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It wants 320 hours of recent work, evidenced twice over. The application carries the applicant's own attestation of 320 hours of nursing-related employment in the 5 years immediately before the date of application, and a reference letter from a past employer verifying employment in a nursing capacity for at least 320 hours within that same window. Anyone who has not worked within the preceding 5 years takes the route the subsection names beside it: proof of meeting the board's continuing competency requirements, or a course of study the board approves. Behind all that sits a condition on the other state. The out-of-state license has to come from a jurisdiction whose licensing requirements meet the ones Alaska sets out, which means a recognized nursing education program, the United States Army Practical Nurse Program or the Air Force Basic Medical Technician Corpsman Program 4N051, together with a passing result on one of 4 examinations, each carrying its own standard and its own era.

A preceptor does, once the gap runs to 2 years. What sets the requirement is time without clinical practice as an advanced practice registered nurse, so a license can sit for years without triggering any of this as long as the nurse kept practicing in the role somewhere. An applicant who has had no such practice for 2 years or more but less than 5 completes 200 hours of advanced nursing practice under direct supervision, 5 years or more but less than 10 makes it 300 hours, and 10 years or more makes it 500. The preceptor has to be a licensed advanced practice registered nurse or a licensed physician practicing in the applicant's own population focus area. At the end of the supervised practice that preceptor submits a statement assessing the applicant's knowledge and advanced practice ability, and the lapsed license will not be reinstated unless the statement says the applicant has demonstrated competence. A nurse who never stopped shows 320 hours of clinical practice from the 2 years before applying.

The program must consist of at least 140 hours, and the rule splits that total into minima of its own: 60 hours of didactic instruction and 80 hours of supervised skills and clinical training. 48 of the 80 have to sit in a long-term care facility, in an assisted living home licensed in the state with a registered or practical nurse on staff 24 hours a day, or in an acute care facility, and at least 32 go on learning and practicing skills under an approved instructor's direct supervision. Emergencies shorten the whole thing. During a public health emergency declared by the governor or the commissioner of health and social services, or when the board has determined that an urgent situation exists, the floor drops to at least 75 hours of training including a minimum of 59 hours of clinical training that meets the federal training regulation, and that is the shorter course a certified nursing assistant in Alaska can be trained under while the emergency lasts.