A Legislative Success Story: Sharing Virginia ’s Strategies

During the 2018 legislative session, the Virginia General Assembly approved House Bill 793 Nurse practitioners; practice agreements, which supports a transitional licensing model for nurse practitioners with at least 5 years of full-time work equivalence in their area of certification. Political framing is a tool for issue analysis. Reframing the discussion of nurse practitioner scope of practice through purposeful actions including building a stakeholder coalition and sharing a united voice was a strategy used by Virginia ’s nursing advocates.

Source: The Journal for Nurse Practitioners - March 13, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Shelly Smith, Holly Buchanan, Rachel Cloutier Tags: Health Policy Source Type: research