NR 508 Week-1 Lecture 1: Prescribing Authority

NR 508 Week-1 Lecture 1: Prescribing Authority

NR 508 Week-1 Lecture 1: Prescribing Authority

NR 508 Advanced Pharmacology

Prescribing authority/opioid crisis Lecture

Provide an overview of Prescriptive authority
Discuss state by state laws
Define federal drug classifications
Provide an overview of the opioid epidemic
Discus CDC recommendations for providers prescribing opioids

Prescriptive authority overview

Nurse Practitioners are rapidly growing professionals standing poised to help alleviate the ever-increasing health care provider short fall.
The NP workforce increased by 75 % from 200 to 2011 and presently there are 222,000 licensed Np’s in the United States

As a part of their daily practice more than 95% of NP s prescribe medications and those working in a full-time practice write an average of 23 prescriptions per day. NPs hold prescription privileges in all 50 states and Washington DC. However, these privileges vary from state to state, with differing levels of restriction on prescriptive authority as a part of a provider’s scope of practice.

22 states and the district of Columbia allow full practice where NPs generally have the same prescriptive authority as physicians.

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For 16 states categorize as reduced practice, NP require regulated collaborative agreements with physicians to gain prescriptive privileges usually with limitations on the medications they are allowed to prescribe.

The final and least permissive prescriptive authority category restricted practice comprises of 12 states. In these states patient care privileges including prescriptive authority likely require physician supervision or delegation……………………….document continue.

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