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CE Home > Magnet Related > Protect Yourself

Protect Yourself    
Know Your Nurse Practice Act
by Nancy J. Brent, RN, MS, JD
CE548 l 1.00 hr

Protect Yourself  - CE548  


        Price  ( $ 10.00 )
Objectives:

The goal of this program is to enhance nurses’ knowledge of nurse practice acts and how they define professional practice and nurses’ rights and responsibilities as practitioners. After you study the information here, you will be able to —

  • List four provisions included in most nurse practice acts.
  • Identify the types of violations included and the rights afforded the nurse licensee in most nurse practice acts.
  • Analyze how current issues of state nurse practice acts affect the nurse licensee.

This course will be updated or discontinued on or before 12/24/2011



 
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Gannett Education, formerly known as Nursing Spectrum Division of Continuing Education, is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Accredited status does not imply endorsement by the provider or ANCC of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with this activity. Unless stated above, the planners and authors of this course have declared no real or perceived conflicts of interest that relate to this educational activity.