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148.284 CERTIFICATION OF ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSES.
(a) No person shall practice advanced practice registered nursing or use any title,
abbreviation, or other designation tending to imply that the person is an advanced practice
registered nurse, clinical nurse specialist, nurse anesthetist, nurse-midwife, or nurse practitioner
unless the person is certified for such advanced practice registered nursing by a national nurse
certification organization.
(b) Paragraphs (a) and (e) do not apply to an advanced practice registered nurse who is
within six months after completion of an advanced practice registered nurse course of study
and is awaiting certification, provided that the person has not previously failed the certification
examination.
(c) An advanced practice registered nurse who has completed a formal course of study as
an advanced practice registered nurse and has been certified by a national nurse certification
organization prior to January 1, 1999, may continue to practice in the field of nursing in which
the advanced practice registered nurse is practicing as of July 1, 1999, regardless of the type
of certification held if the advanced practice registered nurse is not eligible for the proper
certification.
(d) Prior to July 1, 2007, a clinical nurse specialist may petition the board for waiver from the
certification requirement in paragraph (a) if the clinical nurse specialist is academically prepared
as a clinical nurse specialist in a specialty area for which there is no certification within the
clinical nurse specialist role and specialty or a related specialty. The board may determine that an
available certification as a clinical nurse specialist in a related specialty must be obtained in lieu of
the specific specialty or subspecialty. The petitioner must be academically prepared as a clinical
nurse specialist in a specific field of clinical nurse specialist practice with a master's degree in
nursing that included clinical experience in the clinical specialty and must have 1,000 hours of
supervised clinical experience in the clinical specialty for which the individual was academically
prepared with a minimum of 500 hours of supervised clinical practice after graduation. The board
may grant a nonrenewable permit for no longer than 12 months for the supervised postgraduate
clinical experience. The board may renew the waiver for three-year periods provided the clinical
nurse specialist continues to be ineligible for certification as a clinical nurse specialist by an
organization acceptable to the board.
(e) An advanced practice registered nurse who practices advanced practice registered nursing
without current certification or current waiver of certification as a clinical nurse specialist, nurse
midwife, nurse practitioner, or registered nurse anesthetist, or practices with current certification
but fails to notify the board of current certification, shall pay a penalty fee of $200 for the first
month or part of a month and an additional $100 for each subsequent month or parts of months
of practice. The amount of the penalty fee shall be calculated from the first day the advanced
practice registered nurse practiced without current advanced practice registered nurse certification
or current waiver of certification to the date of last practice or from the first day the advanced
practice registered nurse practiced without the current status on file with the board until the day
the current certification is filed with the board.
History: 1999 c 172 s 14; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 13 s 3; 2002 c 362 s 3; 2002 c 379 art 1 s 113;
2004 c 279 art 4 s 3

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