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SVMIC Collaborating with Advanced Practice Providers
“Licensed physicians may supervise healthcare workers
in their provision of services which fall within the
physician’s area of expertise. Specialty board certification
in psychiatry is not required in order to supervise a
psychiatric nurse practitioner in the performance of his or
her duties, as board certification is not the only way to
demonstrate one’s expertise in psychiatry. A physician’s
area of expertise can be said to encompass the range of
services routinely provided in the course of his or her
medical practice. It may also include services not
routinely provided, but regarding which the physician has
specific, up-to-date, reliable knowledge acquired during
his or her medical training. In order for you to lawfully
supervise the provision of a psychiatric nurse
practitioner’s services, the Board’s position is that the
services provided must be within your existing area of
expertise. That is to say, you must currently provide these
services in the course of your medical practice, or you
must have received some specific medical training
resulting in current knowledge which is sufficient to safely
provide these services.”
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Regardless of the home state of practice, this opinion serves as a
good rule of thumb for any physician considering entering into a
supervisory or collaborative role with an APP. If the physician’s
30 https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/ME071916.pdf
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