Nurse Practitioners’ Barriers to Practice
In June 2023, the Nurse Practitioners’ Association of Ontario conducted a survey of over 1200 NPs in Ontario to identify and update the barriers to Nurse Practitioners’ ability to practice. NPAO has long maintained a list of NP Barriers to Practice and this effort was intended to reconfirm and prioritize the barriers that still existed. Over the past several years, long-standing items on the NPAO NP Barriers to Practice list have been added to the NP Scope of Practice. This effort is to refresh the NP Barriers to Practice list and prioritize those barriers for addressing with the Ministry of Health.