Texas State Board of Nursing is my primary license home which is not a multistate but with the need to work in the state of Georgia, I change my license to a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) state which permitted me to practice in Georgia.
The agreement between NLC practice states allows registered nurses like me and of practical nurses (LPN) holders to enjoy the full potential of nursing which is caring for patient regardless of one’s state of residence. This privilege grants nurses the benefit to practice in our home state and in other compact states. The NLC is an initiative aimed at increasing access to patient care across state lines by streamlining multistate licensure requirements (Bergman et al., 2022)
Think about the mobility and flexibility benefits of multistate license to practice without the need to obtain multiple licenses from each state in responding to needs or in supporting our colleagues across the borders. The benefit of effective and efficiency in telehealth is another one. With NLC, a nurse can reside in NYC and work or support healthcare in LAX, with the use of telehealth rendering services to patient, as presented by Bright her article that telehealth/e-health interventions are increasing in use (Bright 2023). Location do no longer stand as a barrier to access to healthcare elevating the problem of nursing shortage in certain regions, simultaneously minimize unnecessary barriers to access to care for their citizens as the case was during the COVID 19 pandemic because, telehealth has been used for various topics including diagnosis and management, education and training, consultation, and surveillance, as well as to provide an umbrella term for the various novel technologies used to improve the delivery of healthcare services (Alkhawaldeh et al., 2023) .
The NLC idea enhances collaboration among nurses, improving engagement, and interconnections by understanding what unique ideas other state is implement that can be of benefit in other state.
If nursing is to be a strong unify body, all states should endorse the NLC and be a participant. Whether a nurse practice electronically or in person, must uphold the nurse practice act of the state in which the patient being treating is located (Bergman et al., 2022). In making she nurses abide by the nursing practice act, licensure and disciplinary information on nurses are shared among the Compact States and the public through a comprehensive database called NURSYS (Bergman et al., 2022).
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M. Y. Alkhawaldeh et al., “Telehealth for obstetrics and gynecology outpatinets: Improving patients’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic,” 2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Torino, Italy, 2023, pp. 1418-1422, doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00217.
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