Title 5
Businesses and Professions

Chapter 34
Nurses

R.I. Gen. Laws § 5-34-13

§ 5-34-13. Right to use professional nurse title.

Any person who holds a license to practice as a professional nurse in this state shall have the right to use the title “Registered nurse” and the abbreviation “R.N.” No other person may assume that title or use that abbreviation or any other words or letters, signs, figures, or devices to indicate that the person using it is a professional nurse.

History of Section.
P.L. 1982, ch. 328, § 2.