Guest Blog: A COVID Positive for Nurse Practitioner Regulation North Carolina Representative Gale Adcock, FNP, was gracious enough to share her decades of experience with the below guest blog. A huge thank you to NC Rep. Adcock. In November 2004 Stanford economist Paul Romer famously said, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste”. True …
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This is part one (1) of a five (5) part series titled the “5 biggest prescription errors that nurse practitioners can make”. Today’s blog discusses the individuals to whom a nurse practitioner cannot prescribe controlled substances. Since there has been a rise in prescription drug abuse in North Carolina in the last 10 years or …
Every year nurse practitioners (NPs) have to renew their approval to practice with the North Carolina Board of Nursing. Since nurse practitioners must also have an active NC nurse license, they must make sure that their registered nurse license in NC does not lapse. Renewal of a NC registered nurse license must be done prior to …
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Before nurse practitioners begin working with a supervising physician, they must enter into a collaborative practice agreement. The collaborative practice agreement (CPA) will stipulate as to what medical acts a nurse practitioner will perform. CPAs need to be specific as to what clinical problems the nurse practitioner may frequently encounter and what treatment the nurse practitioner …
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