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.
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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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Despite the roles and responsibilities that APRNs should play, there are several barriers they encounter in their scope of practice. For instance, the restrictions on prescriptions make it challenging for nurses to deliver timely care to patients. Notably, under the schedule II protocol, APRNs can only prescribe medication that is within a limited supply of seven days (floridasnursing.gov, 2016). Further, only APRNs with a master’s degree or doctorate can prescribe regulated drugs. Hence, full practice for nurses without such advanced education is challenged. Thirdly, with a high shortage of physicians, this means that the delivery of timely is profoundly affected (Hain, & Fleck, 2014). On this note in states like Florida, APRN requires the
