Alabama Board of Nursing

As a follow-up to our successful Healing the Healthcare Worker event this past June, the ABN calls your attention to this free course, provided courtesy of the American Nurses Association The course provides four contact hours of continuing nursing education. You can find the course on page 30 of the ABN’s Free CE Course Catalog.

View our full course catalog here: https://www.abn.alabama.gov/abn-nursing-excellence/nursing-ce/online-courses/online-courses-2/

The Voluntary Disciplinary Alternative Program (VDAP) is a program authorized by the Alabama Legislature to promote early identification, intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation of any registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or applicant issued a valid temporary permit for licensure whose competence is found to be impaired or compromised because of the use or abuse of drugs, alcohol, controlled substances, chemicals, or other substances or as a result of a physical or mental condition rendering the person unable to meet the standards of the nursing profession.

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Check out our website for a list of currently approved nursing programs.

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Are you aware that the ABN has a helpful online complaint tool? If you have concerns that you feel should be reported to the Board of Nursing, please visit the link.

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For more information on Drug Screen Monitoring, please see this free video created by the ABN’s Center for Nursing Excellence.

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The Individual Tier of the ABN Leadership Institute focuses on developing individual skills and assets by encouraging personal growth as a member of a team. Nurses at every level of the profession benefit from focusing on honing existing competencies and developing new ones.

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You can order a replacement card that never expires on the ABN website.

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Considering looking for a new job? Check out the ABN Workforce Center’s Job Board, which continues to grow. Recent additions include the University of Montevallo, which is conducting a search for a Dean for its new School of Nursing.

More: https://www.abn.alabama.gov/abn-nursing-excellence/workforce-data/workforce-job-boards/

The ABN’s website has everything you need to prepare and apply for your nursing career.

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In addition to housing the ABN Job Board, the Workforce Center, part of the Center for Nursing Excellence, serves as a repository for demographic and other data vital to planning the future of Alabama’s healthcare workforce.

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Curious whether a nurse is licensed? License Lookup on the ABN website provides primary source license data on nurses in the state in real time.

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The ABN Leadership Institute focuses on three tiers of leadership development – the individual, the team, and the organization. Nurses, within their individual roles, contribute to teams that benefit each organization in its patient care delivery mission.

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The ABN Post-Graduate Nursing Scholarship application will be available during the month of August for RNs who are enrolled in an Alabama graduate nursing education program. Find out more information by visiting the Center for Nursing Excellence.
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As a nurse, you will be faced with decisions decision points where you will be tempted to take short cuts or create workarounds. Always ask yourself, is this the right thing to do? Doing the right thing is always the best decision to make. Take responsibility, do it right, and pride yourself on the path you take.

Change initiatives often fail due to a lack of understanding of change management theories, processes, and practices. This model represents the correlation between Lewin & CQI change implementation processes. To learn more about Change Management, Change Management: Essential Elements for Healthcare Organizations, authored by ABN Executive Officer Peggy Sellers Benson.

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Not everything will be perfect. You will face challenges, concerns, and fears along the way. The nurse serves as the patient advocate; it’s our voice that calls for help or sounds the alarm when a patient’s condition begins to deteriorate. Never forget you are the light that can bring clarity and it is your skill as a nurse that will save many lives.

“Time”
By: Bernadette Powe, EdD

As part of our continuing efforts to improve quality and expand access to care in the state, the ABN issues permits to Student Nurse Apprentices. For more information on this role, check out this video and explore the ABN website.

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Want more information or need to pay a fine or fee? Find more information at the link below.

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The Alabama Board of Nursing strives every day, in everything we do, to preserve and promote integrity, fairness, objectivity, quality, collaboration, innovation, and diversity.

Everyone expects a healthcare provider, at whatever level, to be competent to perform the tasks and skills her or she is assigned. So, what exactly defines competency and skill when performing patient care in nursing practice? For the answer to this question, please view our Standards of Nursing Practice course.

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Standards of nursing practice are typically relatively generalized. They include content learned during initial nursing education, such like documentation, various components of medication administration and safety. For more details, see Chapter 6 of the ABN Administrative Code.

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The Team Tier of the ABN Leadership Institute focuses on building on individual skills and assets by encouraging personal growth as a member of a team. Regardless of where we are in our careers, we can all benefit from a deeper understanding of what it means to be a functioning part of a greater whole.

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Do you need public records from the ABN. Please visit our page to file a request.

More: https://www.abn.alabama.gov/public-records/

The Alabama Board of Nursing offers more than 100 hours of Board-developed CE free of charge. Here is a helpful video on navigating those courses.

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“Life’s Journey”
By: Bernadette Powe, EdD

The Alabama Nurse Practice Act establishes the Joint Committee of the Board of Nursing and the Board of Medical Examiners for Advanced Practice Nurses, commonly referred to as the Joint Committee. The Joint Committee exists for the purpose of providing recommendations related to collaborative practice to the ABN and the ABME. For more information, check out our course titled The Approval Process for CRNPs and CNM.

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