States grant nurse practitioners full practice authority

As a nurse practitioner in Charlotte, North Carolina, Olivia Garcia can prescribe injectable insulin to treat a patient ’s diabetes, but she is not allowed to write that same patient a prescription for diabetic shoes. Such are the limitations that NPs work under in 28 states that limit practice authority for nurse practitioners. Instead, NPs in those states must work with an overseeing physician. But amid the Cov id-19 pandemic and a shortage of primary care physicians, multiple states have taken…
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