Explanation and Rubric. Must be APA formatting and quality work.  Nurse Practice Act Power Point Presentation Assignment and Grading Rubric Power Point Format Expectations It is important that students understand that the legal parameters of APN practice vary tremendously across the United States. Each state has its own laws regarding the scope of practice for APNs. This assignment is to compare the nurse practice acts (or whatever the name of the statute that controls APN practice) − and the accompanying rules for administration for those acts −in two states: the one where you live/work now and another state to be assigned by course faculty shortly after the semester has begun. You are to develop a detailed and scholarly PowerPoint presentation that adheres to APA format for any references, as well as the standard rules of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. B ullet point format should be used for most slides; in other words, few slides should have full paragraphs. However, there should be enough detail in the entire presentation that anyone reading the slides would have the answers to the questions below— but copying lengthy sections of a statute should be avoided . Excellent summarizing and paraphrasing—rather than just copying and pasting whole sections of a statute—is actually encouraged. Side-by-side comparison of information can be effective, assuming the slide is not too “busy.” Background Information about State Regulations Please note that you must actually read the practice acts and the accompanying rules of the states assigned . But the good news is that the language about APN practice is usually located in a single, identifiable section of each act; therefore, you may focus on only the part of the acts specific to advanced practice nurses . I have noted elsewhere that you should not rely on the summaries done by Carolyn Buppert in our textbook simply because in any given year a state may change its act. The Nurse Practitioner Journal article, 28th annual legislative update:  Advancements continue for APRN practice can be helpful, although again any statute might have been revised since that article was published. The article can be found on the course home page under articles, videos and power-points for weekly assignments. Finally, there is yet another resource for this assignment, which is provided by Barton Associates, which is a locum tenens staffing company. This site was discovered by one of our students who took NURS 610 previously. Below is the link for a very interesting color-coded diagram indicating the various elements of practice acts for all of the states and Washington, D.C. This may not be up to date. http://www.bartonassociates.com/nurse-practitioners/nurse-practitioner-scope-of-practice-laws/ While the references are instructive in terms of the frameworks of nurse practice acts in different states, you still must still read the actual statutes and rules of the both states .  .

1. Explanation and Rubric. Must be APA formatting and quality
work.
Nurse Practice Act Power Point Presentation Assignment and
Grading Rubric
Power Point Format Expectations
It is important that students understand that the legal parameters
of APN practice vary tremendously across the United States.
Each state has its own laws regarding the scope of practice for
APNs. This assignment is to compare the nurse practice acts (or
whatever the name of the statute that controls APN practice) −
and the accompanying rules for administration for those acts
−in two states: the one where you live/work now and another
state to be assigned by course faculty shortly after the semester
has begun. You are to develop a detailed and scholarly
PowerPoint presentation that adheres to APA format for any
references, as well as the standard rules of spelling, grammar,
punctuation, and sentence structure. B
ullet point format should be used for most slides; in other
words, few slides should have full paragraphs.
However, there should be enough detail in the entire
presentation that anyone reading the slides would have the
answers to the questions below—
but copying lengthy sections of a statute should be avoided
. Excellent summarizing and paraphrasing—rather than just
copying and pasting whole sections of a statute—is actually
encouraged. Side-by-side comparison of information can be
effective, assuming the slide is not too “busy.”
Background Information about State Regulations

2. Please note that
you must actually read the practice acts and the accompanying
rules of the states assigned
. But the good news is that the language about APN practice is
usually located in a single, identifiable section of each act;
therefore, you may focus on only the part of the acts
specific to advanced practice nurses
. I have noted elsewhere that you should
not
rely on the summaries done by Carolyn Buppert in our textbook
simply because in any given year a state may change its act. The
Nurse Practitioner Journal article, 28th annual legislative
update: Advancements continue for APRN practice can be
helpful, although again any statute might have been revised
since that article was published. The article can be found on the
course home page under articles, videos and power-points for
weekly assignments.
Finally, there is yet another resource for this assignment, which
is provided by Barton Associates, which is a locum tenens
staffing company. This site was discovered by one of our
students who took NURS 610 previously. Below is the link for a
very interesting color-coded diagram indicating the various
elements of practice acts for all of the states and Washington,
D.C. This may not be up to date.
http://www.bartonassociates.com/nurse-practitioners/nurse-
practitioner-scope-of-practice-laws/
While the references are instructive in terms of the frameworks
of nurse practice acts in different states,
you still must still read the actual statutes and rules of the both
states
.

