Nurse Reporter Fall 2008 - Wyoming State Board of Nursing

St. John’s Medical Center NursePractitioner, Connie JohnsonSt. John’s Medical Center Nurse Practitioner, Connie Johnson, has been chosen for a one yearOncology fellowship at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.The appointment will involve directly working with Oncology Nurse Practitioners andOncologists with exposure to the entire spectrum of oncology care from prevention to end of life.The fellowship will also include classes at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houstonleading to a post-masters oncology degree.Johnson has been employed by St. John’s Medical Center located in Jackson, Wyo., for six years.She also sees patients at the 4 Peaks Clinic in Driggs, Idaho, as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Johnsonplans to return to Jackson upon completion of the fellowship, where she will work as an OncologyNurse Practitioner at the Oncology clinic.Johnson is a board member for the Wyoming affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. She also isa member of the Susan G. Komen Advocates in Science Program, a committee that reviews nationalbreast cancer research grants.What is NURSYS?Nur Rajwany, MSNCSBN, Director Information TechnologyDawn M. Kappel, MANCSBN, Director Marketing and CommunicationIf your organization has a need to ensure safety and save time while increasing efficiency in regard to verification of a nurselicense and/or checking discipline status for employment decisions, then look no further than the NCSBN Nursys® (www.nursys.com) computer system. Nursys provides licensure verification and discipline status instantly, allowing for faster informedemployment decisions.Nursys contains personal, licensure, education, verification and discipline information supplied as regular updates byboards of nursing in the U.S. and its territories. All boards of nursing, including non-licensure participating boards of nursing,have access to information within Nursys and are able to enter and edit discipline information. Nursys provides centralizedlicense information to boards of nursing, which in turn, use this data to verify applicant license information, enter and reviewdisciplinary actions and send electronic communications between boards of nursing for information requests.NCSBN also provides public access to Nursys for the purposes of licensure verification. Nursys verifies license and disciplinestatus, including discipline against the privilege of working in a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) party state.8 W y o m i n g N u r s e R e p o r t e r