The Effects of State Scope of Practice Laws on the Labor Supply of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses

This paper studies the effects of changes in states’ scope practice (SOP) laws for advanced registered nurses (APRNs) on individual labor supply decisions. Restrictive SOP impose costs and other barriers to that may affect these Using survey data APRNs, we analyze employment nursing, work hours, part-time status, multiple job holding, self-employment, wages, migration. Results show level restrictions are not strong determinants many market decisions but APRNs working states without oversight requirements much more likely be self-employed hours. also found commute less restrictive environments when geographically feasible. Increases regulatory relatively free from physician can bring an important change delivery health care United States.