A lot of CRNPs who are perfectly safe prescribers would have difficulty showing a 45 hour course. We recommended that the board look at some alternatives. When we presented this to the boards months ago, they rejected it. We want to have recognition of the pharmacology education of people who have been practicing for many years. Other states recognize a national certifying body that nursing has, just as medicine has.
Nurse practitioners have a national certifying exam that many people take.
It has not been required in Pennsylvania in the past, but that is a logical way to show that people have the education and the credentials to practice. The ANCC has a national certifying exam, which I encourage my students to take. The requirement is, every five years, to show that you had 75 hours of continuing education and you have had so many hours of clinical hands-on practice. Remove the ratio. The waiver is bogus.