| Government Certificates Issued: | 9437 |
| Issued Certificate Descriptions: | Licenses have been issued by exam, endorsement, or reinstatement. |
| Government Certificates Revoked: | 191 |
| Revoked Certificate Descriptions: | Revoked for violation of statutory or regulatory requirements such as current substance abuse or addiction, practicing while impaired, unprofessional conduct, and misrepresentation of material facts. |
| Government Certificates Denied: | 6028 |
| Denied Certificate Descriptions: | Denied for not meeting statutory or regulatory requirements, such as disciplinary action in another state which can include current substance abuse or addiction, practicing while impaired, unprofessional conduct, misrepresentation of material facts. Not meeting licensure requirements is another reason for denial. |
| Government Certificates Penalties Against: | 57 |
| Penalty Certificate Descriptions: | Suspension of license privilege based on discipline in another state, unprofessional conduct, and similar reasons. Penalties can include censure, civil money penalties, probation, limitation, suspension, and revocation of a license or privilege to practice. |
| Explanation of Effectiveness: | https://nebraskalegislature.gov/pdf/SurveyDocs/explanation1731529884.pdf |
| Potential Harm | Registered nurses provide more advanced medical and nursing care than licensed practical nurses, including but not limited to, establishing nursing diagnoses and goals and outcomes for treatment, treatment plan coordination, evaluating responses to interventions, patient and family communication and delegating nursing interventions that may be performed by other health care workers. Grave harm to the public would occur if RNs were not licensed or regulated by the state. The potential harms include incompetent or poor care by licensed and unlicensed individuals due to a lack of standardized training and education, increased risk of errors in care, patient safety issues, an inability to hold individuals accountable for poor care and unprofessional conduct, a decrease in trust in the healthcare system, and an increased risk of the provision of poor services or a lack of access to services that can result in serious injury or death. |
| Regulation Comparison: | https://nebraskalegislature.gov/pdf/SurveyDocs/comparison1731529884.pdf |
| Subject to Regulations of Act(LB407): | Yes |