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Committee approves reestablishment of intervention evaluation panels, authorizes subcommittee charter
Summary
The California Board of Registered Nursing Enforcement, Investigation and Intervention Committee voted to reestablish up to five Intervention Evaluation Committees (IECs) to allow more frequent participant reviews and approved an intervention-program subcommittee charter to screen and appoint IEC members.
The Enforcement, Investigation and Intervention Committee of the California Board of Registered Nursing voted unanimously to authorize the reestablishment of up to five Intervention Evaluation Committees and to recommend approval of an intervention program subcommittee charter to the full board.
Committee Chair Tricia Winn moved the first proposal and Committee Member David Lawler seconded; Allison Cormack also voted in favor. The motion to reestablish IECs passed on a roll-call vote with all three committee members recorded as “yes.”
The committee adopted the change to allow the board to redistribute participants across more IECs so that each participant could be seen quarterly rather than infrequently. Shannon Johnson, enforcement division chief, told the committee that reopening panels would reduce two‑day meeting schedules and let IEC members spend more time on each case. "We think it is necessary for these participants to be able to be seen on a quarterly basis by their IECs to get answers to some of their questions," Johnson said.
The committee also approved a subcommittee charter that staff will use to screen applications for IEC membership, interview candidates and forward recommended appointments to the full board. The charter allows staff to present only applicants who meet minimum qualifications and for the subcommittee to interview candidates before forwarding them for appointment. Committee members asked staff to clarify the charter language about when interviews would be conducted; staff agreed to refine that sentence before the document goes to the full board.
Votes at a glance: The committee recorded three formal votes during the meeting. On approval of the October 17, 2024 meeting minutes (motion by Allison Cormack, second by David Lawler), the committee voted yes (Tricia Winn, David Lawler, Allison Cormack) and the motion carried. On reestablishing up to five IECs (motion by Tricia Winn, second by David Lawler), the committee voted yes (Winn, Cormack, Lawler). On accepting the intervention program subcommittee charter with the discussed revisions (motion by Tricia Winn, second by Allison Cormack), the committee voted yes (Winn, Cormack, Lawler).
The committee recommended both the IEC reestablishment and the subcommittee charter for approval by the full Board of Registered Nursing. Staff said they will begin by reopening a subset of panels as needed rather than all five at once and will work to recruit additional IEC members before any new panels are activated.
The committee scheduled the items for the board agenda and staff said non‑substantive edits (name spellings and typos) may be corrected before final publication.
The decision follows months of public comment and staff reporting about participant wait times and the administrative workload on IECs; the committee cited both participant access to reviews and IEC member availability as reasons to redistribute caseloads.
