NR565 Week 2: State Specific Guidelines for Prescribing Controlled Substances & Medical Devices

when opioids are appropriate, 4 points for a safe duration of use, and 2 points for a current edition APA formatted reference.)effective. The benefits and risks needs to be address every two weeks with these patients. Subacute and chronic pain should not have opioids as their first line of therapy. Sometimes though, they are approprirate regardless of the nonopioid therapies used. The patients need to be evaluated, documentation completed, education and a time frame set for the use of the opioids and when they plan to discontinue and have another pain management come into play. When looking at the duration of how long they should be prescribed, acute pain should be less than a month. Subacute pain should be around one to three months. Chronic pain can typically be greater than three months (2023). Reference Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2023, June 15). Initiating opioid therapy. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/healthcare- professionals/prescribing/initiating-opioids.html#:~:text=When%20diagnosis%20and %20severity%20of%20acute%20pain%20warrant,enough%20to%20require%20opioids %20%28%20Recommendation%206%20%29. State specific laws on controlled substance prescribing for the nurse practitioner: Research your state laws on advanced practice nurses' authority to prescribe controlled substances. Based on research done on the state where you will practice clinically, include the following: Identify the law, rule, code, or statute that describes the advanced practice nurse's authority to prescribe controlled substances in your state.Link to where you found law, rule,code, or statute for your state. (309) APN Controlled Substance User Guide.pdf (illinois.gov) What does the law, rule, code, or statute say? An APRN can only prescribe medications and controlled substances that are in written delegation of authority from a collaborating physician. However, Illinois has granted for APRNs to apply for full practice authority, which then gives them the ability to prescribe, administer, and dispense over the counter medication, legend drugs, schedule II-V and controlled substances under the practitioner license that is in the Illinois