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Committee advances two related bills to tighten nurse-practitioner supervision and collect practice data
Summary
Sen. Crow’s bills to require board-certified supervising physicians for new nurse-practitioner collaboration agreements and to direct a Department of Health survey of nurse-practitioner specialties advanced from committee; the survey bill passed unanimously and the supervisory-policy bill was sent to general subcommittee for further work.
Two related measures addressing nurse-practitioner (NP) practice and oversight were considered together by the committee.
Senate Bill 333 (sponsor: Sen. Crow) would require that new collaboration agreements for nurse practitioners be with a physician who is board certified or board eligible in the supervising physician’s specialty and that newly licensed NPs serve a three-year supervised period with more immediate chart-review timing in higher-risk specialties. Sen. Crow framed the bill as a response to concerns about NP supervision…
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