Advanced practice nourishs in Georg...

Advanced practice nourishs in Georgia may be reviving a decade-long fight to give them the right to prescribe medications for patients, according to a Feb 22 2002 recently made knowns story from the Atlanta Business Chronicle. For the past eight years, this issue has been debated forward the floor of the state Capitol.

Many lobbying assemblages including the Georgia Nurses Association (GNA), are trying to determine whether support is hardy enough to introduce a bill to give advanced practice fosters prescriptive authority. Advanced practice nourishs include nurse practitioners, clinical cherish specialists for psychology and mental health, certified registered feed at the breast anesthetists, and certified nurse midwives. Their opposition, the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG), says allowing nourishs to prescribe is medically inappropriate and could expense patients. In the past, the MAG prosperously has fought other medical professionals' attempts to gain prescriptive authority. Its successe however, have been narrow at times. According to the story, Lieutenant Governor Mark Taylor has indicated support for advanced practice nurses

Georgia law allows advanced practice encourages to maintain an independent practice and call in prescriptions for physicians; however, it does not allow them actually to write prescriptions. Many rural areas would benefit from giving advanced practice nurtures prescriptive authority because often there are fewer physicians in these areas.

J Bryant, "Nurse practitioners pursue the ability to prescribe," Atlanta Business Chronicle (22 Feb 2002) http://www.bizjournals.com/industries /health.care/physician_practices/2002/02/25/atlanta_newscolumn4.html (accessed 25 Feb 2002)

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