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Overview
Goals and Outcomes
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Accreditations
Overview
Overview
This course examines and explains the Texas Nursing Practice Act and the Licensure Compact for RNs, with which Texas nurses must be familiar. In addition, it explains important sections of the Texas Administrative Code and the Rules and Regulations Relating to Nurse Education, Licensure, and Practice, which further delineate requirements that the Nursing Practice Act sets forth.
Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
The goal of this continuing education module is to provide Texas nurse licensees, and those who are interested in being licensed in Texas, with an introduction to the Texas Nursing Practice Act and Rules. In addition, ethical principles affecting nurses in Texas will be included. After you study the information presented here, you will be able to:
  • List the composition of the Texas Board of Nursing (BON)
  • Discuss the Nurse Licensure Compact and its effect on licensure in Texas and other states
  • Compare and contrast the practice of registered nursing in Texas with that of licensed vocational nursing in Texas
  • Compare and contrast the BON’s right in disciplinary proceedings with those of the nurse licensee
  • Explain at least six grounds for discipline of nurses by the Texas BON
  • List the types of nursing peer review
  • Discuss at least six principles of nursing ethics and how they are incorporated into nursing practice in Texas
Details
Course Details

Course Originally Released on : 10/2/2014

60207

Course Author

David Marshall

DNP, JD, RN, CENP, NEA-BC

Nancy J. Brent

JD, MS, RN

Accreditations
Accreditations

NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

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Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.