Jordan Roberts, director of government affairs at the John Locke Foundation, discusses “Granting Nurses Full Practice Authority: Benefits for NC.” Roberts offered these remarks March 29, 2022, to the N.C. General Assembly’s Joint Legislative Committee on Access to Healthcare and Medicaid Expansion.
Locke’s Jordan Roberts explains benefits for N.C. of granting nurses full practice authority
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