Based on last week’s reading, you now have an idea of the role of the APRN, and legal/professional issues in prescribing. As a future nurse practitioner, you have the authority, based on your state nurse practice act, to prescribe medications for the patients for whom you will provide care, and the responsibility of prescriptive authority is more than just simply writing a prescription correctly.
Important Links:
https://www.flsenate.gov/
https://floridasnursing.gov/
Discuss the role of advanced practice nursing in safe prescribing and 3 prescribing barriers for APRNs.
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The book is this one
Teri Moser Woo, Marylou V. Robinson – Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurse Prescribers (2015).pdf
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According to Woo and Robinson (2015), Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners (APRNs) have a high responsibility for complying with state laws regarding the prescription of medication to patients. While focusing on the State of Florida, the role of APRNs is profoundly impacted by policies and statutes enacted by the state and nursing board, which determines the extent of nurses’ servicer delivery.
In Florida, the role of an APRN is ensuring compliance with the bill HB 423. As stated by the Florida Senate (2016), the law requires the nurses to make prescriptions of controlled substances by following current supervisory standards and protocols. The protocols require the nurses to prescribe the controlled substances that are under Schedule II, Schedule III, and Schedule IV according to the s. 893.03 Statutes (floridasnursing.gov, 2016). In the process, Woo and Robinson (2015) emphasize that these nurses should evaluate the reliability of the information provided regarding the drugs to establish whether they are authorized in the market.
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