Arkansas State Nurses Ass'n v. Arkansas State Medical Board

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This suit for a declaratory judgment was brought against the State Medical Board by the Arkansas State Nurses Association, a professional association whose membership includes about 100 “registered nurse practitioners,” a branch of the nursing profession created by Act 613 of 1979. Ark. Stat. Ann. §§ 72-746 (e) and 72-754 (f) (Repl. 1979). The suit seeks to invalidate the Medical Board’s Regulation 10, as an unauthorized and illegal attempt to regulate registered nurse practitioners. This appeal from the circuit court’s declaratory judgment upholding the Medical…