AAPM&R's State Advocacy Subcommittee (SAS) supported the AMA-led letter to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) in opposition to the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact (APRN Compact), as currently written. The letter requests that NCSBN remove or substantially revise the portion of the compact that allows prescriptive authority and allows APRNs to practice independent of a supervisory or collaborative relationship with a physician, notwithstanding state law to the contrary. The letter emphasizes the physician community’s likeliness to support the compact subsequent to the aforementioned changes. The full letter can be viewed here.
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