CNS · Mississippi
Supervision Agreement for Clinical Nurse Specialists in Mississippi
No. Clinical Nurse Specialists practice independently here. Mississippi does not require one.
Mississippi does not treat CNS as a prescribing/supervised-practice category — Part 2840, Ch. 2 is solely a title-use recognition (RN + master's/higher degree in a clinical specialty + national certification). The operative APRN definition for prescribing/collaborative purposes (Rule 1.1(B)) lists only CNM, CRNA, and CNP — CNS is not included.
What the supervision must look like
The rules the physician relationship has to follow. Each fact comes from the statute or board rule listed under sources.
Proximity
Not codified — left to the agreement
Supervision ratio
Not codified — no cap on file
Chart review
Not codified — left to the agreement
Meeting cadence
Not codified — left to the agreement
Prescriptive authority
Covered by the practice agreement · no controlled-substance authority
Mississippi's CNS title carries no prescriptive-authority provision — CNS is excluded from the operative APRN definition (Rule 1.1(B)) used for prescribing/collaborative-practice purposes.
Written agreement
Not required
Unconditional — Mississippi's CNS credential carries no scope of practice, supervision, or prescriptive-authority provision at all, so no fact pattern would trigger an agreement requirement.
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Licensee-only ownership required — No CNS-specific ownership pathway was found — since Mississippi's CNS credential carries no independent scope of practice, this is likely a moot question in practice; treat as unconfirmed rather than settled.
Not independently verified this research pass.
Legal sources for these rules (1)
- Mississippi Admin. Code Title 30, Part 2840, Ch. 2 — Clinical Nurse Specialists (title-use recognition)
What a supervising physician costs here
Typical monthly cost in Mississippi
$500 – $600
Estimate for one Clinical Nurse Specialist. Standard-tier state.
About Mississippi's rules
Mississippi has no independent-practice pathway for NPs/APRNs — a collaborative relationship plus Board-approved written protocol is required for the life of the license. Multiple 2025-2026 NP full-practice-authority bills (H.B. 813, H.B. 98, S.B. 2178) remain unconfirmed as enacted — re-verify § 73-15-20 each session.
Other clinicians in Mississippi: see the state overview.