http://scrubsmag.com/troubled-nurses-cross-state-boundaries/ Fri, 25 May 2012 00:51:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://scrubsmag.com/troubled-nurses-cross-state-boundaries/#comment-5180 Glen Quinn Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:16:50 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=17059#comment-5180 Australia has just gone national registration, that is, one registration to allow practice in all 7 states and territories. We have endorsements and limitations applied to our registration. Surely your NLC could have limitations applied to nurses with issues over practice. It then becomes the employers responsibility to check the registration / licence for limitations on practice. Australia has just gone national registration, that is, one registration to allow practice in all 7 states and territories. We have endorsements and limitations applied to our registration.
Surely your NLC could have limitations applied to nurses with issues over practice. It then becomes the employers responsibility to check the registration / licence for limitations on practice.

]]> http://scrubsmag.com/troubled-nurses-cross-state-boundaries/#comment-5178 Vernon Dutton Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:56:04 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=17059#comment-5178 We are on the verge of implementing EMR for the whole country and the State Boards can not keep up and transfer information from state to state?Hospitals in Louisiana can check the status of a nurse (Agency) on arrival to the hospital. It should be easy to set up a national database so any license can be checked from any state at any time.You would think that the compact states would be integrated at least! I'm sure there are some nurses who abuse the compact. You would also think the State Boards would be speaking up and doing something about it instead of letting the Profession get so much bad press over such a small number of patients - When they should have made sure up-to-date information was readily available to all states to start with.. Vernon Dutton, R.N.. We are on the verge of implementing EMR for the whole country and the State Boards can not keep up and transfer information from state to state?Hospitals in Louisiana can check the status of a nurse (Agency) on arrival to the hospital. It should be easy to set up a national database so any license can be checked from any state at any time.You would think that the compact states would be integrated at least!
I’m sure there are some nurses who abuse the compact. You would also think the State Boards would be speaking up and doing something about it instead of letting the Profession get so much bad press over such a small number of patients – When they should have made sure up-to-date information was readily available to all states to start with..
Vernon Dutton, R.N..

]]> http://scrubsmag.com/troubled-nurses-cross-state-boundaries/#comment-5177 john hough Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:25:39 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=17059#comment-5177 If credentials are verified by the employer and spot check with BCII..then how can the freedom to move state to state be compromised?..I relocated to Hawaii anticpating a quick verification of license due to current status in california,..but had to return to the mainland becuz hawaii took 9months to verify a clean license.If I had had NLC in hand..that whole fiasco would have been avoided..and I'd be living in Hawaii now. its a racket by the powerful state boards of nursing to generate money for nurses to move state to state. I actually wish now for federalization of nurses..and strip the states of licensing duties. Another reason to work for the V.A...they recognize "any" license from any state without that nurse having to get a state license...federal law recognizes any license as long as it is kept in good standing and current..so this should be a federal law!! If credentials are verified by the employer and spot check with BCII..then how can the freedom to move state to state be compromised?..I relocated to Hawaii anticpating a quick verification of license due to current status in california,..but had to return to the mainland becuz hawaii took 9months to verify a clean license.If I had had NLC in hand..that whole fiasco would have been avoided..and I’d be living in Hawaii now. its a racket by the powerful state boards of nursing to generate money for nurses to move state to state. I actually wish now for federalization of nurses..and strip the states of licensing duties. Another reason to work for the V.A…they recognize “any” license from any state without that nurse having to get a state license…federal law recognizes any license as long as it is kept in good standing and current..so this should be a federal law!!

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