To prescribe non-controlled substances in Delaware, you must have prescriptive authority as well as APN licensure. The APN licensure application includes a question asking whether you are also applying for prescriptive authority.

• You must have a collaborative agreement to apply for prescriptive authority.
• You may apply for prescriptive authority at the same time as you apply for APN licensure or later on.

Prescriptive authority alone does not confer the right to prescribe controlled substances in Delaware . See the Important Information about Prescribing Controlled Substances section below.

Requirements

These are the requirements to apply for prescriptive authority at the same time as your APN license.

• Answer "yes" to Question 3 on the Application for Licensure as an Advanced Practice Nurse. There is no additional fee to apply for prescriptive authority.
  
  
• Submit a Collaborative Agreement form for each individual business/practice where you will be prescribing in Delaware. Follow the instructions on the form regarding who should sign the CERTIFICATION OF COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT section.
  
  
• Your APN program official transcript must clearly show that you have completed academic courses in all of these:
  • advanced health assessment
  • diagnosis & management of problems within your clinical specialty
  • advanced pathophysiology
  • advanced pharmacology/pharmacotherapeutics

  If the transcript doesn't clearly show this coursework, the Board office will contact you for further documentation.

• Use the following table to decide if you must submit documentation of continuing education in (or related to) advanced pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics . Acceptable documentation is the completion certificate you receive at the end of the educational activity. Documents such as copies of your course registration or letters/emails thanking you for registering are not acceptable proof that you completed the coursework.
  
  

  IF you...	THEN you...
  completed your APN program within the two years before submitting this application	do not need to submit proof of any continuing education.
  hold a current, unencumbered APN license in another jurisdiction (state, U.S. territory or District of Columbia ) and that license is clearly marked with prescriptive authority	submit copy of the license documentation that you have completed at least 10 hours continuing education in (or related to) advanced pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics during the past two years.
  completed your APN program more than two years before you submit this application	submit documentation that you have completed at least 30 hours continuing education in (or related to) advanced pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics during the past two years.

Important Information about Prescribing Controlled Substances

If you receive prescriptive authority, you may prescribe only non-controlled substances.   To prescribe controlled substances in Delaware, you must have all of the following:

• Delaware APN license with prescriptive authority

• Collaborator for each individual business/practice where you practice in Delaware

Note:  If you practice at separate locations of the same business/practice, you need only one collaborator for that business/practice. 

• Delaware CSR

Note:  If you practice at more than one business/practice, you need only a single CSR to prescribe at all of the locations.  However, every Delaware location where controlled substances are dispensed/stored must be covered by a CSR.  If no other practitioner (e.g., physician), physician assistant or APN holds a Delaware CSR for a location where you will store/dispense, as well as prescribe, controlled substances, you must file for an additional CSR for the location.

• Federal DEA registration for Delaware (a DEA registration in another jurisdiction is not sufficient)

To apply for a CSR(s), see Controlled Substances Application for Advanced Practice Nurses, available on dpr.delaware.gov.  For Federal DEA registration, see DEA New Registration Applications.