{"id":8517,"date":"2023-08-31T17:32:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=8517"},"modified":"2023-08-31T17:33:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:33:40","slug":"states-debate-expanding-scope-of-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2023\/08\/31\/states-debate-expanding-scope-of-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"States debate expanding scope of practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/08\/20\/nurse-doctor-scope-medical-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8519 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-31-at-10.31.13-AM-300x200.png\" alt=\"Nurse practitioner sitting in her office\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-31-at-10.31.13-AM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-31-at-10.31.13-AM-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-31-at-10.31.13-AM.png 841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>States have been expanding scope of practice for health professionals, including nurse practitioners, as a way to increase access to care for patients. Despite growing evidence on the benefits of scope of practice expansion, a few states are considering restrictions in practice. CHWS Director Bianca Frogner was quoted saying, \u201cRather than blaming the nurse practitioners for filling in some gaps where they\u2019re certainly needed, we should be asking why we can\u2019t get enough physicians into some of these communities to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/08\/20\/nurse-doctor-scope-medical-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on the Washington Post website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States have been expanding scope of practice for health professionals, including nurse practitioners, as a way to increase access to care for patients. Despite growing evidence on the benefits of scope of practice expansion, a few states are considering restrictions in practice. CHWS Director Bianca Frogner was quoted saying, \u201cRather than blaming the nurse practitioners [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517","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=8517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8521,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517\/revisions\/8521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}