Can a registered nurse inject Botox or filler in Oklahoma?
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Short answer
The cited rules do not settle this — they only grant APRNs (nurse practitioners, CNSs, nurse-midwives) with 6,240 clinical hours independent prescriptive authority and place injections outside cosmetology scope; RN administration is not addressed.
Oklahoma grants independent prescriptive authority, and it is earned in hours. § 567.4c opens it to an APRN recognized as a Certified Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist or Certified Nurse-Midwife who has completed a minimum of 6,240 clinical practice hours with prescriptive authority. Prescribing remains formulary-bounded either way: the Board maintains an EXCLUSIONARY formulary listing drugs and categories an APRN may not prescribe, and its Formulary Advisory Council also recommends practice-specific prescriptive standards for each category of APRN. These claims establish the hours threshold, the exclusionary formulary and that recommendation duty; they do not establish which drugs the current formulary excludes.
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Related Oklahoma rules
An Advanced Practice Registered Nurse recognized by the Oklahoma Board of Nursing as a Certified Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist, or Certified Nurse - Midwife who has completed a minimum of six thousand two hundred forty (6,240) clinical practice hours with prescriptive author
Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 567.4c(A) (Independent prescriptive authority for APRNs) · verified Sep 5, 2026
exclusionary formulary that shall list drugs or categories of drugs that shall not be prescribed by an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse recognized to prescribe by the Oklahoma Board of Nursing.
Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 567.4b (The exclusionary formulary limits APRN prescribing) · verified Sep 5, 2026
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