Practice Agreement · RN
Registered Nurse Practice Agreement in Alaska
Alaska law does not require a Registered Nurse to hold a named agreement with a physician. Practices still use one to define the working relationship; here is what it covers and what the state does require.
General RN licensure (AS 08.68, base sections distinct from the APRN definitions) carries no physician-supervision or collaborative-agreement requirement — RN practice is inherently order-driven/facility-based nursing practice, not an independent-medical-practice category subject to this framework.
What a Registered Nurse practice agreement covers in Alaska
Governed by the Alaska Board of Nursing. Each numbered item is a statutory requirement the agreement must satisfy.
The Registered Nurse ("RN") shall practice under the orders, standing orders, or delegation of the Physician, consistent with AS 08.68. Alaska law does not require a collaboration agreement for this Registered Nurse's general scope of practice; the Physician shall instead be available to the Registered Nurse for consultation regarding clinical and patient care issues arising under any order or delegation.
- The agreement on file also carries 2 scope, 1 education, 2 registration clauses, generated in the document itself.
Statutes and rules cited
- Alaska Stat. § 08.80.337statute
Authorizes a pharmacist to provide patient care services, including prescribing and administering drugs and devices, under a collaborative practice agreement with a written protocol approved by a practitioner; requires the pharmacist to recognize the limits of the pharmacist's education and training. Cited from the Alaska Board of Pharmacy's own published compilation of its statutes and regulations.
Terms it has to carry
Ratio, proximity, chart review, meeting and prescribing terms the agreement has to carry, from the state's supervision rules.
Proximity
Not codified — left to the agreement
Supervision ratio
Not codified — no cap on file
Chart review
Not codified — left to the agreement
Meeting cadence
Not codified — left to the agreement
Prescriptive authority
Covered by the practice agreement · no controlled-substance authority
Base RN licensure carries no prescriptive authority in Alaska.
Written agreement
Not required
Unconditional — general RN licensure is never subject to a physician-supervision or collaborative-agreement requirement.
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — RN licensure carries no entity-ownership framework of its own; RNs are typically employees rather than practice-entity owners in the CPOM sense.
Legal sources for these rules (1)
- AS 08.68 — Nursing (base RN licensure sections)
About Alaska's rules
All four APRN roles (NP, CRNA, CNM, CNS) share one statutory framework (AS 08.68.850, 12 AAC 44) with FULL independent practice and no collaborative agreement. PA law is mid-transition: SB 89 would add a 4,000-hour conditional pathway effective ~Sept. 16, 2026, but its enrolled text couldn't be verified — current codified law (below) still requires a standing collaborative plan with no experience-based exit.
Other clinicians in Alaska: see the state overview.