(a) The furnishing of drugs or devices by nurse practitioners is conditional on issuance by the board of a number to the nurse applicant who has successfully completed the requirements of subdivision (g) of Section 2836.1. The number shall be included on all transmittals of orders for drugs or devices by the nurse practitioner. The board shall make the list of numbers issued available to the Board of Pharmacy. The board may charge the applicant a fee to cover all necessary costs to implement this section, that shall be not less than four hundred dollars ($400) nor more than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) for an initial application, nor less than one hundred fifty dollars ($150) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for an application for renewal. The board may charge a penalty fee for failure to renew a furnishing number within the prescribed time that shall be not less than seventy-five dollars ($75) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
(b) The number shall be renewable at the time of the applicant’s registered nurse license renewal.
(c) The board may revoke, suspend, or deny issuance of the numbers for incompetence or gross negligence in the performance of functions specified in Sections 2836.1 and 2836.2.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 799, Sec. 21. (SB 1039) Effective January 1, 2017.)