Democratic Sen. Barbara Sharief has filed legislation for the coming Session that she hopes will bring more clarity to the work she does outside the Capitol.

The bill ( SB 36 ) would amend a state law governing nursing titles. It would provide that only people who hold a Florida nursing license or compact multistate license may use the titles “Doctor of Nursing Practice” (DNP), “Doctor of Philosophy” (Ph.D.) or other such titles authorized under the Nurse Practice Act while practicing nursing.

Under the proposal, anyone with such a doctoral degree who uses the word “doctor” or the pre-name abbreviation, “Dr.,” must also state their profession.

It’s an issue close to Sharief, a former Broward County Mayor with more than three decades of experience in the health care industr

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