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District law defines advanced practice registered nursing as the independent performance of advanced-level nursing actions. Both sections that once qualified that phrase are gone. The protocol requirement was repealed in 1995, and the collaboration section on July 19, 2024.

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What the subchapter still authorizes

Among what the code does carry is a general authorization to perform acts of medical diagnosis, treatment, prescription and recommendation, and a list of 5 authorized acts. The fifth is the right to sign, certify, stamp or endorse any document that requires a physician's signature, in place of a physician, as long as the document falls within the nurse's authorized practice. The subchapter itself is still titled "Advanced Registered Nursing; Scope of Practice; Requirement of Protocol; Collaboration", a heading that now names two things the code no longer contains.

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Can a District nurse aide take a home care job?

Not on the aide certificate by itself. Rule 9600.5 bars a CNA from being utilized to provide nursing care services in a home setting unless that person is also certified as a home health aide. Two certificates therefore stand behind a District CNA's home visits, and the District home health aide listing is the other side of the same rule. The Board can lift the bar, on two conditions together: a public health emergency, and its own determination that the action is necessary to serve and protect the public.

How does the District's medication aide certificate work?

The medication aide certificate is a second one from the same Board, and it comes with no grace period. An uncertified nurse aide may work 4 months from the hire date, and an aide who moves from one long-term care facility to another carries the time already served at the first toward those 4 months, while nobody may work as a District medication aide without the certificate first. Training takes either certification as a home health aide after the District's own HHA examination or certification as a nursing assistant after the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program exam or another CNA exam the Board accepts, plus a high school diploma or its equivalent and documentation from the trainee's supervising nurse or employer of not less than a year of satisfactory nursing related services. The tasks it opens include epinephrine by auto injector, finger stick blood glucose testing under an order that names frequency and normal range, and insulin from a prefilled syringe.

Does a multistate license cover work in the District?

It doesn't, because the District hasn't joined the nurse licensure compact. The bill that would take it in is B26-0069, the District of Columbia Nurse Licensure Compact Authorization Act of 2025, introduced on January 22, 2025 and referred to the Committee on Health and the Committee of the Whole on February 4, 2025. As of August 2026 the Council's legislative record shows no event after that referral and marks the bill as under Council review, so a nurse arriving from a party state applies to the District for a District license.