Posted on 10/05/2010 3:23:13 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON — A report released Tuesday may give nurses with advanced degrees a potent weapon in their perennial battle to get the authority to practice without a doctor's oversight.
The report, released by the Institute of Medicine and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, says nurses should take on a larger and more independent role in providing health care in America, something many doctors have repeatedly opposed, citing potential safety concerns. It calls for states and the federal government to remove barriers that restrict what care advanced practice nurses — those with a master's degree — provide.
The report calls for elimination of "regulatory and institutional obstacles" including limits on nurses "scope of practice" — which are state rules about what care people who are not physicians can provide.
The findings come from a committee on the future of nursing, a collaboration among nurses, doctors, health care business leaders and academics that studied the issue for two years. While the report addresses a ongoing battle being played across state legislatures, it's not clear if the new report will have any impact on those battles. The panel is planning a meeting next month to discuss ways to implement its recommendations.
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If you are going to let Nurse Pratitioners practice medicine without supervision, why have Doctors at all?
My wife started her Doctorate in Nursing after getting her BSN last year, because we could see this coming a mile away.
Of Course.
Some states allow Nurse Practitioners to have their own practices now.
But will BaraqqiCare reimbursements allow them to be paid as much as a UAW assembly line worker?
It’s going to be like, yesterday I couldn’t spell the word doctor today I is one.
If that..... And that's only if they agree to treat union and AARP members for free!
I am a nurse with 25 years of experience and I won’t trust my health care to other nurses.
About Time!
Turn over much of the routine medical diagnosis & treatment to nurses, EMTs, Physican’s Assistants, etc. and medical costs will go down.
Let the 24-hour Wal-marts open up First Aid centers staffed by the above. Have a decent group of lawyers & jurists write an ironclad liability limitation contract and cost will drop further. Add a web-based info/consultant system and we’re all set.
For much of my life I have been treated by nurses or Navy corpsmen. Yes, I REALLY appreciate the MD’s who did my bypass, stent and appendectomy operations. However, MOST medical problems can be dealt with by non-MD’s.
Park the AMA in the back lot with the AFL-CIO and the other dinosaurs.
This is what Obama calls "hope and change". You hope you can survive your next medical emergency. Change, is all about the pain killing drugs they'll give you while your in the hospice- making room for the next generation.
As Ebenezer Scrooge said:...
If they'd rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.
We can now call Obama... Ebenezer Scrooge
Scrooge-care
Do you trust your health to all the MD's with whom you have worked?
Doctor shortage in anticipation of Obamacare-already starting.
I trust my health to the MDs that manage my health. I don’t know about the others. I know my limits as a nurse. Are you a nurse?
Very soon, it may be impossible to have a doctor. There is a shortage, and it is getting worse.
I’m a new nurse, and aside from having difficulty getting a hospital job with this economy, I’m very dubious now about pursuing an advanced practice degree. There is so much touchy-feely, holistic-let’s-distinguish-ourselves-from-doctors, get-a-paper-publishied-academic-credentialism BS nonsense in nursing. If the AP degrees followed the medical model, more the way Physician Assistant training does, then I’d be happier about investing the time and the money in it.
Since Medicare is being gutted, who is going to pay for NP’s much less a doctor or a hospital stay?
I was just going to say the same thing. Any visit to an office will tell you that this is the way it is going. Who calls back after you call the MD? Usually his nurse. Who ordered PT for me after I broke my wrist into pieces? Yep.
This move toward nurses will lower prices. Right?
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