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Arkansas: Reduced Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. Arkansas NPs need a collaborative practice agreement, typically with a physician, to prescribe unless they hold a certificate of full independent practice authority. An NP can apply for that certificate after 6,240 hours of practice under an agreement with a physician or with prescriptive authority in another jurisdiction.

Indiana: Reduced Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. Indiana NPs must practice under a collaborative agreement with a physician.

Maryland: Full Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. Maryland grants full practice authority to NPs. Applicants who have never been certified as NPs by any board of nursing must name a mentor on their application, a physician or NP licensed in Maryland with at least three years of clinical practice experience, who is available for consultation and collaboration for 18 months starting on the date the Maryland Board of Nursing receives the application.

West Virginia: Reduced Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. West Virginia NPs must have a collaborative agreement with a physician to prescribe unless the Board of Registered Nurses has approved removal of that requirement. An NP may apply for removal after at least three years of practice in a documented collaborative relationship with prescriptive authority.