Editorial policy Corrections
Corrections
Corrections
When a published finding is corrected, the finding shows a dated correction note and the change is listed here. Nothing is changed silently. 78 corrections on 2026-10-18, from an independent fact-check of the nurse entrepreneurship research.
| Date | Page | Finding | What changed | Status now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-18 | Alabama | Standing orders for elective IV | Quotation re-checked against the retrieved source: the quotation now stops where the ruling’s line numbering would break it. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Arizona | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | Rewritten: statements about LPN administration and compounded products, known only from a vendor summary, are no longer stated as permissions. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Arkansas | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | Reworded as a proposal (“would require”): PS 26-1 is an unadopted draft; the comment deadline is attributed to AmSpa, which is the only source for it; the Board article is no longer dated 2026 (it is undated). | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Arkansas | Standing orders for elective IV | Marked as a proposal: PS 26-1 is an unadopted draft; the comment deadline is attributed to AmSpa. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Arkansas | LPN/LVN IV therapy limits | Marked as a proposal: PS 26-1 is an unadopted draft; the comment deadline is attributed to AmSpa. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | California | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | The Board of Registered Nursing material is a March 2026 meeting agenda item with draft outreach, not an adopted Board statement; it was moved to its own Provisional finding on compounding. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | California | Compounding by nurses: a Board of Registered Nursing meeting item (California) | New finding: the BRN item was previously quoted as a Board statement inside the Verified elective IV finding. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Colorado | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | Rewritten so a news description of clinic practice cannot be read as permission for standing protocols. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Colorado | Home-care license for a nurse-owned business | Status changed from Verified to Provisional: the statute was read only on an unofficial mirror. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Colorado | LPN/LVN IV therapy limits | The news report on LPN supervision is now described as a news description, not the rule. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Florida | RN PICC insertion | Reclassified from “board document located” to “no board position found”: the 2006 petition was dismissed on procedural grounds without a ruling (order filed June 22, 2006). | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Georgia | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | The Board of Nursing statement is dated March 2024 (posted April 1, 2024); the June 2026 clarification, reported only by secondary sources, was moved out of this Verified finding. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Idaho | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | Worded as a meeting discussion; the source is committee minutes. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Illinois | Home-care license for a nurse-owned business | Status changed from Verified to Provisional: the statute was read only on a mirror copy. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Kentucky | RN PICC insertion | Reclassified from “tip confirmation only” (Provisional) to “within RN scope on conditions” (Verified): AOS #20, read in full, places RN insertion of central and midline catheters within scope on the conditions listed, and excludes LPNs. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Kentucky | Drug possession and immediate-use limits (Kentucky) | The Board of Nursing limit is now a labelled paraphrase with its exact meaning (two added to the fluid, three in all, counting the fluid). | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Maine | Standing orders for elective IV | The rule wording was paraphrased: it could not be found in the retrieved secondary source, and the rule text was not read. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Massachusetts | RN PICC insertion | Advisory Ruling 9301 was read in full: now Verified with its conditions and dates (it had been reported from a search summary only). | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Minnesota | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | Rewritten so a law firm’s view cannot be read as permission for RN IV therapy. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Mississippi | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | Quotation re-checked against the retrieved source: an ellipsis now marks the omitted footnote number. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Nevada | RN PICC insertion | The CVAD decision is now dated by its Board approval (September 17, 2025), not October 2025; the midline (PVAD) document is described as proposed, since its posted copy reads Board approval pending. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | New Hampshire | RN PICC insertion | The advisory list was read: its date (March 9, 2020) is confirmed, and the entry now says only what the list shows (RN informed consent for a PICC the nurse inserts); claims about fluoroscopy-guided home insertion and removal were not found and were removed. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | New York | Home-care license for a nurse-owned business | Quotations now matched to a verbatim mirror (the official page could not be opened), which is cited beside the official law. