Healthcare Jobs in Virginia

Yes, and it's the one exception written into the state's aide rules. 18VAC90-60-110 bars a medication aide from giving injections, except by the subcutaneous route for insulin, glucagon, or auto-injectable epinephrine. The medication aide add-on runs 68 hours on top of the base aide certificate, with its own 8-hour module built around insulin.

Three years of supervised practice comes first, followed by an attestation and a notation added to the license once it's granted, a detail worth confirming on any Virginia nurse practitioner job. A certified nurse midwife clears a lower bar of 1,000 hours instead, and a CRNA falls outside this question altogether, with nurse anesthetists licensed under their own separate path.

A clinical nurse specialist practices independently in Virginia right up until they prescribe a controlled substance, which is the one act that still needs a collaborating relationship. Every other category of APRN here reaches its own independence a different way, so the license the posting names decides which rule applies.