FPA in Florida passed today!

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Specializes in FNP.

https://www.flanp.org/

Congratulations Florida, FPA passed and was signed today!

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Specializes in NICU.

WOW!! I am flabbergasted! Wasn’t Florida the last place in the union to get schedule II rights? Congratulations! I know wages can be low there- maybe they’ll be able to rise now.

What an awesome achievement.

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Specializes in Psych/Mental Health.

WOW!!...the last place I thought would pass FPA. It's great news!

PMHNPs and CRNAs aren't included, bummer. But still a great start.

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Specializes in NICU.
5 hours ago, umbdude said:

WOW!...the last place I thought would pass FPA. It's great news!

PMHNPs and CRNAs aren't included, bummer. But still a great start.

seriously? wt ever loving you know the last letter. I would have thought it would be opposite...

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Specializes in Psych/Mental Health.
1 hour ago, babyNP. said:

seriously? wt ever loving you know the last letter. I would have thought it would be opposite...

That's my understand and what's said in a PMHNP group, but I haven't read the bill in detail. It might not include NPs who work in acute-care either.

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Specializes in NP, ICU, ED, Pre-op.
On 3/12/2020 at 12:06 AM, babyNP. said:

WOW! I am flabbergasted! Wasn’t Florida the last place in the union to get schedule II rights? Congratulations! I know wages can be low there- maybe they’ll be able to rise now.

What an awesome achievement.

Actually Georgia still can't write for schedule II at all.......

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Specializes in FNP.

In Texas we can only write for schedule II if we work for hospice or inpatient.

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I'd call inability to write schedule 2 with full practice authority a win. In an environment where clinics and clinicians are being scrutinized for writing controlled substances, having the legal up front conversation with new patients in my own clinic to not prescribe them would be fantastic. I can prescribe them under my collaborator in Michigan and with the sheer numbers our practice (and this region) has done over decades, addressing the opioid epidemic has been a patient management nightmare. Not having to check databases for scripts, investigate patients rational for doses, or having to regularly do UDS's to ensure compliance in an area where diversion is huge would make my day.

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Specializes in OB.
On 3/12/2020 at 5:09 AM, umbdude said:

WOW!...the last place I thought would pass FPA. It's great news!

PMHNPs and CRNAs aren't included, bummer. But still a great start.

Same with CNMs. Still, they're telling us it's a good start and will help us pass a better bill in the future...

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Specializes in Family Practice and Primary Care.

For those wanting details...

Senate amendments hurt it some, but still a huge step up for us.

https://www.flanp.org/page/IndependentPractice

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Specializes in Psych/Mental Health.

Just an update...

Per the President of the FL APNA Chapter, FL BON voted unanimously today to recognize PMHNP (and those in other specialty focus) as primary care providers. So PMHNPs are eligible for FPA in FL.

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Specializes in FNP.
On 6/5/2020 at 10:58 PM, umbdude said:

Just an update...

Per the President of the FL APNA Chapter, FL BON voted unanimously today to recognize PMHNP (and those in other specialty focus) as primary care providers. So PMHNPs are eligible for FPA in FL.

Awesome, making progress.

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