Florida Law for Nurses 2014

Author: Robert D. Anderson, JD
Publisher: Anderson Continuing Education
Date Published: 2014
Pages: 34
Cover Type: Soft Cover
Expiration Date: 12/31/2018

This course is designed to satisfy the requirement that, starting in 2015, nurses licensed in Florida earn 2 contact hours each renewal cycle on the laws and regulations of the Board of Nursing.

It covers:

• The Practice of Nursing
• Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists
• Who, Besdies Nurses, May Practice Nursing?
• Continuing Education, including information on the requirement that goes into effect starting in 2015 to have your hours posted through CE Broker before you can renew a license.
• Licensee Disciplinary Actions, including 29 actual cases in which nurses licensed in Florida were disciplined by the Board.

Nurses are required to earn 24 contact hours each renewal cycle. In 2014 that includes:

• 22 contact hours in general continuing education
• 2 hours in prevention of medical errors.

Starting with the 2015 renewals, nurses will be required to earn:

• 20 contact hours in general continuing education
• 2 hours in prevention of medical errors
• 2 hours on the laws and regulations of the Board of Nursing.

Nurses licensed in Florida must also earn 2 contact hours in domestic violence every third renewal (every six years). These hours are in addition to the 24 hours normally required. A nurse who is completing the domestic violence course will earn a total of 26 hours in that renewal cycle.