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Four practicing APRNs would advise Ohio nursing rules
At least one member would come from primary care, one from anesthesia and one from nurse-midwifery. The advisory group would replace the board’s current APRN committee.
In Ohio, the Board of Nursing would no longer lean on its existing APRN committee. A proposal would swap in a new advisory group on advanced practice registered nursing, made up of four nurses who are actively working in clinical practice in the state.
The bill aims to make that advice come from people who are still in the field. At least one member would practice primary care, at least one would be a certified registered nurse anesthetist, and at least one would be a certified nurse-midwife. That mix is meant to bring different day-to-day realities into the room when the board is thinking about APRN rules.
The statutory cleanup behind the swap
The same bill also adjusts related language in Ohio law. It says a nurse is a person licensed as a registered nurse by the Board of Nursing under Chapter 4723, and it defines physician as someone licensed under the state laws covering surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery.
Those definitions matter because they sit close to the line between nursing practice and medicine. For APRNs, the practical effect of the bill is less about a new label than about who gets to advise the board when it writes the rules that shape their work.