5 hours ago, ruby_jane said:The Texas governor signed an order allowing new grads to practice and reducing the amount of clinical time that student nurses must have to graduate, citing the pandemic.
I would encourage all new nurses or nurses pressed into service in a practice to which they're new or unfamiliar to review our BON's decision making model: https://www.bon.texas.gov/pdfs/publication_pdfs/Scope of Practice Decision-Making Model - DMM.pdf
In Texas we have something called Safe Harbor, and if you're one of these new nurses I'd encourage you to review: https://www.bon.texas.gov/forms_safe_harbor.asp
Best of luck to all y'all!
Just based on my experience in Houston, as well as what I've heard from friends in Austin and Dallas, I completely disagree with this. Many of us are losing hours at our jobs due to low census. But things could be completely different in more rural areas.
On 5/1/2020 at 6:10 PM, JadedCPN said:Just based on my experience in Houston, as well as what I've heard from friends in Austin and Dallas, I completely disagree with this. Many of us are losing hours at our jobs due to low census. But things could be completely different in more rural areas.
There is not a nursing shortage in our big cities. This is true. There is a shortage of acute care nurses and there is a shortage of hospitals willing to train up ICU, Telemetry, etc. nurses (my ICU training was six weeks).
I was sharing this because as a new nurse they never taught me about safe harbor...
1 hour ago, ruby_jane said:There is not a nursing shortage in our big cities. This is true. There is a shortage of acute care nurses and there is a shortage of hospitals willing to train up ICU, Telemetry, etc. nurses (my ICU training was six weeks).
I was sharing this because as a new nurse they never taught me about safe harbor...
Absolutely! I didn’t mean to distract from Safe Harbor. I moved to Texas after being a nurse for 11 years and it was the first time ever I heard about Safe Harbor. I wish every state had it.
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The Texas governor signed an order allowing new grads to practice and reducing the amount of clinical time that student nurses must have to graduate, citing the pandemic.
I would encourage all new nurses or nurses pressed into service in a practice to which they're new or unfamiliar to review our BON's decision making model: https://www.bon.texas.gov/pdfs/publication_pdfs/Scope of Practice Decision-Making Model - DMM.pdf
In Texas we have something called Safe Harbor, and if you're one of these new nurses I'd encourage you to review: https://www.bon.texas.gov/forms_safe_harbor.asp
Best of luck to all y'all!