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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.

Colorado: Full Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. Colorado NPs can practice independently and prescribe medications, including controlled substances. NPs new to prescribing first receive provisional prescriptive authority and must complete a 750 hour prescribing mentorship with a physician or an advanced practice registered nurse who has full prescriptive authority within three years to earn full prescriptive authority.

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

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.

New Mexico: Full Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. New Mexico grants full practice authority to NPs.