N.Y. Public Health Law § 2805-s: Circulating nurse required

§ 2805-s. Circulating nurse required. A registered nurse, qualified by

training and experience in operating room nursing, shall be present as a

circulating nurse in any and each separate operating room where surgery

is being performed for the duration of the operative procedure. Nothing

in this section precludes a circulating nurse from leaving the operating

room as part of the operative procedure, leaving the operating room for

short periods; or, in accordance with employee rules or regulations,

being relieved during an operative procedure by another circulating

nurse assigned to continue the operative procedure.