A
Agency nurses, quality assurance requirements for, 69
Assistive personnel, titles, settings, and training of, 92
B
Boards of nursing, participation in, 42
C
Centers for nursing excellence, 44
Communication issues for newly licensed nurses, 15
Continuing education mandates, efficacy of, 22
Contract nurses, quality assurance requirements for, 69
E
Errors
medication, prevention of, 3
North Carolina Practitioner Remediation and Enhancement Partnership for, 100
F
Foreign-educated nurses in United States, 66
H
Health care funding models, 105
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, readability of nursing home privacy practices notices, 96
L
Legal Briefs
book reviews, 37, 65, 84
cases, 17, 34, 62, 83
legislation, 64, 81
news, 20, 21, 63, 81
regulations, 64, 92
verdicts/settlements, 20, 36, 63, 84
Licensure
disclosure of failed NCLEX, 38
of foreign-educated nurses, 66
moral turpitude and, 54
M
Medication error prevention, 3
Moral turpitude, 54
N
National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) compact, 86
NCLEX, failed, disclosure of, 38
Newly licensed nurses
communication issues for, 15
transitions from student to practicing nurse and, 77
North Carolina Practitioner Remediation and Enhancement Partnership, 100
Nursing education, transitions from student to practicing nurse and, 77
Nursing excellence centers, 44
Nursing homes, readability of HIPAA notices of practices used by, 96
Q
Quality assurance requirements for contract/agency nurses, 69
R
Readability of HIPAA notices of nursing home privacy practices, 96
T
Training of assistive personnel, 92
Transitions from student to practicing nurse, 77