Professional Nursing and State-Level Regulations in Mississippi
Boards of nursing set rules and regulation which guides and governs nursing practices to enhance protection of the people and patients. Every state in the United States has a Board of Nursing which establishes and implements state regulation, requirements, and licensures, which must be fulfilled by nurses’ specialty to allow them to operate and work within specific state borders. It is, therefore, important for nurses to acquire requirements and licenses to have permission to work in different states (Neff et al., 2018). State-level regulations are diverse to include all required rules, the scope of practice, and relevant insights to make sure nurses provide quality care to their patients. This discussion compares the state levels regulations for nursing professionals in California compared to those of my state Mississippi.
The Mississippi Board of Nursing aims to create policies, rules, and regulations for nurses to make sure they are qualified, have adequate education, knowledge, and experience and registered so that they have the authority to work within the state. Also, the Mississippi APRN regulates practices by developing the scope of practice, licensing, certification, and drug prescription for nurses (Zwilling & Fiandt, 2020). The Board of Nursing protects the public to ensure the quality of nursing care by practitioners to patients.
The practice authority is an APRN Board of nursing in Mississippi, which varies with that of California. In Mississippi, the practice authority involves collaborating between registered nurses and physicians and supervision by doctors. The nurses’ scope of practice consists of the authority of physicians following the clinical guidelines set by the Mississippi Board of Nursing to provide healthcare needs to patients when a doctor is absent. The Board also approves the protocol of practice authority to ensure the nurses and doctors comply with set state-level regulations (Neff et al., 2018). In California, the legal practice authority follows essential laws in nursing practice is a registered nurse with the required skills, education experience, and knowledge to provide patients with needed healthcare needs.
The registration and license APRN Board of Nursing regulation makes sure nurses are qualified and have the authority to provide care to patients. .In Mississippi, qualified nurses should be registered and licensed are recognized as the primary care providers in the state policy. The nurses in different specialties are licensed and have the authority to provide care without supervision or collaboration with doctors. According to L’Ecuyer et al. (2018), the nurses should be licensed and achieve the requirements and be clinically competent in the specific specialty to be licensed and certified by the California Board of registered nurses to be allowed to work in the state. The registered nurses don’t have an additional scope of practice, but only registered nurses scope using set procedures and authorization to perform other care functions.
In Mississippi, the nurses’ drug prescription authority APRN regulation makes sure nurses have the permission and qualification to provide medication to patients (Bosse et al., 2017). In my state, drug prescription is allowed when nurses complete an educational program by the Mississippi State Board of Nursing. The state regulations manage drug prescriptive authority according to the set laws, especially when the physicians are absent to handle the task. On the other hand, in California for the registered nurse should obtain a furnishing number to be allowed to give drug prescriptions or order drugs for the patients. The state-level regulations allow drug furnishing by registered nurses following standardized procedures, which includes recording with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (Ryan & Sood, 2019). The regulations allow licensed and registered nurses to dispense medication to patients when providing care to patients with the guidance and order of doctors.
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Ryan, M. S., & Sood, N. (2019). Analysis of State-Level Drug Pricing Transparency Laws in the United States. JAMA network open, 2(9), e1912104-e1912104.
Zwilling, J. G., & Fiandt, K. (2020). Where are we now? Practice-level utilization of nurse practitioners in comparison with state-level regulations. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 32(6), 429-437.