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Just Culture VOLUME 12 NUMBER 3 DISTRICTDISTRICT OFOF COLUMBIACOLUMBIA DECEMBER 2015 NURSER EGULATION E DUCATION P R ACTICE JUST CULTURE • Registered Nurse/Advance Practice Registered Nurse Licensure Renewal GOVERNMENT OF THE • Nursing Assistive Personnel & the Committee on DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Impaired Nurses (COIN) MURIEL BOWSER, MAYOR e-mail:OFFICIAL [email protected] PUBLICATI • O web:N of http://doh.dc.gov/bon the District OF Columbia Board OF NursinG1 ADVANCE YOUR NURSING CAREER Earn your MSN or RN-to-BSN at Trinity! Trinity’s RN-to-BSN degree taught me skills I use at work every day and made it possible for me to go to school, work full-time and raise a family. Today, I am a clinical nurse leader. I discovered my strength at Trinity. - Erin Payne ’11 Watch Erin’s video: www.trinitydc.edu/go/payne MSN RN-to-BSN • Choose from two pathways: • For RNs holding an associate’s - Education: Be prepared to teach degree or a diploma in nursing in a nursing classroom • Complete your bachelor’s degree - Administration: Earn a degree and advance your nursing career to advance your career as a • Classes meet just one evening nursing manager a week • Classes meet every other weekend Trinity Washington University in D.C. is minutes from area hospitals and healthcare facilities and offers an affordable tuition, convenient class schedule, a hybrid format that blends online and on-campus learning, and faculty commited to your success. Contact us today! Call or text: 202-656-5615 [email protected] 125 Michigan Avenue NE Learn more: www.trinitydc.edu/DCNurse Washington, DC 20017 2 TRINITY WASHINGTONDistrict of Columbia Nurse: UNIVERSITY Regulation • Education • Practice DC Nurse Ad 2015.indd 1 6/8/2015 4:58:10 PM DISTRICTof contents COLUMBIA Message from the Chair 4 REGulation NURSEEdition 44 Continuing Education Non-Compliance Notice for LPNs 6 Director, Department of Health Laquandra S. Nesbitt, MD, MPH RN/APRN Renewals to begin January 4, 2016 8 Interim Senior Deputy Director CE Broker Subscription Options 9 Health Regulation and Licensing Administration Sharon Williams Lewis DHA, RN-BC, CPM Free CE Courses Available Online from the DC Center for Rational Prescribing (DCRx) Board Members 9 Cathy A. Borris-Hale, RN, MHA, BSN IN THE KNOW Chairperson 10 Simmy Randhawa DNP, MBA, MS, RN, NE-BC NAP NEWS! 12 Vice Chairperson Toni A. Eason, DNP, MS, PHCNS, COHN-S, RN-BC COIN CONSULT: NAPs & COIN 14 Margaret A. Green, LPN Rev. Mary E. Ivey, D-Min CNA & HHA Testing Update 15 Vera Waltman Mayer, JD Ottamissiah Moore, BS, LPN, WCC, CLNI, GC, CHPLN Paid Inactive 16 Chioma Nwachukwu, DNP, PHNCNS-BC, RN Mamie Preston, BSN, RN Nursys e-Notify 16 Winslow B. Woodland, RN, MSN New eLearning Course on Opioids 16 Office Location Leadership Symposium on Just Culture Telephone Number 17 DC Board of Nursing Just Culture Guidelines 20 899 North Capitol St. NE, 2nd Floor Washington, DC 20002 Phone: (877) 672-2174 Phone: (202) 724-4900 Education Fax: (202) 724-8677 Web site: http://doh.dc.gov/bon NCSBN NEWS 22 Office Hours Nursing Schools/CNA & HHA Programs 23 Monday thru Friday: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. A Change of Leadership at NCSBN 24 Board Staff NCSBN Nursing Workforce Study 24 Karen Scipio-Skinner, MSN, RN Executive Director Concheeta Wright, BSN, RN Practice Nurse Specialist/Practice/COIN Bonita Jenkins, EdD, RN, CNE In the News: Sleeping Nurse 26 Nurse Specialist/Education Felicia Stokes, BSN, JD Bed Bugs 27 Nurse Specialist/Discipline Kudos! 28 Health Licensing Specialists: Donna Harris, BSHA, MPA Medical Device Safety and Recalls 28 Melondy Scott Gwyn Jackson Expansion of Providers who Authorize Meal Nicole Scott Accommodation for Children with Disabilities Tanee Atwell, BS 29 Angela Braxton Disciplinary Action 30 Nancy Kofie DC Nurse: REP Managing Editor Address Change? Name Change? Question? In order to continue uninterrupted delivery of this magazine, please notify the Board of Nursing of any change to your name or address. Thank you. DC BON Mission Statement: “The mission of the Board of Nursing is to safeguard the public’s health and well being by assuring safe quality care in the District of Columbia. This is achieved through the regulation of nursing practice and education programs; and by the licensure, registration and pcipublishing.com continuing education of nursing personnel.” Created by Publishing Concepts, Inc. Circulation includes over 37,000 licensed nurses, nursing home administrators, David Brown, President • [email protected] nurse staffing agencies and nursing assistive personnel in the District of Columbia. For Advertising info contact Tom Kennedy • 1-800-561-4686 Feel free to e-mail your “Letters to the Editor” for our quarterly column. IN THE KNOW includes your [email protected] opinion on the issues, and our answers to your questions. E-mail your letters to [email protected]. ThinkNurse.com (Lengthy letters may be excerpted.) e-mail: [email protected] • web: http://doh.dc.gov/bon 3 Message from the Chair Cathy Borris-Hale, RN, MHA, BSN Greetings from the DC Board Renewal begins January 4, of Nursing! As we approach 2016, 2016 (page 8). Continuing I would like to take a moment to Education is a significant salute you—the Nurses and NAPs part of your responsibility (Nursing Assistive Personnel) of as a licensee. Please see the District of Columbia—for your the article which outlines dedication to providing quality care the CE-related services and for contributing to the vibrancy offered by CE Broker of our city. In this coming New Year, (page 9). For course the Board resolves to continue to information, go online at set standards for nursing excellence www.cebroker.com. You and to protect residents from unsafe may also want to explore Ms. Borris-Hale with Mary Ellen Husted, RN, BSN, OCN. practice. the continuing education course information at the article regarding Continuing In the spirit of this effort, on www.medlineuniversity.com. APRNs Education non-compliance on page June 25, 2015, the Board sponsored a should take note of the District Notice for LPNs (page 6). Leadership Symposium on the topic of Columbia Center for Rational of Just Culture. Please take a moment Prescribing’s website at http:// In addition to our nursing to read the two articles on this doh.dc.gov/dcrx, as well as a new Q&A section, there is also plenty important topic that we have in this eLearning course on Opioid use of information regarding Nursing issue of DC NURSE. The first article created by the US Department of Assistive Personnel in this issue that summarizes the Symposium (page Health and Human Services (pages 9 provides answers to your questions 17); the second provides guidance and 16). about the practice and certification of on the basic concepts of Just Culture Home Health Aides, Certified Nursing (page 20). Be sure to keep your continuing Assistants, Trained Medication education up to date! There are Employees, and Medication Aides- January also marks the beginning disciplinary consequences for licensees Certified (page 12). NAPs are also the of licensure renewal for RNs, and who are audited and who have not focus of this issue’s COIN CONSULT Advance Practice RNs (APRNs). fulfilled their CE requirements. See article, which focuses on NAPs as essential to our health system and NCSBN Annual Meeting Correction: Our June 2015 issue included an inaccurate job description for Board Member Toni A. Eason, DNP, MS, PHCNS, COHN-S, RN-BC. The correct information is that Dr. Eason manages a fitness for duty program for a law enforcement agency. Board Education Specialist Dr. Bonita Jenkins and DC Delegate table at NCSBN meeting Chair Cathy Borris-Hale at NCSBN meeting. 4 District of Columbia Nurse: Regulation • Education • Practice The Board thanks outgoing member, Mary Ellen Husted, for her years of Service on the Board. FAReWeLL AND WeLCOMe who, like nurses in the District, are about her experience as an NCSBN The Health Regulation and Licensing welcome to access the Committee on conference “newbie.” Our “In the Administration has had a change in Impaired Nurses program which offers News” section (page 26) provides leadership. The Board of Nursing help to practitioners who face mental links to information about the would like to express our appreciation health or substance abuse challenges “sleeping nurse” case in New York (page 14). State, and the Supreme Court ruling for the dedicated service of our out- concerning health boards and anti- going Senior Deputy Director Rikin This issue also includes nursing trust immunity. Mehta, PharmD, JD, LLM, who served news happening outside of the District. in that role January 2014 through At the National Council of State Again, thank you for your interest September 2015. We also would like Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), there in DC NURSE, your dedication to to welcome our new Interim Senior has been a change in leadership and excellence, your caring spirit and your the organization has a new CEO (page work to better the health and well- Deputy Director Sharon Williams 24). Another article focuses on the being of the residents and visitors Lewis DHA, RN-BC, CPM, who NCSBN’s Nursing Workforce Study with the nation’s capital. Information previously served as Program Manager (page 24). Our own Board of Nursing is powerful, so please share any of the Health Regulation and Licensing staff member Felicia Stokes, BSN, information you gather from this issue Administration’s Health Care Facilities JD, Nurse Consultant for Discipline/ with colleagues and friends. Have a Division. Compliance, has an article in this issue Happy and Healthy Holiday Season! YOUR CORReSPONDeNCE WITH Your Current Address and email Address HRLA & THe BOARD OF NURSING Update your ADDRESS and EMAIL ADDRESS.
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