Open AccessThe Effect of Supervision Waivers on Practice
Author(s) -
Monica O’Reilly-Jacob,
Jennifer Perloff
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001486
Subject(s) - waiver , scope of practice , workforce , license , pandemic , scope (computer science) , health care , work (physics) , business , odds , covid-19 , medicine , psychology , nursing , public relations , family medicine , political science , law , logistic regression , disease , engineering , mechanical engineering , pathology , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
While optimal utilization of the nurse practitioner (NP) workforce is an increasingly popular proposal to alleviate the growing primary care shortage, federal, state, and organizational scope of practice policies inhibit NPs from practicing to the full extent of their license and training. In March of 2020, NP state-specific supervisory requirements were temporarily waived to meet the demands of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Massachusetts.