Readoption with Amendments: N.J.A.C. 13:37
Adopted Repeals: N.J.A.C. 13:37-7.5 and 13

New Jersey Board of Nursing Rules

Proposed: July 19, 2010 at 42 N.J.R. 1481(a).
Adopted: November 5, 2010 by the Board of Nursing, Patricia Ann Murphy, Ph.D, APN, President, with the approval of Paula T. Dow, Attorney General as to N.J.A.C. 13:37-9.
 
Filed: December 15, 2010 as R.2011 d.025, without change.
Authority: N.J.S.A. 45:11-24, 45:11-67 and 52:14B-5.1.
 
Effective Dates:   December 15, 2010, Readoption;
January 18, 2011, Amendments and Repeals.
 
Expiration Date:  December 15, 2015.
 
 
Federal Standards Statement
A Federal standards analysis is not required because there are no Federal laws or standards applicable to the rules readopted with amendments.
 
Full text of the readopted rules can be found in the New Jersey Administrative Code at N.J.A.C. 13:37.
 
Full text of the adopted amendments follows:
 
SUBCHAPTER 2.    LICENSURE BY EXAMINATION; REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL AND LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES
 
13:37-2.2   Application requirements; professional and practical nurses
 
(a) Each applicant for licensure shall file with the Board:
 
1.-2. (No change.)
 
3. A written certification from the registrar, or program administrator authorized by the registrar, attesting that the applicant has successfully completed all requirements for graduation from a registered professional nursing program accredited by the Board or a board of nursing in another state or a licensed practical nursing program accredited by the Board or by a board of nursing in another state. The certification shall indicate the date of graduation or the date the degree or diploma was conferred.
 
[page=194] SUBCHAPTER 5.          GENERAL REQUIREMENTS OF LICENSURE; LICENSE RENEWAL; FEE SCHEDULE
 
13:37-5.3   Continuing education
 
(a)-(i) (No change.)
 
SUBCHAPTER 7.    CERTIFICATION OF ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSES
 
13:37-7.5    (Reserved)
 
13:37-7.8   Continuing education
 
Every biennial period, an advanced practice nurse shall complete the continuing education required for the renewal of a registered professional nurse license pursuant to N.J.A.C. 13:37-5.3 and the continuing education requirements of the national certifying agency whose examination the advanced practice nurse successfully passed pursuant to N.J.A.C. 13:37-7.4 or 7.5.
 
SUBCHAPTER 9.    FORENSIC NURSE-CERTIFIED SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAM
 
13:37-9.3   Application for certification
 
(a) (No change.)
 
Recodify existing (c) and (d) as (b) and (c) (No change in text.)
 
13:37-9.6   Clinical education
 
(a)-(c) (No change.)
 
SUBCHAPTER 13.     (RESERVED)