This chapter is not applicable to and does not restrict or limit:

1. A. Other health care practitioners who are authorized to perform these duties under their respective acts;
2. B. The provision of gratuitous care by self, family, or friends;
3. C. A nurse from delegating a nursing task to an unlicensed individual if acceptance of delegated nursing tasks does not become a routine part of the unlicensed individual’s job duties; or
4. D. A cognitively capable adult from employing an unlicensed caregiver in the adult’s home to assist the adult in treatments of a routine nature and in self-administration of medication.

Authority: Health Occupations Article, §§8-205(a)(1) and (2) and 8-6A-05(a)(1), Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: November 15, 2010 (37:23 Md. R. 1611)