Discussion ( Professional Nursing And State Level Regulation)

Discussion (Professional Nursing and State Level Regulation)

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Discussion (Professional Nursing and State Level Regulation)

Comparison of Two APRN Board of Nursing Regulations

A comparison of the Florida APRN Board of Nursing Regulations and Texas APRN Board of Nursing Regulations show stark variation in terms of their requirements regarding an APRN Licensure. The requirements for Florida are rather simple since they require applicants for the APRN program to hold a valid Registered Nurse License from any US state. They also need to be additionally qualified if they received their license between the years 1998 and 2001. They also need to submit an advanced practice certification from an approved nursing specialty board CITATION Flo16 \l 1033 (BON, 2016). On the other hand, in Texas you are required to complete your advanced practice nursing program from an organization that is recognized by the board of nursing in Texas. Additionally, instead of having additional qualifications in order to work as a practicing APRN, it requires you to work 400 hours (for practice) within a 24 months period, along with 20 hours of education. It also requires you to have worked for 500 clinical hours in an advanced practice role if the program you studied under took place before 2003 (BON T. , 2015).

Response to Pamela

Hey Pamela,

That was an insightful entry. Policymaking, especially with reference to healthcare practices, tends to have a major impact on the people. The partisan choices made by influential figures are usually received by the public negatively ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"QHYMbb5S","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Lerman, Sadin, & Trachtman, 2017)","plainCitation":"(Lerman, Sadin, & Trachtman, 2017)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":212,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5VyEEXyp/items/52AZNDYR"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5VyEEXyp/items/52AZNDYR"],"itemData":{"id":212,"type":"article-journal","title":"Policy uptake as political behavior: Evidence from the affordable care act","container-title":"American Political Science Review","page":"755-770","volume":"111","issue":"4","author":[{"family":"Lerman","given":"Amy E."},{"family":"Sadin","given":"Meredith L."},{"family":"Trachtman","given":"Samuel"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Lerman, Sadin, & Trachtman, 2017). The efforts to repeal something as useful as the Affordable Care Act is deplorable and it is something that should be prevented ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"7SMz9TaK","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(B\\uc0\\u233{}land, Rocco, & Waddan, 2019)","plainCitation":"(Béland, Rocco, & Waddan, 2019)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":213,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5VyEEXyp/items/CRKV5XC2"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5VyEEXyp/items/CRKV5XC2"],"itemData":{"id":213,"type":"article-journal","title":"Policy Feedback and the Politics of the Affordable Care Act","container-title":"Policy Studies Journal","page":"395-422","volume":"47","issue":"2","author":[{"family":"Béland","given":"Daniel"},{"family":"Rocco","given":"Philip"},{"family":"Waddan","given":"Alex"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2019"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Béland, Rocco, & Waddan, 2019).

Response to Claire

Hey Claire,

I couldn’t agree more with your assessment. At present healthcare organization as well as the policymakers are more concerned with getting re-elected into the office and control the system for another term, rather than look out for the citizens of this country ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"xreJsdAe","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(B\\uc0\\u233{}land, Rocco, & Waddan, 2015; B\\uc0\\u233{}land et al., 2019)","plainCitation":"(Béland, Rocco, & Waddan, 2015; Béland et al., 2019)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":214,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5VyEEXyp/items/9CDVNJ2W"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5VyEEXyp/items/9CDVNJ2W"],"itemData":{"id":214,"type":"article-journal","title":"Polarized stakeholders and institutional vulnerabilities: the enduring politics of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act","container-title":"Clinical Therapeutics","page":"720-726","volume":"37","issue":"4","author":[{"family":"Béland","given":"Daniel"},{"family":"Rocco","given":"Philip"},{"family":"Waddan","given":"Alex"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015"]]}}},{"id":213,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5VyEEXyp/items/CRKV5XC2"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5VyEEXyp/items/CRKV5XC2"],"itemData":{"id":213,"type":"article-journal","title":"Policy Feedback and the Politics of the Affordable Care Act","container-title":"Policy Studies Journal","page":"395-422","volume":"47","issue":"2","author":[{"family":"Béland","given":"Daniel"},{"family":"Rocco","given":"Philip"},{"family":"Waddan","given":"Alex"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2019"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Béland, Rocco, & Waddan, 2015; Béland et al., 2019). However, I believe that if the citizens demand that their interest been paid attention in order to shape better policies, they need to work on ways to make sure that policymakers hear what they have to say ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"GynIs5Jj","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(McIntyre & Song, 2019)","plainCitation":"(McIntyre & Song, 2019)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":215,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5VyEEXyp/items/QWB8XUL5"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5VyEEXyp/items/QWB8XUL5"],"itemData":{"id":215,"type":"book","title":"The US Affordable Care Act: Reflections and directions at the close of a decade","publisher":"Public Library of Science","ISBN":"1549-1676","author":[{"family":"McIntyre","given":"Adrianna"},{"family":"Song","given":"Zirui"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2019"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (McIntyre & Song, 2019).

References

Béland, D., Rocco, P., & Waddan, A. (2015). Polarized stakeholders and institutional vulnerabilities: the enduring politics of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Clinical Therapeutics, 37(4), 720–726.

Béland, D., Rocco, P., & Waddan, A. (2019). Policy Feedback and the Politics of the Affordable Care Act. Policy Studies Journal, 47(2), 395–422.

BIBLIOGRAPHY BON, F. (2016). Licensing and Registration, APRN. Retrieved from Board of Nursing, Florida: https://floridasnursing.gov/licensing/

BON, T. (2015). Application for APRN program. Retrieved from Texas Board of Nursing: https://www.bon.texas.gov/applications_advanced_practice_registered_nurse.asp

Lerman, A. E., Sadin, M. L., & Trachtman, S. (2017). Policy uptake as political behavior: Evidence from the affordable care act. American Political Science Review, 111(4), 755–770.

McIntyre, A., & Song, Z. (2019). The US Affordable Care Act: Reflections and directions at the close of a decade. Public Library of Science.

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