Physician duties · PMHNP · Nevada
Signing for a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in Nevada: what the physician takes on
The agreement is mandatory for the clinician, which makes its duties mandatory for you. Nevada does not name a specific instrument.
Nevada's APRN statute (NRS 632.237) does not create a separate framework for psychiatric-mental-health NPs — PMHNPs follow the same 2,000-hour collaboration-to-independence model as any other NP/APRN population focus.
Independent practice requires: ≥2,000 hours of practice under a collaborative agreement — identical threshold to general NP.
What you take on as the physician
The rules the physician relationship has to follow. Each fact comes from the statute or board rule listed under sources.
Proximity
during the 2,000-hour pre-prescribing-registration period: Available remotely (no on-site requirement)
Same standard as general NPs.
after obtaining prescribing registration: No proximity requirement
No ongoing proximity/availability requirement once independently registered to prescribe.
Supervision ratio
during the 2,000-hour pre-prescribing-registration period: Up to 3 at a time (combined across provider types)
Shares the same combined 3-PA/APRN cap per physician (NAC 630.495) while under a collaborative agreement.
Chart review
Not codified — left to the agreement
Meeting cadence
Not codified — left to the agreement
Prescriptive authority
Covered by the practice agreement · controlled substances permitted
Psychiatric prescribing in practice skews toward Schedule II stimulants and Schedule IV benzodiazepines/hypnotics more heavily than general primary-care NP prescribing — not a different legal limit, reflected only in calculatorWeights below.
Written agreement
Required
Required only during the pre-threshold period, same as general NP.
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Licensee-only ownership required — Same as the general `np` entry — professional entity under NRS Ch. 89, owned only by licensees of the profession rendered.
Legal sources for these rules (1)
What physicians charge for this role
Typical monthly compensation in Nevada
$500 – $600
Estimate for one Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Standard-tier state.
About Nevada's rules
Nevada has an active corporate-practice-of-medicine doctrine (NRS 89.070) limiting professional-entity ownership to the licensed profession rendering the service — a full-practice-authority NP may independently own a med-spa-type entity, but PAs are not enumerated as eligible owners. NPs/CNMs/CNSs share a 2,000-hour APRN practice-authority threshold (NRS 632.237); CRNAs are separately and explicitly supervised (NRS 632.2397).
Other clinicians in Nevada: see the state overview.