Healthcare Jobs in Tennessee

A break of more than 5 years moves you onto a separate branch of the rule, which takes proof of any 1 of 7 things. Continuing education is the obvious one, at 10 contact hours for every year of inactivity. The other 6 are an article on nursing you wrote and published during the break in a journal the board finds acceptable, a 2-week board approved refresher, a 2-week orientation program run by a prospective employer, enrollment in a nursing program leading to registered nurse licensure or a higher degree, which carries conditions of its own about recent credits and a transcript, current certification in an appropriate nursing specialty, and passing the NCLEX again. A nurse who has been away that long and doesn't intend to practice again falls outside the competence rule altogether.

No. Prescribing rides on a second document, the certificate of fitness, and that one also carries the authority to perform acts of medical diagnosis and to develop a medical plan of care. The sequencing is the part that catches people out. A notice goes to the board before the first prescription is written, and the collaborating physician who holds control and responsibility for those prescriptive services is named in it. Updates go in promptly and the rule bars prescribing until they are filed, so a change to that name has to be on file before the next prescription a Tennessee nurse practitioner writes.

A year of work that has to look a particular way. Among the 10 requirements, an applicant must already be a certified nurse aide or a licensed occupational therapy assistant, and must have worked as one in a nursing home, assisted care living facility or PACE for at least 365 days of continuous, uninterrupted, full-time work at no more than 2 different facilities by the time the application goes in. A recommendation from a facility where they currently work or hold a contract is another of the 10, so the present employer has a hand in whether the next credential happens at all. The work itself is listed separately, on the Tennessee medication aide page.