California Standardized Procedure for Registered Nurses

physician-delegated elective cosmetic procedure using a laser or intense pulsed light device: Available remotely (no on-site requirement)

16 CCR §1364.50 (confirmed verbatim via direct fetch): the delegating physician need not be on-site but must be 'immediately available' — defined as 'contactable by electronic or telephonic means without delay, interruptible, and able to furnish appropriate assistance and direction throughout the performance of the procedure.' The regulation says 'licensed health care provider' generically rather than naming RNs by profession, though MBC's own Medical Spas guidance describes this standard as applying to RN-performed procedures.

No agreement needed to prescribe · no controlled-substance authority

Confirmed: general RNs (non-APRN) have no independent prescriptive authority — §2725 ties medication administration to orders from a physician, dentist, podiatrist, or clinical psychologist.

Licensee-only ownership required — An RN CANNOT own the medical-scope portion of a med-spa business outright (Bus. & Prof. Code §2400). Corp. Code §13401.5(a), CONFIRMED via direct fetch, allows RNs (among 15 listed allied professions) to hold shares in a MEDICAL professional corporation as a minority (≤49%) shareholder, capped further at not exceeding the number of physician shareholders — distinct from an RN wholly owning their OWN nursing-scope entity (fine for nursing services, not for medical services like injectables).

Corp. Code §13401.5(a)'s RN-inclusion and percentage structure are confirmed via a dedicated follow-up fetch, superseding the original secondary-sourced hedge (an early fetch attempt had incorrectly suggested RNs were absent from the list; two later, independent fetches confirmed they are included).