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Board of Registered Nursing committee reviews suspension of direct patient-care and narcotics-work requirements for intervention participants
Summary
Loretta Melby, executive officer of the Board of Registered Nursing, told the Intervention Evaluation Committee on Wednesday that the board in August 2024 moved to suspend blanket requirements that intervention-program participants be employed in direct patient care or have access to narcotics unless evidence shows patient-safety risks.
Loretta Melby, executive officer of the Board of Registered Nursing, told the Intervention Evaluation Committee on Wednesday that the board in August 2024 moved to suspend blanket requirements that intervention-program participants be employed in direct patient care or have access to narcotics unless evidence shows patient-safety risks.
"Our Board made a motion back in August 2024 to suspend the imposition of the requirement that participants work in direct patient care and suspend the imposition that the requirement that the participants work to pass narcotics," Melby said. She described an ongoing review process of IEC recommendations to ensure each recommendation is supported by evidence rather than imposing blanket rules.
The update matters to nurses in the board's alternative-to-discipline intervention program because IEC recommendations can…
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