Nursing Boards and Associations: Regulations, Scope, and Healthcare

This presentation provides a comparative analysis of nursing boards and professional nurse associations, highlighting their distinct roles and functions. It delves into the geographic distribution, academic qualifications, practice positions, and licensure status of board members, using the Virginia Board of Nursing as an example. The presentation also examines federal regulations such as OSHA and state regulations related to general nurse scope of practice, including the Nurse Practice Act, and APRNs, explaining how these regulations influence the nurse's role, healthcare delivery, cost, and access. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the importance of providing nurses with necessary resources and advocating for regulations that support their roles and enhance patient safety and health outcomes.

Board of nursing vs a professional nurse
association
Boards of Nursing
 It covers about 50 countries
 It protects public health
It cares welfare of the public
 Ensures safety nursing practices
A professional nurse association
 It is connects all states/countries
 Represents career interest of nurses
Ensures ethics in nurses (Harrison &
Ledbetter, 2014)
Aims at improvement of nurses profession.

Virginia Board of Nursing
 The geographic
distribution of members
 Members are from:-
 Reston
 Disputanta
 Virginia Beach, VA
 Academic credentials of members
 Members should have
 Verified Nursing degree certificate
 Certified Nurse Aides
 Approved Medication Aides
 Certified Diploma nursing education
 Practice positions
 Practical nursing position
 Practitioner practice position

Conti..
 Licensure status of members
 Licensed Nurse Practitioner
 Registered and approved Nurses
Health Professionals are on
board.
One becomes member by:-
Online registration or,
reinstatement applications
Wait for approval within 30 days

OSHA Federal regulation
 This is occupational Safety and Health
Act .
 It was developed in 1970 (Bartel &
Thomas, 2017).
 It was aimed at ensuring safe and
healthful conditions for workers.
 It influences :-
 Delivery by enforcing workers medication
delivery.
 It offers the cost and wage insurance
 Educations workers on their rights to
access health care

Regulation Change within the past 5 years
 Regulation change
 Establishment of discrimination free law
 This regulation law ensures that no one is
regardless.

Conti...
 Application for membership is open for
everyone
 It does not consider race or ethnic group or
gender.

Regulation related to general nurse scope of practice
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act
 It provides role of specialization to
nurses for quality services
 Initiates for extra training of nurses
to deliver quality treatment.
 Provides cost audit for healthcare
facilities
 Initiates for adequate healthcare
facilities

State regulation related to APRNs
 The Nurse Practice Act
 It regulates general nurse scope of practice
 How this regulation influence the nurse’s role
 It gives nurses options on how to do their tasks
 This can be:-
 How to perform micro-dermabrasion (Russell, 2012)
 what circumstances to perform

Conti...
 How it influence delivery, cost, and access
to healthcare
 It offers training for nurses for quality
delivery of services (O’Grady, 2018).
 It defines the cost of operation for nurses.
 Ensures public safety in healthcare

Conclusion
 In my opinion:-
 Nurses should be provided with working necessities
 Regulation acts should favor their role
 Safety and health improvement of patients should be enhanced.

References
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Bartel, A. P., & Thomas, L. G. (2017). Predation through regulation: the wage
and profit effects of the occupational safety and health administration
and the environmental protection agency. The Journal of Law and
Economics, 30(2), 239-264.
Russell, K. A. (2012). Nurse practice acts guide and govern nursing
practice. Journal of Nursing Regulation, 3(3), 36-42.
O’Grady, E. T. (2018). Advanced practice registered nurses: The impact on
patient safety and quality. In Patient safety and quality: An evidence-
based handbook for nurses. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(US).