This article is about how important it is to articulate your role as a nurse. I love how they explain articulating your role as a nursing competency. I think this is a great article for this class as we learn what the APRN role is and how to articulate it to our inter professional teams. Nurse Educ Pract. 2013 Nov;13(6):519-23. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2013.02.014. Epub 2013 Mar 18.

This article explains that we still have a long way to go to have a uniform SOP across the nation. Apparently 18 states and the DC had specific regulations of SOP and certification for NPs whereas 23 did not and 9 states were ambiguous on their standards for NPs. This shows there is still a lot to be done on the policy level.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.proxy.library.emory.edu/doi/10.1002/2327-6924.12261/epdf

Blackwell CW, Neff DF. Certification and education as determinants of nurse
practitioner scope of practice: An investigation of the rules and regulations
defining NP scope of practice in the United States. J Am Assoc Nurse Pract. 2015
Oct;27(10):552-7. doi: 10.1002/2327-6924.12261. Epub 2015 May 4. PubMed PMID:
25939736.