The Assignment on Mental Health

Running head: MENTAL HEALTH
Mental health
Name of the student:
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1MENTAL HEALTH
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The Board of Nursing regulation is USA are jurisdictional government agencies in more
than 50 states which aims to protect public health and ensure safe nursing practice. The main role
of these bodies is to outline standard of practice and monitor compliance to jurisdictional laws
among nurses. This group of agencies take action against nurses when they are found to exhibit
poor quality of nursing practice and their license is cancelled too. Each jurisdiction also has
Nurse Practice Law to maintain licence of nurses. In case of the state of Georgia, the mission of
the Georgia Board of Nursing is to protect and preserve public health through legislative
regulation and control of nursing practice. This Board not only lays down rules for nursing
practice, but also gives detail about minimum qualifications required for licensure. It has strict
process to ensure that all staffs adhere to regulations and public protection system (Georgia
Board of Nursing, 2020).
Some regulation of Georgian Board that are crucial in influencing nursing practice
includes the regulations for licensure by examination, licensure renewal, registered nursing
education programs, mandatory reporting, procedural rules and continuing competency. The
regulation related to standards of practice and unprofessional conduct mentions the need for
nurse to apply the nursing process of assessing patient in a systematized manner and formulating
diagnosis based on accessible data. This regulation also mandates that all nurses must assign care
and activities to unlicensed personnel that do not required such skills. In the context of
unprofessional conduct, the regulation clarifies regarding areas that would be called professional
misconduct. The Georgia Board of Nursing also has separate regulations for Advance Practice
Nurse (APN) and a separate APRN Committed has been developed for this purpose. Two
important APN regulations include regulation on standards of practice and the requirement to