Emmile Wickliffe05/16/2018HS115Certification, Licensure and Scope of Practice These methods of classification and the requirements underpinning them are relevant when states modify the scope of practice of various practitioners to enhance public health emergency response capacity, as well as when healthcare and other regulated practitioners volunteer or are otherwise deployed during emergencies to other states.Licensing can also be thought of as mandatory certification. Under a licensure system, states define by statute the tasks and function or scope of practice of a profession and provide that these tasks may be legally performed only by those who are licensed. The purpose of AANPCBs nurse practitioner certification programs is
