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    The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to provide an organization through which boards of nursing act and counsel together on matters of common interest and concern affecting the public health, safety and welfare, including the development of licensing examinations in nursing. Key points for nurses residing in Vermont:   Beginning on Feb. 1, 2022, nurses residing in Vermont who currently hold a Vermont RN or LPN/VN license may be eligible for a multistate specialty license.  The multistate license specialty application is now available on the  Vermont Board of Nursing website.

  • Transcript_2021REx-PN_QA1.pdf

    This is a great way to contribute to the profession, network with colleagues, and build new skills. We'll drop a link there as well for you in the chat. Sign up and also feel free to share the link with others who may be interested. Finally, if you have colleagues who were unable to attend today's conference, we will be posting recordings of all the sessions for future viewing.

  • transcript_2023dcm_vpriola.pdf

    Because we need to figure out, as Marianne articulated for us, what the risk is and whether the behavior was a simple mistake, which would be the human error. If it was an understandable choice, which is maybe what we would call a necessary risk. Or an absolutely unnecessary risk, and that would be the person whose motive and intention is to go against a policy or an ethic.

  • Transcript_2022NCLEX_nwilliams.pdf

    However, the nature of the questions allows us to collect four data points. These data points are if you perform the activity in your setting, that gives us information regarding setting applicability. And if so, how often do you perform the activity, which gives us information regarding activity frequency. How important is the activity relative to client safety and preventing complications allows us to better understand the activity importance or criticality.

  • Transcript_2024NCLEX_skao.pdf

    This is another example. Please note that this candidate's ability is very high. However, the candidate failed the exam because they did not answer enough operational items within the five-hour time limit. In this final example, the exam stops when time runs out and the candidate fails because the final ability is below the passing standard.

  • Transcript_2022it_sarnowski-monroe.pdf

    I'm sure there is some specific data that we could review around the impact of picture or a pictograph versus textual data, but it's been my experience that it's very rare that people in the legislative space have time to read. They're looking for, "Give me the bullet points, give it to me now, three to five key issues or key reasons."

  • transcript_2021_MYM_dbenton.pdf

    So Objective 1, there's a lot of outputs from that. The first report was an internal report. It's available on the high site which actually does that analysis of CORE, etc. The second piece of work, the sunrise report, that will actually be either published as a monograph, so a supplement to the journal or it will be published as an article itself because we know that other disciplines are really looking at this issue as well, and we want to be influential in terms of how states look at these points.

  • 2019DCM_BMartin.pdf

    Key Takeaways • 3 in 4 respondents indicated they had a facility policy, criteria, or guidelines for BON reporting (77.9%) with which they were either somewhat or extremely satisfied (71.9%). • However, 9 in 10 respondents (91.7%) indicated additional guidance would be very or extremely helpful. • Overall, the top resources executives self-reported as being the most useful moving forward were: a) An official policy or decision tree (46.2%); b) FAQ or easy to reference fact sheets (8.4%); c) More information on the BON website (8.1%); d) A decision algorithm (7.2%); and e) More BON contact (7.0%). Manuscript • Published in the July 2018 edition of the Journal of Nursing Regulation.

  • A_Preferred_Future_for_Prelicensure_Program_Part2.pdf

    The NLNAC process for the evaluation of nursing education programs is a comprehensive four-step process with the program self-review and Self-study Report as the first step. The second step is the site visit conducted by peer evaluators resulting in the Site Visitors’ Report. In the third step, a peer Evaluation Review Panel examines the reports written by and about the program (Self-study Report and Site Visitors’ Report).

  • BOD_Minutes_052009.pdf

    The Board discussed the nursing education approval authority of Member Boards and competency based education programs. An update was provided to the Board regarding the proposed outcome study of Excelsior graduates. G.16. Discuss NCSBN – NLCA Relationship The Board reviewed and discussed the intent and possible outcome of the May 26-27, 2009 meeting with the NLCA Executive Committee. The Board agrees that the ultimate goal is to support a unified organization and effective implementation of the two licensure models. The Board believes it is important to ensure collaboration and cooperation.