Legislator Communication
Dear Representative Pigman,
It is my great privilege to thank you for sponsoring CS/HB 7011: Health Care Access Bill (Florida Senate, 2017). I highly support this bill and encourage patients in our community of Lee County, Cape Coral, Florida, to do so as well. I am an advanced practiced registered nurse (APRN) and I and my colleagues all appreciate what you are doing to help us overcome the restrictive challenges that current legislation and policies have on preventing us from providing the kind of quality care that we have been trained to provide to patients.
This bill is important because as the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP, 2017) has noted in its Healthy People 2020 campaign, access to health services is one of the most crucial and important problems that needs to be addressed in the U.S. One of the big hurdles to addressing this problem is that too few providers are available to give quality care. Your bill will help to answer that problem by freeing APRNs to practice as they are intended to practice, which is what the Institute of Medicine (2012) has also called for in its treatise on the “Future of Nursing.”
Current policy is restrictive and prevents APRNs from practicing to their fullest extent possible unless a physician is there to provide oversight. The fact is that APRNs are fully qualified to provide quality care, diagnose and prescribe treatment without the oversight of a physician. Indeed, that was the entire point of educating and training APRNs—to get more able-bodied care providers into the industry who could operate independently of physicians and provide patients with the type of care they require (Lewenson, McAllister & Smith, 2016; Lofgren, Berends, Reyes, et al., 2017).
What CS/HB 7011: Health Care Access Bill would do is it would allow independent APRNs to practice advanced...
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Florida Senate. (2017). CS/HB 7011: Health Care Access. Retrieved from https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/07011
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