Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 21 - STATE BOARD OF NURSING › Subchapter C - CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE PRACTITIONERS › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 21.251 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
						  subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						  otherwise:
Act
-The Professional Nursing Law
						  (63
						  P. S. §§
													211-225.5).
Board
-The State Board of Nursing of
						  the Commonwealth.
CRNP-Certified Registered Nurse
						  Practitioner
-A professional nurse licensed in this Commonwealth who is
						  certified by the Board in a specialty and who, while functioning in the
						  expanded role as a professional nurse, performs acts of medical diagnosis or
						  prescription of medical therapeutic or corrective measures in collaboration
						  with a physician licensed to practice in this Commonwealth and in accordance
						  with the act and this subchapter. Nothing in this subchapter is to be deemed to
						  limit or prohibit a professional nurse from engaging in those activities which
						  constitute the practice of professional nursing as defined in section 2 of the
						  act (63 P. S. §
													212).
Certification
-The authorization
						  granted by the Board to a professional nurse who has demonstrated the
						  qualifications for recognition as a CRNP.
Collaboration
-A process in which a
						  CRNP works with one or more physicians to deliver health care services within
						  the scope of the CRNP's expertise. The process includes the following:
(i) Immediate availability of a licensed
						physician to a CRNP through direct communications or by radio, telephone or
						telecommunications.
(ii) A
						predetermined plan for emergency services.
(iii) A physician available to a CRNP on a
						regularly scheduled basis for referrals, review of the standards of medical
						practice incorporating consultation and chart review, drug and other medical
						protocols within the practice setting, periodic updating in medical diagnosis
						and therapeutics and cosigning records when necessary to document
						accountability by both parties.
Collaborative agreement
-The written
						  and signed agreement between a CRNP and a collaborating physician in which they
						  agree to the details of their collaboration including the elements in the
						  definition of collaboration.
Initial certification
-The first
						  certification or licensure as a nurse practitioner that an individual receives
						  in any jurisdiction.
National certification
-Certification
						  by a Board-recognized National certification organization which required
						  passing a nurse practitioner National certifying examination in a
						  specialty.
Prescriptive authority collaborative
						  agreement
-The written and signed agreement between a CRNP with
						  prescriptive authority and a collaborating physician in which they agree to the
						  details of their collaboration.
Specialty
-The area of practice or
						  population in which a CRNP is certified by the Board.