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Demographics, Education and Practice Characteristics of Nurse Practitioners in Washington
This 2003 survey of nurse practitioners in Washington State examines how many have been educated in-state, how many work full vs. part-time, the extent to which they provide care to underserved and rural populations, their use of newly acquired expanded drug authority, and other characteristics of their clinical practices. This survey has resulted in two publications on to-date: one on barriers to autonomous practice (see Kaplan et al, 2006) and one on the state’s nurse anesthetist workforce (see Kaplan et al, in press). This report is available from the WWAMI Center for Health Workforce Studies website: http://depts.washington.edu/uwchws/.
Publications
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Barriers to Autonomous Practice
Author(s): Louise Kaplan, Marie-Annette Brown, Holly Andrilla, L. Gary Hart
Citation: Nurse Practitioner, 31(1), 57-63
Date: 01 / 2006
Describes a study of the impact of a Washington State law changing nurse practitioners (NPs) prescribing authority. The study examined whether prescribing with indirect physician involvement eliminated barriers to practice, the extent to which the law created barriers to prescribing certain drugs, and compared NPs' experiences prescribing or providing controlled substances before and after implementation of the current law.
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