INFORMED NURSING LEADERS PERCEPTIONS REGARDING FUTURE NURSING EDUCATION AND PRACTICE REGULATIONS.
Contributors: Peabody College For Teachers Of Vanderbilt University.
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Higher.
Description: Employing a 2-round Delphi technique, this study sought centrality of thinking from informed nursing leaders regarding future nursing education and practice regulations. Executive directors of the 50-state nursing regulatory boards comprised the expert panel providing perceptions regarding nursing education equivalent to regulated educational programs, continued competence to practice nursing, expanded nursing roles, impaired-nurse discipline, delegation of nursing-related activities, nursing regulatory boards' composition, national or institutional licensure, and mandated malpractice insurance for licensure.

The expert panel (66% response Round 1, 58% response Round 2) reached thinking centrality regarding regulation of nursing educational programs, continued competence to practice nursing, regulation of nurse practitioners' educational preparation and practice scope, regulation of persons performing nursing-related activities, and nurse and consumer member boards. The panel also reached centrality in opposition to national and institutional licensure, and mandatory malpractice insurance. The panel failed to reach centrality regarding practice scope of clinical nurse specialists and discipline of impaired nurses. As a result of this study, I recommend further explication of the concepts, continued human and fiscal support for regulatory research, and creation of an inclusive regulatory model including concepts noted in this study that achieved panelists' thinking centrality.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-06, Section: B, page: 2340.

Thesis (ED.D.)--PEABODY COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS OF VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, 1989.

School code: 0074.