Certified registered nurse practitioners will be able to prescribe medicine with the guidance of physicians under new regulations approved Oct. 19 by Pennsylvania's Independent Regulatory Review Commission.
The Board of Medicine and the Board of Nursing proposed the regulations. The two boards jointly regulate certified registered nurse practitioners in Pennsylvania.
The regulations are a compromise between the boards and the commission, which reviews regulations proposed by state agencies. In July, the commission rejected slightly different regulations.
Certified registered nurse practitioners, professional nurses with expanded powers to make medical diagnoses and …
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