One of our big projects this semester is an economic analysis of a healthcare issue or technology. Between my APNA presentation and Capstone project, I am a little spent (ha, I made a pun) on social media and wanted to tackle something a bit more juicy: Collaborative practice agreements.After about 10 hours reading a lot of stuff I already knew:
- The Institute of Medicine's position that APRNs should be full partners and allowed to practice their full scope of practice
- In states without collaborative practice agreements APRNs rank as high or better than MDs when it comes to outcomes
- State medical boards have banned together to push the idea that nursing is actually medicine and must be regulated by state medical boards
- MDs are still bitching to each other on Sermo and publishing their opinions that so-called mid-level providers are only competent so long as they hand 5-15% of their revenue over in exchange for an on-paper collaborative agreement
I learned some interesting things I did not know regarding the Federal Trade Comission citing that the collaborative practive agreement could be considered monopolistic and a restraint of trade.
Then I decided, I like my blood pressure where it is, and scrapped it. I decided to analyze workforce management solutions for healthcare systems, specifically when it comes to mobile technology. Why? Because there is a Kronos conference in Orlando this November that I have been invited to that will allow me to get first, the latest data, second, the ability to network as part of the research, and third, to write off the entire trip.
Now thats some health economics!
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