title: Alaska implements new prescriptive regulations for advanced NPs.
abstract: This article outlines the history of advanced nurse practitioner legislation in Alaska, and describes the new regulations, effective Dec. 1, 1984, which give the board of nursing sole regulatory authority over nurse practitioner practice. The new regulations also provide nurse practitioners with prescriptive authority through the board of nursing.
mesh_terms: D000413:Alaska; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010820:Physicians; D013044:Specialty Boards / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence