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BRN executive officer urges evidence-based use of direct patient-care and narcotics requirements in intervention agreements
Summary
Executive Officer Laurie Melby told the California Board of Registered Nursing's Intervention Evaluation Committee on Oct. 29 that the board directed a detailed review of IEC recommendations that require RNs in the intervention program to return to direct patient care or to pass narcotics as a condition of completion.
Executive Officer Laurie Melby told the California Board of Registered Nursing's Intervention Evaluation Committee on Oct. 29 that the board directed a detailed review of IEC recommendations that require RNs in the intervention program to return to direct patient care or to pass narcotics as a condition of completion.
Melby said the board asked staff to examine cases, including recommendations that extended program participation beyond three years, to determine whether evidence supported those conditions. "The board said they wanted me to immediately start reviewing all of the IEC recommendations that asked for direct patient care, access to or passing narcotics, or kind of you have to do that in order to complete," Melby said.
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