Section 8.10. Care management and collaboration with other health care professionals.

 

(1)  Advanced practice nurse prescribers shall communicate with patients through the use of modern communication techniques.

(2)  Advanced practice nurse prescribers shall facilitate collaboration with other health care professionals, at least 1 of whom shall be a physician, through the use of modern communication techniques.

(3)  Advanced practice nurse prescribers shall facilitate referral of patient health care records to other health care professionals and shall notify patients of their right to have their health care records referred to other health care professionals.

(4)  Advanced practice nurse prescribers shall provide a summary of a patient's health care records, including diagnosis, surgeries, allergies and current medications to other health care providers as a means of facilitating care management and improved collaboration.

(5)  The board shall promote communication and collaboration among advanced practice nurse prescribers, physicians, and other health care professionals.

(6)  The advanced practice nurse prescriber may order treatment, therapeutics, and testing, appropriate to his or her area of competence as established by his or her education, training, or experience, to provide care management.

(7)  Advanced practice nurse prescribers shall work in a collaborative relationship with a physician. The collaborative relationship is a process in which an advanced practice nurse prescriber is working with a physician, in each other's presence when necessary, to deliver health care services within the scope of the practitioner's training, education, and experience. The advanced practice nurse prescriber shall document this relationship.

Cr. Register, February, 1995, No. 470 , eff. 3-1-95; cr. (6) and (7), Register, October, 2000, No. 538 , eff. 11-1-00; CR 16-020 : am. (title), (4) to (7) Register September 2016 No. 729 , eff. 10-1-16.