Healthcare Professions Comparison Workshee

Nurse Practitioner

Advanced Practice Healthcare Profession 1

Advanced Practice Healthcare Profession 2

Education (4 pts)

• What undergraduate or graduate degree requirements are there, if any?

Master’s degree  in nursing

Master of science in Nursing

Master of science in Nursing

Scope of Practice (4 pts)

• What can the provider do independently?
• What needs to be supervised?
• Can the provider prescribe?
• What is within the provider’s scope of practice, and what is not?

• Provide Patient care at the comfort of the patient’s home. 
• Administration of medication.
• Provider cannot prescribed (Writers, 2019).
• Patient care and assessment of patient condition. 

• Provide patient care and diagnose.
• Administration of medication. 
• Provider can prescribe.
• Maintain patient records, providing recommendation for further treatment is not within the patient scope (Writers, 2019). 

• Provide patient care and diagnose.
• Administration of medication. 
• Provider can prescribe.
• Maintain patient records, providing recommendation for further treatment is not within the patient scope (Writers, 2019). 

Licensing (4 pts)

• What are the minimum licensing requirements? 
• After the initial licensing, how often do those in this profession have to renew?

The practitioner must:

• Be a graduate in a state approved nursing program. 
• Must show proof of passing the  National Council Licensure Examination ( NCLEX-RN)
• Ensure that they do not have a criminal background in a number of states (Writers, 2019). 
• After initial licensing renewal is done each year where assessment is done on the practitioner.  Should also pass the board of nursing authority and met nursing education standards. 

The practitioner must:

• Be an advanced graduate in a state approved nursing program. 
• Must show proof of passing the  National Council Licensure Examination ( NCLEX-RN)
• Ensure that they do not have a criminal background in a number of states. 
• After initial licensing renewal is done each year where assessment is done on the practitioner. 
• Should also pass the board of nursing authority and met nursing education standards (Writers, 2019). 

The practitioner must:

• Be an advanced graduate in a state approved nursing program. 
• Must show proof of passing the  National Council Licensure Examination ( NCLEX-RN)
• Ensure that they do not have a criminal background in a number of states. 
• After initial licensing renewal is done each year where assessment is done on the practitioner (Writers, 2019) 
• Should also pass the board of nursing authority and met nursing education standards. 

Credentialing (4 pts)

• What credentialing, if any, is required for your profession?

• Board certification.

• Board certification, this is done in regard to the Nursing Practitioner’s specialty for example those that work in a specific department. 

• Board certification, this is done in regard to the Nursing Practitioner’s specialty for example those that work in a specific department.

Salary (4 pts)

• Consider local, regional, or state salary ranges. 

Local- $8000

Regional or state -$10-12,000 (Nursingprocess, 2019).

Local- $8000

Regional or state -$10-12,000 (Nursingprocess, 2019).

Local- $8000

Regional or state -$10-12,000 (Nursingprocess, 2019).