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Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies - all nurse practitioners upon graduation are expected to meet these. These include scientific foundations, leadership, quality, practice inquiry, technology and information literacy, policy, health delivery system, ethics, and independent practice history of NP role - the NP role was introduced in 1965 by Loretta Ford and Henry Silver, MD at the University of Colorado. They identified new roles in which experienced RNs with advanced education and skills were performing clinical duties traditionally reserved for physicians. License, Accreditation, Certification, and Education Consensus Model - adopted by many nursing organizations, this provides guidance for states to adopt uniformity in the regulation of APRN roles; finalized in 2008 state legislative statutes - grant legal authority for NP practice Nurse Practice Act - every state has one; provides title protection (who may be called a nurse practitioner), defines advanced practice, prevailing state laws that define scope of practice, places restrictions on practice, sets NP credentialing requirements, states grounds for disciplinary action, and may specifically require that an NP develop a collaborative agreement with a physician States grounds for disciplinary action - practicing without a valid license, falsification of records, medicare fraud, failure to use appropriate nursing judgment, failure to follow accepted nursing standards, failure to complete accurate nursing documentation collaborative agreement - a protocol that describes what types of drugs might be prescribed and defines some form of oversight for NP practice licensure - a process by which an agency of state government grants permission to persons to engage in the practice of that profession; also prohibits all others from legally doing protected practice credentialing - process used to protect the public by ensuring a minimum level of professional competence