RALEIGH, N.C.—Certain nurse practitioners in Tennessee have the statutory authority to prescribe medications, the state attorney general said in a March 1 legal opinion (No. 10-22).
According to Robert E. Cooper Jr. (D), the state Legislature has not itself defined the term “nurse practitioner,” and given that authority to the state nursing board. Therefore, the attorney general said, the board was within its legal authority in allowing nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives, and clinical nurse specialists to prescribe.
The matter is tied to regulations recently issued by Tennessee boards of health that implement a 2008 state law requiring tamper-resistant prescriptions (Public ...
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