Prescriptive Practice Safety and Quality Assignment Guideline Paper

Prescriptive Practice Safety and Quality
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This paper discusses the requirements and details of the State of New Jersey, United States of America, concerning the advanced practice nurses. The requirements include educational, prescription authority, and patient safety. Moreover, this paper also discusses the role of the regulatory organizations responsible for controlling the practice of APNs.
The basic and continuing education including other requirements such as collaboration and scope of work for an APN prescribing authority and further examinations are identified. With the given authority to APNs to prescribe medications, they are given a broader scope of practice. However, regulatory bodies are necessary to produce guidelines that will ensure maximal patient safety.
Prescription requirements also vary such as in prescribing non-cancer pain medications. Since these medications have extreme adverse effects that may affect the quality of life, a stricter set of guidelines has been created by the responsible regulatory boards.
This paper also specifies the protocols for controlled dangerous substances (CDS) including, but not limited to, the following: patient education, pain medication refills, and contracts. Moreover, this paper elaborates on the schedules of the CDS.
1 Requirements for APN prescriptive practice in your state. Include state where you live or will practice as an APN.
The educational requirements in New Jersey APN prescriptive practice include: 1) A master’s degree attained from an accredited nursing school duly recognized by the United States Department of Education.; 2) Accomplishment of a post-master’s degree program that concerns APN field.; 3) Accomplishment of a graduate-level credit Pharmacology.; and 4) Transcript of records and at least thirty contact hours if the credit pharmacology is greater than five years preceding the application CITATION CDC16 \l 1033 (CDC, 2016).
The examination requirements include a certification from passing the advanced practice nurse examination in the examinee’s area of expertise that is duly recognized by the American Board of Nursing specialties and/or the National Commission for Certifying Agencies CITATION CDC16 \l 1033 (CDC, 2016).
2 What regulatory bodies/organization(s) have authority over APN practice in your state.
The Board of Nursing has the jurisdiction over APN practice. However, the prescription requirements necessitate a joint protocol with a collaborating physician. The Joint Protocol is solely policed by the Board of Nursing CITATION Newnd \l 1033 (New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, n.d.).
3 Discuss any/all requirements for APN prescribing authority, including basic and continuing education, physician collaboration and oversight, chart review, and formularies.
1 New Jersey Prescription Blanks
1 A uniform prescription blank shall be used by the authorized prescriber. The prescription may only be procured through an accredited printers/vendor.
2 A certified prescriber is authorized to use and NJPB provided that
1 The patient is currently taken care of at the health facility.
2 The license number and national provider identifier number must be legibly written, stamped, or typed.
3 There is a signature of the prescriber.
4 A pre-printed, written legibly, stamped, or typed Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration number shall be presented when prescribing dangerous drugs.
3 An independent NJPB shall be utilized for a dangerous substance.
4 The prescriber shall manually cross-off the drug that shall not be prescribed when a pre-printed NJPB will be used.
5 A prescription made through verbal orders or via the use of telephone, facsimile, modem, or other means of communication, is relieved from the used of NJPB.
6 Prescriptions for Schedule II listed drugs made for hospice and long-term institution patients, shall be relieved from the use of NJPB provided that the prescriptions are ordered in compliance with the DEA guidelines and with the guidelines mentioned above CITATION Newnd1 \l 1033 (New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, n.d.).
2 Educational requirements
7 A master’s degree attained from an accredited nursing school duly recognized by the United States Department of Education
8 Accomplishment of a post-master’s degree program that concerns that will provide proof of certification. This requires the submission of the transcript of records for the Master’s degree.
9 Accomplishment of a graduate-level 3 credit Pharmacology duly accredited by the BON are an integrated 45-hour Pharmacology units to the Nursing Master’s Degree Program
10 If the applicant has completed the requirement iii five years before the application, the applicant must submit a proof of this requirement using the following credentials:
5 Transcript of records proving that the applicant is a graduate of a level-3 credit pharmacology course accomplished within five...