For nurse practitioners · Northern Mariana Islands

Full practice, per AANP.

The CNMI licenses NPs with full practice authority under the exclusive authority of its Board of Nursing — no physician supervision, collaboration, or transition period — per AANP's Full Practice classification.

Every state with a pathway

The moment

Independence attaches at licensure

The CNMI licenses NPs with full practice authority under the exclusive authority of its Board of Nursing — no supervision, collaboration, or transition period — per AANP’s Full Practice classification, which is the citable source here: the territory’s own code text was not reachable for primary verification, and this page says so rather than pretending otherwise.

The requirement

RN license, graduate degree in an NP role, and national certification; no supervised-practice hours or transition period identified

The moment it attaches

Initial APRN licensure by the CNMI Board of Nursing

The timeline

Longstanding; listed Full Practice on AANP's map as of October 1, 2025 (original adoption date not verified)

The receipt

Other platforms would show a testimonial here. Gale has no Northern Mariana Islands NPs to quote, and we do not invent people — so here is the dated, sourced fact instead.

The CNMI is one of only two U.S. Pacific territories on AANP's October 2025 roster of 30 full-practice jurisdictions (with Guam) — its southern neighbor American Samoa remains reduced-practice.

CNMI Nurse Practice Act, administered by the CNMI Board of Nursing (nmibon.info); Commonwealth Code citation not verified this session

Scope and carve-outs

The grant and the strings, at equal weight

Full scope per AANP's Full Practice definition: evaluate patients; diagnose; order and interpret diagnostic tests; initiate and manage treatments including prescribing medications and controlled substances, under the exclusive licensure authority of the board of nursing. No carve-outs identified, but primary-source detail is unavailable.

What Gale runs

The inventory, split honestly. Nothing dark is dressed as live.

In the product today

  • Scheduling and the calendar.
  • Notes, with a scribe that drafts during the visit — you stay the final editor of every note.
  • Telehealth where the chart lives.
  • The patient record — see a sample chart, no signup.
  • Superbills for the patient who wants to claim out-of-network benefits.
  • The Fee Schedule — the one Gale document that states the fee.
  • Your practice page, in the public directory compiled from the NPPES registry.

Opening with the founding cohort

  • Concierge memberships — a monthly plan your practice sells on its own terms. Not sellable yet: enrollment fails closed behind a legal switch until counsel clears it. No countdown — when it clears, it clears.
  • The loop tracker — every referral, lab, and question a visible loop with an owner, a state, and a promised window. Closing one requires an outcome note; nothing silently expires.
  • The guided founding sequence — practice setup walked step by step with the first cohort: entity, posted prices, the practice page, the first visit.
The economics

No physician attached means no standing invoice between you and your own practice — the economics of independence here are unusually legible. What Gale adds is built to read the same way.

Gale’s side of the ledger is deliberately short. The software is free, and Gale earns one flat all-in fee on a transaction — charged only when your practice is actually paid, never as a subscription, never with per-feature line items, never a spread on your rate. The number itself lives in exactly one document, on purpose, so it can never quietly say two different things in two places: the Fee Schedule states it.
The playbook

The deepest state cluster we have built is California’s — eight guides on the 103/104 ladder, cited to the statute and the board’s own filings. They are California’s rules, not Northern Mariana Islands’s; the same treatment is coming state by state. Until then, they show the depth of homework to expect from us.

The California playbook →
Where to start

Your page may already exist

Gale publishes a public directory compiled from the NPPES registry. Find your listing, claim it, and see how you rank for your own name — that page is the front door your independent practice will be found through.