Are graduates of CAMC School of Nurse Anesthesia eligible for prescriptive authority?
Typical nurse anesthesia practice does not require prescriptive authority. Prescriptions are written for third parties to dispense medication. Since nurse anesthetists obtain their own medications and administer them directly without the involvement of a third party, there is no “prescription”. Prescriptive authority is a licensure issue, so each state regulates this. Some states have decided to require nurse anesthetists to obtain prescriptive authority. In those states, nurse anesthesia graduates of non-nursing programs (like CAMC’s) have qualified to obtain prescriptive authority. At CAMC, we are not aware of ANY state that has refused one of our graduates prescriptive authority, if it is required to practice nurse anesthesia in that state. WV state law requires advanced practice status to obtain prescriptive authority. To our knowledge, WV is the only state to require a masters degree in nursing to obtain advance practice status. So nurse anesthesia graduates of non-nursing program
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