Resource Center

• Stemming the Tide -- Nursing in Crisis: NCSBN Shines a Light on Issues Vital to the Future of the Profession
• NLC Legislative Update: Building on Success
• “It Brought What We do to Light.” -- Kansas State Board of Nursing Honored with NCSBN’s 2023 Regulatory Achievement Award
• Pathways to Leadership: My Journey to Nursing Leadership

August 20, 2024

NCSBN is exploring technology that would allow candidates to take the NCLEX outside of traditional test centers. This new way to take the NCLEX will offer candidates more convenience. Learn more at nclex.com/nclex-online.page.

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

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.

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.

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 National Council of State Boards of Nursing (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.