Healthcare Jobs in Kansas

No. The statute that used to carry a supervising physician has carried no agreement and no protocol since the 2022 substitute bill, approved by the governor on April 15 that year, and the board amended its own rules the following October. Malpractice insurance survived, as a condition of rendering professional clinical services with proof at licensure and at every renewal, unless the APRN works solely under the federal or Kansas tort claims act, solely as a charitable healthcare provider, or is serving on active duty. Prescribing controlled substances is a separate step again, and it means registering with the federal drug enforcement administration and meeting its requirements. Neither of the two puts a physician over a Kansas nurse practitioner.

Kansas names one exception to the prescribing power and closes dispensing separately. The statute lets an APRN prescribe durable medical equipment and prescribe, procure and administer any drug consistent with the licensee's specific role and population focus, except a drug intended to cause an abortion. An APRN may not dispense drugs at all, though the same subsection allows them to request, receive and sign for professional samples and to distribute those samples to patients. The written order has to carry the name, address and telephone number of the APRN's practice location, the letters A.P.R.N. with the signature, and the DEA registration number whenever the drug is a controlled substance.

It depends how you qualified. An aide who has been employed as one in another state, is eligible for employment there, and whose training or testing the secretary finds equivalent to Kansas requirements can work here without sitting the Kansas state test at all, and the department writes to confirm the exemption, the registry placement and the eligibility. 4 other groups count as having equivalent training and still have to test: a current out-of-state registered or practical nurse, a licensed mental health technician, someone whose registered nurse, practical nurse or mental health technician license went inactive in the 24 months immediately before they applied for equivalency, and a student in an accredited nursing or mental health technician program who has finished the basic skills courses. The 2 licensed groups have to be clear of disciplinary action pending or current, the inactive-license group of anything pending, and each of the 4 gets a single attempt, with failure sending them through the full 90-hour course.