Utah enacts law to let nurse practitioners work independently. What it means for health care

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A Senate bill passed earlier this month is helping expand patients' access to quality medical care in Utah by giving full practice authority to nurse practitioners.

on March 14. This law eliminated the last barrier forcing nurse practitioners to hold a contract with a physician as a condition of their state licensure.

"I think it was a very strong bipartisan movement to update that last law so that nurse practitioners could practice to the full extent of their education and training," Kapu said. "Now patients have the full benefit of the care that nurse practitioners provide." Utah is the 27th state, along with two U.S. territories and Washington, D.C., to adopt full practice authority for nurse practitioners. , according to the National Association of Community Health Centers. Kapu said she has seen better medical services, an increase in workers and greater access to health care in the states enforcing full practice authority.

"They prefer not to have nurse practitioners be able to do the skills that we're trained to do, allowing physicians to do those parts of health care that they feel like should be solely theirs," Hinton said.

 

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