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  2. Nurse licensure - Wikipedia

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    Nurse licensure is the process by which various regulatory bodies, usually a Board of Nursing, regulate the practice of nursing within its jurisdiction. The primary purpose of nurse licensure is to grant permission to practice as a nurse after verifying the applicant has met minimal competencies to safely perform nursing activities within nursing's scope of practice.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Occupational licensing - Wikipedia

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    Licensure restricts entry into professional careers in medicine, nursing, law, business, pharmacy, psychology, social work, teaching, engineering, surveying, and architecture. Advocates claim that licensure protects the consumer [ citation needed ] through the application of professional, educational and/or ethical standards of practice.

  5. List of nursing schools in the United States - Wikipedia

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    School of Nursing: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio: San Antonio: College of Nursing Texas Woman's University: Dallas: Denton: Houston: College of Nursing and Health Sciences West Texas A&M University: Canyon: School of Nursing University of St. Thomas: Houston: School of Nursing University of Texas Medical Branch: Galveston

  6. United States Medical Licensing Examination - Wikipedia

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    Step 1 and 2 are typically completed by U.S. medical students during medical school, while Step 3 is usually taken by the end of the first year of residency. [20] While the USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK exams can be taken at Prometric test centers worldwide, the Step 3 can only be taken in the United States. [21] [citation needed]

  7. Registered nurse - Wikipedia

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    Above: Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. A registered nurse (RN) is a nurse who has graduated or successfully passed a nursing program from a recognized nursing school and met the requirements outlined by a country, state, province or similar government-authorized licensing body to obtain a nursing license.

  8. History of the University of Texas at Arlington (1965–present)

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    The University of Texas School of Nursing at Fort Worth was transferred to UTA in 1976, becoming the School (later the College) of Nursing. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] Renamed the College of Nursing and Health Innovation (CONHI), it is headquartered in Pickard Hall (named for the school's founding dean, Myrna Pickard). [ 53 ]

  9. OU School of Community Medicine - Wikipedia

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    The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine was founded in 1900 and is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.In 1974, the OU College of Medicine opened a geographically separate, community-based clinical campus in Tulsa, approximately 100 miles northeast of the main campus.