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | North Carolina | Who may own a nursing business (North Carolina) | G.S. §55B-14 is now cited as one of the statement’s references, not as the citation beside the LPN sentence. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Ohio | LPN/LVN IV therapy limits | The LPN sentence is now cited to footnote 2 of the joint statement. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Ohio | Terminal distributor license and immediate use (Ohio) | The immediate-use conditions were corrected: the prescriber verifies the final product, or must be on site where a nurse verifies it; the two-entry limit was added. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Oklahoma | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | The prescriber list now includes other licensed practitioners with prescriptive authority, as P-24 says. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Oklahoma | LPN/LVN IV therapy limits | Removed a sentence about employer policies listing IV fluids, medications and IV push, which is not in P-24. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Oregon | Home-care license for a nurse-owned business | Status changed from Verified to Provisional: the statute was read only on an unofficial mirror. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Rhode Island | Home-care license for a nurse-owned business | The all-nurse professional service corporation example in the RIDOH guidance concerns Botox, not IV therapy; its application to IV businesses is now marked as a reading. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | South Dakota | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | The guideline is paraphrased, not quoted: it is no longer at its published address. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Tennessee | LPN/LVN IV therapy limits | Rewritten so a summary of an unread rule cannot be read as permission for LPN IV push. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Texas | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | Removed “only” from both delegation sentences: §172.051 says a physician “may delegate … to” the listed licensees; whether that list is exclusive is a separate, Disputed finding. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Texas | Standing orders for elective IV | The FAQ’s rule citation is now stated as it appears (ch. 169 in one answer, the repealed ch. 193 in another); “limits ordering to” was replaced by the statute’s delegation wording. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Texas | RN PICC insertion | PS 15.3 is now quoted from the position statement itself (it covers midline catheters too), not from the index summary; removed an unsupported statement that the Board points to PS 15.28, 15.11 and the Decision-Making Model for PICCs. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Texas | LVN IV therapy limits | “Lists only” was replaced by “names”, with the Board’s reading stated as governing LVNs. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Texas | Exempt does not mean “home health services” (Texas) | The ordering sentence now uses the statute’s delegation wording (§172.051). | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Texas | Whether chapter 172’s list of delegates is exclusive (Texas) | The law-firm analysis is now cited directly; the finding now says plainly that the Board’s reading governs LVNs. | Disputed |
| 2026-10-18 | Vermont | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | Dated by its approval lines (osteopathic board March 11, pharmacy March 27, nursing May 13 and medical practice board June 5, 2024). | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vermont | LPN/LVN IV therapy limits | Quotation re-checked against the retrieved source: “[an]” marks the source’s typographical error (“and LPN”). | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Wisconsin | Elective IV hydration: board position and orders | The LPN sentence is now quoted verbatim; the document is named as the boards’ Joint Advisory Opinion at its current address. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Starting a nurse-owned business | North Carolina: PC or PLLC for RNs, no LPN ownership | G.S. §55B-14 is now cited as one of the statement’s references, not beside the LPN sentence. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Starting a nurse-owned business | Rhode Island: professional service corporations | RIDOH’s all-nurse corporation example concerns Botox, not IV therapy; its application to IV businesses is now marked as a reading and the finding is Provisional. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Starting a nurse-owned business | Federal contractor classification is in flux | Added DOL’s February 27, 2026 proposed rescission of the 2024 rule (not final). | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Mobile IV hydration and elective infusion | Who may order and administer elective IV in Texas | Removed “only” from both delegation sentences: §172.051 says a physician “may delegate … to” the listed licensees; whether that list is exclusive is a separate, Disputed finding. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Mobile IV hydration and elective infusion | When it was signed | Now Verified on the Texas Legislature’s actions page; a secondary claim about an earlier, broader version was removed. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Mobile IV hydration and elective infusion | Standing delegation orders in Texas | The FAQ’s rule citation is stated as it appears (ch. 169 in one answer, the repealed ch. 193 in another). | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Mobile IV hydration and elective infusion | Is the delegate list exclusive? | The law-firm analysis is cited directly, and the finding now says the Board’s reading governs LVNs. | Disputed |
