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Oklahoma: Restricted Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. Oklahoma NPs who prescribe must have a written supervision agreement with a supervising physician until the Board of Nursing grants them independent prescriptive authority. NPs who have completed 6,240 clinical practice hours with prescriptive authority supervised by a physician may apply for that independent authority.

Alabama: Reduced Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. Alabama requires NPs to practice under a collaborative practice agreement with a physician. For NPs with less than two years (4,000 hours) of collaborative practice experience since initial certification or in the collaborating physician's specialty, the collaborating physician or an approved covering physician must be present for at least 10 percent of scheduled hours, although certain settings and limited protocols are exempt.

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.

Illinois: Reduced Practice, outside the Nurse Licensure Compact. Illinois requires NPs to have a written collaborative agreement until they obtain full practice authority, except when they practice under clinical privileges in a hospital, hospital affiliate or ambulatory surgical treatment center. Full practice authority requires a notarized attestation of at least 4,000 hours of clinical experience after first attaining national certification and at least 250 hours of continuing education or training.

Arizona: Full Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. Arizona grants full practice authority to NPs. After certification by the Board of Nursing, they can diagnose and treat patients, and prescribe once the Board grants prescribing and dispensing authority, all without physician supervision, a collaborative agreement or a transition period.