Prescriptive Authority

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Read Article and respond to questions

https://www.aanp.org/news-feed/aanp-applauds-national-academy-of-medicine-recommendations-for-future-of-nursing (Links to an external site.)

• After reading this, what are your thoughts?
• Do you support full practice authority for all APRNs?  Some?  None?
• Should there be any limitations in prescriptive authority?
• Would a more step-wise approach, ie completing a certain number of required supervised hours be the most successful approach?
• As a APRN student how would you fight the physician groups, lobbyists, who do not support full practice authority?
• What do you think are the driving forces behind physician oppositions to full practice authority?
• How will full practice authority impact your own individual practice?