Responses to AMA
The American Medical Association (AMA) is producing a Scope of Practice Data Series that includes reports reviewing and analyzing the qualifications and practices of 10 categories of health care professionals – many of which are CPR member organizations – that are not medical doctors. CPR contends the AMA’s initiative is a divisive effort to restrict the practice of health care professionals who are not doctors of medicine (MDs) or osteopathy (DOs), and that it would limit patient access to safe, high-quality and cost-effective health care.
Resources
- CPR AMA Dialogue
CPR recently met with the American Medical Association, discussing how the groups can work together to create collaborative, interdisciplinary teams that focus on achieving the best health outcomes for patients and meeting a growing demand for health care services.
- Letter from 26 nursing organizations responding to AMA's Scope of Practice Data Series on Nurse Practitioners (12/8/09) [pdf]
The 26 groups, including many representing advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), tell the AMA that they do not accept the AMA's attempt to change the perceptions of nurse practitioner practice as anything other than fully qualified
professionals working within a legally established scope of practice. The groups advise that during a time when the nation faces many unmet health care needs, the individual health care professions should make it a high priority to evaluate their own areas for improvement and ways to Enhance, not further restrict, patients' access to health care.
- CPR Responds to AMA Scope of Practice Modules (2/9/10) [pdf]
The American Medical Association's Scope of Practice Partnership (SOPP) is a divisive effort to restrict the practice of health care professionals who are not doctors of medicine (MDs) or osteopathy (DOs). This effort would limit patients' abilities to choose their health care providers and limit access to safe, high-quality and cost-effective health care.
- Response letter to AMA (2/9/10) [pdf]
CPR questions the credibility, objectivity and usefulness of the American Medical Association's Scope of Practice Data Series modules and expresses concern about the accuracy and tone of the reports.