PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
(Board of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery)
Subject of Possible Rule Making: SSB 5805, chapter 64, Laws of 2000. Chapters 18.79, 18.57 and 18.71 RCW, advanced registered nurse practitioner prescriptive authority. This bill requires the Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission, the Medical Quality Assurance Commission and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery to jointly adopt by rule a process and criteria that implements the joint practice arrangements for expanded prescriptive authority to include Schedule II through IV drugs for ARNPs.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 18.57.005.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The statute requires the two commissions and board to jointly adopt rules by consensus on ARNP prescriptive authority joint practice arrangements for expanded prescriptive authority.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: Uniform Controlled Substances Act, chapter 69.50 RCW, and the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency. A representative from the Drug Enforcement Agency will be invited to attend the rule-writing sessions.
Process for Developing New Rule: Collaborative rule making, public rule-writing workshops will be held with interested parties. Workshops will be held in May in Spokane, June in Seattle, and July in Olympia.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Arlene Robertson, Program Manager, Department of Health, Board of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, P.O. Box 47870, Olympia, WA 98504-7870, phone (360) 236-4945, fax (360) 586-0745, e-mail Arlene.Robertson@doh.wa.gov.
May 24, 2000
Robert Nicoloff
Executive Director