Nursing Practice and Patient Advocacy
The Nursing Practice Department is responsible for promoting excellence in nursing practice, protecting the art and science of nursing in the workplace and promoting patient advocacy. Here you will find information on:
- Current Nursing Practice and Patient Advocacy issues
- Our innovative continuing education classes,
- Information for student nurses and new graduates
- RN to Patient Ratios
Check back often as these pages reflect the dynamic nature of our Nursing Practice and Patient Advocacy Program and are constantly updated.
Ratios legislation supported by NNU
National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act - S. 992 (Boxer)
This bill establishes requirements for acute-care facilities to provide registered nurse staff based on the acuity of patients provided that minimum nurse-to-patient ratios for each unit are met at all times. Registered nurses shall also have the obligation to act in the exclusive interest of their patients, and the right to be patient advocates.
Nursing Practice & Patient Advocacy Alerts
- Protecting your License
- Insulin Administration in Public Schools
- Assignment Despite Objection
- How to complain to the Board of Registered Nursing
- How to complain to JCAHO
- Floating according to the rules
- Competency Validation
- Supervisor Competency
- Patient Assessment: Role of RNs and LVNs
- Co-Signing LVN charting
- LVNs Providing Meals/Break Relief
- Dual Licensure- The RN as Licensed Vocational Nurse or Nursing Assistant
- IV Medications Roles of RNs and LVNs
- Transport of Critically Ill Patients by LVNs
- Staffing in the Newborn Nursery
- Pain Assessment by RNs
- Combining Units
- H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Benefits and Risks
California Board of Registered Nursing Advisories
- Abandonment of Patients
- RN as Patient Advocate
- Scope of RN Practice
- Scope of Regulation
- Standards of Competent Performance
- RN as Supervisor
- RN Supervision of Medical Assistants
- Supervision of LVNs in Dialysis
- Good Samaritan
- Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
- Standardized Procedure Guidelines
For additional information and resources, please visit:
- California Board of Registered Nursing
- California Nurses Foundation -Founded by the California Nurses Association and home of the California Nurse Mentor Project which is focused on the Retention of RNs.
- California Department of Public Health
