Rules may be clarified in process of proposal response or rules may remain unclear. The DEA licenses health care providers who prescribe controlled dangerous substances. If state law permits NPs to prescribe controlled substances. Either registered or exempted from registration. Some other health care providers to the NPDB, a national repository of information on health care providers.
Federal law requires NPs.
Other health care providers to protect patient confidentiality. Patients as residents of nursing homes. Federal laws address confidentiality as a part of many other specific programs. Therefore, it is wise to safeguard the privacy of all patients equally. For more information on ways to avoid a breach of patient confidentiality.