Executive Briefings | February 26, 2022
Who Should Do What? Scope of Practice & Treatment Tech Shift Clinical Best Practices
There has been a long debate about the scope of health care practices. What type of licensed clinical professionals can perform particular functions? Should psychologists and/or pharmacists prescribe psychotropic medications? What supervision do nurse practitioners and physician assistants need? (Should 'physician assistants' be renamed 'physician associates'?)
Psychologists can prescribe in five states: Louisiana, New Mexico, Illinois, Iowa, and Idaho (see Can Psychologists Prescribe Medications?). The scope of pharmacists' practices is state-dependent and varies widely from state-to-state (see <a href="https://rxlive.com/mapping-u . . .