3. The accompanying rules for administration are often contained
in an entirely different document from the practice act itself.
What is the difference between statutes and rules? The statute is
the law passed by the each state’s legislature; it is usually more
general in its verbiage and is comparable to a
policy
. Rules, on the other hand, are written by government employees
in the state agency/regulatory body and are much more specific
like
procedures
.
Locating the practice acts for each state can be tricky: Some
states have an actual governmental agency called the Board of
Nursing; however, in other states, the “Board of Nursing” is
simply an advisory committee comprised of volunteer members-
-which is true in Illinois. Illinois, like a few other states, has a
“mega-agency” that regulates professionals in a whole host of
professions. Illinois’ regulatory agency has the title of the
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation
(IDFPR) and oversees not just health professionals, but
wrestlers, hairdressers, real estate agents, bankers, and the list
goes on and on. Then there are some states that regulate nurses
through their state departments of health. However, there are
two resources listed on your syllabus that should be helpful:
National Council of State Boards of Nursing:
https://www.ncsbn.org/index.htm
State Nurses Associations:
http://www.theagapecenter.com/Organizations/State-
Nursing.htm
Once again, do
no
t rely on Buppert for information about these state agencies,

4. since the information about Illinois and many other states is not
correct. The Advanced Practice Nursing Board in Illinois
merged with the “regular” Board of Nursing (that oversees the
practices of registered nurses and licensed practical nurses) in
2007 and, as I noted above, is only a voluntary board that
advises the staff of IDFPR. The final authority for the practice
of any professional licensed by IDFPR is the Secretary of the
Department.
Formatting Statutes and Regulations
Do not be overly anxious regarding citations and references for
the Nurse Practice Act PowerPoint presentation. Even the APA
manual admits that its source for proper citation and reference
format is based on another source; namely, the "Bluebook."
Nurse practice acts are statutes and their format is discussed on
p. 220-221 in the APA manual. On the top of the page on 221 in
the APA manual, a format for a reference is provided; however,
that format may not be very helpful for the particular practice
acts that you are comparing. Remember, that the real purpose of
citations and references is to help the reader to find original
sources if so desired. For example, the full legal "name" of the
Illinois Nurse Practice Act is this: 225 Illinois Compiled
Statutes 65/60-1 -- 65/75-20 (FYI: You MAY abbreviate Illinois
Compiled Statutes as ILCS).
While the information focuses on how the Illinois Nurse
Practice Act works, I hope the gist of this makes sense for all
states, even though other states may have a somewhat different
way of "naming" their acts. In Illinois the majority of
information about advanced practice nursing can be found under
Article 65 within which there are several sections like this:
65/65-5: Qualifications for APN licensure. The first "65" refers
to the "name" of the act and it just so happens that the APN
section is also Article 65. The "5" after the dash refers to a

5. particular section within Article 65.
The next section of Article 65 is:
65/65-10: APN license pending status. And this section is
followed by:
65/65-15: Expiration of APN license renewal. ....etc.
This is how you should begin this assignment.
Early in your PowerPoint presentation, I would like you to
indicate the "names" of the two acts that you are comparing, as
I did with the Illinois Nurse Practice Act above (ILCS Compiled
Statutes 65/60-1 -- 65/75-20)...or how the acts you are
comparing are legally "named." Once you provide the legal
names of both practice acts in your presentation, you do not
have to refer to that name anywhere else in the presentation (not
even at the end). BUT I would like to see citations on the slides
as you address the various elements of the grading rubric.
So, in Illinois, for example, when you describe the scope of
practice of an APN, you would note somewhere on the slide that
you obtained that information from § 65-30 (§ is the symbol for
section). And you
should
make that citation in much smaller (but readable) font than the
rest of the text on the slide. By the way, the easiest way to get
that section symbol into your presentation is probably to go into
Microsoft Word, find the "insert" tab in the top toolbar, find the
"symbol" icon (in my version of Word, it is the last option on
the right), and find the symbol, which seems to be in the
category of "Basic Latin," and just copy and paste that symbol
into a slide. Once you do that, you should be able to just copy
and paste that symbol from one slide to another. Due to space
constraints some liberties must be taken with APA format; But
you do owe the reader enough information so that he or she

