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

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.

Florida: Restricted Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. Florida requires NPs to practice under a supervisory protocol with a physician. Since 2020, NPs who meet eligibility requirements may register for autonomous practice limited to primary care, including family medicine, general pediatrics, and general internal medicine; the requirements include, within the preceding five years, at least 3,000 supervised hours of clinical practice and graduate-level coursework, or the equivalent, in differential diagnosis and pharmacology.

Nevada: Full Practice, outside the Nurse Licensure Compact. Nevada grants full practice authority to NPs, but until they have at least 2 years or 2,000 hours of clinical experience they may prescribe Schedule II controlled substances only under a protocol approved by a collaborating physician. NPs who completed their program more than 2 years before applying and have never held an APRN license must complete 1,000 hours of supervised practice without prescribing.

Ohio: Reduced Practice, a Nurse Licensure Compact member. Ohio NPs must have a standard care arrangement with a collaborating physician.