Iffin’ it is all the same with you, I’ll just write my own OXYCODONE script. 90 days should be OK with 3 refills.
I could see this for Nurse Practitioners... the ones I have met have been better than the doctors they work with.
I have seen doctors ignore perfectly good advice from nurses, who have seen something that would be useful information for a doctor, if he were not too high and mighty to accept it from a lowly nurse.
Personally, I believe a 10-year RN has about 60% of the capability of a regular MD. I don’t know where the “do not pass” line is in that scenario, where ARN’s should not be allowed to tread.
I *do* think (and maybe my first sentence should be rewritten as) that ARN’s could do the great majority of work in terms of diagnosis and general injury patch-up that real MDs can do (and every doctor I have asked has generally agreed)
I *do* think that the Mexican model of “neighborhood clinics” would be an excellent thing to try in the US. Especially since half our population is going in that direction anyway.
See her 879 page book:
Prescription for Nutritional Healing
Accompanied by the Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine by Andrew Chevallier.
It’s coming. Inevitable fallout from Obamacare.
A relative of mine in nursing school has been given training on how to conduct a full physical. Proof in my mind that the majority of health care will be turned over to paraprofessionals in the future.
My question isn't whether or not a nurse should be able to write an antibiotics prescription for an earache (IMO, they should...).
Nope, my question is a little deeper. I think that the gov't should be making things easier for docs to do their jobs, so that we *don't* have a shortage of doctors. Instead, we've got governmental over-regulation, and are driving qualified people away from the profession.
So, I suppose that these particular pols found the correct answer, but asked the wrong question. Just my $0.02.
They’re just recognizing that good doctors will not abide within the system of Obamacare,
and more providers will have to be “defined” into the system.
My wife is a NP and can write prescriptions for ANY medication(even the C2 drugs). This is in VA though.
Until recently, they couldn’t Rx the more ‘high risk’ medications, but they changed the laws/regulations for NPs and PAs in our state, allowing them to do so. She’s pretty strict about it though. If someone has a REAL issue, she’ll help them, but she has a very sensitive ‘BS Detector’, and will politely tell someone that’s just looking for “dope” to hit the road.(not in those exact words of course lol)
1)Nurse
2)Doctor she works for
3)Hospital she works in
4)Company that made the medication
5)All of the above
Seriously, this does raise liability issues. If nurses take over the patient care to this extent, are they now liable for malpractice? Maybe they already are, I'm no medical expert or lawyer either.