SB414: Nurse practitioners; patient care team physician supervision capacity increased.

Legislative Summary

Nurse practitioners; patient care team physician supervision capacity increased. Allows a physician to serve as a patient care team physician on a patient care team with up to 10 nurse practitioners licensed in the category of psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. The bill retains, in all other cases, the existing provision that a physician may serve as a patient care team physician on a patient care team with no more than six nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners; patient care team physician supervision capacity increased. Allows a physician to serve as a patient care team physician on a patient care team with up to 10 nurse practitioners licensed in the category of psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. The bill retains, in all other cases, the existing provision that a physician may serve as a patient care team physician on a patient care team with no more than six nurse practitioners.