Bill would give OH nurses more latitude in treating patients

Nurse practitioners and other advanced-practice nurses say Ohio law makes it harder for them to do their jobs well and is forcing talent to states where they can practice without physician oversight and other challenges. Lawmakers are expected to begin hearings in January on a sweeping "modernization" bill introduced this year by Rep. Dorothy Pelanda, a Marysville Republican. On Wednesday, advanced-practice nurses chatted with her and lobbied her colleagues. Although legislative wrangling over the bill is months off, interest groups already are formulating their arguments and looking for ways to temper a proposal that would free the nurses from having to enter into formal agreements with physicians.