Nursing: Professional Topics

There are several places to find the Nurse Practice Act for each state:

• The State Legislature - Statutes
• Also, both the State Board of Nursing and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) provide links as well to the state statute.

Links for the Florida Nurse Practice Act (NPA) from these 3 three sources are below:

Nurses new to practice or preparing for their first nursing jobs will learn the ways the profession is regulated – through nursing licensure, boards of nursing and state laws called Nurse Practice Acts. Also covered are key issues of professional responsibility, including maintaining professional boundaries, and nursing ethics.

Additional associations can be found on a variety of websites, including:

• Nursing Associations in the US, compiled by Minority Nurse magazine, has a large number of US nursing associations.
• List of Nursing Associations from Nurse.org web site.

AJN - American Journal of Nursing

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