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2. National Council Licensure Examination - Wikipedia

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   To ensure public protection, each board of nursing requires a candidate for licensure to pass the appropriate NCLEX examination: the NCLEX-RN for registered nurses and the NCLEX-PN for vocational or practical nurses. NCLEX examinations are designed to test the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for the safe and effective practice of ...

3. Licensed practical nurse - Wikipedia

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   Another title provided in the Canadian province of Ontario is "registered practical nurse" (RPN). In California and Texas, such a nurse is referred to as a licensed vocational nurse (LVN). In the United States, LPN training programs are one to two years in duration. All U.S. state and territorial boards also require passage of the NCLEX-PN exam.

4. Nursing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Level Typical education requirement Current practitioners Median annual salary Scope of practice Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) 75-hour vocational course [5]: 1,389,900 [6]

5. Florida nurse lied about alcoholism while applying for ...

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   When nurse Kelly Kavcsak came from North Carolina to West Palm Beach, her application to the Florida Board of Nursing for an advanced practice registered nurse license said she hadn’t been ...

6. Registered nurse - Wikipedia

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   Nurses in the United States follow the Nurse Practice Act (NPA) which are laws that protect the public's health and welfare by outlining the safe practices of nursing. All states and territories in the U.S. have a nurse practice act. The rules and regulations may vary from state to state.

7. California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing ...

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   California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. [3] In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.

8. Nurse Licensure Compact - Wikipedia

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   The Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) is an agreement that allows mutual recognition (reciprocity) of a nursing license between member U.S. states ("compact states"). Enacted into law by the participating states, the NLC allows a nurse who is a legal resident of and possesses a nursing license in a compact state (their "home state") to practice in any of the other compact states (the "remote ...

9. Federal courts have allowed prisons and private medical ... - AOL

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   A legal settlement in California established that one leading private prison health provider, Corizon, had saved 35% for every low-level nurse who did the work of an RN. Prisons may have a single ...