Can a registered nurse who owns a health food store practice medicine without a license?

She takes blood tests and prescribes herbs and treatments. She also does other testings.

You need a license to practice medicine, but not for suggesting supplements. Anybody can "recommend" you try something!
As long as she is not prescribing anything alternative, she's okay. But she can suggest or recommend you try this or that.

well if she is a registered nurse, but if she let her license go)meaning she didnt keep it active, then NO she cant, im not even sure if she was licensed if she could do what she is doing, the health department or FDA needs ta step in somewhere

Can you drive without a drivers liscense? It would also depend on what you mean by medicine. There is nothing wrong with taking and telling people what their blood pressure means. And if the remedy's are all natural they are a recommendation and not a prescription. You said health food store so i am assuming they are all natural. Sounds like the lady is just trying to help people.

if I were you i would check with your state's health dpt, medical board, nursing board, secretary of health or whatever equivalent they have in your state. why you asking US?

1/ you have to find out what kind of registered nurse she is first. 2/ what is she practicing; what kind of tests she did for paitents 3/ what kind of prescription she hand out then you will know whether she is doing something illegal to her profession. I believe if she is a real reg nurse, she has a code of ethic to adhere to. Find out that from the ( her nurse Association) where???) She might acturally be doing things within her prof capability and would not have to be against the law. Please find out more then we can discuss more. She might be just advising people with good intention, I hope, and NOT prescribing, is it ??? I am not exactly sure """" the treatment """" word, what is meant by treatment???? a massage?? physiotherapy ???? what ???Good luck.

If, she is a Nurse Practitioner working with a doctor, she can practice medicine without a license provided she is De greed, Certified and Whit current registration in the appropriate field. Ditto if she has the same credentials in Alternative medicine and or Herbalistic Medicine, from an accredited university--so yeah ... she can do that too!
On a few technicalities anybody can suggest anything provided they include the statement But you should really see your doctor and don't take my word on it--BTW ... I hope everyone on YAHOO 360 realizes this. I have answered many many health questions and some of them have been so minor, I felt, it would be OK--Mostly I refer them to a doctor or ask them to give more details about history of symptoms and general health etc ... .

In some states, yes.

It sounds like she is practising natural medicine rather than allopathic medicine. They are totally different - the training requirements are different (in Australia, naturopathy is a 3 year course, whereas to become a doctor is a minimum of 7 years of study).

As someone who is part way through natural medicine studies, what she is doing is no different to what we are trained to do as natural therapists. it's certainly not medicine in the orthodox / allopathic sense. It would be hard to imagine that someone would be capable of doing those various tests and having a knowledge of treatments without having studied it.