Describe the practice agreements for pmhnps in your state

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Assignment: In many states, nurse practitioners are completely autonomous professionals. In other states, however, NPs have a wide range of "restrictive" practice ranging from requirements for a "supervising" physician to requirements for a "collaborative" agreement with a physician.

• Briefly describe the practice agreements for PMHNPs in your state.

• Explain the two physician collaboration issues that you identified.

• Explain what you think are the barriers to PMHNPs practicing independently in your state.

• Outline a plan for how you might address PMHNP practice issues in your state.

(Include outside resources to address all bullet points)

Required Readings (Need 3+ references)

American Nurses Association. (2014). Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Standard 15 "Resource Utilization" (pages 82-83)

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock's synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

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