2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-34 - Nurses
§ 5-34-39 - Process for prescriptive privileges of certified registered nurse practitioner.

SECTION 5-34-39

   § 5-34-39  Process for prescriptive privileges of certified registered nurse practitioner. – (a) Prescriptive privileges for the certified registered nurse practitioner:

   (1) Shall be granted under the governance and supervision of the department, board of nurse registration and nurse education; and

   (2) Shall include prescription of legend medications and prescription of controlled substances from schedules II, III, IV and V that are established in regulation; and

   (3) Must not include controlled substances from Schedule I.

   (b) To qualify for prescriptive privileges an applicant must submit on forms provided by the board of nurse registration and nursing education, verified by oath, that the applicant has evidence of completion of thirty (30) hours of education in pharmacology within the three (3) year period immediately prior to date of application. To maintain prescriptive privileges the certified registered nurse practitioner (R.N.P.) must submit upon request of the board of nurse registration and nursing education evidence of thirty (30) hours continuing education in pharmacology every six (6) years.