Purpose: To provide the opportunity for students to compare and contrast the roles, scope of practice and perspectives of nurse practitioners and physicians and suggest a policy intervention

Instructions: Students are to include the following in their discussion:

1.Discuss the specialty adult geriatrics. Define the roles you will be addressing: physician and nurse practitioner.
2.Who regulates the scope of practice for the physician and the NP.
3.What is the scope of practice including the level of autonomy for the MD and the NP?
4.What are the barriers to practice? Identify implications from Consensus Document and in light of the Doctoral of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree.
5.What policy change would you suggest? Indicate implications of IOM (National Academy of Medicine) Report Future of Nursing.