Even for advance practice nurses, that have similar scopes of practice to physicians, the use of CDSSs is not commonplace.
Barbara J. Safriet, Closing the Gap Between Can and May in Health-Care Providers' Scopes of Practice: A Primer for Policymakers, 19 Yale J. on Reg.
Organized medicine invariably opposes wider scopes of practice and independent practice of nonphysician health professionals, ostensibly not to protect economic turf but to protect the quality of patient care.
However, existing interventions to reduce hospitalizations do not account for differences in scopes of practice among licensed nursing staff.
Nursing exists as a function of society for the protection of its members through legally sanctioned roles, responsibilities, and scopes of practice.
Although comprehensive [30] guidelines for the practice of POCUS are well established for emergency medicine and critical care in both the USA [30] and Canada [31], they are not immediately transferable to perioperative care, given the different scopes of practice.
Just over a decade ago, NCHEC initiated their Competencies Update Project; this project provided a model that outlined entry and advanced-level scopes of practice in terms of professional preparation, credentialing, and professional development [6].
NPs across the world have different levels of education and scopes of practice [ 21].
The scopes of practice were affirmed based on task analysis survey data.
The information collated was analyzed in terms of the education, regulation, scopes of practice and specialization of such workers.
One often-cited example is the comparison of scopes of practice of obstetrics and anaesthetics in the US and UK.
