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Heated, hourlong panels clash over APN full-practice authority as S2996 is discussed
Summary
Advanced practice nurses, nursing schools, patient advocates and physician groups made competing safety and access arguments as the committee heard S2996, a bill to remove the joint protocol requirement for APNs. Proponents cited workforce shortages and evidence from other states; opponents warned of higher costs and quality risks.
Trenton ' A hours-long, often contentious hearing over S2996, a proposal to remove the joint protocol and allow advanced practice nurses to practice without career-long physician agreements, filled the Senate Health Committee's afternoon on Feb. 16.
Proponents ' including the New Jersey State Nurses Association, nursing-school deans and many APNs ' described accumulated workforce shortages in primary care and behavioral health and pointed to six years of emergency-waiver experience during which they said the state did…
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