Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 485 - Oklahoma Board of Nursing › Chapter 10 - Licensure of Practical and Registered Nurses › Subchapter 16 - Requirements for Prescriptive Authority for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses › Section 485:10-16-1 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words or terms, when used in this Subchapter,
				  shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Continuing education categories"
as set out
				  below present and define methods for meeting initial and renewal contact and
				  academic credit hours at an advanced practice level as required for
				  prescriptive authority:
(A) Category A: Academic credit.
(B) Category B:
(i) Onsite Seminar or lecture or workshop or course approved
				  for contact hours, continuing education units or continuing medical education
				  units through a recognized approver of continuing education; or
(ii) Online continuing education for initial applications
				  must be approved through a recognized approver of continuing education, and
				  includes a minimum of thirty hours obtained from a single provider that is
				  faculty-directed, with processes for interaction of the participant with
				  faculty, evaluating the participant's learning through successful completion of
				  case studies or written assignments and a comprehensive examination using a
				  mechanism to ensure security of the evaluation process.
(C) Category C: Online seminars or workshops, or articles in
				  professional journals or other professional references approved for contact
				  hours, continuing education units or continuing medical education units through
				  a recognized approver of continuing education.
(D) Category D: Published article in refereed
				  journal/book/research project. Evidence of publication of one article related
				  to pharmacotherapy appropriate for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses. These
				  will be evaluated on a case-by-case review.
(E) Category E: Presenter/lecturer. Evidence of providing
				  content related to pharmacotherapeutics at an advanced practice level. The
				  presentation/lecture must be approved for contact hours or offered as part of
				  an academic course with a target audience of advanced practice nurses.
"Course in pharmacotherapeutic management"
means
				  a course in which the content must include pharmacodynamic and kinetic
				  principles, classifications of medications relevant to the scope of practice,
				  sources for and methods of evaluating drug information, legal and ethical
				  implications of prescribing, clinical application and use of pharmacological
				  agents in the prevention of illness, restoration and maintenance of
				  health.
"Qualified preceptor"
means an Advanced Practice
				  Registered Nurse with a current unrestricted license who has a scope of
				  practice which includes prescribing and has met the requirements for
				  prescriptive authority; or a licensed practitioner of medicine or osteopathy
				  with unrestricted prescriptive authority.
Added at 14 Ok Reg 1980,
				  eff 5-27-97; Amended at 23 Ok Reg 1453, eff 7-1-06; Amended at 25 Ok Reg 1415,
				  eff 7-1-08; Amended at 26 Ok Reg 1089, eff 5-11-09; Amended at 28 Ok Reg 659,
				  eff 7-1-11; Amended at 29 Ok Reg 1615, eff
				  7-12-12