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August 20, 2024

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NCSBN IT staff discuss using Nursys best practices and how to use it to verify licenses.

We review the definition of adverse action in this 30-minute session. You'll learn the impact of different types of adverse action and how states impose adverse action in response to violations and misconduct. We also cover sanctions in board orders and review sample board order language.

This 30-minute reviews issuance and denial of a multistate license. The session also includes the definition of an unencumbered license, licensure orders, sample order language, and state options when granting or denying a license.

As part of nursing’s ongoing commitment to advance health equity and advocate for quality care, the Tri-Council for Nursing — the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), the šWÃÀ¿Ú±¬ (NCSBN), and the National League for Nursing (NLN) — calls for unwavering support for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) within nursing education, practice and all other health care sectors.

Hear best practices for implementing NLC requirements related to Alternative-to-Discipline (ATD) program participation. This session will include sample language for ATD participation agreements with consideration of relevant NLC statute and rules.

In this 30-minute session, we will review and interpret the 11 ULRs that are required to obtain and retain a multistate license. You will learn nuances related to the applicability of the ULRs as they relate to obtaining or retaining a multistate license.

In this post-Dobbs environment, you will learn applicability of the scope of practice provisions of the Nurse Licensure Compact statute, discuss recent changes in state scope of practice laws, hear about discipline under the NLC in home and remote jurisdictions, and discuss the impact of the scope of practice provisions on both abortion bans and shield laws.

This annual publication provides data on candidate performance on the NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN Examinations and also includes data on the candidates who have been able to take the NCLEX-RN for purposes of licensure/registration in Canada since January 5, 2015. This publication provides a brief overview of how Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) works, how the passing standard is set, and how the pass/fail decision is made at the beginning. The main part of the publication is a detailed breakdown of candidate performance for 2023 and includes the pass rates by candidate type, degree type and country. In addition, the publication contains NCLEX historical data (e.g., pass rates, passing standards, and volume) since CAT administration started in 1994.

This panel presentation discusses OIG and DOJ actions and the impact to compact licensure and how language matters when drafting Board Orders or Agreed Orders which encumber a license or privilege to practice. You will learn how to enforce a privilege to practice disciplinary action and who should lead the investigation.