ianeya Manzano Suarez – Sunday, July 17, 2022, 10:25 PM

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Collaborating With Physician Organizations When Pursuing FPA Legislation

Full Practice Authority (FPA) legislation entails diagnosing and evaluating patients by nurses in practice to find patients’ problems solutions. As they diagnose patients’ conditions, they need to collaborate with physician organizations to support them. Physician organizations can be various groups with different members like medicine faculties, medical clinics, and educational institutions. Collaborating with physician organizations is essential to nurses when pursuing FPA legislation. For example, the organizations provide proper guidance for nurse practitioners to be perfect. When nurses consult medical clinics or other medical faculties, they learn new and easy ways of patient diagnosis, boosting their knowledge. According to Moore et al. (2020), the healthcare industries are multiplying and need good professionals to diagnose patients.

Consequently, nurses collaborating with physician organizations learn good observation, procedural, and investigative skills, which are vital for good health. Moreover, patients trust fully trained nurses and perceive nurses who collaborate with physician organizations as perfect. Therefore, such nurses get confidence in treating their patients and improving their health.

Although collaborating with physician organizations aims to attain quality care, it is disadvantageous to some nurses. Robeznieks (2020) says that collaborating with physicians can be costly sometimes. For instance, some organizations may require that nurses obtain licenses before working with them, making it difficult for some nurses to benefit from them. Collaboration also becomes expensive if people need to travel from rural areas to urban centers. Therefore, the method does not favor rural residents. On the other hand, some nurses may not be interested in collaborating with physician organizations. In this case, the unwilling nurses do not cooperate as they are told, which lowers their healthcare delivery services.

References

Moore, C., Kabbe, A., Gibson, T. S., & Letvak, S. (2020). The pursuit of nurse practitioner practice legislation: a case study. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 21(4), 222-232.

Robeznieks, A. (202, October 30). Why expanding the APRN scope of practice is a bad idea. AMA. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/scope-practice/why-expanding-aprn-scope-practice-bad-idea

 Mariana Gonzalez  – Friday, July 15, 2022, 10:09 AM

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Various studies have shown the effectiveness of nurse practitioners in resolving the issue of the lack of sufficient healthcare staff and practitioners in the healthcare industry today. Over recent time, the operation of nurse practitioners has improved patient outcomes. Even though this is the case, the struggle for nurse practitioners to have full practice authority (FPA) has been an uphill and strenuous undertaking (Brom et al., 2018). Luckily, recent developments have ushered in significant progress in this area. While this is some great news for nurse practitioners and patients alike, there is still a long way to go. Further, there is a need to understand that FPA legislation comes with new professional responsibilities and the lasting need for nurses to protect themselves from potential liabilities. Because of this, a nurse practitioner seeking to have FPA must closely work in close collaboration with physician organizations.

One major advantage that a nurse practitioner pursuing FPA can gain through collaborating with physician organizations is gaining an understanding of the responsibilities, rules, and regulations that they need to heed as they practice autonomously. Physicians clearly understand what a nurse practicing fully autonomously without supervision or observation from a practitioner is required to do at every stage of care provision (Brom et al., 2018). They can, therefore, provide such information to nurses who seek FPA to provide adequate and appropriate care to their patients, whether a physician is available or not.

By collaborating with physician organizations, nurse practitioners who seek FPA can learn the right procedures when evaluating, assessing, diagnosing, ordering and even when interpreting the diagnostic results, they receive. The nurse practitioners can gain insights on how best they can initiate and manage treatments so that the expected patient outcomes are achieved every time (Reiner, 2022). It can also help ensure that adverse impacts that may arise due to the application of some medication, issues that may lead to court cases, fines, or charges are kept at bay.

One major disadvantage of active collaboration with physician organizations for nurse practitioners who seek FPA is that it makes reflects their lack of capacity to operate as autonomous entities. The fact that these professionals continue to seek advice and guidelines from the physicians means that they are not independent and have to work alongside physicians. Such a thing discredits their professional, educational and practical knowledge rather than promoting it (Reiner, 2022). Such only makes them take longer to be recognized as independent entities that can operate successfully without other medical professionals’ supervision, assistance, and intervention.

References

Brom, H. M., Salsberry, P. J., & Graham, M. C. (2018). Leveraging health care reform to accelerate nurse practitioner full practice authority. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 30(3), 120–130. https://doi.org/10.1097/JXX.0000000000000023

Reiner, G. (2022, March 15). Full practice authority: What it means for NPs. NACNS :: National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists |; NACNS :: National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists. https://nacns.org/nursing-news/full-practice-authority-what-it-means-for-nps/