re: LA legislature denies Independent nurse practice

My wife is a NP,she doesn’t want to be an independent practitioner.She know what she knows and what she doesn’t know.I would guess her Dr. is able to carry twice the patient load he could otherwise.He’ll be tied up in cath lab,she makes rounds and takes care of some issues.Other patients have issues that she wants to discuss with Dr. so she goes to cath lab and passes it by him.
In clinic, there are patients that only want to see the Dr.and then there are pts. that prefer to see her.Neither of them get butthurt over pt.preferences..It’s worked well for them.
I know several NP’s that are excellent and I would be happy to see them if I was sick.At the same time I worked with some nurses in ICU that weren’t particularly good nurses and they went to NP school.The thought of them being independent practitioners is scary.