| 2026-10-18 | Mobile IV hydration and elective infusion | Most boards reject standing orders as a substitute | The Arkansas draft is no longer counted or cited in this Verified finding; it has its own Provisional finding. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Mobile IV hydration and elective infusion | Nurses may not compound in these settings | California was moved to its own Provisional finding: its source is a Board of Registered Nursing meeting item with draft material, not an adopted statement. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Mobile IV hydration and elective infusion | California: a Board of Registered Nursing meeting item on compounding | New finding; the BRN item was previously quoted as a Board rule in a Verified finding. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Mobile IV hydration and elective infusion | States that limit immediate use further | Kentucky’s limit is stated with its exact meaning; Ohio’s on-site prescriber condition is now stated as conditional, with its other limits. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Mobile IV hydration and elective infusion | Arkansas: draft position statement | Reworded as a proposal and the comment deadline attributed to AmSpa, its only source. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Nevada | Dated by its Board approval (September 17, 2025), not October 2025; the midline decision moved to its own finding as proposed. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Nevada: midline and peripheral devices (proposed) | New finding: the midline document was previously described as a 2025 decision; its posted copy shows Board approval pending. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Kentucky | New finding: Kentucky was previously listed only for tip confirmation; AOS #20 covers insertion. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Massachusetts | New finding: Advisory Ruling 9301 was read in full (it had been reported from a search summary). | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | New Hampshire | New finding: the advisory list was read and its date confirmed; only what it shows is stated. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Arizona: located but not read | Massachusetts and New Hampshire now have their own Verified findings; Florida has its own finding; Arizona is stated as not a basis to act. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Florida: no board position found | Florida’s 2006 petition was dismissed without a ruling; it is no longer described as a pending board document. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Texas | Removed an unsupported statement that the Board points to PS 15.28, 15.11 and its decision-making model for PICCs. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | No board read requires an APRN to insert | Now lists the board documents read, including Kentucky, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Boards differ on tip confirmation | Added Kentucky’s tip-confirmation rule from AOS #20. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Kentucky | Now Verified on the full text of AOS #20 (it was previously reported from a summary). | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Every board document read requires a provider order | The heading no longer says “every board”: it covers the board documents read, now including Kentucky. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | What the boards read require | Added Kentucky, Massachusetts and New Hampshire to the documents read. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Texas: beyond LVN scope | Now quotes the position statement itself, which also covers midline catheters, instead of the one-line index summary. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | South Carolina: training, agency policy and an RN on site | Added the PICC carve-out in AO #9B and the existing-lines limit in AO #26, cited to the opinions themselves. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Licensure where the patient is | Refers to the 2025 CVAD decision only; the midline document is a proposal. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Vascular access and PICC services | Procedure codes | Now cited to the AMA CPT code set and the CMS fee schedule look-up instead of an FDA 510(k) record, which contains no procedure codes. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | APRN-led practices | Restricted practice plus strict CPOM | Rewritten so an inference from secondary sources is not read as a legal conclusion about NP-owned entities. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Independent and private-duty nursing | Federal enforcement since May 2025 | Added DOL’s February 27, 2026 proposed rescission (not final). | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Independent and private-duty nursing | California: private duty nursing agencies | Status changed from Verified to Provisional: the statute was read only on an unofficial mirror. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Other mobile nursing services | Injections need an order in the states read | Scoped to the two states whose documents were read and made Provisional; it had been presented as a national, Verified rule. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Other mobile nursing services | Tirzepatide: when compounding discretion ended | Now Verified on FDA’s own page; the earlier “conflict” came from a secondary source that gave semaglutide’s 503B date (May 22, 2025) for tirzepatide. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Other mobile nursing services | Collection only is not laboratory testing | Now cites the federal regulation (42 CFR 493.2) as the primary source and notes the Washington and New York exempt-state programs; a secondary source was removed. | Verified |
| 2026-10-18 | Other mobile nursing services | California: phlebotomy certification for unlicensed staff | Status changed from Verified to Provisional: the statute was read only on an unofficial mirror. | Provisional |
| 2026-10-18 | Other mobile nursing services | Medicare billing for an RN wound service | Status changed from Verified to Provisional: the regulation was read only on an unofficial copy. | Provisional |