Nursing Licensure and Regulation Questions with Correct Answers.

The Mission of the Texas Board of Nurisng (BON) Correct Answer To protect and promote the welfare of the people of Texas by ensuring that each person holding a license as a nurse in the state of Texas is competent to practice safely. Role of the Texas Legislature Correct Answer BON is subject to the Texas Legislature The legislature makes the act and the BON makes the rules and regulations to carry out the act The BON serves the legislature, it cannot lobby the legislature The legislature makes the NPA (Nursing Practice Act) which grants the authority to the BON to carry out the NPA Nurses must be familiar with the NPA and the Board Rules. Organized by the numbers, these are laws. Can look up rules by the titles. Texas BON Rules and Regulations: Texas Occupations Code (TOC) Correct Answer Chapter 301 of the Texas Occupations Code (TOC) contains the Nursing Practice Act (NPA) which creates the BON and defines its responsibility for regulating nursing education, licensure and practice. Chapter 303 relates to Nursing Peer Review and Chapter 304 relates to the Nurse Licensure Compact. Chapter 305 introduces the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact which will be implemented at a later date. How often can the NPA be changed Correct Answer Only the Legislature can change the NPA, so statutory changes only occur every two years. How long do you have to notify the BON of any address or name changes? Correct Answer 10 Days The Texas Board of Nursing consists of 13 members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate as follows: Correct Answer (1) six nurse members, including: (A) one advanced practice nurse; (B) two registered nurses who are not advanced practice nurses or members of a nurse faculty; and (C) three vocational nurses who are not members of a nurse faculty; (2) three members who are nurse faculty members of schools of nursing: (A) one of whom is a nurse faculty member of a school of nursing offering a baccalaureate degree program in preparing registered nurses; (B) one of whom is a nurse faculty member of a school of nursing offering an associate degree program in preparing registered nurses; and