Current through February 24, 2025
(a) Except as
provided in (e) and (f) of this section, an applicant for initial licensure to
practice as an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) as defined in AS
06.68.850.
(1) must have satisfactorily
completed
(A) a formal accredited graduate
educational course of study preparing in one of the APRN roles that
(i) is a minimum of one academic year in
length;
(ii) prepares registered
nurses to perform an expanded role in the delivery of health care;
(iii) includes a combination of classroom
instruction and a minimum of 500 separate, non-duplicated hours of supervised
clinical practice;
(iv) for a
certified nurse practitioner, a certified nurse midwife, or a certified
clinical nurse specialist, if completed on or after January 1, 1998, has
distinct graduate level course offerings in advanced pathophysiology, advanced
pharmacotherapeutics, and advanced physical assessment, as evidenced by an
official transcript or other official documentation received directly from a
graduate program accredited by a nursing accrediting body that is recognized by
the United States Secretary of Education or that is recognized by the Council
for Higher Education Accreditation or its successor organization; and
(v) for a certified registered nurse
anesthetist, if completed on or after January 1, 2016, has distinct graduate
level course offerings in advanced pathophysiology, advanced
pharmacotherapeutics, and advanced physical assessment, as evidenced by an
official transcript or other official documentation received directly from a
graduate program accredited by a nursing accrediting body that is recognized by
the United States Secretary of Education or that is recognized by the Council
for Higher Education Accreditation or its successor organization;
(2) must hold a current license to
practice as a registered nurse in this state;
(3) must hold a current certification of
advanced practice registered nurse in the population focus of nursing for which
the applicant was educated as provided in (a) of this section, granted by a
national certification body recognized by the board and as evidenced by
official documentation received directly from the certifying body;
(4) shall, in the absence of a continuing
education requirement of the certifying body, submit documented evidence of
having obtained 60 contact hours of continuing education in the population
focus of the advanced practice registered nurse every two years;
(6) shall submit a completed application on a
form provided by the department; the completed application must include
(C) the applicant's signature certifying that
the information in the application is correct to the best of the applicant's
knowledge;
(D) a certified
transcript sent directly to the department from the graduate APRN program of
study showing the applicant has satisfactorily completed an educational course
of study that meets the requirements of (1) of this subsection; and
(E) if the applicant graduated from an
advanced practice registered nurse program outside of the United States or
Canada, except Quebec, Canada,
(i)
verification of having ever passed the International English Language Testing
System (IELTS) academic examination - overall score of 6.5 with a minimum of
6.0 on all modules;
(ii)
verification of having ever passed the Test of English as a Foreign Language,
Internet-based test- overall score of 84 with a speaking score of 26;
(iii) a valid evaluation of the applicant's
nursing education by the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools
Credentials Evaluation Service, with a full education., course-by-course report
that indicates the applicant's nursing education was taught in English;
or
(iv) an official International
Commission on Healthcare Professions (ICHP) certificate verifying successful
completion of the VisaScreen: Visa Credential Assessment Service; and
(7) shall submit the
initial biennial licensure fee established by
12 AAC 02.280.
(c) Authorized prescriptions by an APRN must
comply with all applicable state and federal laws.
(d) To meet the requirements of (a)(3) of
this section, an applicant for an licensure to practice as an adult or family
psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner must submit
(1) certification issued by the American
Nurses Credentialing Center before January 1, 2003 certifying that the
applicant has passed the examination administered by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center for
(A) psychiatric
mental health clinical nurse specialist; or
(B) adult or family psychiatric mental health
nurse practitioner; or
(2) certification issued by the American
Nurses Credentialing Center on or after January 1, 2003 certifying that the
applicant has passed the examination administered by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center for adult or family psychiatric mental health nurse
practitioner or clinical nurse specialist.
(e) Notwithstanding the requirements of this
section, an applicant for initial authorization to practice as an advanced
practice registered nurse who is a graduate of a foreign advanced practice
registered nurse program may satisfy the requirements of (a) of this section by
graduation from a foreign graduate level advanced practice registered nurse
program that is equivalent to an accredited advanced practice registered nurse
education program in the United States. The applicant must submit an official
transcript, mailed directly to the department from the foreign advanced
practice registered nurse program, and accompanied by certified English
translations if the original documents are not in English. The applicant must
also submit a credentials evaluation from the Commission on Graduates of
Foreign Nursing Schools verifying that the foreign advanced practice registered
nurse education program from which the applicant graduated is equivalent to an
accredited advanced practice registered nurse education program in the United
States.
(f) Notwithstanding the
requirements of this section, the graduate degree requirements of (a) of this
section are satisfied by a
(1)
certificate-prepared women's health care nurse practitioner, neonatal nurse
practitioner, or nurse midwife who completed the individual's advanced nurse
practitioner program before January 1, 2006;
(2) certificate-prepared nurse practitioner
in a population focus recognized by the board, other than a population focus
listed in (1) of this subsection, who completed the individual's advanced
practice registered nurse program before January 1, 2003.
(3) certificate -prepared certified
registered nurse anesthetist who completed an accredited program before January
1, 2001.
(g) In this
section,
(1) "accredited" means approved by
the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the Accrediting
Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), the National League of Nursing
Accrediting Commission (NLNAC), the Council on Accreditation of Nurse
Anesthesia Program (COA), the Accrediatation Commission for Midwifery
Education, or another national nursing accrediting organization at the time the
applicant attended the program;
(2)
"certificate-prepared" means an advanced practice registered nurse who
graduated from an advanced practice registered nurse program that awarded a
certificate.
Information on the Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical
Nurse Specialist examination and the Adult or Family Psychiatric Mental Health
Nurse Practitioner examination referred to in 12 AAC 44.400 maybe obtained from
the American Nurses Credentialing Center, 8515 Georgia Avenue, Suite 400,
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3492; telephone: (800) 284-2378.
In 2010 the revisor of statutes, acting under
AS
01.05.031, renumbered former
AS
08.68.410 as
AS
08.68.850. As of Register 196 (January 2011),
the regulations attorney made a conforming technical revision under
AS
44.62.125(b)(6), to 12 AAC
44.400(a), so that the cross-reference to former
AS
08.68.410(1) now refers to
the renumbered statute,
AS
08.68.850(1). In addition,
the regulations attorney made a conforming technical revision to the authority
citation that follows 12 AAC 44.400, so that the citation to former
AS
08.68.410 now refers to
AS
08.68.850.
As of Register 228 (January 2019), the regulations
attorney made a technical correction under
AS
44.62.125(b)(6), to the
introductory language of 12 AAC 44.400(a).
Information regarding the International English Language
Testing System (lELTS) described in 12 AAC 44.400(a)(6)(E)(i) is available at
www.ielts.org
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL-iBT)
examination described in 12 AAC 44.400(a)(6)(E)(ii) is administered by
Educational Testing Services, P.O. Box 6151, Princeton, New Jersey 08541;
Telephone: (609) 771-7100 or (877) 863-3546; website at
www.ets.org/toefl.
Information regarding the Commission on Graduates of
Foreign Nursing Schools Credentials Evaluation Service and the International
Commission on Healthcare Professions (ICHP) certificate described in 12 AAC
44.400(a)(6)(E)(iii) and (iv) is available at CGFNS International, 3600 Market
Street, Suite 400, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-2651; Telephone: (215)
222-8454; website at www.cgfns.org.
Authority:AS
08.68.100
AS
08.68.850
