Scope of Practice for Public Health Professionals and Volunteers

Scope of Practice for Public Health Professionals and Volunteers

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Panelists:

James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM, Associate Professor and Executive Director,
Center for Law & the Public's Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Jeanine K. Mount, PhD, RPh, Associate Professor, Social and Administrative Pharmacy Division and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Joy F. Reed, MS, EdD, RN, Director, Office of Public Health Nursing and Professional Development, Division of Public Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, N.C
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Moderator: Mary Pat Couig, BSN, MPH, FAAN, Rear Admiral, U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) and Assistant Surgeon General and Chief Nurse Officer, USPHS
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Learning Objectives:

Identify three scope of practice factors that currently limit the contribution of medical volunteers, pharmacists, and nurses to public health activities;
Identify potential legal solutions to identified dilemmas or limits on the scope of volunteer practices;
Discuss current and potential roles of pharmacists in emergency response systems, particularly with respect to the Strategic National Stockpile, the National Pharmacist Response Team, and the National Incident Response System; and
Name changes to nurses' scope of practice that can make public health responses more effective.

Resource Material:

Anonymous. ASHP statement on the role of health-system pharmacists in emergency preparedness. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy 2003;60(19):1993-5. Available at http://www.ashp.org/bestpractices/MedTherapy/Specific_St_EmergPrep.pdf

Babb VJ, Babb J. Pharmacist involvement in Healthy People 2010. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 2003;43(1):56-60.

Hodge JG, Gable LA, Vernick JV, Teret SP. Emergency system for advance registration of volunteer health professionals (ESAR-VHP): Legal and regulatory issues. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Washington, DC: 2005;1-98 (February 2005). Available at http://www.hrsa.gov/bioterrorism/esarvhp/legalissues.htm

Hodge JG, Gable LA. Advanced tool kit for ESAR-VHP: Legal and regulatory issues. Center for Law and the Public's Health. Baltimore, MD: 2005;1-56. Available at http://www.publichealthlaw.net/Research/Affprojects.htm

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