What are the prescriptive authority allowed new NP in your state?

Thank you for your reply. As an attorney, I should have researched the law better. :-). Here is what I found out:

They are changing the law in CO. Right now NP have to have 1800 hours of working with a physician before they can be given authority to write prescriptions. Now they are adding an extra 1800 hours. THEN after that the NP has independent prescriptive authority up to class IV medications. So they are in essence making you do 1 year working with a physician where he has to sign your prescriptions, your second year you have to work with a physician in a working agreement but can write your own prescriptions. After the 2 years so you are independent.

CO's board for making the rules consists of MDs and NPs to it is compromise to expand the NP prescriptive authority. They gave us independence after 2 years, but increased our needed MD involvement by an extra year. It is going to add some difficulty to getting a job as a new graduate, but if you can get employment under MD for 1 year, you can get to the independence soon.

If you transfer in from another state. You have to prove you have had 2 years of prescriptive authority before you can be granted prescriptive authority.

Hi ya. That does sound very restrictive, however, the laws vary all over the map. Here in CT, APRNs as prescribers need all the academic qualifications and licenses AND a collaborative agreement w. a physician for supervision. This is interpreted in various ways and is not very effective. I expect CT will go the way of many other states in the next few years and allow autonomous practice. Good luck to you!

Here in NH, we have autonomous practice, no physician involvement required. I also work in MA and a collaborative practice is in effect. I do not have a physician on site, but available by phone or Email.

In California NP's are simply medical technicians and can only "furnish" medications--not prescribe. This is largely due to many factors. First, NP's have very little sense of the importance of, or the capability to distiguish between the practice of medicine and that of advanced practice nursing. Many APN's truly believe they are practicing medicine and not advanced nursing. Acording to our state board of nursing (all but one who were recently fired) nursing functions which "encroach the practice of medicine" must be covered under a standardized procedure. Second, the physician groups have a pretty tight strangle hold on the process, such as their anti-NP campaign that caused NP's not to go independent last year.

Hopefully, one day, APN's in California will understand that nursing-directed care is the basis for practice at the APN level. Dentists and optometrists prescribe in their practice which does not constitute the practice of medicine, and hopefully one day, prescribing will be considered an APN function without the need for supervision by another separate profession.

In New Mexico, as I understand it, once I received my CNP license I am allowed to prescribe any drug or DME except CS. I applied to the board of Pharmacy for a cs license, once they issue I have to apply for and be approved if not have the dea number to the tune of $550 for 3 yrs. After that it is soup to nuts.

My quandary is how do I get a prescription pad for the small business I am going to start?

Hi, I just have a quick question. I just posted my question on this website, but what would you have to do in michigan after applying for DEA license? I just applied for my DEA license as a NP and people say I need to fax a copy of my license/certification and a copy of prescriptive authority or letter with my supervising physician's signature. My classmates' companies did all this work for them and I'm going though this all by myself. Will you please tell me what I need to do to be able to prescribe the schedule II meds and the letter thing?