Can a registered nurse inject Botox or filler in Georgia?
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Short answer
Only under a nurse protocol — a written agreement signed by the nurse and a licensed physician delegating authority to administer and order drugs; ordering is not prescribing, so the nurse can't write a prescription. The cited rules don't name injectables.
A nurse acting under a nurse protocol may administer and order drugs, but ordering under delegation is expressly not prescribing: it does not authorize the issuance of a written prescription. Ordering means selecting a drug, medical treatment, or diagnostic study through physician delegation under a nurse protocol or a physician assistant job description.
O.C.G.A. §43-34-23(a) · verified Aug 17, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
The rest of what Georgia says on this
Georgia lets an advanced practice registered nurse stand in for the physician at the cosmetic-laser examination, but only by delegation and only under a board-approved protocol. The consulting physician may have “delegated the authority to perform such examination to a physician assistant in a job description who is a licensed cosmetic laser practitioner, or to an advanced practice registered nurse in a protocol approved by the Board and who is a licensed cosmetic laser practitioner”. In a physician office the same delegation runs “by an advanced practice registered nurse in a protocol approved by the Board”. The authority is derived from the physician in both settings; the rule states no route by which the nurse holds it independently.
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 360-35-.07(1)(a), (2)(a) · verified Sep 8, 2026
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