Licensure (certification of an applicant to practice as an Advance Practice Registered Nurse)

• Instructions and Application for Initial APRN Licensure by Examination
• Instructions and Application for APRN Licensure by Endorsement
• Instructions and Application to Request APRN Licensure in an Additional AP Role and Population Focus/Specialty
• Information on Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Temporary Permit
• Frequently Asked Questions

Prescriptive Authority (An APRN may be granted prescriptive authority to prescribe assessment studies, including pharmaceutical diagnostic testing, legend and certain controlled drugs, therapeutic regimens, medical devices and appliances, etc.)

• Instructions and Application for Initial Prescriptive Authority in the State of Louisiana
• Instructions and Forms for Requesting a Change of Prescriptive Authority Privileges
• Instructions and Forms for Adding Controlled Substances to Prescriptive Authority Privileges
• Instructions/Forms for Reinstating Prescriptive Authority
• Frequently Asked Questions

Collaborative Practice Agreement  (formal written statement addressing the parameters of the collaborative practice which are mutually agreed upon by the advanced practice registered nurse and one or more licensed physicians
or dentists)

• Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) template form
• Frequently Asked Questions

Commensurate APRN (APRNs without specialty and functional role national certification availability).

• Instructions/Verification of Renewal Requirements (VR-1 form)
• Frequently Asked Questions

Resources

• Advanced Practice National Certifying Organizations
• RN Scope of Practice Guidelines (tool that may useful in working through practice and delegation issues)
• APRN Scope of Practice Guidelines (tool that may useful in working through practice and delegation issues)
• RN/APRN Delegation Tree (tool that may useful in working through practice and delegation issues)

Practice Advisory Opinions Rendered by LSBN (opinions rendered by the board based on specifics of a nursing practice situation)

Declaratory Statements Rendered by LSBN (tool that may useful in working through practice and delegation issues)

• Delegation Tree
• Nurse Practice Act (laws)
• Rules and Regulations
• Louisiana State Board of Pharmacy
• Drug Enforcement Agency
• Continuing Education Requirements

Verifications/Reinstatements: verifications@lsbn.state.la.us
Endorsements/Volunteer Nurses/Foreign Nurses: endorsements@lsbn.state.la.us
Nursing Practice: practice@lsbn.state.la.us
Advanced Nursing Practice:advancedpractice@lsbn.state.la.us
Renewals:renewals@lsbn.state.la.us
Phone: (225)755-7520
Fax: (225)755-7581

Director
Cynthia York, RN, MSN, CGRN

Compliance Officer
Jennifer Alleman, APRN, FNP-BC

Licensing Analysts
Kevin Brumley
Laura Guillory
Stacey Jones
Brenda Kelt
Shirley King

Administrative Coordinator
Orasetta Brown