Senate Committee Substitute

SCS/HCS/HB 247 - This act modifies the requirements for collaborative practice arrangements between advanced practice registered nurses and collaborating physicians. Advanced practice registered nurses are required to submit a minimum of ten percent of the charts documenting their delivery of health care services to the physician for review every fourteen days. The collaborating physician shall review twenty percent of the charts in which the advanced practice registered nurse wrote a prescription for controlled substances every fourteen days. The charts reviewed for prescription of controlled substances may be counted in the number of charts required to be reviewed for prescribing practices.

These review requirement do not extend to collaborative practice arrangements of providers of population-based health services.

This act modifies the definition of eligible student for the nursing student loan program to include doctoral students and to allow full time or part-time doctoral students to be eligible for the loan program.

Provisions of this act are similar to SCS/SB 152 and SS/SCS/SB 406 and SCS/SB 509.

EMILY KALMER


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