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Safe Prescribing

            Lori, FNP-BC, is a fresh graduate and has in recent times passed her certification exam. She has just been hired to work for a Primary Care Clinic in a small town and she will be working with one physician at a site. As such, Lori would have to obtain prescriptive authority to practice. To obtain the prescriptive authority, first, Lori would be required to obtain a furnishing number to allow her furnish or order devices and drugs to patients. The furnishing number would also allow her to obtain the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration number. Secondly, obtaining prescriptive authority require registered nurse license (Alexander & Schnell, 2016). Through the license Lori would be accepted to the State Board of Nursing Advanced Practice Registry to practice and use the title as APRN.

After national certification, Lori would have to go through academic core course preparation including studying advanced pathophysiology, Advanced health assessment, and Advanced pharmacotherapeutic. She would require three credits as well extra pharmacology or psychopathology course such as psychopathology or neurobiology to qualify for prescriptive authority. Subsequently, Lori would be tested on the management and diagnosis of problems within her specialty and upon qualification she would be prepared on APRN role (Adams & Weaver, 2016). Notably, the list clinical practice hours needed for an APRN graduation is 500. One must also pay $ 50 non-refundable processing fee for prescriptive authority. The final stage of prescriptive authority involves signing of a collaborative agreement with the State Board of Nursing. The agreement is aimed at ensuring the professionals practice within their area of specialty. On the other hand, some of the safe prescribing practices that the providers should use for these settings include overdose prevention, safe and appropriate opioid analgesic prescribing, (Menchine et al., 2013), and abuse prevention.