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  • Professional Health Monitoring Urine Drug Screening (UDS)

    The conclusions reached by DHHS and DOJ suggest that they do not agree on all of these issues and in in its NPRM the DEA requested additional data through public comments. 1. The drug’s actual or relative potential for abuse. 2. Scientific evidence of its pharmacological effect 3. The status of current scientific knowledge regarding the drug or other substance. 4. Its history and current pattern of abuse. 5. The scope, duration, and significance of abuse. 6. What, if any, risk there is to the public health. 7. Its psychic or physiological dependence liability. 8. Whether the substance is an immediate precursor of a substance already controlled NOTE: These factors do not include impact on other federal or state laws Rationale for Schedule III 1.

  • Transcript_2024mym_jdouglas.pdf

    I certainly think one of those things that has come up recently in our environment, where NCSBN has stepped up and tried to be responsive to your needs is through Operation Nightingale. You, the ©2024 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 members, are the lifeblood of this organization, and are who we are here for. And by member engagement, in many ways, the NCSBN certainly provides resources. And our discussions at the Board often is, how do we reduce the burden of state government for you, the members?

  • transcript_2025nclex_qa2.pdf

    You kind of use that term, and in some cases a bit interchangeably, and just kind of clarifying that when you meant resident, were you speaking of a physician resident or resident in another way? ©2025 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 - Yes, we often get that. When we say resident, I mean nurse resident. So a nurse who has passed their NCLEX, who has gone into practice and is working for an organization, they are hired in as a new graduate nurse, and they belong as part of an emergency nurse residency program.

  • transcript_2025rexpn_williams-betts.pdf

    Now, say that this individual selects B, C, and D. Well, B and D are both distractors. So there's a negative one for each of these answers. And C is a key, so you get a plus one. ©2025 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 So in this situation, we have one minus two, which results in a score of a minus one. And since that's less than zero, we just round that score to zero. So that's how we get the raw scoring done from this one. But like the dichotomous Rasch model before, we need to map these scores to the REx-PN score scale using the Partial Credit Model.

  • Transcript_2026scisymp_rsmiley.pdf

    I felt at the end of my rope. This shows up, that they ended up leaving nursing as a result. And as we mentioned, the work increase also is very key on this slide. So looking at practice ©2026 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 settings, we can observe that those who worked in hospitals and nursing homes reported much higher levels of burnout and being at the end of the rope than those who worked in other settings. And as we can see, this is true across the RNs and the PNs.

  • Transcript_2021_SciSymp_bmartin-AEDP.pdf

    And finally, overall, over 80% of participants reported the AEDP tool made the decision-making process more efficient, increased their confidence, and helped them distinguish between nurse error and systems issues. ©2021 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 Perhaps most interestingly, despite the fact that nearly two-thirds of respondents reported using an existing facility policy with which they were somewhat extremely satisfied, an astounding 82% said the AEDP tool was superior or very superior to other established criteria or guidelines.

  • transcript_2023aprn_lpapillion.pdf

    The board looks at all levels of conduct on duty, off duty, and also pre-licensure activity and events that occurred during periods of lapsed licensure. Substance use disorder is something the board takes very seriously. ©2023 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 Host discipline. The best advice I can give is to be compliant and work with the case manager on any issues that arise in the post-discipline period. If both licenses are encumbered, the RN license and the APRN license with probation or other stipulations, those restrictions are likely to be removed in a progressive fashion.

  • MINUTES_NLC_Commission_Meeting%20Oct%2031%202023_Final.pdf

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    1 MINUTES NLC Commission Meeting (Teleconference) Oct. 31, 2023 Commissioners Present: (Those not present are bolded.) 1. P. Benson, AL 2. J. Ridenour, AZ 3. S. Tedford, AR 4. N. Brown, CO 5. P. Zickafoose, DE 6. J. Baker, FL 7. T. Taylor, GA 8. Z. Pecina, GU 9. N. Chopski, ID 10. N. Hart, IN 11. K. Weinberg, IA 12. C. Moreland, KS 13. K. Jenkins, KY 14. K. Lyon, LA 15. K. Esquibel, ME 16. R. Scott, MD 17. P. Johnson, MS 18. L. Scheidt, MO 19.

  • Transcript_2024mym_legislative-update.pdf

    But as part of the outreach that we had on some of the legislative issues, they also said, "Oh, wait, you know, what information do you have regarding this?" We were able to share data from the Nursing Workforce Survey that talked about where some of these individuals were working and what their practice was like. ©2024 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 It was very helpful. So, again, been able to answer members' questions and share information about those proposed rules. And then also, engaging with the Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor Statistics regarding the inclusion of clinical nurse specialists in the definition of APRNs.

  • Transcript_2024NCLEX_clinical-judgement.pdf

    So for our new grad hires, if you look to the right on this chart, the percent of new grads no longer working in the ICU. I had 2.8% and the non-Lasater unit had 6.1%. Then if you look in the middle at NME to termination, people who no longer work at Mayo Clinic at all, our MICU had 10, almost 5% and I had 1 who was terminated. So because I have a fairly low N and all of the confounding variables that are part of orientation, I cannot draw a truly causative relationship. But I can say my nurses are more likely to stay in the ICU if they've had Lasater.