Section 12.44.525. Certified registered nurse anesthetist prescriptive authority.

	(a)  The board may authorize a certified registered nurse anesthetist to prescribe legend drugs and schedule II through V controlled substances in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.  
	(b)  A certified registered nurse anesthetist who applies for authorization to prescribe drugs must  
		(1) be currently authorized as a certified registered nurse anesthetist in the state;  
		(2) provide evidence of completion, during the two-year period immediately before the date of application, of 15 contact hours of education in advanced pharmacology related to the administration of anesthesia; and  
		(3) submit a completed application as required in 12 AAC 44.500(a)(6) accompanied by the application fee established in 12 AAC 02.280.  
	(c)  An authorized prescription by a certified registered nurse anesthetist must  
		(1) comply with all applicable state and federal laws; and  
		(2) be signed by the prescriber with the initials "CRNA" and the prescriber's identification number assigned by the board.  
	(d)  The board may terminate prescriptive authorization if the certified registered nurse anesthetist has  
		(1) not maintained current authorization as a certified registered nurse anesthetist;  
		(2) prescribed outside the certified registered nurse anesthetist's scope of practice or for other than therapeutic purposes; or  
		(3) violated any provision of state or federal statutes and regulations pertaining to nursing practice.  
	(e)  A certified registered nurse anesthetist prescriptive authority must be renewed biennially with the certified registered nurse anesthetist authorization. The renewal application must include the applicant's certification of completion, during the previous two years, of 12 contact hours of continuing education in advanced pharmacotherapeutics and 12 contact hours of continuing education in clinical management of patients. These 24 hours of continuing education may also be counted as part of the continuing education hours described in 12 AAC 44.610(a)(3).  

Authorities

08.68.100;08.68.850;01.05.031;08.68.410;44.62.125

Notes

Reference

12 AAC 44.540
12 AAC 44.545

Authority

AS 08.68.100 AS 08.68.850 Editor's note: In 2010 the revisor of statutes, acting under AS 01.05.031, renumbered former AS 08.68.410 as AS 08.68.850. As of Register 196 (January 2011), the regulations attorney made a conforming technical revision under AS 44.62.125(b)(6), to the authority citation that follows 12 AAC 44.525, so that the citation to former AS 08.68.410 now refers to the renumbered statute, AS 08.68.850.

History

Eff. 8/9/92, Register 123; am 4/27/97, Register 142; am 11/23/2003, Register 168; am 10/3/2011, Register 200; am 12/27/2012, Register 204

References

12.44.525