Contents tagged with scope of practice
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House speaker introduces initiative to improve health care access for Texans
By Jonathan Nelson
Speaker Dade Phelan led a bipartisan group of representatives in announcing support for a number of bills to address access to health care during a press conference at the State Capitol on April 7, 2021. The Healthy Families, Healthy Texas plan marks a serious commitment to tackle some longstanding barriers to care facing Texas patients.
“The goal of this legislative package is to make health care more affordable, more accessible, and to save lives through better health outcomes,” Phelan said.
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House committee hears bill to grant APRNs independent practice for medical acts
By Jonathan Nelson
The long-anticipated scope of practice showdown of the 87th Texas Legislature took place Wednesday, March 24, in the House Committee on Public Health. Two TAFP members — Tina Philip, DO, of Austin, and Troy Fiesinger, MD, of Sugar Land — joined a number of physicians who provided in-person testimony against this session’s attempt to grant advanced practice registered nurses the ability to conduct medical acts without a delegation agreement with a physician.
House Bill 2029 by Rep. Stephanie Klick (R-Fort Worth) would allow APRNs to prescribe medications, order and evaluate diagnostic testing, and prescribe durable medical equipment, all without any physician collaboration. These actions are clearly defined as the practice of medicine under Texas law, yet the text of the bill states that should HB 2029 become law, an APRN performing one of these acts “is not considered to be practicing medicine without a license.”
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Physician assistants can help ease the challenges in your practice
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Physician assistants can help ease the challenges in your practice
By Karrie Lynn Crosby, MPAS, PA-C
The shortage of primary care physicians in Texas and the increasing demands of … more
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Family medicine under the dome in the 83rd Texas Legislature
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By Jonathan Nelson
After all the heated controversy and partisan polemics that characterized this summer’s special sessions of the 83rd Texas Legislature, it’s difficult to … more
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Nurse practitioners are no substitute for physician-led team
By Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A.; Chair, AAFP Board of Directors
By the year 2020, our nation is expected to face a shortage of 45,000 primary care physicians. To address this shortfall, as well as rising health care costs, the nation is seeing a movement to grant independent practice to nurse practitioners.
But, this flawed, stop-gap approach overlooks some obvious obstacles to replacing physicians with non-physicians. For example:
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IOM calls for removal of restrictions on nurse practitioners’ scope of practice
IOM calls for removal of restrictions on nurse practitioners’ scope of practice
AAFP, TAFP reject committee recommendations that fail to ensure patient safety
posted 10.07.10
A new report from … more
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Nurse practitioners fire first shots in latest battle to achieve independent practice
Nurse practitioners fire first shots in latest battle to achieve independent practice
posted 05.27.10
Nurse practitioners say they know how to solve Texas’ shortage of primary care physicians: … more
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Scope of Practice
Scope of Practice
The Question of Independent Diagnosis and Prescriptive Authority for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in Texas: Is the Reward Worth the Risk?posted 02.15.11
Primary Care … more
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TAFP works tirelessly to promote policies to strengthen the primary care workforce, to protect patients and ensure they have access to quality care, to foster a regulatory … more
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Good News, Bad News: TAFP’s recap of the 82nd Texas Lege
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Good News, Bad News:TAFP’s recap of the 82nd Texas Lege
By Kate Alfano
For health care reform advocates, the 82nd Texas Legislature will go down as the session of what might have … more