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What states allow Nurse Practitioners and Physicians assistants to work alone?

• What are all the states that allow Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants to work on their own and not under a doctor? Target Store?s ?Minute Clinics? have opened, in some states, as mentioned in medicalcountries.com, and treatment costs are about half what physicians charge in the U. S. This service will only be available in states that allow nurse practitioners and physician?s assistants to work on their own. If we can increase the suppliers of medical services competition is increased and the doctors will only be able to charge what competition dictates. Dental Hygienists are required to work under a dentist, in most states (although they feel they should be able to work on their own). The major reason why medical costs are so high is because competition has been legislatively eliminated by the states. The strategy of doctors, dentists and other trades and professions, (to keep their wages high) is to eliminate competition from various groups by legislation. We can also lower medical prices in the U.S. by pointing out that costs in some other countries are 1/20th that of the U. S. with equal, better and worse quality, depending on the chosen practitioner in the U.S. or other country.

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  Hello Ed777, -------------------- Physician assistants -------------------- Physician assistants must work under the supervision of a doctor. ?Physician assistants are licensed health professionals who practice medicine as members of a team working with supervising physicians.? American academy of Physician Assistants http://www.aapa.org/newsroom/articles03/info-updates.pdf --------------------------------------------------- ?Physician assistants are health care professionals licensed to practice medicine with physician supervision.? Q. Can PAs prescribe medications? A. Forty-eight states, the District of Columbia, and Guam have enacted laws that authorize PA prescribing. In California, PA prescriptions are referred to as written prescription transmittal orders. American Academy of Physician Assistants http://www.aapa.org/geninfo1.html --------------------------------------------------- Physician assistants (PAs) provide health care services under the supervision of doctors. iSeek http://www.iseek.org/sv/13000.jsp?id=100156 --------------------------------------------------- ?Physician assistants, of which there are 45,000 nationwide, provide healthcare services with supervision by physicians. (?)Yet, make no mistake about it, PAs always work with the supervision of physicians.? Working World http://www.workingworld.com/magazine/viewarticle.asp?articleno=150&wn= --------------------------------------------------- Summary of State Regulation of Physician Assistant Practice http://www.aapa.org/gandp/statelaw.html ------------------- Nurse Practitioners ------------------- Nurse Practitioners may practice independently in some States. According to ACNP President Melanie Palestra: "Nurse Practitioners may practice independently in some states, such as Oregon, New Mexico, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Montana, and additional collaboration language may conflict with these state laws, preventing Nurse Practitioners from doing the work they are allowed to perform at the state level.? ACNP President: Melanie Balestra, NP, JD http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:3l1HmXDACx8J:www.nurse.org/acnp/clinprac/geriatric.support.letter2004.doc+site:www.nurse.org+work+independently&hl=en Word Doc http://www.nurse.org/acnp/clinprac/geriatric.support.letter2004.doc --------------------------------------------------- ?Iowa advanced registered nurse practitioners may practice independently within their recognized nursing specialties. They are not required to have physician supervision.? The Iowa Board of Nursing http://www.iowaccess.org/government/nursing/arnp.html --------------------------------------------------- The APN Virtual Community provides an excellent table where you will find out where independent practice is permitted. Information is provided for each State. See the column titled ?collaborative versus independent? at the table provided here: APN Virtual Community http://apn.ons.wego.net/?v2_group=0&p=19851 --------------------------------------------------- The Nurse Practitioner: The Sixteenth Annual Legislative Update. Comprehensive State-by-State information is provided in this document. Download here: http://www.nursingcenter.com/pdf.asp Printable version here: http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/journalarticleprint.asp?Article_ID=460879 --------------------------------------------------- Where can nurse practitioners prescribe medication? ?NPs are recognized as reliable, high-quality health care providers and have varying degrees of prescriptive authority across the United States. There are more than 100,000 nurse practitioners delivering a significant share of the primary care and prescription services available to patients today.? ?The following is a breakdown of the varying responsibilities nurse practitioners possess on a state-by-state basis. States in which NPs can prescribe independent of any physician involvement (including controlled substances): AK, AZ, DC, IA, ME, MT, NH, NM, OR, UT, WA, WI and WY. States in which NPs can prescribe with some degree of physician involvement (including controlled substances): AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MI, MN, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NY, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, VT and WV. States in which NPs can prescribe with some degree of physician involvement (excluding controlled substances): AL, KY, LA, MO, MS, NV, OH, TX and VA. States in which NPs can receive and distribute drug samples: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV and WY.? National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health http://www.npwh.org/inspirations2/backgrounder.htm --------------------------------------------------- Search criteria: ?Nurse practitioners? practice OR work independently ?Physician assistants? practice OR work independently ?Nurse practitioners? prescribe mediations ?Physician assistants? prescribe mediations I hope the information provided is helpful! Best regards, Bobbie7