Bills restricting or banning nurses with doctorate degrees from using “doctor”

[Susan Engle]

California AB 765 (Wood) Physicians and surgeons. This bill would enact the California Patient Protection, Safety, Disclosure, and Transparency Act. The bill would make it a misdemeanor for a person who does not have a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended certificate as a physician and surgeon to use any medical specialty title, as specified, or any titles, terms, letters, words, abbreviations, description of services, designations, or insignia indicating or implying that the person is licensed to practice under the act.

Follow the bill https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB765

Florida bill aims to ban APRNs from using doctor.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/nursing/florida-bill-aims-to-ban-aprns-from-using-doctor.html

HB 583: Health Care Practitioner Titles and Abbreviations

Follow the bill https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/583

Does your state of residence have any proposed bills that restrict or ban the use of doctor for those nurses who hold a DNP degree? If yes, please add the link.

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