Nurse Talks Empowerment Series: Empowering Nurses in Policy: The Impact of Full Practice Authority on Texas Economy
Total Credits: 1.5 Contact Hours
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- Nurse Talks
- Speaker:
- Cindy Weston, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 30 Minutes
- License:
- Access for event date only.
Tags: Health Policy Policy
Description
This presentation reviews strategies to advancing health policy related to full practice authority for nurse practitioners including outcomes and safety data, grassroots advocacy efforts, an economic impact study, media and stakeholder perception, and nurses as policy makers. This presentation will review research funded by the TLL Temple Foundation and conducted at Texas A&M University to evaluate the economic impact of full practice authority for nurse practitioners on Texas economy. This study examined whether eliminating physician oversight and supervision for nurse practitioners would help alleviate severe health provider shortages, boost state economy, and maintain a cost effective and safe health care system. Findings confirmed lifting oversight restrictions on NPs will create over 4,000 new jobs in the state and add nearly $5 billion dollars in savings to state GDP in year one, jumping to $4.6 billion over a 10-year period. These effects are more significant in rural and underserved areas. Eliminating NP restrictions on practice will substantially alleviate the primary care provider shortages by 2,376 providers, (32%), and reduce the psychiatric provider shortage by 13%.
Speaker
Cindy Weston, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN Related Seminars and Products
UNTHSC College of Nursing
Disclosures
Accreditation Statement:
Texas Nurses Association/Foundation Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
A conflict of interest occurs when an individual has an opportunity to affect or impact educational content with which he or she may have a commercial interest or a potentially biasing relationship of a financial nature. All activity planning committee members and presenters/authors/content reviewers must disclose the presence or absence of a conflict of interest relative to this activity. All potential and actual conflicts are resolved prior to the planning, implementation, or evaluation of the continuing nursing education activity.
The activity’s Nurse Planner has determined that no one who has the ability to control the content of this CNE activity – planning committee members and presenters/authors/content reviewers – has a conflict of interest.
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