MI NP Prescribing Laws While many of the laws and rules when it comes to healthcare and what practitioners can do are federal in nature, the states have their say as well. Among the many examples of this are the Michigan-specific laws that exist when it comes to nurse practitioners and what they are allowed to prescribe in terms of medications, when they prescribe it, whose approval they might need and so forth. This report shall list off those requirements and what they mean to nurse practitioners practicing in Michigan. While nurse practitioner rights and responsibilities are largely the same from state to state, there are most certainly some variances as well and Michigan is no different.

Analysis

One major facet of the Michigan law comes from what is known as MAPS. This is short fo the Michgan automatic prescription system. Nurse practitioners are one of the groups of people that are subject to the rules with this program. There are a few parts to the MAPS program that affect nurse practitioners. First, there are reports generated monthly that look for "excessive" prescriptions. The word "excessive" means that a single nurse practitioner or other professional is seemingly doling out more prescriptions than they should be. Obviously, this would often point to, perhaps, nurse practitioners that are doling out controlled substances, either new prescriptions or refills, too much. It can also be a sign that fraudulent...

For example, a secondary person could be impersonating a legitimate nurse practitioner. Regardless, a flat for "excessive" prescriptions is not a sign of guilt, just a red flag. The flagged nurse practitioner or doctor can compare the report issued by the state to what they hold actually happened and let the state know one way or another whether the reporting is accurate. If it is, it would obviously have to be explained and proven to be legitimate. If it is not correct, then there would obviously be further investigations as to why this is the case. There are general reporting requirements that are in place across the board and this holds true in particular for all schedule two through five medicines and drugs (LARA, 2016).
When it comes to nurse practitioners in particular, there are rules for them just like there are rules for any other professional that is getting their prescribing authority delegated from or supervised by a physician. When it comes to the rules for a nurse practitioner, they are allowed to dispense controlled and non-controlled substances that range from schedule three to five. This remains true so long as there is written authorization for that nurse practitioner to do so. When it comes to schedule two drugs, the delegating physician can only delegate this to a nurse practitioner of the prescription in question is less than seven days, such as when a patient is discharged to go recover at home. This stands in contrast to physician's assistants, or PA's. PA's are not restricted when it comes to schedule two through five…