Issues

New Law - Need to display legal name and title
Happy New Year…and with a new year come new laws!



HB 597/SB505 requires that every person licensed to practice one of the healing arts shall keep a copy of the person’s license or certificate of registration displayed in the place where that person practices. Also requires a sign with individual’s name, degrees and underneath the words Advanced practice nurse, nurse practitioner, nurse anesthetist, nurse midwife or clinical specialist. The health care practitioner must also communicate their full name, and type of license in writing at the initial office visit (business card will suffice) or wear a photo ID badge. Licensed facilities (hospitals, etc) are exempt. This covers all health care providers. (1/11/12)

HB 2558 SB 2775 Limiting dermatological procedures by NPs and PAs
Dear Colleagues:
There are times when we must all mobilize and now is the time. What started last Spring as a bill that TNA was monitoring has evolved into a potential threat to EVERY ONE OF OUR PRATICES. As a PCP, you must be able to I & D a sebaceous cyst, excise an actinic keratoses, perform punch biopsies, etc. HOWEVER, if this bill passes, we will be prohibited from doing so. Their plan is to undermine and limit the practice abilities of the APRN at a time when primary care is becoming more in the spotlight, Medical Homes and ACO's are coalescing, and the APRN is expected to assume a great role in the care of patients. If the tools are removed from the toolbelt of the APRN, what good will we be for primary care?

Below are the bills that represents the beginning of TMA's hit on APRN practice for 2012

Senate Bill 2275 Jim Tracy
615-741-1066
931-684-8589

House Bill 2558 Mike Sparks
615-741-6829
615-625-3520

These bills, initially worded to prevent APRN's from performing cosmetic procedures have now morphed into a monster whose language prevents a sebaceous cyst from being lanced, seborrheic keratoses from being removed, anything "which involves the breaking of the skin with a needle or any form of energy (which includes a hyfrecator for molluscum contagiosum, etc).

Oppose this bill. It is a BAD bill.

M BRILEY (posted an TNAonling.org by M Briley)
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