Florida Statute 464.001 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 464
NURSING

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464.001 Short title.—This part may be cited as the “Nurse Practice Act.”

History.—ss. 1, 6, ch. 79-225; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 1, 17, 18, ch. 86-284; s. 58, ch. 91-137; s. 5, ch. 91-156; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 119, ch. 2000-318.

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Antonio F. Defilippo M.D. & South Florida Psychiatric Servs., Inc. v. Gregory H. Curtin, 255 So. 3d 351 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

...Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc., 622 So. 2d 1085, 1090 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993) (emphasis added). In my opinion, section 464.012 does not create a duty of care upon physicians, because physicians’ behavior is not the subject of section 464.012. Chapter 464 is entitled “Nursing.” Section 464.001, Florida Statutes (2011), states that chapter 464’s Part I is entitled the “Nurse Practice Act.” Section 464.002, Florida Statutes (2011), states: The sole legislative purpose in enacting this part is to ensure that...

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Antonio F. Defilippo M.D. & South Florida Psychiatric Servs., Inc. v. Gregory H. Curtin (Fla. 4th DCA 2018).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

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