New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 37 - NEW JERSEY BOARD OF NURSING
Subchapter 7 - CERTIFICATION OF ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSES
Section 13:37-7.9 - Prescriptive practice
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) An advanced practice nurse may prescribe or order medications and devices and shall do so in conformity with the provisions of this subchapter, 45:11-45 et seq., and written protocols for the prescription of medications and devices jointly developed by the advanced practice nurse and the collaborating physician in accordance with the standards of 45:11-51 and N.J.A.C. 13:37-6.3.
(b) An advanced practice nurse may prescribe or order treatments, including referrals, and shall do so in conformity with the provisions of this subchapter and 45:11-45 et seq.
(c) An advanced practice nurse who issues prescriptions in any setting other than in a licensed acute care or long-term care facility may issue written prescriptions for medications to patients only on New Jersey Prescription Blanks in accordance with 45:14-55.
(d) An advanced practice nurse shall include the following information on each prescription blank issued:
(e) An advanced practice nurse who prescribes medication or devices shall advise patients by a sign or pamphlets in the waiting room of the office, that a patient may request a generic drug as a substitute for a brand name drug prescribed.
(f) An advanced practice nurse may use only prescription blanks that are imprinted with the words "substitution permissible" and "do not substitute," with a space for the prescribing advanced practice nurse's initials next to the chosen option. The prescription blanks shall not include preprinted information designed to discourage or prohibit substitution.
(g) When using health care facility or multi-prescriber prescription blanks, the full name and certificate number of the advanced practice nurse shall be legibly printed at the top of the prescription blank or the identity of the advanced practice nurse shall be designated by a checkmark or other legible means.
(h) Each prescription for a controlled dangerous substance shall be written on a separate New Jersey Prescription Blank.