6. could find the source of the information for each slide if so
desired.
Grading Rubric
(NOTE: Issues should be addressed in the sequence as listed
below.)
The presentation must compare and contrast how each state
addresses the following issues:
1. What is the exact title that is used to identify advanced
practice nurses as a whole? Which specialties of APNs that we
have discussed in this course are included in whatever APN
title(s) each state uses? Are these titles “protected”? If not all
specialties are specifically noted in the nurse practice act
(NPA), in what other statute are these other specialties licensed
and which state agency regulates their practice?
(5 points)
2. How is licensure addressed; that is, must APNs have separate
RN and APN licenses?
(5 points)
3. What are the requirements for education and certification of
each type of APN?
(10 points)
4. Compare and contrast how APN oversight is addressed in
each state: Is there physician oversight? If so, is it: Supervision
(written or unwritten agreements) or collaboration (written or
unwritten agreements)? Or is there independent/autonomous
authority? If independent authority, are there specific
requirements before an APN is eligible for this autonomy? Are
other limitations to this autonomy (e.g., must submit a
formulary of medications that the APN will prescribe, etc.)?
(15 points)

7. 5. What body is responsible for controlling APN practice?
Board of Nursing (or its equivalent)? Board of Medicine? Both
Board of Nursing and Board of Medicine? Some other entity
(e.g., Department of Health)? Is there APN representation on
the Board of Nursing (or its equivalent) and if so, how many
APNs are required?
(10 points)
6.
What is allowed or not allowed in terms of prescriptive
authority and how does it relate to the issue of supervision or
collaboration described above? Is the dispensing of sample
medications specifically mentioned one way or the other? What
are the regulations about controlled substances (e.g., must APNs
obtain a controlled substance license from their state prior to
applying for a DEA number)? What are the other requirements
regarding prescriptive authority?
(15 points)
7. How does each statute address the components of the APRN
Consensus Model for Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
(a.k.a., LACE)?
NOTE:
It is unlikely that any practice act will specifically mention the
terms
APRN Consensus Model
or
LACE
.
Your
task is to interpret and convey if there are any requirements in
either act that seem to correspond to any of the components of
LACE (
albeit in other word
s).

8. (10 points)
8. Do the
practice acts
specifically address APNs having hospital admitting and/or
discharging privileges or otherwise mention some
other
type of hospital clinical privileges? If so, describe the details
of those privileges. (Note: APNs simply being able to perform
admission history and physicals is NOT the same as having
admission privileges.) If privileges are not addressed in the
statutes or rules, review TNPJ article for this information.
(10 points)
9. Do the
practice acts
address reimbursement for APN services? If not noted in the
practice acts themselves, what does the TNPJ article have to say
about this topic? Also, what other elements of scope of practice
are noted either in the practice acts or the diagram on the
Barton Associates website?
(10 points)
10. Overall appearance of PowerPoint slides: Appropriate
graphics are encouraged (but, please, no graphics of women
wearing nurses’ caps!). There should be some color to the
slides. Points will be deducted if the following are not present:
(a) Slides should include appropriate citations that correspond
to the reference list at the end of the presentation, (b) proper
spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. Again,
much of the content should be formatted in bullet points and
legal language should be carefully paraphrased. It is acceptable
(indeed, desirable) for citations to be in a much smaller font
compared to the rest of the words on a slide.

9. (10 points)
This assignment is worth 100 points. A
follow-up
to this assignment is that each student will critique one other
student’s presentation both for the quality (aesthetics, clarity)
of the presentation, as well as the accuracy of its content. That
assignment will be worth 50 points.
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