Assignment: Week 9 Practicum Journal: State Practice Agreements

In many states, nurse practitioners are completely autonomous professionals. In other states, however, NPs have a wide range of “restrictive” practice ranging from requirements for a “supervising” physician to requirements for a “collaborative” agreement with a physician.

In this Practicum Journal Assignment, you will examine the requirements of your own state in order to prepare yourself for the realities of practice upon graduation.

-number of pages =2  This is for a Nurse Practitioner

To Prepare for this Practicum Journal:

• Review practice agreements in your state.
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• -Identify at least two physician collaboration issues in your state.
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For this Practicum Journal:

• -Briefly describe the practice agreements for PMHNPs in your state.
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• -Explain the two physician collaboration issues that you identified.
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• -Explain what you think are the barriers to PMHNPs practicing independently in your state.
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• -Outline a plan for how you might address PMHNP practice issues in your state.