title: The 1998 Curriculum Guidelines and Regulatory Criteria for family nurse practitioners seeking prescriptive authority: what should we be teaching nurse prescribers today?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The Provus Discrepancy Model is applied to suggest revisions to consensus curriculum and regulatory guidelines for nurse practitioners (NPs) seeking prescriptive authority.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review related to prescribing policy, regulation, NP role competencies, and pharmacologic trends.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The document "Curriculum Guidelines and Regulatory Criteria for Family Nurse Practitioners Seeking Prescriptive Authority to Manage Pharmacotherapeutics in Primary Care" should be examined for relevance to current prescribing practice, scope, and influences that emerged since publication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In order to prepare NPs of the future it is important to acknowledge the implications of increased autonomy, scope, and depth of practice that explicitly includes broad prescriptive authority.
authors.affiliation: Oregon State Board of Nursing, Oregon, USA. tracy.klein@state.or.us
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Klein
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D033161:Government Regulation; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality