COURSE:

NR506NP – Healthcare Policy and Leadership

Preparing the Discussion

Using the readings from this week as well as reliable outside resources to:

1. Identify and describe practice barriers for all four APNs’ roles in your state and discuss these barriers on a state and national level. The four roles include the nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist, nurse practitioner, and clinical nurse specialist.
2. Identify forms of competition on the state and national level that interfere with APNs’ ability to practice independently.
3. Identify the specific lawmakers by name at the state level (i.e., key members of the state’s legislative branch and executive branch of government)
4. Discuss interest groups that exist at the state and national levels that influence APN policy.
5. Discuss methods used to influence change in policy in forms of competition, state legislative and executive branches of government, and interest groups.
6. A scholarly resource must be used for EACH discussion question each week.

Solution

Hello class,

1. Identify and describe practice barriers for all four APN roles in your state and discuss these barriers on a state and national level. The four roles include the nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist, nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist.

When it comes to practice, Advanced practice nurses face a myriad of challenges in states and nationally. Every state has a unique set of guidelines regulating the practice of APNs. Not all American states have accorded advanced practice nurses full licensure practice and have established practice laws for APNs (Hain & Fleck, 2014). According to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), the full practice of nurse practitioners, for example,………………………..$5