AR SB624

Reduces registered nurse members on the Arkansas State Board of Nursing from 6 to 5 members, with changes to the educational composition: 1 diploma graduate, 2 associate degree graduates, and 2 baccalaureate or postbaccalaureate degree graduates.

Increases advanced practice registered nurse members from 1 to 2 members, with each member required to hold a certificate granting prescriptive authority.

Reduces licensed practical nurse or licensed psychiatric technician nurse members from 4 to 3 members.

Clarifies that the elderly representative member shall be a full voting member but shall not participate in the grading of examinations, and maintains that consumer and elderly representative positions cannot be held by the same person.

Modifies language to use "healthcare services" instead of "health care" for the lay consumer representative member description.