2796 [unlawful to use the titles “registered,” “graduate” or “trained nurse,” or the letters “R.N.”].) Thus, the Attorney General concluded, an unlicensed person employed by a physician as a “doctor’s nurse” was forbidden to use titles confusingly similar to “registered nurse,” such as “ ‘Registered Doctor’s Nurse’ or the abbreviation ‘R.D.N.’ or any title, or wear or display any pin that would indicate that said person is duly licensed as a registered nurse under the laws of the state of California.” ( Registered Nurse , supra, at p. 159; cf. Kolnick v. Board of Medical Quality Assurance (1980) 101 Cal.App.3d 80, 84 [declining to construe the exception].) For all of these reasons, we conclude the medical-orders exception does permit a layperson to carry out a physician’s medical orders for a patient, even orders that would otherwise fall within the definition of nursing practice, without thereby violating the rule against unauthorized practice. To fall outside the exception by “assum[ing] to practice as a . . . nurse” (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 2727, subd. (e)), one must go further by holding oneself out, explicitly or implicitly, to be a nurse in fact. This conclusion disposes of the issue, because unlicensed school personnel do not hold themselves out to be nurses simply by volunteering to act on behalf of particular students in accordance with the Education Code and its implementing regulations. We thus proceed to consider the Nurses’ remaining objections to the conclusion that such personnel may administer medications. 3. Medication-specific Statutes. In statutes enacted between 2001 and 2011, the Legislature imposed additional training and administrative requirements before unlicensed school personnel may administer three specific emergency medications: epinephrine auto-injectors to treat anaphylaxis (§ 49414, added by Stats. 2001, ch. 458, § 2, p. 4023), glucagon for severe hypoglycemia (§ 49414.5, added by Stats. 2003, ch. 684, § 1, as subsequently amended), and antiseizure medication for epilepsy (§
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