Multistate Compact Licensure rules can impact a nurse even if the nurse is not working under a compact license. If you have a license in the state in which you practice, but live in another state, you may be affected by the compact rules for multistate licensing even if you are not working under a [...]
There is not a simple answer to this question because there can be so many variables. The one sure thing is – DO NOT LIE TO THE BOARD!! Many nurses answer the Board’s application/renewal questions based on what they think a criminal background shows or what other employers/agencies/etc. have found when they ran criminal background [...]
Disciplinary actions or Agreed Orders remain on a nurse’s license forever. When stipulations/restrictions are placed on the license, the nurse’s license is encumbered and those restrictions show up on the license when the license is verified (for example, the verification page will show “Warning with Stipulations” or “Remedial Education”). Once the stipulations/restrictions are completed and [...]
I have heard from another nurse who is having a difficult time obtaining a job while under a Board Order. This is an ongoing problem especially in this economy. Some employers are refusing to hire a nurse no matter what the basis for the Order. Most nurses cannot afford to fight an Order [...]
The Board reports online that they have some new options to help nurses obtain information needed from the Board: 1) the ability to track application status online, so that applicants can track what the Board has received and what is still required and 2)a “Live Help” function that allows individuals to chat online [...]
I just received the Texas Board of Nursing’s brochure for their upcoming Nursing Jurisprudence course. It looks like instead of having a course in August in Austin (which is what has happened the past few years), the Board is having the course for central Texas in San Antonio on February 25 or February 26, 2010. [...]
Nurses that are on Board Orders for monitoring due to substance abuse or on a Board Order sending the nurse to TPAPN must be extremely careful with complying with their Board Order and with what they ingest because of the following section of the Nurse Practice Act (taken from the Board’s website at www.bon.state.tx.us). There [...]
Texas Medical Board staff met with the representatives of the Texas Nursing Board and the Department of Public Safety regarding prescriptive delegation for mid-level providers. They discussed the two methods that mid-level providers to prescribe scheduled drugs:
(1) The mid-level providers can obtain there own certification with the DEA and DPS. Their individual certification number must [...]
From the July 2009 BON meeting minutes, “Mary Beth Thomas reported that Texas continues to lead the nation in the numbers of cases submitted to the national data base. “ This reflects the Board’s continued increase in activity and yet another repercussion of a Board action.