(Answered) NR506NP Week 6: Scope of Practice and Patient’s Healthcare Accessibility

COURSE  

NR506NP Healthcare Policy and Leadership

Preparing the Discussion

  1. Discuss your state NP community in terms of scope of practice. Include your state’s scope of practice for NPs, including:
    • Level of independence of practice **In California, NPs are required to practice under Standardized Procedure Guidelines. If CA is your intended practice state, please provide details on how Standardized Procedures Guidelines are developed in California and an example of a California SPG.
    • Prescribing authority
    • Any limitations of practice
    • Process for obtaining licensure in your state
    • Certification and education requirements for licensure.
  2. If you live in a restricted or reduced practice state, how has patient care been impacted in your local community by these barriers? For instance, is the ED used for primary care?  Are the EDs overcrowded with long wait times?  Are there urgent care clinics readily available? Is there adequate access to primary care?  If you live in a full practice, how has an independent practice of the APN resulted in improved patient access to healthcare?
  3. How does access to NPs impact any healthcare disparities?
  4. A scholarly resource must be used for EACH discussion question each week.

ANSWER

Discuss your state NP community in terms of scope of practice. Include the your state’s scope of practice for NPs including:

Healthcare overall is at a critical shortage related to the Covid 19 pandemic. This is doubling tasks and job descriptions to fill in some gaps as needed. I live in a rural area in West Tennessee. There are urgent care’s, clinics, and small hospitals in the area, but most are short staff. As for the NP community, Tennessee is a restricted state, meaning to practice as a nurse practitioner (NP), you must be supervised by a physician in order to practice……..

If you live in a restricted or reduced practice state, how has patient care been impacted in your local community from these barriers?

Tennessee is a restricted state. Restrictions to the NP’s scope of practice, creates unnecessary accessibility barriers to timely and cost-effective care delivered (Perloff et al., 2017). I currently work in the ED, and I can see that the ED is being used as a primary care provider as some patients come to the ED because they do not have a provider or health insurance, and they even come for medication refills.……..please click the icon below to purchase full answer at $10