(a) To be approved by the board to carry out or sign prescription drug orders and issued a prescription authorization number, a Registered Nurse (RN) shall satisfactorily complete the following requirements:
- (1) the RN shall be approved by the board as an APN; and
- (2) the APN shall submit to the board the application for Limited Prescriptive Authority and the appropriate documentation of the necessary education, training, and current skills, to include pharmacotherapeutics, as determined by the board to carry out or sign prescription drug orders.
- (b) The APN shall renew the privilege to carry out or sign prescription drug orders in conjunction with the RN license renewal application.
- (c) APNs must have successfully completed courses in pharmacotherapeutics, advanced assessment, diagnosis and management of problems within the clinical specialty, and pathophysiology. These courses shall be academic courses from a regionally accredited institution with a minimum of 45 clock hours per course.
- (d) Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Midwives and Nurse Anesthetists will be considered to have met the requirements in subsection (c) of this section on the basis of courses completed in the advanced practice educational program.
- (e) Clinical Nurse Specialists shall submit documentation of successfully completing separate courses in the content areas described in subsection (c) of this section.
- (f) The board, by policy, may determine that certain specialties of Clinical Nurse Specialists meet one or more of the course requirements on the basis of educational preparation in the advanced practice educational program.
- (g) Clinical Nurse Specialists who have been approved by the board as advanced practices nurses by petition on the basis of completion of a non-nursing master's degree shall not be eligible for prescriptive authority.
Source Note:The provisions of this §222.2 adopted to be effective December 20, 1995, 20 TexReg 10268; amended to be effective May 16, 1996, 21 TexReg 3942.