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2016 Utah Code
Title 58 - Occupations and Professions
Chapter 31b - Nurse Practice Act
Part 8 - Practice Standards
Section 803 - Prescriptive authority for advanced practice registered nurses -- Schedule II controlled substance or device -- Workers' compensation -- Pain clinics.
UT Code § 58-31b-803 (2016) What's This?
Effective 5/10/2016 58-31b-803. Prescriptive authority for advanced practice registered nurses -- Schedule II controlled substance or device -- Workers' compensation -- Pain clinics.
- (1) This section does not apply to an advanced practice registered nurse specializing as a certified registered nurse anesthetist under Subsection 58-31b-102(14)(d).
- (2) Except as provided in Subsection (3), an advanced practice registered nurse shall prescribe or administer a Schedule II controlled substance in accordance with a consultation and referral plan.
- (3) Except as provided by Subsection 58-31b-502(18), an advanced practice registered nurse may prescribe or administer a Schedule II controlled substance without a consultation and referral plan if the advanced practice registered nurse:
- (a) has the lesser of:
- (i) two years of licensure as a nurse practicing advanced practice registered nursing; or
- (ii) 2,000 hours of experience practicing advanced practice registered nursing;
- (b)
- (i) prior to the first time prescribing or administering a Schedule III controlled substance for chronic pain, or a Schedule II controlled substance to a particular patient, unless treating the patient in a licensed general acute hospital, checks information about the patient in the Controlled Substance Database created in Section 58-37f-201; and
- (ii) periodically, thereafter, checks information about the patient in the Controlled Substance Database created in Section 58-37f-201; and
- (c) follows the health care provider prescribing guidelines for the treatment of an injured worker, developed by the Labor Commission under Title 34A, Chapter 2, Workers' Compensation Act, or Title 34A, Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act, if:
- (i) the patient is an injured worker; and
- (ii) the Schedule II or III controlled substance is prescribed for chronic pain.
- (a) has the lesser of:
Enacted by Chapter 127, 2016 General Session
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