HB0117 - Advanced nurse practitioners-writing prescriptions.
2001 |
State of Wyoming |
01LSO-0427 |
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0117
Advanced nurse practitioners-writing prescriptions.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Ross and Tipton
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to
professions and occupations; specifying
2 medical
acts which may be performed by an advanced
3
practitioner of nursing; and providing for an effective
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date.
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6 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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8 Section 1. W.S. 33-21-120(a)(i) is amended to read:
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10 33-21-120. Definitions.
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12 (a) As used in this act:
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14 (i) "Advanced
practitioner of nursing" means a
15 registered professional nurse who performs
advanced nursing
16 acts and who may perform medical acts
including prescribing
17 or providing prepackaged medications, except
schedule I and
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1 schedule II drugs as defined in W.S. 35-7-1013 through 2
35-7-1016 and 35-7-1014, in collaboration with a licensed
3 or
otherwise legally authorized physician or dentist, in
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such manner to assure quality and appropriateness of
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services rendered. The advanced practitioner of nursing
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performs such acts by reason of postgraduate education and
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additional nursing preparation which provides for the
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knowledge, judgment and skill beyond that required of a
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registered professional nurse in paragraph (ix) of this
10 subsection, and who has completed a
nationally accredited
11 educational program for preparation as an
advanced
12 practitioner of nursing or who has passed a
national
13 certification examination of a nationally
recognized
14 accrediting agency accepted by the board;
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16 Section 2. This act is effective July 1, 2001.
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18 (END)
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