Healthcare Jobs in New Mexico

By applying for it separately, on hours of prescribing that have already happened. The applicant verifies 400 hours of work experience in which prescribing dangerous drugs has occurred within the 2 years immediately preceding the date of the application. Anyone who hasn't got those hours documents 400 hours of prescribing dangerous drugs in a preceptorship with a licensed nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist or physician, completed within 6 months. The hours are a condition of the prescribing authority, so they sit on top of a license the nurse already holds.

The rule reaches for a narrower word. A CRNA functions in an interdependent role as a member of a health care team in which the medical care of the patient is directed by a licensed physician, osteopathic physician, dentist, APRN or podiatrist licensed in New Mexico. Then it rules out the two readings that phrase invites: direction of the patient's medical care doesn't require the physician to supervise the anesthetist, and it doesn't require the physician to be present during a procedure or anesthetic the anesthetist administers.

New Mexico's Department of Health does, under a rule of its own governing licensure and practice for certified nurse-midwives. The scope it sets is independent in as many words, and one sentence of it names 5 acts: a CNM conducts physical examinations; independently prescribes, distributes and administers dangerous drugs, devices and contraceptive methods, along with controlled substances in Schedules II through V; admits, manages and discharges clients; orders and interprets laboratory and diagnostic tests; and orders the use of medical devices. The prescribing half then picks up conditions of its own. A CNM may not prescribe or distribute Schedule I. Schedules II through V stay shut until the nurse is registered with both the New Mexico board of pharmacy and the federal drug enforcement administration, and anything written under them has to follow the Controlled Substances Act. A CNM employed by the United States military, the veterans administration or the public health service, working in that capacity under the employing facility's own DEA registration, is exempt from all 3 of those paragraphs. The rule separately obliges the CNM to practice within a health care system that provides for consultation, collaborative management or referral as indicated by the client's health status, a duty the rule puts on the nurse. Two agencies, then, and it's worth knowing which one you're dealing with before applying for a New Mexico nurse-midwife job.