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  • 2024itops_tspangler.pdf

    Likelihood * Impact = Risk Score Risk Likelihood – Example Scale/Values Likelihood Scale Description Value Almost impossible Extremely unlikely or virtually impossible 1 Unlikely Unlikely to occur 2 Possible Fairly likely to occur 3 Likely More likely to occur 4 Inevitable Almost certain to occur 5 • The likelihood of occurrence being successful evaluated on a 1-5 scale Risk Impact • Example – evaluate on 1-5 numeric scale • The criteria varies depending on: • The affected objective of informati ...

  • Leader-to-Leader_Fall07.pdf

    All rights reserved. w w w .n cs b n. o rg Marcia Blix Hobbs, DSN, RN Professor, Chair, Department of Nursing, Southeast Missouri State University F requently nurse faculty and program administrators take new positions, which necessitates moving to a different state or regulatory jurisdiction. Having just made such a move, my attention has been heightened to what every new administrator or faculty member should review regarding each state board of nursing’s (BON) regulations for education programs. Most states have regulatory approval authority for nursing programs leading to initial licensure.

  • Transcript_2024AM_jdouglas.pdf

    And you can see from the list of countries that are members that all except one are members of NCSBN. So we have a vested interest in working with our associate members in this regard as we look to the future. The Tri-Regulatory Collaborative is comprised of the Federation of State Medical Boards, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy and NCSBN. Generally, the areas of focus for the past year have been workforce, licensure challenges, compacts and scope of practice. The Opioid Collaborative is convened by the Tri-Regulatory Group and involves regulators from professions other than the three organizations mentioned and is solely focused on the opioid crisis from a regulatory perspective.

  • Transcript_2021REx-PN_QA2.pdf

    Essentially, the composition, the differential item functioning, and the sensitivity panels are laypersons that represents the ethnicities of the candidates who are taking the REx- PN exam. We do make sure that we invite a couple of nurses that participate in the panel as well because the nurses then help conduct conversations around if the panelists have a concern regarding particular medical terminology. The layperson's responsibility, as my colleague, Latrice, mentioned earlier, is e ...

  • 2025dcm_kdaughdril.pdf

    In deciding upon the credibility of a witness, it is always pertinent to consider: 1. Whether he or she can know the issues thoroughly as he or she testifies 2. Whether he or she was actually present when the incident occurred 3. Whether he or she paid sufficient attention to qualify themselves to a reporter of it, and 4. Whether he or she honestly relates the matter fully as they know it, without any purpose of desire to deceive or suppress or add to the truth Evidence Primer ENOUGH? Evidence Primer Rules of Evidence • Administrative Procedure Act • State law Example: Irrelevant, immaterial, or unduly repetitious evidence shall be excluded.

  • Transcript_2023workforce-crisis-solutions1.pdf

    The reasons for leaving are burnout, understaffing, concern for patient safety, a lack of educational preparation for entering the workforce, and violence in the workplace, and bullying. And I want to call to your attention that these are basic needs. These are not things that are extraordinary requests. Thus, all of this adds up to the fact that the U.S. will experience a national healthcare crisis within the next five years if we don't see this as a call to action.

  • Transcript_2023workforce-crisis-solutions3.pdf

    Because it's really easy when you're in that situation, burned out, and fatigued, and tired, and maybe even a little bit ornery. Right? And it's really easy to say the right thing in the wrong tone with the wrong body language, and escalate a situation that you intended to de-escalate. Right? And so we're paying a lot of attention to that. So any time we have a workplace violence issue or something has happened, we're going all the way back to how did the conversation started? What happened at the beginning? And paying a lot of attention to, "Can we do better in that overall process?

  • transcript_2022lpp_aprn-panel.pdf

    So then KMS got a, I could almost tell you by heart everything they've said throughout this whole thing. And same thing, just the same spiel. They caused all this confusion and they ended it with saying, "There's a simple solution to this. The Board of Nursing just needs to take medical out of there and put nursing in. So it would no longer say medical plan of care, it would say nursing plan of care. It would not say like medical diagnosis, it would say nursing diagnosis." The nurses in the room know that the nursing care plan and nursing diagnosis for RNs, LPNs is certainly not the same as what the APRNs do, okay?

  • Transcript_2022am_bod-panel.pdf

    So, there's a lot in all of that, but that's what we receive. So, Cathy, if you will take that. - Okay, thanks. We'll tackle this one bite at a time. So, we're going to start with the COVID disinformation and misinformation. So, in July 2021, the Federation of State Medical Board, FSMB, issued a news release about the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation, and the risk of disciplinary action by state medical boards. December 2021, NCSBN, along with 15 additional nursing organizations, urged nurses to recognize the dissemination of misinformation, not only jeopardizes the health and wellbeing of the public but may place their license and career in jeopardy as well.

  • Transcript_2020MYM_AvanderGaag.pdf

    So they are held to account by the Professional Standards Authority. And I know that you have already heard from my very good friend and colleague, Harry Cayton, who was one of the first to bring the concept of right-touch regulation, I think, to the attention of the regulatory community. So the PSA is very important to maintaining standards and looking at commonality across those regulatory bodies. When I was reflecting on where it all began in the UK, I came across a visionary nurse called Ethel Fenwick, perhaps, less well known than Florence Nightingale.