Following close on New York’s heels, Kansas has adopted full practice authority for nurse practitioners, making it the 26th US state to give patients full and direct access to NP-delivered health care. Full practice authority (FPA) authorizes NPs to evaluate, diagnose and order diagnostic tests, and prescribe medications, acting as independent healthcare providers without physician supervision. Read More

New York has become the 25th state to grant full practice authority to nurse practitioners. On Saturday, April 9th, New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, signed the state budget into law that will remove the condition that NPs must have a written practice agreement with a physician in order to provide the full scope of services that Read More