2015 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 38 - HEALTH OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS
38-2305 Approved nurse practitioner program, defined.

38-2305. Approved nurse practitioner program, defined.

Approved nurse practitioner program means a program which:

(1) Is a minimum of one full-time academic year or nine months in length and includes both a didactic component and a preceptorship of five hundred contact hours;

(2) Includes, but is not limited to, instruction in biological, behavioral, and health sciences relevant to practice as a nurse practitioner in a specific clinical area; and

(3) For the specialties of women's health and neonatal, grants a post-master certificate, master's degree, or doctoral degree for all applicants who graduated on or after July 1, 2007, and for all other specialties, grants a post-master certificate, master's degree, or doctoral degree for all applicants who graduated on or after July 19, 1996.

Source

• Laws 1981, LB 379, § 14;
• Laws 1984, LB 724, § 12;
• Laws 1993, LB 536, § 67;
• Laws 1996, LB 414, § 22;
• Laws 2000, LB 1115, § 41;
• Laws 2005, LB 256, § 56;
• R.S.Supp.,2006, § 71-1717;
• Laws 2007, LB463, § 797.