Can the registered nurse assist in providing case management and preparing prescriptions for patients in a medication assisted treatment (MAT)?

The state laws and rules do not prohibit the competent and appropriately trained registered nurse from assisting in providing case management and support for patients in MAT within the registered nurse’s legal and individual scope of practice. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) does state that, “an individual (secretary or nurse) may be designated by the practitioner to prepare prescription for the practitioner’s signature.”