Questions
1. Enforcing the Kentucky Nursing Laws
and nurse licensure requirements;
2. Approving nurse education
programs in school and universities;
3. Developing laws and
administrative regulations;
4. Taking disciplinary action when the
nurse pro- vides unsafe nursing care or
otherwise violates KRS Ch 314
1. Qualifications for licensure;
2. Nursing titles that are allowed to be
1. What are the duties of the used;
KBN? (4 things) 3. Scope of practice;
4. Actions that can or will happen if the
nurse does not follow the nursing law
2. Kentucky Nursing Laws describe
what main things?
3. What are Nursing professional associa- Private organizations that advance the
nursing
tions? profession by addressing the practice, political
and professional issues attecting nurses.
4. What is a Nurse Licensure Compact? For nurses in good standing, KBN
will issue a
multi-state license that grants Kentucky nurses
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the priviledge to practice in other compact
states.
5. In order for a nurse to have a permanent;
compact license, he/she
unencumbered (no disciplinary action)
must de-
clare his/her
res- idence in a state that is a
mem-
ber of the compact and have an
active
RN or LPN license.
6. BOTH states
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