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  • Advanced Practice Nurse Licensure Application & Instructions
    (It is recommended that you download Chapter Four of the ASBN Rules and Regulations)
    
  • Certificate of Prescriptive Authority Endorsement Application
    & Instructions (PDF)
    (It is recommended that you download Chapter Four, Section VIII of the ASBN Rules and Regulations)
    
  • Certificate of Prescriptive Authority Initial Application
    & Instructions (PDF)
    (It is recommended that you download Chapter Four, Section VIII of the ASBN Rules and Regulations)
    
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  • Duplicate License Application (Online Ordering)
    
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  • Examination Application & Instructions for
    Graduates of Nursing Schools outside the USA (PDF)
    
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  • Individual Offering Approval Form (PDF)
    
  • Name Change Affidavit (PDF)
    
  • Nursys License Verification Request Form (PDF)
    
  • PN Equivalency Licensure Examination Application and Instructions (PDF)
    
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  • Retired Nurse Application Form and Instructions (PDF)
• Licensing
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• License Verification
  
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• Lost/Stolen Licenses
  
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• Nurse Practice Act
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• Position Statements
  • 94-1 IV CONSCIOUS SEDATION (PDF)
    
  • 95-1 SCOPES OF PRACTICE (PDF)
    
  • 95-2 TRANSMISSION AND ACCEPTANCE OF VERBAL ORDERS (PDF)
    
  • 97-1 THE PERFORMANCE OF STAPLING AND SUTURING FOR SUPERFICIAL WOUND CLOSURE BY NURSES IN THE OPERATING ROOM (PDF)
    
  • 97-2 ASSISTANCE WITH SELF MEDICATION FOR UNLICENSED PERSONS (PDF)
    
  • 98-1 ADMINISTRATION OF ANALGESIA BY SPECIALIZED CATHETER (EPIDURAL, INTRATHECAL, INTRAPLEURAL) (PDF)
    
  • 98-2 INSERTION OF INTRAUTERINE PRESSURE CATHETER (PDF)
    
  • 98-6 DECISION MAKING MODEL (PDF)
    
  • 99-1 REGISTERED NURSE DEPLOYMENT OF EXTRAVASCULAR COLLEGEN PLUGS (PDF)
    
  • 99-2 DELEGATED MEDICAL ACTS (PDF)
    
  • 99-3 APNS PRESCRIBING FOR SELF & FAMILY (PDF)
    
  • 00-1 ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATIONS AND/OR TREATMENTS (PDF)
    
  • 00-2 TELENURSING (PDF)
    
  • 03-1 APPLICATION OF SCHOOL NURSE GUIDELINES IN PATIENT CARE SETTINGS OTHER THAN SCHOOLS (PDF)
    
  • 03-2 ASSISTIVE PERSONNEL APPLYING MEASURING
    TB SKIN TEST (PDF)
    
  • Board of Nursing Guidelines
    SCHOOL NURSE PRACTICE GUIDELINES (PDF)
    
  • Complementary/Alternative Therapies (PDF)
    
  • IV THERAPY GUIDELINES (PDF)
    
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• Publications/Certificates
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  • Disciplinary Process - What Every Licensed Nurse Needs to Know. (PDF)
• Rules
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  • Chapter 6 (PDF)
    
  • Chapter 7 (PDF)
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• FOI Compliance (PDF)
• Managing Nurses and the Law (PDF)
  
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  2006 Continuing Education Workshop (PDF)