{"id":4895,"date":"2020-10-06T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/fammed\/chws\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2021-03-12T05:27:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:27:33","slug":"director-bianca-frogner-comments-on-how-a-recent-study-informs-scope-of-practice-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2020\/10\/06\/director-bianca-frogner-comments-on-how-a-recent-study-informs-scope-of-practice-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Bianca Frogner Comments on How a Recent Study Informs Scope-of-Practice Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"\nCalifornia is the second state this year to pass a law that relaxes physician supervisory requirements over and expands the independence of nurse practitioners (NPs). In a recent newsletter for Tradeoffs<\/a>, a \"\"<\/a> <\/a>focused on health policy issues, Director Bianca Frogner<\/a> highlighted how findings from a recent study in Medical Care<\/em><\/a> by colleagues at University of Minnesota comparing services delivered by nurse practitioners versus physicians in primary care practices informs these scope-of-practice debates. A key finding is that despite overlapping 92% in the types of services delivered, NPs and physicians see different types of patients. She encourages future scope-of-practice discussions focus more on patient need and less on professional turf as she and her co-authors recommended in a recent New England Journal of Medicine<\/a> <\/em>article.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California is the second state this year to pass a law that relaxes physician supervisory requirements over and expands the independence of nurse practitioners (NPs). In a recent newsletter for Tradeoffs, a  focused on health policy issues, Director Bianca Frogner highlighted how findings from a recent study in Medical Care by colleagues at University of Minnesota comparing services delivered by nurse […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chws","category-chws-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}