Health Workforce Shortage Study Work Group Meeting - October 23, 2008
Agenda, Background Information and Minutes
9:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Metropolitan Mosquito Control District
2099 University Avenue (at Cleveland Avenue)
St. Paul, MN 55104
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Goals:
- Affirm primary care skills and competencies
- Complete identification of barriers
- Understand the laws and regulations and how they apply to barriers
- Identify draft report recommendations
Agenda
9:15 Welcome and Check-in – Sarah Strickland/Karen Welle
9:30 Review and affirm primary care skills and competencies list
9:45 Reports from professional teams on barriers
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
- Pharmacists
11:00 Reports from boards on related professional licensing laws and regulations
- Board of Medical Practice: Physicians and Physician Assistants - Rob
- Board of Nursing: Advanced Practice Registered Nurses – Shirley
- Board of Pharmacy - Cody
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Work Session: Identify and discuss draft report recommendations
2:00 Wrap Up
2:15 Adjourn
Background Information
Pharmacist Education, Licensing, and Practice (PDF: 25KB/2 pages)
Delegation of Medical Practice to Physician Assistants (PDF: 27KB/2 pages)
Chart Overview of Nurse Practitioner Scopes of Practice in the United States
(PDF:
425KB/8 pages)
Chart Overview of Nurse Practitioner Scopes of Practice in the United States, University of California San Francisco Center for the Health Professions, Fall 2007.
Maps: Overview of Diagnosing and Treating Aspects of NP Practice
and Overview of Prescribing Aspect of NP Practice (PDF:
404KB/2 pages)
Pearson, Linda J., The Pearson Report, American Journal for Nurse Practitioners, Vol. 12, No.2, February 2008.
