- NURS 6050 Week 6 Assignment Board of Nursing.
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The Board of Nurses and a Professional Nursing Association
The association preserves the nursing practice board for nursing and professional nurses with separate and supplementary responsibilities. A nurse board is an official board that directly controls or supervises nursing exercises within a given area, e.g., Status or field level.
The board’s main objective is to protect the public interest through rules that regulate licensed nurses’ education, practice, and moral behavior. The board is mainly formed by appointed members who are registered nurses, consumers, and sometimes doctors who are obliged to provide the power to implement state nurses’ rules.
Professional Nursing Associations’ Roles
On the other hand, the Professional Nursing Association is a voluntary organization of nurses who include nursing and share the same interests, goals, and concerns associated with the profession. A regulatory body differs from the Nurse Board, a professional union that is a member-based law package.
This especially wants to increase the profile of the nursing profession, bring nurses’ abilities together, and protect the interests of employees and health professionals. In professional societies, career training programs host programs, help members and health services, and conduct law activities to influence the political environment and politics.
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Texas Board of Nursing
Within Texas, the regulatory inspection of nursing practice is the domain of the Texas Board of Nursing (Bon) (Thomas et al., 2021). Bon was created by state legislation and is run under Texa’s professional code and Texa’s administrative code. To realize this purpose, the target board of the BoardBoard takes to secure the best of the citizens of Texas in the region and ensure that every nurse with a license in the state can practice correctly.
Composition
The Texas Board of Nursing includes 13 members, appointed by the legislative head of Texas with the advice and consent of the Senate (Texas Board of Nursing, 2018). Six board members are nurses, and three are representatives of the general community. An APRN is among the nursing members. The appointment was placed on a shocking plan with the possibility of implementing the six annual terms and can be removed by the prominent representative for a good reason.
Membership
Applicants of the Texas Board of Nursing must meet specific requirements, such as the qualifying requirements prescribed by the Texas Occupational Code. Registered nurses seeking supervision roles should be used in Texas for less than five years, not less than three years (Texas Board of Nursing, 2018). In addition, they must also have an active nursing license in Texas and actively practice or teach nursing.
Licensed nursing candidates must train for at least 5 years, of which at least 3 years must be in Texas, and candidates should have an active nursing license in Texas. The primary representative appoints members based on the recommendations of various nursing organizations and stakeholders. These registered persons provide professional nursing and have the highest chance of maintaining an impressive overview of proven management, skills, and dedication to promoting professional nursing and general health.
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State regulation related to the extent of general nursing practice
One of the significant state laws in Texas belongs to the extent of practice for a general nurse, and this law is known as the Nursing Practice Act (NPA) (Martin & Zolnierek, 2020). Texas law provider temporarily respects Texas, the regulatory standard for NPA nurse exercises that determine the scope or limits of exercises for registered nurses (RN) and licensed business nurses (LVN) in the state. The roles, the responsibility scope and delegation, and supervisors of the NPA nurses show the norms and rules required by different nurses, nurses, and regulations required by laws and nurses to dissolve nurses and nurses.
Effect on the nurse’s role
The legal authority mentioned in the Nursing Practice Act, to a considerable extent, meets skills, responsibilities, and moral behavioral requirements to meet the responsibility of nurses. A nurse should practice to the extent of the license and follow the prescribed standards and procedures. This component of the educational plan emphasizes the importance of learning and ongoing education for the ability and protection of patients who go through the care of nurses.
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Effects on costs, distribution, and health services:
The regulation framed in the Nursing Practice Act significantly impacts healthcare delivery, cost, and access.
Healthcare Delivery: The law sets the scope of practice for nurses inside a healthcare system. It defines nurses’ roles, responsibilities, and authority. Nurses are the pillars of the healthcare team, and their occupation includes direct patient care services, coordination of these services, and health promotion and wellness. With the regulation, a foundation for nursing practice is set so that nurses satisfy the standard guidelines, being trained, prepared and accountable for their actions (Tønnessen et al., 2020). It also helps lessen medical errors and adverse events and eventually deal with the final results and patient experience.
NURS 6050 Week 6 Assignment Board of Nursing
Healthcare Cost: The regulation may impact health expenditures in different ways. Initially, nurses carry out preventive measures and treat delicate illnesses before they start to require complex treatments by facilitating early detection and educating patients. In addition, the nurse’s association in care coordination, case management, and transition care can assist with diminishing healthcare bills and the unnecessary use of recourses. Nevertheless, these regulations, similar to the staffing ratios and the mandated nurse-to-patient ratios, are the factors that raise the cost of healthcare staffing for the hospital, which may lead to an increase in healthcare spending.
