Collaborating with
Physician Organizations in FPA Legislation
Nurse practitioners (NPs) often advocate for full practice
authority, which ascertains their independence during operations, eliminating
their reliance on the medical board for decision-making. Moreover, it
eradicates the constant monitoring from physicians, which can influence care
delivery. In lobbying, NPs can integrate with physician organizations to
acquire liberated policies. The association contains various advantages and
disadvantages, which shape the relationship and the efficiency of the process.
One advantage of collaborating with physician institutions
is it establishes a strong lobbying position due to the involvement of multiple
healthcare providers. Physician organizations play a crucial role in
introducing propositions that shape the operational policies within healthcare;
thus, their insight and association are essential to caregivers. Administrators
identify physician establishments as vital elements in care provision as they
identify underlying healthcare issues, such as the need to improve medical
coverage, and make responsive remarks (Hassenteufel et al., 2020). The support
from the organizations demonstrates their trust in nurses to provide care under
no supervision, which can prompt policymakers to concede and introduce
supportive policy reforms. Therefore, their insight would be essential in
convincing legislators to provide FPA to nurses to improve healthcare delivery.
Moreover, collaborating with physician organizations
demonstrate unity among care providers within healthcare, which can prompt
legislators to grant them supportive policies to improve healthcare delivery.
The association focuses on establishing an integrated healthcare system with
nurses and physicians working towards similar aims, which develops leadership
traits among caregivers that can be crucial in decision-making within FPA
legislation (Heinen et al., 2019). Furthermore, it would contribute to
integrating a transparent operating system within healthcare which can
eliminate various institutional issues, thus, convincing policymakers to
support FPA legislation.
Nonetheless, the integration is associated with various
shortcomings, such as presenting opportunities for conflicts, which can
influence their presentation to legislators. Nurses and physician institutions
may have contrasting agendas when advocating for FPA legislation, introducing
different perspectives that may result in collaboration problems. Differences
are likely to occur, especially when experiencing various healthcare issues,
such as covid-19, which magnifies other healthcare problems that might
introduce partnership problems, leading to ineffective teamwork (Grabowski
& Mor, 2020). The lack of a uniform advocacy platform establishes a hostile
reception among policymakers, leading to opposing the initiative.
Moreover, collaborating with physician institutions
introduces multiple parties in the advocacy process, introducing hectic
negotiations that can negatively impact the legislation approval. Some
initiatives take extensive periods to acquire operational guarantees, such as
the creation of rehabilitation programs among disabled patients due to a lot of
involved parties with differentiating ideas. The timeframe also introduces an
opportunity to introduce collaboration issues, especially with other emerging
healthcare issues, such as short staffing, making it a challenge to maintain a
unified platform (Ross, 2020). Therefore, it presents potential problems the
partnerships can encounter when lobbying for FPA legislation.
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