APN Hospital Admission Privileges

[shamartro12]

Hello All!

I am in my last year of NP school, and am currently doing some research for a course on hospital admission privileges for APN's. I am from OH, and HB 139 just went into action last week that will allow APN's to admit. I was wondering if anyone had any additional information or experiences on this topic that they wouldn't mind sharing with me, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you!

[Corey Narry, MSN, RN, NP]

I read the text of HB 139 and it appears that all this is proposing is to legislate physician-APN collaboration or physician-PA supervision in terms of admitting and providing in-patient care to hospitalized patients.

Most if not all states that do not have independent NP practice already do this. Hospital practice for any type of provider is governed by a Medical Staff Board (the head is usually called Chief Medical Officer).

In most states, APN practice within hospitals are not explicitly explained or covered in state legislation and this area of practice is left up to individual hospitals to decide via their Medical Staff Board in terms of granting admission privileges.

In fact, I have practiced in two states that do not have independent practice for NP's yet I've always been granted privileges to admit and write orders on patients on our service. I think it's interesting that Ohio made it part of state legislation. The question is what are hospital NP's allowed to do there now?