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Committee reviews S.163 to recognize APRNs as attending clinicians in hospitals
Summary
A legislative committee reviewed S.163, which adds advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to hospital statutes as possible attending clinicians and updates language in the hospital patients’ bill of rights and hospital licensing. Supporters say it codifies existing practice; medical groups flagged Medicare-payment and operational issues; no vote was taken.
A legislative committee on March 18 held a walk-through of S.163, a bill that would add advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to the hospital patients’ bill of rights and to hospital licensure language so that APRNs may be recorded as the attending clinician responsible for coordinating a patient’s care.
Jen Carbic of the Office of Legislative Counsel told the committee the bill ‘‘updates the statutes to reflect roles that they are permitted under their existing scope of authority’’ and does not expand APRN scope. Carbic said the draft inserts APRNs throughout the patient bill of rights and clarifies that ‘‘physician’’ references include both MDs (Board of Medical Practice) and DOs (regulated by the Office of Professional Regulation), and that where a statute refers to an individual it means a person rather than a corporate entity.
Jennifer Cohen, director of the Office of Professional Regulation, told the committee the OPR supports…
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