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  • Recording Discipline Action Training Manual

    All rights reserved. ORBS Training Material is the proprietary and confidential information of NCSBN that is made available to Boards of Nursing implementing the ORBS system and is not to be distributed outside of staff requiring ORBS system training.

  • Transcript_2022mym_jdouglas.pdf

    It is great to see so many of you here. Yesterday, we had a leadership day with the presidents and the executive officers, which was a great opportunity to come together as well. As you know, our theme for this year is "Leading Public Protection: Strategic Action toward Quantum Change."

  • Transcript_2022APRN_nursys-panel.pdf

    So it's fair to say the NPI cannot be used as a unique nurse identifier for nurses in the U.S. The final topic I'm going to discuss is nurse workforce data. Data is the lifeblood of our digital society. And it is important to be able to collect the data when there is a touchpoint by the individual. Nurses renew their licenses while interacting with the board's online licensing system.

  • Transcript_2025mym_welcome-remarks.pdf

    This is "Back to the Future," right? You look backwards, you live forwards, all right? And I'm going to suggest to you that there are many things behind us that teach us about what is said. And the first thing is I want everybody today to start this meeting with a moment of thought.

  • transcript_2022nclex_canada_qa1.pdf

    And these are nurses that, once again, are across the United States and Canada. And we review all of the items before they go out on the special research section and/or, eventually, upon launch. So those items, one of the criteria that we look at is, specifically, are these items entry-level nursing specific? Is this something an entry-level nurse would come across, is this something that's appropriate? Is this kind of too far beyond and maybe an entry-level nurse would not have this situation or would not know, and this is sort of more of an experience level?

  • ProfessionalBoundaries_Complete.pdf

    The key word here is former. The following are important factors to consider when making this determination: What is the length of time between the nurse-patient relationship and dating? What kind of therapy did the patient receive? Assisting a patient with a short-term problem, such as a broken limb, is different than providing long-term care for a chronic condition.

  • NGN_Winter19.pdf

    Continued on next page “Because we know that nurse client care and nurse errors can be improved by enhancing clinical judgment skills in novice nurses, it is imperative that we find a way to assess the degree to which NCLEX candidates possess clinical judgment. It is a critical component of the overall goal of ascertaining whether a nursing candidate is minimally competent. This is a public protection issue.” — Philip Dickison WINTER 2019 · 2 Next Generation NCLEX NEWS ® References Dickison, P., Haerling, K. & Lasater, K.

  • FY25_AwardsBrochure.pdf

    If this decision is made, the nominator will be contacted to determine if he/she is agreeable to the nominee being given a different award. 4 AWARDS 5 AWARDS R. Louise McManus Award R. Louise McManus (1896-1993) is widely recognized as a major figure in furthering the professionalism of nursing.

  • Transcript_2023am_jcampbell.pdf

    The news is life expectancy is in reverse. For the first time since we've had records, life expectancy is in reverse. Access to care is stagnated, the improvements that we've seen globally addressing sexual and reproductive health, maternal health, child health, immunization, HIV, all of those progress that we've made, stagnation, in COVID impact.

  • 2023_webinar_testing_accommodations.pdf

    No more than eight hours of testing time is allowed per day. The NRB must specify, in minutes, the additional time being requested (e.g., an additional three quarters of an hour of possible testing time is indicated in the Administration Website as 45; this is the minimum additional customized time permitted).