West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 19 - Registered Nurses, WV Board of › Title 19 - PROCEDURAL RULES WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSES › Series 19-08 - Limited Prescriptive Authority for Nurses in Advanced Practice › Section 19-8-6 - Termination of Limited Prescriptive Privileges

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
6.1. The board may deny or revoke privileges
				for prescriptive authority if the applicant or licensee has not met conditions
				set forth in the law or this rule, or if the applicant has violated any part of
				W. Va. Code §
									30-7-1 et seq.
6.2. The board shall notify the Board of
				Pharmacy within 24 hours after the termination of, or a change in, an advanced
				practice registered nurse's prescriptive authority.
6.3. If the board finds that the public
				health, safety and welfare requires emergency action and incorporates a finding
				to that effect into its order, the board shall order summary suspension of the
				prescriptive authority privilege pending proceedings for other action. The
				board shall promptly institute and determine further disciplinary
				action.
6.4. The board shall
				immediately terminate prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered
				nurse if disciplinary action has been taken against his or her license to
				practice registered professional nursing in accordance with W. Va. Code §
									30-7-11.
6.5. Prescriptive authority for the advanced
				practice registered nurse terminates immediately if either the license to
				practice registered professional nursing or the Advanced Practice Registered
				Nurse license in the State of West Virginia lapses.
6.6. Prescriptive authority is immediately
				and automatically terminated if national certification as an advanced practice
				registered nurse lapses or if the advanced practice registered nurse fails to
				provide the board evidence of current certification or re-certification of
				national certification before the expiration of the last certification on
				record with the board.
6.7. If
				authorization for prescriptive authority is not renewed by the expiration date
				which appears on the document issued by the board reflecting approval of
				prescriptive authority, the authority terminates immediately on the expiration
				date.
6.8. An advanced practice
				registered nurse shall not prescribe controlled substances for his or her
				personal use or for the use of members of his or her immediate
				family.
6.9. An advanced practice
				registered nurse shall not provide controlled substances or prescription drugs
				for other than therapeutic purposes.
6.10. An advanced practice registered nurse
				with prescriptive authority may not delegate the prescribing of drugs to any
				other person.
6.11. When
				applicable, prescriptive authorization shall be terminated if the advanced
				practice registered nurse has not filed a current verified collaborative
				agreement with the board. Upon dissolvement of a collaborative agreement, if
				there is no other current collaborative agreement the advanced practice
				registered nurse shall cease prescribing immediately, prescribing privileges
				will be terminated, and the advanced practice registered nurse shall have 60
				days to provide the board a verified current collaborative agreement to
				reinstate the prescribing privilege, after 60 days a reinstatement application
				must be completed and submitted for reinstatement of the prescribing
				privilege.