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Dear Colorado Advanced Practice Nurse,

Effective July 2010, Colorado adopted a new process by which APN nurses can receive prescriptive (RXN) authority. There is an emerging dialogue among nursing leaders and state policymakers on how well these new regulations have worked for Colorado APNs, and their impact. The goal of this survey is to collect information about APN's experience with these new regulations.

Some individuals say that the new regulations have worked just fine, and others that say that there are serious shortcomings. We need more clarity, and you are the only person that can provide that! The quality of your response will determine how informed policymakers will be.

If you have had experience with these new regulations, we would very much appreciate you taking a few moments to fill this out. If you have not had experience with these new regulations but perhaps know someone who has, could you pass this survey to them? (We do not have access to APN emails, so this must be distributed by word-of-mouth. Help, please!)

Thanks very much!
The Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence

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* 1. Please enter the following profile information. Your email address is only for Q&A followup purposes, and to send you the results of the survey.

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* 2. What is the status of your prescriptive authority license?

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* 3. Did you move to Colorado since 2010 and based on your out-of-state APN experience apply for a prescriptive authority license?

First, three questions about the 1800 hour preceptorship. Second, three questions about the 1800 hour mentorship.

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* 4. Please describe the process by which you recruited a physician (or MD plus APN) to support your 1800 hour preceptorship. What were the challenges, issues, and benefits?

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* 5. Please describe the nature and process of implementing your 1800 hour preceptorship. What were the challenges, issues, and benefits?

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* 6. How many months did it take to complete the 1800 hour preceptorship?

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* 7. Please describe the process by which you recruited a physician (or MD plus APN) to support your 1800 hour mentorship. What were the challenges, issues, and benefits?

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* 8. Please describe the nature and process of implementing your 1800 hour mentorship. What were the challenges, issues, and benefits?

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* 9. How many months did it take to complete the 1800 hour mentorship?

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* 10. If you had difficulty recruiting a supervising physician, can you describe the barriers that you encountered and the reasons stated by physicians who declined to serve in this role?

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* 11. If you had to pay your supervising physician or reimburse expenses, please describe.

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* 12. Please complete this statement: "Complying with Colorado's prescriptive authority regulations was ..."

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* 13. What are your views on this statement? "If I had it to do over again, I would NOT make the personal, financial and time investment to receive my Prescriptive Authority/RXN license."

Background information, FYI. The following states do not require any supervisory hours to receive prescriptive authority: AK, AZ, HI, IA, ID, MD, MT, ND, NH, OR, UT, VT, WA, WI, WY.

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* 14. What are your views on this statement? "If I had it to do over again, I would move to a state with a much less restrictive process to receive prescriptive authority."

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* 15. What are your views on this statement? "If I had it to do over again, I would NOT make the personal, financial and time investment to receive my APN certification"

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* 16. If your job responsibilities include hiring APNs, do you or does your agency have an opinion one way or the other about hiring an APN who does not yet have RXN but is either in process or has not yet begun that process?

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* 17. What national certification do you hold?

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* 18. If you are currently (or were recently) looking for employment as an APN, what has been your job search experience, difficulties and opportunities? In what way did your RXN status affect this job search?

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* 19. Please identify your current employment setting (select one).

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* 20. What question did we not ask, but should have? (and your answer?)

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* 21. Could we put you on the Center's Colorado APN email list? (Your email address will not be shared with anyone; we would like to send out the results of this survey and other APN workforce related information).

Thanks very much for your time! if you have any additional comments or questions, please contact Brian Kelley at bkelley@ColoradoNursingCenter.org

We are trying to survey as many APNs as possible, but do not have email addresses. PLEASE pass this survey link on to your APN friends and colleagues!

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