Administrator rev ronin Posted May 16, 2020 Administrator Share Posted May 16, 2020 https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WADOH/bulletins/28bda41 https://www.doh.wa.gov/AboutUs/ProgramsandServices/HealthSystemsQualityAssurance/SunriseReviews/SunriseReviewinProgress Yeah, so my take on this is that psychologists who want to prescribe drugs should get an NP or PA license instead, rather than getting a science-based masters' and doing a fellowship ON TOP OF their Ph.D. or Psy.D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiovolffemtp Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 And the bill says the board may waive certain requirements for "Psychologists who are dually licensed as physicians, nurse practitioners, or another health profession with comparable prescriptive authority in Washington" - never mentioning PA's directly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted May 17, 2020 Author Administrator Share Posted May 17, 2020 5 hours ago, ohiovolffemtp said: And the bill says the board may waive certain requirements for "Psychologists who are dually licensed as physicians, nurse practitioners, or another health profession with comparable prescriptive authority in Washington" - never mentioning PA's directly. Except in that case... they wouldn't need to be prescribing psychologists at all! Yeah, both the bill and the justification pretty much ignored PAs, but also downplayed the role non-psych NPs play in mental health prescribing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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