Senate Bill Would Help Improve Nurse Practitioner Training
Proposal offers $2,000 tax credit for providers willing to help mentor students
Before practicing, nurse practitioners are required to receive clinical training. Mentors are often hard to find.
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A bipartisan proposal in Congress would address a key problem confronting an American health-care system increasingly reliant on nurse practitioners: how to ensure they’re properly trained for their expanding roles.
As part of the maneuvering over a new tax plan, Democratic and Republican senators want to give a $2,000 tax credit to nurses and other health-care providers who commit to supervising, training and mentoring nursing students and newly hired nurses for at least 200 hours a year.