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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69520</law_id><section_number>54.1-2957.02</section_number><catch_line>When advanced practice registered nurse signature accepted</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>63.2-2203</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="29">Medicine and Other Healing Arts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Licensure and Certification of Other Practitioners of the Healing Arts</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever any <span class="dictionary">law</span> or regulation requires a signature, certification, stamp, verification, <span class="dictionary">affidavit</span> or endorsement by a physician, it shall be deemed to include a signature, certification, stamp, verification, <span class="dictionary">affidavit</span> or endorsement by an <span class="dictionary">advanced practice registered nurse</span>.</p></section></text><history>2004, c. 855; 2023, c. 183.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
