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UMSL students participate in Association of Missouri Nurse Practitioners Advocacy Day – UMSL Daily
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Faculty of Nursing college members and college students (from left) Laura Kuensting, Pam Talley, Marina Fischer, Marie Turner, Brooke Shahriary, Louise Miller, Kate Skrade, Carla Beckerle, Taylor Nealy, Ann Mwangi-Amann, Paige Bernau, Lucy Kokoi and Tammy Vandermolen visited the Missouri Capitol final Tuesday to participate within the Affiliation of Missouri Nurse Practitioners Advocacy Day. (Photograph courtesy of Laura Kuensting)
Missouri faces a scarcity of main care physicians, notably in rural and underserved communities, making it difficult for residents in some components of the state to entry well being care providers.
Superior Observe Registered Nurses can present another as a result of they’re educated to evaluate, diagnose, deal with and prescribe for medical circumstances in a lot the identical manner optometrists are educated to evaluate, diagnose, deal with and prescribe for eye-related circumstances.
However guidelines in Missouri prohibit APRNs to practising inside 75 miles of their collaborating doctor and require an preliminary one-month direct statement of follow between an APRN and an MD or DO and common medical document critiques of the APRN from the MD or DO. What’s extra, MDs and DOs can not have collaborative follow with greater than six full-time APRNs or doctor’s assistants, and APRNs can not conduct video visits or write for house well being orders.
Fourteen graduate college students within the College of Missouri–St. Louis Faculty of Nursing joined college members Laura Kuensting, Carla Beckerle and Louise Miller and different nurses from across the state in pushing for a loosening of those restrictions throughout the Affiliation of Missouri Nurse Practitioners Advocacy Day on Tuesday on the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson Metropolis, Missouri.
The scholars’ participation was a part of an task for his or her course: “Healthcare Coverage and Economics.”
“I believe it is extremely essential to listen to from nurses on the frontline,” stated Pamela Talley, an MSN-DNP pupil within the Faculty of Nursing who practices at CHIPs Well being and Wellness Heart on North Grand Ave. within the metropolis of St. Louis. “We see the problems every day. We grew to become nurses to handle individuals, in response to seeing individuals endure. Nurses have an moral duty to advocate on behalf of these underserved populations. I consider it’s a social justice challenge and we should advocate for entry to well being look after all individuals.”
The scholars and school spent Tuesday morning speaking to legislatures similar to Sen. Steven Roberts and Sen. Brian Williams about entry to well being care, together with for Talley’s clientele at CHIPS, a nurse-founded, free medical care clinic the place most suppliers are volunteers in what is taken into account a medical-provider scarcity space.
“I’ve been practising as a pediatric nurse practitioner for over 30 years, principally within the emergency division,” Kuensting stated. “Youngsters are a susceptible inhabitants, usually with out medical insurance, leaving the emergency division as their solely supply of well being care. Organizations similar to CHIPs and different nurse-led clinics in medical supplier scarcity areas can facilitate well being upkeep and keep away from episodic care visits for people and their healthcare wants, however the boundaries APRNs face in Missouri make offering care extraordinarily troublesome.”
Talley had the chance to explain how restrictions impression her capability to look after sufferers in her group.
“It was nice assembly with state legislators to debate the necessity to scale back follow restrictions,” Talley stated. “These restrictions are a barrier to susceptible populations in each rural and concrete areas. The present collaborative settlement creates restrictions to elementary entry to well being look after individuals to handle their well being and to reside a top quality life.”
She added: “If nurse practitioners may have larger independence and a much less restrictive follow they might be capable of present a lot wanted care in these areas the place there are the best wants.”
There may be precedent. Missouri briefly lifted these restrictions for practically two years throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with no adversarial occasions, although that non permanent raise expired on Dec. 31.
An increasing number of states have additionally taken to completely grants APRNs full-practice authority. On April 10, New York grew to become the twenty fifth state to take such motion, and the Veterans Administration challenge full follow authority to APRNs, whatever the state they follow in, about two years in the past.
“This course, and notably this expertise, is essential for our APRN college students to grasp why being conscious of the problems affecting our follow matter,” Kuensting stated, “and extra importantly, find out how to advocate for change.”
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Missouri State football vs. Montana today: Live updates, highlights from Week 1 game
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Missouri State football: Ryan Beard previews Montana
Missouri State head football coach Ryan Beard held his weekly press conference ahead of Saturday’s opener at Montana.
Missouri State football season has arrived and an offseason of looking to the 2025 season and its impending move to Conference USA will be set aside for the Bears’ final season in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and FCS.
Opening day will present quite a challenge.
Missouri State will open its 2024 season at FCS national runner-up Montana on Saturday in Missoula, Montana, at 8 p.m. This is the first time the two teams have met on the gridiron.
Ryan Beard is entering his second season as Missouri State’s head coach. His team will look to build off a 4-7 season while staying focused on this season despite being ineligible for the FCS Playoffs.
Montana finished last season as the FCS national runner-up. The Grizzlies hope to finish the job this season as they enter the season as the No. 3-ranked team in the country.
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Missouri father uses a funeral to wean daughter off pacifier
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The Bishop family of Festus, Missouri, can smile now, but a few months ago the mood was much more somber as Courtney, Jake and their 3-year-old daughter Hazel said goodbye to a very important member of the family: Hazel’s beloved pacifier.
“It’s not good for her teeth and her jaws and all of that, so we had been trying to wean her off of it for some time,” Jake, 35, said.
Hazel’s beloved pacifier, affectionately known as “Paci,” had been with her for years. Jake knew saying goodbye could come with tears and tantrums, so he searched for creative approaches to ease the transition. He considered options such as cutting off the end of the pacifier, soaking it in vinegar or planting it in a pot.
Instead, Jake chose to give Paci a funeral.
Of course, before the internet, parents used to just take the thing away and deal with the tantrum. But today, for better or worse, young parents like Jake would rather not go to war over a binky. They’re “pacy-fists,” if you will.
“You need them to go through some tough times to really grow as a person but you don’t need to make extra tough times for them,” Jake said. “They’ll have plenty of those coming up.”
Parents delight in making milestones, but those milestones are often bittersweet because each turning point is a point of no return.
“She’s transitioning to the next stage of her life,” Jake said of Hazel, their first child. “We just got to hold onto those moments and those memories, because it goes fast.”
Hazel hasn’t asked for Paci again since. Although, shortly after the ceremony, Jake dug it up and buried it again in a keepsake box, making dad the one who just can’t let go.
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Kansas man charged after child porn allegedly sent while in Missouri
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A Kansas man has been charged after he allegedly sent child pornography while in a Missouri county.
Court documents filed in the Platte County, Missouri, Circuit Court have revealed that on Wednesday, Aug. 28, Courtnie R. Purvis, 45, of Overland Park, Kansas, has been charged with a single count of promoting child pornography in the first degree.
A complaint filed by the prosecuting attorney reported that in June 2023, Purvis knowingly sent out child pornography while in Platte County. The content allegedly depicted two victims, with whom Purvis has been barred from any contact.
As a part of his $25,000 cash-only bond agreement, if bailed out, Purvis is not allowed contact with any minor whatsoever. As of Friday, he is not behind Platte County bars.
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