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2025-41 - Regional Health Authorities Act

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NEW BRUNSWICK
REGULATION 2025-41
under the
Regional Health Authorities Act
(O.C. 2025-182)
Filed October 29, 2025
1The heading “Citation” preceding section 1 of the French version of New Brunswick Regulation 2002-27 under the Regional Health Authorities Act is repealed and the following is substituted:
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2Section 2 of the Regulation is amended
(a) in the definition “privileges” by repealing paragraph (c.1) and substituting the following:
(c.1) a nurse practitioner
(i) to admit a patient to the extra-mural service delivered by a regional health authority or by a person under an agreement with the Minister,
(ii) in the case of a person requiring family medicine care, to admit the person to a hospital facility, to render health care to the patient and to discharge the patient from a hospital facility,
(iii) in the case of an alternative level of care patient, to render health care to the patient and to discharge the patient from a hospital facility, and
(iv) to use the diagnostic services in a hospital facility or a community health centre for the care of a patient, or
(b) in the French version in the definition « sage-femme » by striking out the period at the end of the definition and substituting a semicolon;
(c) by adding the following definitions in alphabetical order:
“alternative level of care patient” means a person who is no longer required to remain as a patient in a hospital facility for medical reasons but who remains a patient in the hospital facility; (patient en attente d’un autre niveau de soins)
“family medicine care” means care provided through the family medicine unit of a hospital facility; (soins en médecine familiale)
“nurse practitioner” means a person who is registered under the laws of the Province as authorized to practise as a nurse practitioner; (infirmière praticienne)