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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, § 80E. Nurse practitioners or psychiatric nurse mental health clinical specialists; power to order therapeutics and tests; issuance of written prescriptions: Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations – Massachusetts

Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1983
Year Amended: 1992
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A nurse practitioner or psychiatric nurse mental health clinical specialist may issue written prescriptions and order tests and therapeutics pursuant to guidelines mutually developed and agreed upon by the nurse and the supervising physician in accordance with regulations promulgated jointly by the board and the board of registration in medicine after consultation with the board of registration in pharmacy.


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