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Committee adopts amendment to restore pathway allowing nursing students to obtain LNA licensure after fundamentals course
Summary
OPLC proposed and the committee adopted a replace‑all amendment to SB 93 to create an explicit statutory pathway allowing students who complete a fundamentals-of-nursing curriculum in an LPN/RN program to apply for initial LNA licensure and sit for the exam.
Deanna Juris, executive director of the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification (OPLC), told the Senate committee that a long-standing practice allowing students enrolled in LPN or RN programs to sit for the Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) exam after completing the fundamentals-of-nursing course did not appear to have clear statutory authority.
Juris described a practical problem: applicants in that pathway were in the board’s queue but the OPLC lacked explicit statutory language authorizing the pathway, which…
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