Arizona Administrative Code › Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Chapter 19 - BOARD OF NURSING › Article 5 - ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSING › Section R4-19-502 - Requirements for APRN Programs

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A.
				An educational institution or other entity that offers an APRN program in this
				state for RNP, CNM, or CNS roles shall ensure that the program:
1. Is offered by or affiliated with a college
				or university that is accredited under A.R.S. §
										32-1644;
2. For new programs, the college or
				university offering the program has at least one additional nationally
				accredited nursing program as defined in
				R4-19-101 or
				otherwise provides substantial evidence of the ability to attain national APRN
				program accreditation for all graduating cohorts;
3. Is a formal educational program, that is
				part of a masters or doctoral program or a post-masters program in nursing with
				a concentration in an advanced practice registered nursing role and population
				focus under
				R4-19-501;
4. Is nationally accredited, or has achieved
				candidacy status for national accreditation by an approved national nursing
				accrediting agency as defined in R4-19-101;
5. Offers a curriculum that covers the scope
				of practice for both the role of advanced practice as specified in A.R.S.
				§
										32-1601
				and the population focus including;
a. Three
				separate graduate level courses in:
i.
				Advanced physiology and pathophysiology, including general principles across
				the lifespan;
ii. Advanced health
				assessment, which includes assessment of all human systems, advanced assessment
				techniques, concepts and approaches;
iii. Advanced pharmacology, which includes
				pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics and pharmacotherapeutics of all broad
				category agents;
b.
				Diagnosis and management of diseases across practice settings including
				diseases representative of all systems;
c. Preparation that provides a basic
				understanding of the principles for decision making in the identified
				role;
d. Preparation in the core
				competencies for the identified APRN role including legal, ethical and
				professional responsibilities; and
e. Role preparation in an identified
				population focus under
				R4-19-501.
6. Verifies that each student has an
				unencumbered license to practice as an RN in the state of clinical
				practice;
7. Includes a minimum of
				500 hours of faculty supervised clinical practice (programs that prepare
				students for more than one role or population focus shall have 500 hours of
				clinical practice in each role and population focus);
8. Notifies the Board of any changes in hours
				of clinical practice, accreditation status, denial or deferral of accreditation
				or program administrator and responds to Board requests for
				information;
9. Has financial
				resources sufficient to support accreditation standards and the educational
				goals of the program;
10.
				Establishes academic, professional, and conduct standards that determine
				admission to the program, progression in the program, and graduation from the
				program that are consistent with sound educational practices and recognized
				standards of professional conduct;
11. Establishes provisions for advanced
				placement for individuals holding a graduate degree in nursing who are seeking
				education in an APRN role and population focus, provided that advanced
				placement students master the same APRN competencies as students in the
				graduate-level APRN program; and
12. Provides the Board an application for
				approval under the provisions of
				R4-19-209(B)
				before making changes to the:
a. Scope of the
				program, or
b. Level of educational
				preparation provided.