New bills could lift restrictions on nurse practitioners

Full Practice Authority for Nurses Set to Expand the Primary Care ...

The proposal would have allowed APRNs, including nurse practitioners (NPs), nurse anesthetists, nurse-midwives, and clinical nurse specialists, ...

A state-by-state breakdown of nurse practitioner practice authority laws

That primary care physician shortage is leading to the growth of the Nurse Practitioner (NP) role. In 2023, the United States Bureau of ...

The evolution of the standard of care for autonomous nurse ...

With full practice authority, nurse practitioners in New York can evaluate, test, diagnose, manage treatment and prescribe medications for ...

Addressing Barriers to APRN Practice: Policy and Regulatory ...

Significant restrictions on APRN practice persist at many levels. Currently, 11 states have restrictive NP practice authority (AANP, 2022a). In ...

Physicians Look to Disrupt Longtime Regulatory Tradition for APRNs

Nursing stakeholders in Oklahoma worked to draft and introduce HB 1013, a bill to remove the requirement that APRNs enter collaborative agreements with ...

Update: More States Improved Patients' Access to Nurses in 2021

Lifting restrictions on the care nurses can provide gives more ... will have direct access to nurse practitioners. Importantly, the ...

Utilizing the Nurse Practitioner: Rethinking State-Level Regulatory ...

New Jersey made attempts in 2012 to expand its NP scope of practice laws by introducing a bill—the New Jersey Consumer Access to Healthcare Act— ...

Nursing Associations Applaud Legislation to Remove Practice Barriers

The ICAN Act will remove administrative, practice and other barriers currently faced by APRNs and their patients.

AMA successfully fights scope of practice expansions that threaten ...

” This legislation would allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants ... laws and regulations that expand scope of practice. AMA ...

Bill loosening Missouri's nursing requirements has uncertain future

Allies of the bill note Missouri's restrictions for APRNs are some of the strictest in the country. Some states -- including most of Missouri's ...

State Practice Environment

State practice and licensure laws reduce the ability of NPs to engage in at least one element of NP practice. State law requires a career-long regulated ...

NC advanced practice nurses foiled in legislative push - again

Bills like the SAVE Act — to broaden APRNs' scope of practice — are not new. In fact, efforts go back decades. The SAVE Act, was filed early in ...

In Ohio, nurse practitioners push to lift restrictions on how they ... - PBS

Still in Ohio and 22 other states, NPs can't provide care without mandated physician oversight. NPs must secure what are known as collaborative ...

States Weigh Laws for Nurse Practitioner Full Practice Authority

The vote helps bring to fruition a 2020 law granting nurse practitioners full practice authority, meaning NPs would not need to enter into a ...

TMA Decries Scope Bills That Would Allow Nurses to Practice ...

In a move that physicians say could undermine access to quality care and drive up health care costs, some state lawmakers are pushing a pair ...

Historic APRN Legislation Introduced in U.S. Senate

Learn why the Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) Act (S.5212) is landmark legislation which would remove administrative and practice ...

Facing Growing Pressure, States Are Tackling Outdated Nurse ...

In last year alone, legislatures in more than 20 states passed laws that lifted some or all of these restrictions—meaning better access to care ...

Nurse practitioners push legislation that allows full practice authority

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Currently, nurse practitioners can't practice on their own in Pennsylvania, but a new bill would change that.

Two bills would remove limits on nurses' ability to practice

Nurse practitioners say existing Missouri laws are preventing them from providing the best possible care to their patients, and lawmakers ...

Regulatory Reduction for Nurse Practitioners in Missouri

This bill would grant authority to the Missouri State Board of Nursing to create rules regarding licensure, renewal procedures, required fees, ...