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Nurses have a much wider scope of practice [now] and have a greater role to play; after all, dentists cannot work without a dental nurse.
There needs to a review of the basic level of dental nursing and progressive levels that are not only recognised and respected but that are attached to a pay scale and a wider scope of practice.
Fights like this one are not new; they have been fought in many states for several decades, always between organized medicine and some nonphysician health professionals (e.g., optometrists or nurse anesthetists) seeking a wider scope of practice or more economic freedom.
In addition, in many international settings, generalist physicians have a wider scope of practice.
Limited input by medical staff also allowed for haemodialysis nurses to have a wider scope of practice than is typically found in other areas of nursing [ 75].
Advanced practice roles offer the ability to have a wider scope of practice and have demonstrated higher levels of job satisfaction and improved patient outcomes [ 76].
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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.
[ 30] Similarly, the chiropractors in the SMH clinic began by explicitly limiting their legally-defined wide scope of practice to musculoskeletal conditions.
Evidence shows that physician assistants, nurse practitioners and community health workers can substitute for high proportions of medical practitioner competencies [ 10], but medical doctors have the widest scope of practice [ 11] and are integral to healthcare provision in any context.
A further challenge is identifying what is relevant to public health and health promotion practitioners, given that it is a dynamic field characterized by a wide scope of practice, defined regionally and changing constantly.
Although there is limited information to assess this, core specialty outreach services routinely needed in remote Australian locations have been proposed [ 13], and rural health strategy in Australia highlights the importance of generalist specialists (for example, general medicine and general surgery) because of their wide scope of practice [ 14].
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