Senate Bill 700 Summary

• Allows physicians to enter collaborative practice arrangements with registered professional nurses and advanced practice registered nurses in written form through agreements, protocols, or standing orders.

• Permits advanced practice registered nurses to prescribe controlled substances in Schedules III, IV, and V under collaborative arrangements, except for inducing sedation or general anesthesia; Schedule III narcotic prescriptions limited to 120-hour supply without refill.

• Requires written collaborative practice arrangements to include physician and nurse contact information, certifications, manner of collaboration, geographic proximity requirements (with 28-day annual waiver for rural health clinics), and physician review of minimum 10% of charts every 14 days.

• Limits each collaborating physician to no more than three full-time equivalent advanced practice registered nurses and requires one month of continuous joint practice before independent practice; exempts hospital employees and public health providers.

• Voids all previously jointly promulgated rules on collaborative practice arrangements prior to August 28, 2014, except those relating to controlled substance prescriptive authority; establishes that boards of registration and nursing must jointly promulgate any future rules.