programs, public and private, would have been required to report their clinical placement needs. Upon request of an approved nursing program, health facilities and clinics would have been required to meet with representatives from the nursing program to work in good faith to meet the program’s needs related to educating and training nurses. The bill also would have allowed the BRN, upon request by an approved nursing program, to assist in identifying clinical placement slots to meet the program’s clinical placements needs. Hospitals could have elected to make existing or additional clinical placements slots available.