PERMANENT RULES
(Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission)
Date of Adoption: September 13, 2002.
Purpose: WAC 246-840-311 ARNP previously adopted specialities, this rule will allow those persons whose specialty area has been eliminated for new applicants to renew their licenses. The proposal outlines procedures for ARNPs who were originally certified in certain specialties, to enable them to maintain their license in the specialty area.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 18.79.110.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 02-14-048 on June 27, 2002.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
Pilot Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
or Other Alternative Rule Making:
New 1,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule:
Thirty-one days after filing.
September 13, 2002
Joanna Boatman, RN
Chair
OTS-5488.4
NEW SECTION
WAC 246-840-311
ARNP previously adopted specialties.
(1) The nursing care quality assurance commission recognizes
the need to provide for renewing the licenses of advanced
registered nurse practitioners certified in:
(a) Community health nurse;
(b) Maternal/GYN/neonatal nurse;
(c) Medical/surgical nursing;
(d) Occupational health nurse;
(e) Neurosurgical nursing; or
(f) Enterostomal therapy.
(2) Failure to renew. If any current credential holder of one or more of the above six categories fails to renew his or her credential(s), then upon the expiration of the current credential listed above, the nursing care quality assurance commission will not renew or recognize the specialty certification(s) listed above for that individual according to the requirements of WAC 246-840-360.
(3) Existing licenses only. This rule applies only to existing licensees issued credentials in the above six categories by the Washington state nursing care quality assurance commission. No new applications will be accepted for certification in the above six categories.
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