A team effort successfully amended a bill that Nurse Practitioners are backing to decrease the number of years of clinical experience required, from five years to two, for their independent practice.
VACEP and our allies have advocated to keep NP training to five years. Yesterday morning (Friday), a Senate subcommittee agreed and passed a strong 7-1 vote in favor of keeping training to five years.
Those NPs who received a license during the pandemic (when the requirement was lowered to two years to address emergency needs) are allowed to keep their status under this new substitute bill.
Still a few more miles to the finish line, but for now, you can thank the strong work of our lobbyist Aimee Perron Seibert, testimony and lobbying from several members, and emergency physicians statewide who sent more than 170 letters to legislators asking to keep the more stringent training requirements.
