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Louisiana s nurse practitioners are pushing to eliminate collaborative practice agreements, which they argue will improve access to health care across the state.
The Louisiana Association of Nurse Practitioners laid out their argument during a virtual town hall on Thursday. During the event, panelists promoted House Bill 495, a measure moving through the Louisiana State Legislature that would get rid of the agreements.
Under the current law, nurse practitioners in Louisiana are required to have a collaborative practice agreement with a physician, which often involves the nurse practitioner paying a monthly fee to the physician. Without the agreement, a nurse practitioner cannot legally see patients, though the rule has been suspended since March 2020, as part of Gov. John Bel Edwards COVID-19 executive orders.
Louisiana nurse practitioners push to end collaborative practice agreements
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Louisiana’s Criminal Justice System Is Broken. These Bills Could Fix Some of Its Problems.
Helen Lewis - Contributing Writer April 22nd 2021
It’s no secret that Louisiana’s criminal justice system is one of the most biased, severe, and harmful justice systems in the world. According to reports from the federal government last year, Louisiana incarcerates more people, per capita, than any other state in the country.
“We warehouse more people in prison than anywhere else, and I think it’s one reason we stay impoverished here,” commented Louisiana Representative Mandie Landry, “It’s a waste of resources, in the sense of we’re wasting money on jails, but we’re also wasting our actual people.”
In 2017, the city of New Orleans and the state benefited financially after the NBA moved the All-Star Game and its festivities to the Crescent City when North Carolina passed an anti-transgender bathroom bill in 2016, taking the big event from the city of Charlotte. That bill was later repealed.
Now, New Orleans could be on the opposite side of that as the NCAA put out a statement on Monday - ahead of the start of the 2021 Legislative Session - in support of transgender athletes. The NCAA Board of Governors statement said they will only host events in places that are safe, healthy and free of discrimination and indicated that they “will continue to closely monitor these situations to determine whether NCAA championships can be conducted in ways that are welcoming and respectful of all participants.”