[NPInfo] NPs banned on performing abortions

[Margienp at aol.com]

HMMM..
 
In a message dated 4/5/2008 4:31:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
dmittman at comcast.net writes:

Whether  you agree with abortion, the reason they used for the ban was  
BS and  sounds the same as the one about PPAs doing "Invasive  
procedures" in  NY.
Dave


Published: 04.04.2008


Senate panel OKs ban  on abortions by nurse practitioners

By Howard Fischer
CAPITOL MEDIA  SERVICES
PHOENIX — Calling it an issue of patient safety, a Senate  panel  
voted Thursday to bar nurse practitioners from performing  abortions.
The 4-2 vote came after Michael Urig, a Phoenix obstetrician  and  
gynecologist, told members of the Committee on Public Safety  and  
Human Services that he does not doubt they can do  uncomplicated  
procedures.
He said, though, they are not in any  way prepared for the kind of  
complications that can result from an  "invasive surgical procedure."
That, he said, requires the kind of training  that comes with a four- 
year surgical-residency program.
But Angela  Golden, vice president of the Arizona Nurse Practitioner  
Council,  said people with her kind of specialized training already do   
complicated procedures, including those that require a patient to be   
sedated.
"To suggest that nurse practitioners can't recognize  complications is  
simply unfair," she said. And Golden, who works in  Flagstaff, said  
any procedure performed in a clinic can result in  complications. She  
told lawmakers that's when any medical  practitioner — doctor, nurse  
or otherwise — gets a patient to a  hospital.
But the debate in many ways transcends patient safety and spills  over  
into the two perennial political fights.
One deals with how  easy it should be to get an abortion in Arizona.  
Backers of the  measure admit HB 2269 is aimed at Planned Parenthood  
— and,  specifically, at the fact that more than half the abortions  
at the  organization's Tucson clinic are performed by a nurse   
practitioner.
So far the state Board of Nursing, which generally  decides what is  
the accepted scope of practice of regular and  advanced-training  
nurses, has yet to rule whether abortions are  within the skill set of  
all nurse practitioners or, at the very  least, those with specialized  
training.
This measure, written  with the help of the anti-abortion Center for  
Arizona Policy, takes  the question out of the hands of the board.
Urig also admitted after the  hearing that he not only does not  
perform abortions but is  personally opposed to the practice.
Foes of the bill have said it will make  abortions less available.
The other political issue involves the fights  doctors have had at the  
Capitol with other medical specialists over  who is qualified to  
perform certain procedures.
In previous years  those fights have been with groups as diverse as  
optometrists and  chiropractors. Karen Holder, a Flagstaff nurse  
practitioner, said  efforts by doctors to get lawmakers to trim the  
powers of nurse  practitioners "may open Pandora's box" and start a  
new turf  war.
The measure, which already has been approved by the House, now  goes  
to the full Senate.
Figures for 2006 from the state  Department of Health Services show  
10,506 abortions were performed  in the state. Of that total, 3,088  
were procedures that involve  prescription drugs to induce abortion  
without  surgery.


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