governor rendell urges nurses to support rx for pa during national nurses week
[color=#6f6f6f]earthtimes.org - 31 minutes ago
chester, pa., may 10 /prnewswire-usnewswire/ -- governor edward g. rendell tonight urged members and guests of the pa state nurses association at the school of nursing at widener university to support his "prescription for pennsylvania" because it would improve the quality of health care for everyone and help control rising insurance costs.
"i am proud to be standing here during national nurses week to recognize the key role pennsylvania's nursing profession plays in providing quality health care to people across the commonwealth," governor rendell said. "i'd like to take this opportunity not only to thank you for your great contributions, but to highlight the role that you would play in expanding access to quality health care for all pennsylvanians under my 'prescription for pennsylvania' health care reform plan.
"prescription for pennsylvania is a wide-ranging plan that will improve the health care of all pennsylvanians and make the health care system more efficient and cost effective. one part of the plan includes common sense initiatives that will use all of our health care professionals to the full extent of their education and training by eliminating the barriers they face."
the governor said out-dated limitations and barriers on a nurses' scope of practice -- like the "astonishing" fact that pennsylvania is currently the only state in the nation where nurse midwives do not have the authority to prescribe drugs -- make no sense. nurse midwives currently deliver roughly 10 percent of the babies across the state, a number which is much higher in some rural areas, but they cannot prescribe the necessary prenatal vitamins and other drugs necessary to ensure healthy pregnancies.....
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