Active Participation

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Importance of Active Participation in a Professional Nursing Organization
Membership in a professional nursing organization provides nurses with continuing education, certification opportunities, role-related competencies and educational conferences. Changes in healthcare occur almost on a daily basis. Becoming a member of a nursing organization that supports your specialty or population of practice, allows nurses to be on the forefront of practice changes. Practices and standards change in an instant and these professional organizations are the ones who will inform you of those changes first.
Nursing organizations promote the use of evidence-based practice to its members. Nurses of specialties will find that their nursing professional organization
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Changes in healthcare occur almost daily. With that being said, the organization in which I work does use professional nursing organizations. It uses the nursing organizations to help develop policies and provide educational opportunities for all nursing employees. Our Administration uses these organizations for attending conferences. While attending these conferences they are receiving education and learn best practices to bring back to our facility. This allows us to provide better and safer care to the patients. The professional nursing organizations also provide surveys to help research where changes can be made to help make an organization function …show more content…
They also interpret, implement and enforce the NPA relating to nurse education, licensure and practice. They develop policies and procedures to implement the NPA and receive complaints and investigate possible violations of the NPA. They discipline violators through appropriate legal action to enforce the Nursing Practice Act and regulations. The Boards of Nursing manage nurse rehabilitation programs for nurses whose practice may be impaired due to physical illness, mental illness or chemical dependency (7 Reasons, 2016). It is not lawful for any entities such as physician, organization or institution, to abridge or expand the boundaries of nursing practice without approval from the Board of Nursing. They also accredit or approve pre-licensing education programs that prepare individuals to become licensed, registered or advanced practice nurses. State boards of nursing also regulate continued competency requirements for licensure renewal. Most states require some type of continuing education for RNs and LPNs usually during a two-year period. The number of contact hours and the type of requirements vary from state to state. The number of contact hours range from 15 to 30 every two years. Usually these are obtained through continuing education courses offered by approved providers. Some states