Healthcare Jobs in Nebraska

Not if the license is old enough. A nurse practitioner licensed in good standing in Nebraska on or before August 30, 2015 who had attained the equivalent of an initial 2,000 hours of practice supervised by a physician or osteopathic physician is allowed to practice without one, and both halves have to be true. For anyone licensed after that date, the 2,000 hours are evidence filed with the license application. They're a condition of getting the license, and a nurse practitioner who has them isn't working under a supervision that carries on afterwards.

Advanced practice has a board of its own here. The Board of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses seats one nurse practitioner, one certified nurse midwife, one certified registered nurse anesthetist and one clinical nurse specialist, alongside 3 physicians and 2 public members. Each of the 3 physicians holds a professional relationship with one of the first 3 roles. That board also fixes the coverage and limits of the professional liability insurance a Nebraska nurse practitioner has to keep in effect. An employer can go further: the statute lets a facility require insurance of the nurse practitioner and of all collaborating licensed practitioners as well.

The department lists each one as a Medication Aide-40-Hour, a Medication Aide-20-Hour, or a Medication Aide. A medication aide providing services in an assisted-living facility, a nursing home, or an intermediate care facility for persons with developmental disabilities has to have completed a 40-hour course, and that's the first label. The second is a date, not a place: an aide who'd completed a 20-hour course and passed the department's examination before January 1, 2003 may take a second, supplemental 20-hour course in place of the 40. Elsewhere the statute doesn't ask for a course at all and has the aide assessed against 9 listed competencies, plus whatever else the rules determine. A nurse aide course underneath all of that runs at least 75 hours at a nursing home, or at least 20 at an intermediate care facility for persons with developmental disabilities, split as 15 hours of basic personal care and 5 of basic therapeutic and emergency procedure training. All 3 registrations reach the same Nebraska medication aide listing.