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Senate committee approves bill letting APRNs make therapeutic stimulant substitutions with physician notification
Summary
The Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee passed House Bill 1963 as amended to allow advanced practice registered nurses to substitute therapeutically equivalent stimulant medications if they notify the original prescribing physician; the committee adopted a sponsor-negotiated amendment clarifying the notice requirement.
State Senator Justin Boyd, Fort Smith, told the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee that House Bill 1963, as amended, would allow an advanced practice registered nurse to substitute a therapeutically equivalent stimulant medication and would require notification to the physician who originally wrote the prescription.
The amendment, Boyd said, is “an agreed to amendment between the bill sponsor and the medical society to clarify that if a substitute is made under the bill as drafted, that notice would go back to the…
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