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Minnesota: Full Practice, outside the Nurse Licensure Compact. Minnesota NPs must first practice at least 2,080 hours under a collaborative agreement with a physician or with an advanced practice registered nurse who has at least three years of practice, and NPs who provide services other than primary care or mental health services must complete those hours in a setting where advanced practice registered nurses and physicians work together. After that, they may practice independently.

Virginia: Restricted Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. Virginia NPs must maintain a practice agreement documenting collaboration and consultation with a patient care team physician. An NP with the equivalent of at least three years of full-time clinical experience can apply for a license designation to practice without a practice agreement.

North Carolina: Restricted Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. North Carolina requires NPs to practice under physician supervision.

Pennsylvania: Reduced Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. Pennsylvania requires a collaborative agreement for NP practice.

Michigan: Restricted Practice, outside the Nurse Licensure Compact. Michigan NPs may prescribe nonscheduled prescription drugs on their own authority, but may prescribe controlled substances in schedules 2 to 5 only as a delegated act of a physician under the physician's written authorization.