A working group of the IBON drafted language for the statute. This expanded role for an RN required changes to the Nurse Practice Act (NPA). Admission criteria included having an active RN license, current clinical experience and the approval of a physician who also had to agree to supervise their clinical preceptorship.
In November 1970 two Idaho RNs, Kay Ortman and Jane Curtis, were sponsored to attend a new 4-month certificate program at Stanford University in California, followed by a 9-to-12-month clinical preceptorship with a physician before graduation with a NP certificate. By 1970 the INA agreed to support NPs and the hospital in Council agreed to accept 2 NPs. Initially the INA was opposed to the idea because hospital nursing directors worried that they would lose their most experienced nurses, and there was a major nursing shortage following the first international flu epidemic since the 1918 Spanish Flu. She visited several of the NP continuing education certificate programs in the Western United States and then met with Idaho physicians in rural communities to establish that they would serve as supervisors and preceptors for NPs. She had learned how other states were beginning to use NPs to supplement care when physicians were not available, especially in rural areas of Idaho's surrounding states.īetween 19, Laura Larson worked to obtain support for introducing NPs into Idaho from the Idaho Nurses Association (INA) and the IBON.
The concept of using Nurse Practitioners (NPs) in Idaho was introduced in 1969 by Laura Larson, MA, RN, who was a former chairman of the Idaho Board of Nursing (IBON) and was the Idaho administrator for the newly implemented Medicare federal program in Idaho.
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