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Consumer Directed Care and Nurse Practice Acts

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This paper examines the current state of nurse practice acts and their implementing regulations to determine the extent to which they permit more consumer direction in home and community based services. This analysis may be helpful to consumers and states that are seeking ways to balance better state policies to support consumer-directed care. [38 PDF pages]