Assignment: Regulation for Nursing Practice Staff Development Meeting Nursing is a very highly regulated profession. There are over 100 boards of nursing and national nursing associations throughout the United States and its territories. Their existence helps regulate, inform, and promote the nursing profession. With such numbers, it can be difficult to distinguish between BONs and nursing associations, and overwhelming to consider various benefits and options offered by each.
Board of Nursing and a Professional Nurse Associations
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Introduction
Nursing profession is highly sensitive because it is focused at providing healthcare services.
Professional nursing organizations contributes significantly in overseeing professional nursing organizations.
Boards of nursing further contributes to the advocacy and regulation of nursing profession.
This presentation looks into the Boards of Nursing (BoN) and professional nursing associations.
Professional Nursing Associations vs BoNs
Boards of Nursing (BoN) is an agency that are established in each of the 50 sates.
Boards of nursing are focused on determining the qualifications of nurse professionals before licensure.
It seeks to monitor the competency of licensed professional nurses so as to promote the safety of healthcare consumers. regulation for nursing practice staff development meeting PowerPoint presentation
Professional Nursing Associations vs BoNs
Professional nurse associations are organizations that are focused on the development of specific features of interest.
Professional nursing organizations are considered to be advocates for the nursing profession.
It also oversees the code of conduct of member-professionals within the healthcare setting.
Professional nurse associations also provides disciplinary measures to individual nurses.
Membership to the Boards of Nursing
Each state have a Unique approach for determining specific measures within the healthcare organization.
Number of BoN members vary from one state to another.
There are 7 members of the BoN in Florida State regulation for nursing practice staff development meeting PowerPoint presentation .
Members comprises of;
3 nurse practitioners from Florida State
3 non-nursing professionals from Florida State
7 registered nurses from Florida state
Criteria for BoN members Selection in Florida
Governor appoints the BoN members in Florida based on the identified criterion.
List of appointees is presented to the Senate.
Senate tables the list for scrutiny and discussion before voting to either approve or reject the list of names.
After approval from the Senate, the members takes on the office roles as the members of the BoN.
Federal Regulation Impacting Nursing Practice
Affordable Care Act of 2010 was passed into law by president Barack Obama in 2010.
It seeks to promote the role of the nurse professionals in the advocacy for patients.
ACA also advocates for the implementation of the specific measures within the organization.
State Regulation Affecting Healthcare
House Bill 831 (2019) was signed and passed into law in 2019. regulation for nursing practice staff development meeting PowerPoint presentation .
It provides guidelines on nurse practitioner on electronic prescriptions to patients.
House Bill 831 is considered to improve the cost of developing suitable features of interest.
During the Covid-19 pandemic situation, electronic prescription is considered important in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Impacts of Both Regulations on access and Cost of Healthcare
ACA
Changes on health insurance regulation has contributed towards the management of specific level of interest.
Cost of accessing healthcare has also been improved due to the employer mandate and the expansion of Medicare and Medicaid.
House Bill 831
Safety of the healthcare professionals is assured.
Remote access to prescription improves access to healthcare services.
Cost of accessing healthcare remotely is less than the cost of physical access.
References
Courtemanche, C., Marton, J., Ukert, B., Yelowitz, A., & Zapata, D. (2018). Effects of the Affordable Care Act on health care access and self-assessed health after 3 years. INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 55, 0046958018796361.