Defining outpatient scopes of practice for allied healthcare practitioners

The definition of scopes of practice for allied healthcare practitioners in outpatient settings is an emerging healthcare topic in this era when technologically advanced procedures are being done and diagnostics, therapies, and care are being given in outpatient settings. The standards of care and practice under which allied health professionals provide care must be defined within an organization in order to provide the high-quality integrated healthcare that is the benchmark of excellence. One way to increase leadership and staff awareness is to provide experts in each allied health discipline the opportunity to define their scopes of practice, as the Joint Commission suggests, based on the rules and regulations that govern those practices.