Scope of practice and perspectives of nurse practitioners and physicians and a policy intervention.

Purpose: To provide the opportunity for students to compare and contrast the roles, scope of practice and perspectives of nurse practitioners and physicians and suggest a policy intervention

Instructions: Students are to include the following in their discussion:

Discuss the specialty adult geriatrics. Define the roles you will be addressing: physician and nurse practitioner.
Who regulates the scope of practice for the physician and the NP.
What is the scope of practice including the level of autonomy for the MD and the NP?
What are the barriers to practice? Identify implications from Consensus Document and in light of the Doctoral of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree.
What policy change would you suggest? Indicate implications of IOM (National Academy of Medicine) Report Future of Nursing.

Instructions****
Online Discussion Board Assignment
be at minimum of 250 words. Each post should have 3-5 references from recent (less than 5 years old)
peer reviewed journals. Web sites are not acceptable references for scholarly work. You may
reference your text or other books but they do not count towards your grade.
****Use APA format for all
references used. You should read your classmates posts. You must comment on one other post. Your
comments to others are graded pass/fail. Any fail will result in a 1 point deduction from your total post
grade of 35 points.
Where appropriate please make sure to address how factors of race and culture, gender and sexual
orientation, religion, and socio-economic status influence the topic.