4723-9-04 Externship experience.

 

 

 

4723-9-04                    Externship experience.

 

 

 

(A)   In order to participate in an externship as defined in paragraph (F) of rule 4723-9-01 of the Administrative Code a nurse shall:

 

(1)   Meet the requirements set forth in section 4723.482 of the Revised Code; and

 

(2)   Hold a current, valid externship certificate to prescribe issued by the board.

 

(B)   The externship shall consist of a minimum of one thousand, five hundred hours and a maximum of one thousand, eight hundred hours during which the nurse's prescribing practices shall be supervised as follows:

 

(1)     For a minimum of five hundred hours, direct supervision, as defined in paragraph (K)(1) of rule 4723-9-01 of the Administrative Code, shall be provided by a supervising professional. A physician shall determine whether a nurse may act as a supervising professional. When the supervising professional is a nurse, the nurse shall provide no more than two hundred of the five hundred hours of supervision; and

 

(2)   For the remaining hours, indirect supervision, as defined in paragraph (K)(2) of rule 4723-9-01 of the Administrative Code, shall be provided by a physician.

 

(C)   A nurse who holds current valid authority to prescribe drugs and therapeutic devices from another jurisdiction, or who has been employed by the U.S. government and authorized to prescribe in conjunction with this employment, may satisfy up to one thousand hours of the indirect supervision requirement of the externship as follows:

 

(1)   By submitting documentation acceptable to the board from a physician that the nurse's prescriptive practice had been overseen or supervised by a physician in the other jurisdiction or a physician employed by the U.S. government; and

 

(2)   By verifying that the oversight or supervision occurred within the three years immediately preceding the application for prescriptive authority.

 

(D)   Until three years after the effective date of this ruleFebruary 1, 2005, a nurse who holds a current valid certificate of authority issued by the board may satisfy up to one thousand hours of the indirect supervision requirement of the externship as follows:

 

(1)    By submitting documentation acceptable to the board from a collaborating physician of having practiced in an advanced practice role involving prescriptive-related activities; and

 

 

(2)    By verifying that the prescriptive-related activities occurred within the three years immediately preceding the application for prescriptive authority.

Effective:                                02/01/2003 R.C. 119.032 review dates:                           10/11/2005

CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY

Certification

01/21/2003

Date

Promulgated Under:   119.03

Statutory Authority:   4723.50

Rule Amplifies:           4723.482, 4723.484 Prior Effective Dates: 2/1/02