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Australia Not Making Effective Use Of Nurse Practitioners
''Our research makes clear that nurse practitioners are facing significant barriers to providing service in this important health provider role. The barriers occur at the service level of nurse practitioner practice and the broader policy level of regulation of practice.
Professor Gardner said that despite nursing practitioners being authorised through legislation at state level they were frequently thwarted in the application of their extended practice activities.
This results in restrictions to the effectiveness of the role, she said.
As an example, nurse practitioners are authorized under state law to prescribe medications, but where those medications are eligible for a PBS subsidy the patient will not receive a subsidy because regulation of the PBS falls under Commonwealth legislation, which does not currently recognise nursing practitioners as prescribers.
Nurse practitioners are not currently eligible for a Medicare provider number which means patients cannot receive rebates for their services.
''Given the widespread workforce shortages and rising health care costs, we simply cannot afford to under-utilise this important sector of the health workforce, Professor Gardner said.
However, we are heartened by the Commonwealth Government initiatives currently underway that should remove some of the barriers preventing nursing practitioners fully contributing to the health care of the Australian community.''
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