Access to Healthcare: The law should also be in place to provide easy access to health services (Martin & Zolnierek, 2020). The nurses usually operate as the primary source in many environments, such as hospitals, clinics, schools, and public venues. Such nurses, with their wealth of expertise and diversity to give numerous health care services under one roof, are an essential piece of building networks of health care where physicians are not there of the psyche as in low socioeconomic neighborhoods and rural areas. Also, the standard stresses cultural skills and patient care to deal with different cultures and eradicate inequalities in healthcare services, such as access and outcomes.
Impact on Patients from Different Cultures
As elaborated in the Nursing Practice Act, culturally able nursing care is an obligation for the nurses who offer care to patients from different backgrounds. Nurses must be tolerant and supportive of cultural differences, customs, beliefs, and practices to advance strong communication and organization with patients and family members (Younger & Guo, 2020). This standard stresses cultural sensitivity, lowliness, and awareness as key components of willingness to care for patients from different cultures.
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State Regulation Related to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs)
One special piece of legislation concerning Texas for APRNs is the need to be supervised or collaborate with physicians during the first 10 years of an APRN career to gain more insight after graduation (Texas Board of Nursing, 2017). This regulation is specified in the Texas Nursing Practice Act and the Texas Board of Nursing regulations.
Influence on Nurse’s Role
This regulation is a significant factor in the status of APRNs because it introduces the necessity of teamwork. Although APRNs can function as autonomous practitioners with the capacity to assess, diagnose, and treat patients inside their scope of practice, they still have restrictions overseeing their practice for the first years after graduation.
APRNs must consider the cooperation agreements with physicians, which can be the consultation, referral, or control, contingent upon a particular state of practice and the patient population an APRN deals with. This regulation sets the way for the APRN-physician relationship and the APRNs’ responsibility while making decisions alone.
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Influence on Delivery, Cost, and Access to Healthcare
Similarly, physician supervision of APRNs and partnerships influence healthcare delivery, cost, and access. This regulation should be as inclusive as possible of the physician labour force. It may contribute to professional collaboration and care coordination that leads to almost certain care quality and outcomes for patients.
Conversely, it brings challenges and barriers to execution, commonly in remote and underserved areas where activating the doctors could be restricted. The prerequisite for physician cooperation during the coordination process may achieve higher healthcare costs for maintaining collaborative agreements and block APRNs’ ability to exercise their scope of practice, thus surpassing their education and training.
NURS 6050 Week 6 Assignment Board of Nursing
While this measure suggests that the volume of patients APRNs serve will increase, it also implies that healthcare access can be affected, particularly in regions experiencing a supplier shortage, because APRNs may track down their ability to practice uninhibitedly restricted during times of popularity for primary care services.
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Changes to Regulation
Over the past years, there have been significant shifts in nurse practitioners’ regulation in Texas to extend their scope of practice and remove practice obstacles. In 2019, the Legislative head of Texas, Greg Abbott, signed House Bill 1792 into law, allowing APRNs with necessary qualifications, such as the transition to practice period and the absolute first collaborative agreement with a physician, to gain full practice authority during the first 10 years of practice.
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Conclusion
So, it merits focusing on the fact that the Texas Board of Nursing is responsible for regulating the practice and safety of its family. The Board’s Board’s regulations are geared towards the necessity of nursing state laws and regulations, ensuring that the nurses in the state have trained, accountable, and ethical staff.
The NURS 6050 Week 6 Assignment Board of Nursing explores how the Nursing Practice Act and regulations about APRNs serve as a foundation for nurses’ roles and responsibilities, influencing healthcare delivery, cost, and access. These regulations, which advance patient safety, quality care, and cultural competence, significantly contribute to achieving excellent patient health outcomes and enhancing the healthcare service quality in Texas.
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References
Martin, E., & Zolnierek, C. (2020). Beyond the nurse practice act: making a difference through advocacy. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.3912/OJIN.Vol25No01Man02
Texas Board of Nursing – Practice FAQ. (2018). Texas.gov. https://www.bon.texas.gov/npa1.asp.html
Thomas, K., Shipp, K., Porter-Edwards, A., & Lubbock. (2021). The Texas Board of Nursing proposed a rule review of Title 22 Texas admin. Code, chapters 214 and 215 under tex. https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/organization/regulatory-compliance/TBON-Rule-Submission-Memorandum-Rules-214_3-214_6-214_7-215_3-215_6-215_7.pdf
Tønnessen, S., Scott, A., & Nortvedt, P. (2020). Safe and competent nursing care: An argument for a minimum standard? Nursing Ethics, 27(6), 096973302091913. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733020919137
Young, S., & Guo, K. L. (2020). Cultural diversity training: the necessity of cultural competence for health care providers and in nursing practice. The Health Care Manager, 39(2), 100–108. https://doi.org/10.1097/hcm.0000000000000294