No. SB 138
Filed under Healthcare.
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Autonomous Practice; Authorizing certain advanced practice registered nurses to engage in autonomous practice to provide mental health services as defined by rule of the Board of Nursing, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDA nurse certified as a psychiatric mental health advanced practice nurse can now provide mental health services without a supervising or collaborating physician, the same autonomous-practice status already available to certain primary care nurses.
Autonomous practice was previously limited to primary care fields like family medicine and general pediatrics. This adds psychiatric mental health services as a separate category eligible for that same independence.
What counts as a 'mental health service' for this purpose is left to the Board of Nursing to define by rule, not spelled out in the statute itself.
AIA nurse certified as a psychiatric mental health advanced practice nurse may now provide mental health services without a supervising or collaborating physician, gaining the same autonomous-practice status already available to certain primary care nurses.
AIThis autonomous-practice authority applies only to a nurse who holds the specific psychiatric mental health advanced practice nurse certification, not to advanced practice registered nurses generally.