Modernizing Scope-of-Practice Regulations - Time to Prioritize Patients

Bianca K Frogner¹, Erin P Fraher¹, Joanne Spetz¹+5

• ¹From the Center for Health Workforce Studies and the Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle (B.K.F.); the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center and the Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill (E.P.F.); the Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (J.S.); the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC (P.P.); the New York Center for Health Workforce Studies (J.M.) and the Workforce Technical Assistance Center (D.A.), University at Albany-SUNY School of Public Health, Rensselaer; the Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center and School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (A.J.B.); and the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies and the College of Nursing, Montana State University, Bozeman (P.I.B.).