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Healthcare initiatives and legislative statues directly affect the abilities for advance practice for registered nurses. Legislature, such as the state nurse practice acts and scopes of practice, have been written to ensure the practitioner is practicing within a structured set of rules and regulations to ensure public safety in relation to healthcare services received. The foundation of nursing has been built upon providing healthcare that is conducive to improving their patients outcome. Whether it be related to accurate assessments, critical thinking, implementation of treatment, education etc., our goal as nurses is to preserve the quality of life.
Hospice and Palliative care are relatively new fields in nursing. Even as the patient is coming to terms with their disease process and accepting that death is near, nurses remain at bedside or in constant communication to ensure the patient and their families have the support and comfort required. The End-of-Life Option Act, also known as Senate Bill 380, is currently being supported by both the American Nurses Association and the California Association of Nurse Practitioners. This Act took effect in 2016 and gave the patient the choice of requesting aid-in-dying medication to those who have been deemed terminally ill and mentally capable by their attending physician (Petrillo, Dzeng