Question

1)Discuss the process and continuing education requirements for license renewal for Registered Nurses and License Practical Nurses in the following states: Florida (last names A), California (last names B to G),

2)What are the roles of nurse managers and to what extent are they responsible for mistakes that happen on the floor at work.

3)In light of current event the United States is in a state of emergency. Healthcare workers are being asked to reuse their protective equipments. What government agencies have jurisdiction and are responsible to regulate such situation.

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Answer 1

Ans) 1) The only way to renew your license is online via BreEZe Online Services. You must have a California RN license that expires within the next 90 days or that is delinquent by no more than eight years from the last expiration date and a major credit card to renew online.

2) Nurse managers are responsible for supervising nursing staff in a hospital or clinical setting. They oversee patient care, make management and budgetary decisions, set work schedules, coordinate meetings and make decisions about personnel.
- The various responsibility of every nurse manager is acting as the role model of other nurses so that they can emulate him or her, presenting information and the required information when need be as well as championing for the aspirations of patients and healthcare establishments among other key roles.

3) Nurses at one hospital in southeastern Washington state have alleged that, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, they were ordered by supervisors to use one protective mask per shift, potentially exposing themselves to the novel coronavirus.

- At another hospital, just east of Seattle, nurses had to use face shields indefinitely.

- At a third hospital, on Washington’s border with Oregon, nurses reported that respirators were expired. The hospital responded, the nurses said, by ordering staff to remove stickers showing that the respirators might be as much as three years out of date.

- The accounts these nurses provided are drawn from nine complaints filed by the Washington State Nurses Association with the state Department of Labor & Industries since March 11. They paint a picture of how the first state hit by COVID-19 continues to struggle to provide adequate safety measures for medical workers.

- Their struggle may well preview what medical providers in other states could face amid a national shortage of personal protective equipment, or PPE. The complaints from Washington also show the increasing sense of fear, frustration and powerlessness many nurses and other medical workers feel as COVID-19 pummels the health care system.

- As of this weekend, the Washington Department of Health has reported 3,700 known COVID-19 cases in the state and 175 deaths.

- ProPublica contacted all nine hospitals that were the subject of a nursing association complaint. Four responded. They said they were taking measures to protect their employees, but emphasized the unprecedented crisis in which their hospital staffs are now working. In a press briefing Thursday, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said the federal government had supplied the state with “significant shipments of personal protective equipment” but added that he had “profound long-term concerns about being able to procure these necessities.” Inslee, a vocal critic of the Trump administration, reportedly clashed with the president in a conference call with governors Thursday, according to The Washington Post, pleading with him to take more action.