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♦ WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2006
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a protocol signed by a del
egating physician and sent
to the Board of Medicine.
Georgia APRNs may also
apply to prescribe narcotics,
a right still unavailable to
nurses in some states.
“We can’t do anything
until we follow proper proce
dures,” said Julie Conway, a
family NP in Warner Robins.
“We’ll then be writing pre
scriptions quite often.”
Debra Fingle, a 15-year
nurse practitioner and pres
ident of the local chapter
of the United Advanced
Practice Nurses lobbied with
others in the nursing com
munity for years through
state organizations like the
Prescription Coalition.
“The number one reason
this is so important is that it
will save time,” said Fingle.
“We usually see 20 or more
patients a day, and in the
past, we’ve had to get a doc
tor’s signature even though
we saw the patient.
“It took a lot of time out of
our day and the doctor’s.”
The law is also said to
be beneficial in providing a
paper trail, something Fingle
said was vital in avoiding
error with prescriptions.
“There was confusion,”
she said. “Patients would see
me, but pharmacists would
call the doctor because his
name was on the prescrip-
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the development would have
city sewer services and that
the city would arrange with
Houston County to have
water services provided,
although billing for home
owners would come through
the city. The county govern
ment has water lines already
in that area.
The Planning
Commission’s recommenda
tion will now go to Perry
City Council, which will hold
a public hearing before vot
ing on it.
Langston hearing
rescheduled
The Planning Commission
has rescheduled a public
hearing and vote on two dif
ferent proposals for develop
ments along Langston Road.
The public hearing and vote
will now be held on Aug. 14.
While a hearing has been
held and voting has taken
place, approving the two
upscale housing projects
being proposed by Perry
developer Jack Smith, the
whole procedure will be
repeated.
The rescheduling was
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He was charged in Douglas
County with conspiracy to
traffic in cocaine.
Perry Police have made a
couple of other drug arrests
stemming from the June 28-
29 drug roundup, Dodson
said.
One was picked up at the
courthouse at a child sup
port hearing and another at
A traffic stop in Perry for a tint violation led to an arrest in
Douglasville and the seizure of 10 kilos of cocaine by the
Douglas County Sheriff’s Department.
tion bottle.”
Giving prescriptive author
ity to APRNs is especial
ly important for Georgia’s
rural areas, where physi
cians are scarce and medical
access is limited.
“There’s a lot of people in
rural places who need care
and there may not be a doc
tor,” said Fingle. “It’s all for
the patient.”
Georgia was the last U.S.
state to extend prescrip
tive power to APRNs, and
the bill’s passing followed
a lengthy and controversial
process before a final com
promise was reached with
the Medical Association of
Georgia.
“I think it took so long
because doctors were wor
ried if we were able to write
prescriptions, we’d open
offices and there would be
competition,” said Grube.
“We don’t want to be doc
tors. We just want to do
what we’re trained to.”
Tidwell agreed, saying
the issue of granting pre
scriptive authority to nurses
came down to a “turf war.”
“These nurses know what
they’re doing* and the feel
ing that they’re going to
take over has never been
a valid argument,” Tidwell
said.
“And as a doctor, this is
going to make my job eas
ier.”
Fingle said the bill’s suc
cess this year was attributed
to extensive lobbying cam
paigns and increased public
first made necessary by an
incorrect public hearing date
on a sign posted for neigh
boring property owners, and
then was changed again.
According to Perry Building
Official Steve Howard,
the first rescheduled date
would have provided 14 days
advance notice However
Planning Commission
Attorney David Walker
advised the Commision,
to provide the full 15 days
notice as required under the
law.
The public, under law,
must be notified of public
hearing dates for proposed
rezonings and annexations in
the Houston Daily Journal,
which is Houston County’s
legal organ, and also by signs
posted visibly at the location
to be rezoned.
The Langston Road plans,
which have gotten some
opposition for residents with
home along the rural road,
would involve one 46.13 acre
site with 100 homes and a
three acre pond, and a sec
ond 153.661 acre site with
360 homes and 60 acres of
undisturbed wooded area
for greenspace conserva
tion. In both cases the land
in now in unincorporated
Houston County and would,
if the request is approved, be
annexed into Perry.
the Old Time Country Buffet
on Russell Parkway.
Sirad, Little, 33, was
arrested Friday on a
Superior Court bench war
rant for sale of cocaine, two
counts. Little was arrested
at the courthouse at a child
support hearing.
Robert Freeland, 26, was
also arrested on a Superior
Court bench warrant, this
one for sale of methamphet
amine. Freeland was picked
up at the Old Time Country
Buffet on Russell Parkway.
Photo courtesy PPD
education.
“I’m grateful for all the
hard work people have done
to put this through,” she
said.
“We’re all a part of a team
and to get rid of this loop
hole is so exciting.”
According to Fingle, local
champions of the bill played
integral roles in its success,
particularly Georgia Nurses
Association President Linda
Easterly of Kathleen and
State Sen. Ross Tolleson of
Perry.
Though his name was
absent from the bill’s final
version, Tolleson was the
sponsor of the similar Senate
Bill 313, which Fingle said
was influential in “start
ing the ball rolling this ses
sion.”
“At the end of the day, I
just tried to bring both sides
together,” said Tolleson. “I
always felt like it was a good
thing, and it’s proven they
(NPs) have the ability and
professionalism to write
prescriptions. It’s common
sense and better for the
patients.”
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to fish.” He can do for
himself his whole life with
the skills of reading and
writing.
As an example of a possi
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mote literacy and aware
ness for the local Rotary
club, Blankenship draws on
the example of the Milan
Rotary Club.
The members put togeth
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ing books for third grade
students.
When the kids got home
from school and parents
were looking through the
kids’ book bags and such,
they found the Rotary col
oring book, sparking inter
est of the club and its ser
vices.
In the past five years, the
International Rotary has
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those who are assisted
by the grant money to be
heard.
For the past few years, he
has been attempting to get
one of these stories in each
month’s Rotary Magazine.
At this week’s meeting,
Blankenship told of how
the local district funded
a well water project in
Nigeria that has provided
over 20,000 people along
the ivory coast with drink
ing water.
According to Blankenship,
untreated water in the area
contains the Guinea worm,
which gets under the skin
and bursts, killing the
host person. By funding
the new well project, many
lives have been saved.
The Rotary Club also
has the Georgia Rotary
Student Program, and the
International Rotary has
undertaken the goal of polio
eradication.
The next major fundraiser
for the club is the Holiday
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