Institue of Medicine Report on Nursing and Healthcare Leadership Highlighted...
Pauline Chen, MD, a contributor to the New York Times Well blog, has published an article in yesterday’s New York Times highlighting a recent report from the Institute of Medicine that promotes the...
View ArticleLive Blogging the Texas Board of Nursing Meeting – Day 2
I didn’t want to blog about the hearings this morning during the hearings because of possible ethical concerns of mine. But now that the Board has rendered decisions, I will make some comments after...
View ArticleTBON pushing new default rule
The Texas Board of Nursing is updating some practice related to default proceedings. Basically, these are the cases where a licensee does not show up for a SOAH administrative hearing. In that case,...
View ArticleGovernor Perry Appoints Two New and Reappoints Two Members to Board of...
Governor Perry reappointed one LVN member and one consumer member of the Texas Board of Nursing. Beverly Nutall of Bryan is the LVN reappointee and Deborah Bell of Abeline is the consumer...
View ArticleWill Consolidation of Licensing Boards Save Money?
Whoa, it pays to open emails occasionally! I missed this discussion from the Texas Nurses Association NurseWatch email newsletter from the TNA Governmental Affairs department. Basically, Governor...
View ArticleHospice Care Not Coorelated With Earlier Death
At least in Korea, as reported by Reuters. Korean medical researchers looked at patients with terminal cancer diagnoses and placed them in two groups – those that received hospice care for palliative...
View ArticleOther Victims of Medical Errors
As a nurse and an attorney who represents nurses before the Texas Board of Nursing, this story really hits home. It is the story of a nurse who made a critical error, although whether the death of the...
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New York to Consider Proposal to Require BSN . . . Eventually
This is an interesting proposal from New York State regarding a possible requirement for a BSN degree for RN’s. It will only apply to future RN graduates and gives a RN graduate from a ADN school 10...
View ArticleAnd the Texas Board of Nursing Strikes Back
On May 18th, the Texas Board of Nursing will publish proposed changes (after the jump) to section 213.26 of the Texas Administrative Code. The changes, if approved in their entirety, will essentially...
View ArticlePublic Hearing on Changes to Texas Nursing Board Rules
Earlier, I had posted an excerpt from the Texas Register regarding a proposed change to the Rules of the Texas Board of Nursing. On June 13th, the Board posted notice of a Public Hearing on the matter...
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