North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 54 - Board of Nursing › Article 54-02 - Nurse Licensure › Chapter 54-02-10 - RN and LPN Nurse Licensure Compact › Section 54-02-10-02 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
As used in this compact:
1. "Adverse action" means a home or remote state action.
2. "Alternative program" means a voluntary, nondisciplinary
				  monitoring program approved by a nurse licensing board.
3. "Board" means a party state's regulatory body responsible
				  for issuing nurse licenses.
4. "Compact" means the nurse licensure compact.
5. "Coordinated licensure information system" means an
				  integrated process for collecting, storing, and sharing information on nurse
				  licensure and enforcement activities related to nurse licensure laws, which is
				  administered by a nonprofit organization composed of and controlled by state
				  nurse licensing boards.
6. "Current significant investigative information" means:
a. Investigative information that a licensing board, after a
				  preliminary inquiry that includes notification and an opportunity for the nurse
				  to respond if required by state law, has reason to believe is not groundless
				  and, if proved true, would indicate more than a minor infraction; or
b. Investigative information that indicates that the nurse
				  represents an immediate threat to public health and safety regardless of
				  whether the nurse has been notified and had an opportunity to respond.
7. "Home state" means the party state which is the nurse's
				  primary state of residence.
8. "Home state action" means any administrative, civil,
				  equitable, or criminal action permitted by the home state's laws which are
				  imposed on a nurse by the home state's licensing board or other authority,
				  including actions against an individual's license such as revocation,
				  suspension, probation, or any other action which affects a nurse's
				  authorization to practice.
9. "Information system" means the coordinated licensure
				  information system.
10. "Licensing board" means a party state's regulatory body
				  responsible for issuing nurse licenses.
11. "Multistate disciplinary case" means an allegation or
				  violation by a licensee practicing on a compact privilege in a remote state.
				  The involved compact states shall work cooperatively, each contributing toward
				  resolution of the matter.
12. "Multistate licensure privilege" means current, official
				  authority from a remote state permitting the practice of nursing as either a
				  registered nurse or a licensed practical or vocational nurse in such party
				  state. All party states have the authority, in accordance with existing state
				  due process law, to take actions against the nurse's privilege such as
				  revocation, suspension, probation, or any other action which affects a nurse's
				  authorization to practice.
13. "Nurse" means a registered nurse or licensed practical or
				  vocational nurse, as those terms are defined by each party's state practice
				  laws.
14. "Party state" means any state that has adopted this
				  compact.
15. "Primary state of residence" means the state of a
				  person's declared fixed permanent and principal home for legal purposes or
				  domicile.
16. "Public" means any individual or entity other than
				  designated staff or representatives of party state boards or the national
				  council of state boards of nursing, incorporated.
17. "Remote state" means a party state, other than the home
				  state:
a. Where the patient is located at the time nursing care is
				  provided; or
b. In the case of the practice of nursing not involving a
				  patient, in such party state where the recipient of nursing practice is
				  located.
18. "Remote state action" means:
a. Any administrative, civil, equitable, or criminal action
				  permitted by a remote state's laws which are imposed on a nurse by the remote
				  state's licensing board or other authority, including actions against an
				  individual's multistate licensure privilege to practice in the remote state;
				  and
b. Cease and desist and other injunctive or equitable orders
				  issued by remote states or the licensing boards thereof.
19. "Single state license" means a license issued by a state
				  board of nursing that authorizes practice only in the state of issuance.
20. "State" means a state, territory, or possession of the
				  United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
21. "State practice laws" means those individual party's
				  state laws and regulations that govern the practice of nursing, define the
				  scope of nursing practice, and create the methods and grounds for imposing
				  discipline. "State practice laws" does not include the initial qualifications
				  for licensure or requirements necessary to obtain and retain a license, except
				  for qualifications or requirements of the home state.
General Authority: NDCC
					 43-12.1-08
Law Implemented: NDCC
					 43-51