For licensed healthcare professionals who incorporate complementary and alternative healing therapies into their practices, the jurisdiction would fall to their particular licensing board.

For unlicensed providers of complementary and alternative healing therapies, the jurisdiction for incorporating complementary and alternative therapies (including Healing Touch) falls under MN statute chapter 146A.

The Board of Nursing recently published an Integrative Therapies Statement that addresses the practice of complementary and alternative healing therapies by registered nurses.

This statement specifies that if a nurse has incorporated complementary and alternative healing therapies into her or his nursing practice, this practice would be governed by the Board of Nursing and the therapy would be documented in the patient's chart, as with any other intervention (e.g., administering pain medication).

However, if the same nurse is practicing complementary and alternative healing therapies in the community (outside of her or his nursing practice), he or she would be governed by MN statute chapter 146A.