NP full scope/independent speculation

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There are many states (19 at last count) that allow for independent practice. I know this may be purely speculation but what are other states you've "heard" are close to adding themselves to "independent" the list? I'm doing a little research on the availability of care due to the forward thinking practice of including NPs as first-line primary care providers sans handcuffs.

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Specializes in Pain managment.

I want to say New York is working on theirs.

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.

The AANP and many other organizations are actively working in every state.

http://www.aanp.org/legislation-regulation/state-legislation-regulation/state-practice-environment

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Specializes in Adult Nurse Practitioner.

As BostonFNP points out, keeping tabs through the AANP and your state NP group can provide a wealth of information regarding legislative information.

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Tennessee has introduced a bill for full practice authority.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Ditto ILLINOIS - however the AMA is headquartered up in Chicago so we will see....

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Specializes in Adult Nurse Practitioner.

Florida is working on it again as well as prescriptive rights.

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Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.

It looks like Florida is advocating for CNS to also have prescriptive authority. It appears there is a great need for psych providers.

The states that go for independent practice for NPs tend to include us as APRNs. I do locum tenens and there are a handful of states i cannot work in.

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Nebraska became the 20th state as of yesterday. I agree that hooking into the AANP network is the best way to keep up with this issue. I am hopeful that my state (NJ) will eventually pass independent/full practice, but I am not holding my breath. A bill to do so has previously died in the legislature. And as long as our Dear Governor is in office, I am 99.9999999% sure we will not have independent practice. 2017 (next election) can't come fast enough!

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AtomicWoman - I was just going to say I received an email about Nebraska this week! I go to Creighton so I get updates on Nebraska news even though I live in Washington. Congrats!

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