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 not less than one thousand five hundred hours and not more than 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 United States government and authorized to prescribe in conjunction with that 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 has been overseen or supervised by a physician in the other jurisdiction or a physician employed by the United States government; and

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4723-9-04         Effective:	02/01/2009	2
R.C. 119.032 review dates:	10/01/2010
CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY
Certification
01/07/2009
Date
Promulgated Under:	119.03
Statutory Authority:	4723.50
Rule Amplifies:	4723.48, 4723.482, 4723.484
Prior Effective Dates:	2/1/2002, 2/1/2003, 2/1/2006