A health care provider’s scope of practice describes the procedures, actions, and processes that a health care practitioner is permitted to undertake in keeping with the terms of their professional license. This website is designed to educate policymakers who work with scope of practice issues related to mid-level practitioners at the state level.
On this website, you will find information regarding the scope of practice for Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Mid-level Oral Health Providers. The tabs above link to interactive maps for each state and territory for each practitioner, a legislation database that enables you track scope of practice bills in each state, case studies in scope of practice policy, and resources for additional information.
This website is designed to provide non-partisan, unbiased and objective policy information about the scope of practice laws in the 50 states and territories. The interactive map to the right will take you to a state overview page. For an overview of the practitioners described on this site, please click the tabs below.