California will be short about 4,100 primary-care doctors by 2030 but remains the only state in the West to requires that nurse practitioners be supervised by a physician. Columnist Davidlaz explains:
State lawmakers put off a vote Thursday on a bill to give more power to nurse practitioners amid a shortage of primary-care physicians. The California Medical Assn. is against it.
“The California Medical Assn. has been very successful at pushing this back over many, many years,” said Assemblyman Jim Wood , who is a dentist and the author of AB 890. “They’ve been organizing their doctors and lobbying heavily against it.” At the moment, California requires that nurse practitioners be supervised by a physician, particularly if they want to prescribe drugs for patients.
The commission’s recommendations included boosting the number of nurse practitioners statewide “and providing them with greater practice authority, with particular emphasis in rural and urban underserved communities.” Instead, they’d continue receiving the postgraduate education, training and certification necessary to be nurse practitioners.
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