RCW 18.79.250
Advanced registered nurse practitioner—Activities allowed.
An advanced registered nurse practitioner under his or her license may perform for compensation nursing care, as that term is usually understood, of the ill, injured, or infirm, and in the course thereof, she or he may do the following things that shall not be done by a person not so licensed, except as provided in RCW 18.79.260 and 18.79.270:
(1) Perform specialized and advanced levels of nursing as recognized jointly by the medical and nursing professions, as defined by the commission;
(2) Prescribe legend drugs and Schedule V controlled substances, as defined in the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, chapter 69.50 RCW, and Schedules II through IV subject to RCW 18.79.240(1) (r) or (s) within the scope of practice defined by the commission;
(3) Perform all acts provided in RCW 18.79.260;
(4) Hold herself or himself out to the public or designate herself or himself as an advanced registered nurse practitioner or as a nurse practitioner.
[ 2000 c 64 § 4; 1994 sp.s. c 9 § 425.]
NOTES:
Severability—2000 c 64: See note following RCW 18.79.050.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 18 - Businesses and Professions
18.79.030 - Licenses required—Titles.
18.79.040 - "Registered nursing practice" defined—Exceptions.
18.79.050 - "Advanced registered nursing practice" defined—Exceptions.
18.79.060 - "Licensed practical nursing practice" defined—Exceptions.
18.79.070 - Commission established—Membership—Qualifications.
18.79.080 - Commission—Order of removal—Vacancy.
18.79.090 - Commission—Compensation.
18.79.100 - Commission—Officers—Meetings.
18.79.110 - Commission—Duties and powers—Rules—Successor to boards.
18.79.120 - Application of Uniform Disciplinary Act.
18.79.140 - Executive director—Qualifications.
18.79.150 - Schools and programs—Requirements—Approval.
18.79.160 - Applicants—Required documentation—Criteria—Rules.
18.79.170 - Examination—Rules.
18.79.180 - Interim permits—License—Expiration upon failure.
18.79.190 - Reciprocity—Foreign programs—Examination.
18.79.200 - License procedures, requirements, fees.
18.79.210 - License renewal—Procedures, requirements, fees.
18.79.230 - Temporary retirement—Renewal—Fee—Qualification.
18.79.250 - Advanced registered nurse practitioner—Activities allowed.
18.79.256 - Advanced registered nurse practitioner—Scope of practice—Document attestation.
18.79.260 - Registered nurse—Activities allowed—Delegation of tasks.
18.79.270 - Licensed practical nurse—Activities allowed.
18.79.280 - Medication, tests, treatments allowed.
18.79.290 - Catheterization of students—Rules.
18.79.300 - Department—Rules for administration.
18.79.310 - Rules, regulations, decisions of previous boards—Effect.
18.79.340 - Nursing technicians.
18.79.350 - Nursing technicians—Nursing functions.
18.79.360 - Applications for registration as a nursing technician—Fee.
18.79.370 - Nursing technicians—Registration renewal.
18.79.390 - Secretary and commission relationship.
18.79.400 - Pain management rules—Criteria for new rules.
18.79.410 - Commission—Information to legislature.
18.79.420 - Down syndrome—Parent information.
18.79.800 - Opioid drug prescribing rules—Adoption.
18.79.810 - Opioid drugs—Right to refuse.
18.79.900 - Severability—1994 sp.s. c 9.