§59-567.4c. Advanced Practice Registered Nurse — Application for
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prescriptive authority — Requirements.
A. An Advanced Practice Registered Nurse recognized by the Oklahoma Board of Nursing as a Certified Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist, or Certified Nurse-Midwife who has completed a minimum of six thousand two hundred forty (6,240) clinical practice hours with prescriptive authority supervised by a physician may apply to the Oklahoma Board of Nursing for authority to prescribe and order independent of supervision.
B. The application for independent prescriptive authority shall include proof that the Certified Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist, or Certified Nurse-Midwife:
1. Holds a valid, current license in the appropriate Advanced Practice Registered Nurse role issued by the Board and is in good standing with the Board; and
2. Has completed a minimum of six thousand two hundred forty (6,240) clinical practice hours with prescriptive authority supervised by a physician. This paragraph shall not be construed to exclude practice hours with supervised prescriptive authority obtained prior to the effective date of this act from being counted toward the hours required in this paragraph.
C. Independent prescriptive authority granted under this section shall be valid until the expiration of the current license to practice and may be renewed upon application to the Board at the same time and for the same period as the renewal of the license to practice.
D. The Board may suspend or revoke independent prescriptive authority granted under this section in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act for violation of the provisions of, or the rules promulgated under, the Oklahoma Nursing Practice Act.
E. The Board may assess a reasonable fee for the review of initial and renewal applications under the provisions of this section. Added by Laws 2025, c. 340, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2025.