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(a) The board will, in its discretion, authorize an advanced nurse practitioner or "ANP" to prescribe and dispense legend drugs in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.
(b) At least quarterly, the board will have available a list of all ANPs with prescriptive authority. The list will include
(1) the name of the authorized ANP;
(2) the prescriber's identification number assigned by the board; and
(3) the effective date of prescriptive authority.
(c) An advanced nurse practitioner who applies for authorization to prescribe and dispense drugs
(1) must be currently designated as an ANP in Alaska at the time of application;
(2) shall provide evidence of completion of 15 contact hours of education in pharmacology and clinical management of drug therapy within the two-year period immediately before the date of application; and
(3) shall submit a completed application as required in 12 AAC 44.400(a) (6) accompanied by the application fee established in 12 AAC 02.280.
(d) Authorized prescriptions by an ANP must
(1) comply with all applicable state and federal laws; and
(2) contain the signature of the prescriber followed by the initials "ANP" and the prescriber's identification number assigned by the board.
(e) Prescriptive authorization will, in the board's discretion, be terminated if the ANP has
(1) not maintained current authorization as an ANP;
(2) prescribed or dispensed outside the ANP scope of practice or for other than therapeutic purposes; or
(3) violated any provision of state or federal statutes and regulations pertaining to nursing practice.
(f) ANP prescriptive authority must be renewed biennially with the ANP authorization. Documentation of eight contact hours of pharmacology during the previous two years must be submitted at the time of renewal.
(g) Repealed 7/17/2003.
(h) In this section, "prescriptive authority" includes authority to dispense prescriptions.
History: Eff. 1/13/80, Register 73; am 12/1/84, Register 91; am 11/7/87, Register 104; am 8/9/92, Register 123; am 4/9/94, Register 130; am 4/27/97, Register 142; am 7/17/2003, Register 167; am 5/29/2005, Register 174
Authority: AS 08.68.100
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