What Are the Adult Nurse Practitioner Regulation?

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In this paper, the ANP regulations of Texas and the state of Georgia shall be discussed. An ANP
is an Adult Nurse Practitioner who is fully educated and skilled about how to offer quality
primary care to an adult patient, those aged 12 and above. They are guided by specific
regulations in every state that determine the way they should carry out their activities and what a
particular state expects of them. The main role of an ANP is offering preventive care to patients
and manage chronic and acute health issues (Temple, 2015). The regulations in the two states
shall be compared.
In Texas, the prescriptive authority is granted through a separate application written ‘prescriptive
delegation’ by the supervising physician. To get prescriptive authority also, the supervising
physician must also register DEA for controlled substances and register with the public safety
department in Texas (Cates, 2017).In Georgia, prescriptive authority requires a ‘protocol
agreement’ with the supervising physician. The Board of Nursing in Texas is the Texas Board of
Nursing, while in Georgia is the Georgia Board of Nursing. The practice Act in Texas is the
Texas Nursing Practice Act, while in Georgia, it is the Georgia Nurse Practice Act. About details
and resources (Kruschke, 2018). Texas has currently eliminated the on-site physician supervision
requirement while in Georgia, Registered nurses get the prescriptive authority for practice by the
Georgia Composite Medical Board
In both states, full practice regulation requires all nurses and practitioners to keenly evaluate
patients, diagnosing , interpreting and ordering diagnostic tests, managing and initiating the