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Rapid Communication| Volume 3, ISSUE 1, P36-40, January 2007

The Multi-State Nursing Licensure Compact: Making Nurses Mobile

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    1 Nayna Campbell Philipsen, JD, PhD, RN, is director of Education, Examination, and Research at the Maryland Board of Nursing in Baltimore.
    Nayna Campbell Philipsen
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    1 Nayna Campbell Philipsen, JD, PhD, RN, is director of Education, Examination, and Research at the Maryland Board of Nursing in Baltimore.
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    2 Dorothy Haynes, JD, RN, is a legal associate at the Maryland Board of Nursing in Baltimore. Neither author has financial relationships with business or industry to disclose.
    Dorothy Haynes
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    2 Dorothy Haynes, JD, RN, is a legal associate at the Maryland Board of Nursing in Baltimore. Neither author has financial relationships with business or industry to disclose.
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  • Author Footnotes
    1 Nayna Campbell Philipsen, JD, PhD, RN, is director of Education, Examination, and Research at the Maryland Board of Nursing in Baltimore.
    2 Dorothy Haynes, JD, RN, is a legal associate at the Maryland Board of Nursing in Baltimore. Neither author has financial relationships with business or industry to disclose.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2006.11.004
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      Abstract

      Licensure compacts are not new, but they are new to nursing licensure and even newer to the regulation of advanced practice nurses (APRN). State laws govern professional practice. Boards of Nursing represent the public and are responsible for the health, safety, and welfare of patients in their states. The Multi-state Nursing Licensure Compact is a coordinated effort by the regulatory boards and their state legislatures to protect the public and simultaneously minimize unnecessary barriers to access to care for their citizens. Nurses also benefit when legislators and regulators remove barriers to enhancing delivery of care through evolving technologies and to reaching patients who are remotely located and in the most need. Concerns about licensure discipline and the lack of uniformity have been addressed for the basic nursing licensure compact, but they continue to be examined for APRNs.

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      1. The Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing. Available at: www.dopl.utah.gov/licensing/nurse_compact_info.html. This site answers questions about the RN/LPN/VN Nurse Compact in Utah.

      2. Full text of the Utah Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact. Available at: www.dopl.utah.gov/licensing/statutes_and_rules/58-31d.pdf#search=%22APRN%20nursing%20licensure%20compact%20Utah%22.

      3. Institute of Medicine. Links to an index of the IOM Reports. Available at: www.iom.edu/CMS/2955.aspx.

      4. Iowa Code Chapter 152E, The Nurse Licensure Compact. available at: www.legis.state.ia.us/IACODE/2003/152E/.

      5. Iowa Board of Nursing. Description of licensure and certification requirements implemented in Iowa. Available at www.state.ia.us/nursing/.

      6. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing. Links to both the RN/LPN/VN Compact and the APRN Compact. Available at: www.ncsbn.org/nlc/index.asp.

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2006.11.004

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      © 2007 American College of Nurse Practitioners. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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